People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1893 — KILLED HIS PLAYMATE. [ARTICLE]

KILLED HIS PLAYMATE.

Self-Confessed Crime of a Colored BoyOnly Thirteen Years of Age. Columbus, 0., March 6. —Oliver Johnson, colored, 13 years old, murdered Stanley Hott, white, aged 5, and threw the body into the Scioto river. The Hott boy failed to appear at his home, and an investigation was started, resulting in the arrest of young Johnson. Dpon being pressed by the police Johnson confessed that he killed Hott with a hatchet and threw the body over the Mound street bridge. They quarreled in their play. The body has not yet been recovered.