Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1912 — Death Lure in Cheap Watch [ARTICLE]

Death Lure in Cheap Watch

Missing Boy Found Slain With Dollar Gift Gone—School Mate Suspected. North Providence, R. I. —That William Mathers, Jr, 12 years old, was enticed into the woods and murdered by another lad for a dollar watch is the belief held by the police here. A search has been begun for the suspect a 17-year-old alien. v - The Mathers boy disappeared from his home at Marrieville, Feb. 29. Later two lads came upon a child’s rubber and sweater in a forest. Search resulted in finding the boy’s body, with the skull crushed and the clothing in

tatters. Near by was a large stone spattered with blood. A short time before be disappeared he was in company with the youth suspected. When be left home he carried a dollar watch which his father had given him and which excited the envy of some of the other children in the school. The watch was not in the boy’s clothing.