Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1913 — SHOW LEADS TO REVELATION [ARTICLE]

SHOW LEADS TO REVELATION

Boy Who Had Kept Playmate’s Death • Secret Suddenly Makes Declaration Which Clears Mystery.

Harrison, N. J. —A moving picture show indirectly revealed to Mrs. Harry Siegel recently the death by drowning of her six-year-old son, Harry. The boy had .been playing during the afternoon with William Rossel, a seven-year-old schoolmate. William was afraid to say anything about the drowning. While he was with his mother at a moving picture show a film showing boys trying to rescue a drowning mate was thrown on the screen. William suddenly exclaimed: “That’s Just the way Harry Siegel died this afternoon.” Mrs. Rossel grasped William by the arm, bolted out of the theater and hurried to Mrs. Siegel’s home, where William tearfully recited the story of how Harry iiad fallen Into the Passaic river while playing with him on a sand pile, and how he had failed to come up. Mrs. Siegel became hysterical.