Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1911 — FATALY SHOOTS PLAYMATE [ARTICLE]

FATALY SHOOTS PLAYMATE

South Bend Youth Disappears and Parents Try to Hide Crime. South Bend, Ind,, Aug. 11. —Ferdinand Nalatzek, fourteen years old, shot and probably fatally wounded Clement Kazmierczak, nine years old, according to the police, because the latter insisted on telling his father of a series of thefts in which they, with several others, had participated. The shooting took place Monday right, hut, notwithstanding that the Kazmaierczak boy had a gaping wound in his stomach, and is expected to die, an effort was made by the parents of the young “desperadoes” to keep the affair quiet, fearing disgrace. Young Nalazek and his companions, including a brother dying boy, can not be found, and are believed to have been sent out of the city by their parents.