Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1911 — GIRL HELD FOR GRIME [ARTICLE]

GIRL HELD FOR GRIME

Two Boys Dying, One Insisting That Young Girl Shot Him. Weapon Found in Lot by Children Supposed to be One Strikebreaker Used to Defend Himself. New York. Feb. 3.—A revolver thought to have been used by an Italian strikebreaker in a Brooklyn shoe factory to shoot down a striker who attacked him on the way to work, was thrown into a vacant lot by the man as he fled. It was found later by four children who were "pTayThg" house” in the lot, and as a result two boys are dying in the Cumberland Street hospital and a little girl of 11 Is held by the Brooklyn Gerry society suspected of shooting both boys. In spite of the stories of both girls and by Norton Richardson to the effect that both little girls Were 100 feet away from the boys when ffie latter fell wounded in the street, the police held the Riddle girl on the story of Tommy Britton, who retained consciousness, and kept insisting that Marion Riddle shot him.