Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1912 — HOUNDS HUNT SLAYER [ARTICLE]

HOUNDS HUNT SLAYER

MAN KILLS BOY FOR INVADING HIS GARDEN. Lad’s Skull Is Battered With Shovel When He Seeks to Recover Baseball. New Haven, Conn., April 12.—After battering the skull of little Paul Kling into bits with a shovel because he had invaded his garden to hunt for a baseball, Ralph Torello took to the woods and a large crowd of volunteer searchers, the entire detective force of the city and blooodhounds are hunting for him. Torello, who Is middle-aged, lives near the ball field In Hamden, where a crowd of youngsters were frolicking The ball was batted over the fence Into his yard and he called sarcastically to Kling, who had started after it, You just come in here and get it.” The boy, taking the remark as an invitation to enter the yard and get his ball, dashed inside the gate. Torello, picking up a shovel, sent it crashing down upon the lad’s unprotected head. He was about to repeat the blow upon the unconscious form of the boy, stretched at bls feet, when his wife w rested the shovel From his grasp. Members-of the juvenile nine, catching sight of the senseless form of their comrade, dashed for Torello, who leaped over a back fence and escaped. The boy was taken to the hospital, where he died .without recovering consciousness., A reward of SIOO has been issued by the Hamden town officials for Torello’s arrest.