The Education of a Boy Murderer

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 28, 1892

The Education of a Boy Murderer

THE newspapers tell of "a sweet-faced, blue-eyed boy whose locks of gold the wind of but eleven summers has tossed," living in Colorado, who in the beginning of this month murdered a man in cold blood, robbed him of watch and revolver, and then, with a smile of innocence, told his mother all about it. He did not seem to know that he had committed a crime. What must his education have been? How much does the thirst for human gore, called in modern parlance "love of athletics," have to do with such conscienceless education.