Murder by a sixteen-year-old boy
Item
- Title
- Murder by a sixteen-year-old boy
- Source
- The sun (NY)
- Date
- 1880-06-09
- page
- 3
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1880-06-09/ed-1/?sp=3&q=murder&r=0.24,0.825,0.238,0.114,0
- Crime
- Murder
- Subject
- alive witness; murder
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Gender of alleged victim
- Female alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- arrest
- Location
- Out-Of-State; Providence
- Length of story
- 164
- Description
- Harder by sv BlxteeoYearOld fey FEOYIDENCE June 8 Walter Wlnsor a youth of 16 confesses that he murdered Miss Amelia otter In Johnston yesterday Miss Potter was 60 years of age and she and her maiden sister lived alone In a house three miles from this city Yesterday afternoon she was attacked In the yard and killed with a hoe or some tike Instrument and her body thrown Into all old cellar Her sister whols or unsouna mind probably saw the asuult but the shock so aflecud her that she could give no co herent InformsUon 1 and was sent to all Insane asylum Strong suspicion attached to young insor out on urobs II f 1 fig nr rhr thin from a relorm school whose lather lives on the next farm Insor was known to have been on the premtws and gave the flrst information of the murder his clothes were spattered with blood lie was arrested 11 night but stoutly denied the crime
