FULL TEXT: Plattsburgh, N. Y., May 12. – A horrible case of
infantile brutality has just come to light here. Grace Newell, aged six years,
living with her parents on the Miller Road, about five miles from the village,
has developed a mania for taking life. In a quarrel with her cousin, Johnnie
Fuller, about the same age, last Wednesday, she picked up a pitchfork and
struck him on the head, one of the prongs entering the brain through the eye,
causing almost instant death. The authorities were not notified, and the story
got out through neighbors talking about it.
[“Infantile Brutality. – A Six Years Old Girl Kills Her
Playmate With a Pitch Fork.” Burlington Daily Free Press (Vt.), May 13, 1897,
p. 1]
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