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THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER ID, 1919. SLEW MAN FOR $4, BOY OF EIGHTEEN I BOASTS TO JURY rtce Enough, He Says, for Murder of Victim He Nev er Saw Before. HTRED ON THE STREET. Gladly Took Pittance to Settle Grudge of Spence, Ejected From Larsen Flat artvelled ul ptUM from yeare In prison, an eighteen-year-old boy nl Hi the witness chair beatae 'Judge Melons la th- Court of Oeneral Sessions lo-dv nil tohl. coldly aiK with youthful prUfir, how he had slain a man na s4 never seen before. Th pries of the .Bwasslnatlon was $4. Th murderer cant hi etilfly. beady .yea at Frsderluk Hpenoe. who waa M Vial for murder, at tie told hla (lory. rheT waa hatred In hit eyes, engen Aered by tha fact that h waa caught nil that ha muat aarva twenty year to CIng flint for manslatightsr In the flrat decraa. That la the sentence Judge Roaalaky will pronounce on (be youth, Themes Oannon, In January. Tbe wildcat atorloa of Aiwctte Hf m Parte or the deaperate doing of tha "A Venue Boy'- of Jeok Zellg can hard. 1 rival the alory diminutive Tre.ma Gannon told to the Jar ta-day. fill I language waa the vernacular of the I east aide, where slang and oath ndd expressiveness to speech. TELLS HOW HE KILLED VICTIM FOR . "Tea. I killed thia guy Curls (Christo pher' Larsen," he aall, "because 8penv Kama 14 to do It." he told the Jury. 'You aee, It waa thia way. HOence, 1 e waa a bark rep In Third avenue near . Twenly-nlnt street. He ha a aldrt. Mary Mickey, that ne'e bee eovln' a I long time. Mary threw him down and wait to live with the Larsens That era lahat eausaa the trouble." Iairaen. hla wife and three- moot he-old aaby lived In a top floor flat at No. IM Baet fortieth atreet. Careen wae need rigger for the Bdlaon Company, a hard working, atnady-rolnc man. Maroh waa Mary Marker's birthday, and the Larsen cave tier a party, to which all their frlende were Invited. Spence wae the only one omitted,. When the feetivlUee were at their eight, Spence knooked on the door and demanded permlaaloa ta aaa Mlaa Maeetey. The girl appealed to her hoat. Lareon. who threw Spence down stairs. "Wall." continued Uannon to rho Jury. I Wa etandln' on tha corner near the Bow whan Spence came alone. He Baked If I wanted to nuke a place of glare- I told him I AM. if I didn't Bare to work Wo hard. lie gl ma m gun and telle me u go up to Lr aan'e flat and 'clean up that damned T want up the eteas and knocked at fha daor. Laraen cornea out and 1 aayi to Mm: 'What been the treabli. up jera with 70U and Bpenoef. i.lglg tella me en ound my own buatneae and take a gtep toward ma. Then 1 let him have It and broke and rug. I didn't shoot lata but once." Once waa enough. 1 1 karasn. hot through too heart, staggsred baok int. the crowded flat and airuggtfd toward 1 get oot where hla ohlllvwaa Bleeping. Ma fell aeroae tha tiny bed. hla erme a tat retched to hla baby. The white taeed group lathered about him and turned him over. They thought he waa only unoonadoua. Dr. Ivey, from Bella- 1 vue Hospital, declared he died aim .at taatonuy. PftrCC WAe) ENOUGH FOR KILL ING SUCH A VICTIM. "After tha abootln'." want en Oanaon, with no abow of amotion. "1 run down the atep. atlckln' the gun In my pocket. I meet Bpenoo over la Third avenue and he handa m ft and gays 'that' for hlllln' a : I kept the run. Thst's all I got for klllln' Careen." Had roil ever een T.srssf before?" aakrd Assistant Iltrlct-Attomey C. C. Notrt. "Nawj I never seen tilm before, but .pence told me what he looked Hke." waa the astounding reply. Spent1 waa Mfagtgj that aame night, but there tM no evWence to connect him with Uie murder. aVJimi!-. It waa known he had called at the bersen flat and bad been ejected. He Be dire hla rcieeee from the Torabe on a writ of bghgaa corpua, whkh the ntetrlet Attorney's office !? not oppnaa be cntis at then time It could mi. ;-"ir hla Indictment. I,1T Onnnon waa arreatejd. Daring he trial of Polios Lieutenant Backer (ha aoptaWtoated child appeared as a witness for the defense, trying to offaet conversation overheard ta the Tomha between Peofcer end some of htn strong arm snmvd. HIb teatlniour km peaohed by ttie flat. When yotma Uannon waa arraigned for trial before Jtetge MosaUky, hi eonnael offered a plea of guilty of man slaughter in the first degree. The plea waa aorepted on condition that he tell the truth Before Assistant Dlatrtct- Atlorney Vott. Judge II-. lk v and hi own father Oannon confessed. Spent waa re-arraated, Indicted and pieced on trial. Dfttitim will be sentenced net month Reran he haa served a long term In Che Birntra Reformatory for a burglary he cannot reoelve an Indeterminate ecntene He rniwrt reoelve a twenty year "bit." The r1i..t- will not accept a pie, from pence. It Oemanns .1.2? hta man of hlrty-flv years, who I charged with Inciting a boy to imird-r. m-iet go to tha dialr. DETECTIVE SHOT N STRIKE RIOT NEAR FORT LEE 1 I wo Hundred Italian Coal Handlers Fight Police at Erie Railroad Dock. 1 of n club. i The detectives made no effort to pur sue the strikers further but. pli-kltig up 1 Uie two wounded men, retreated to i within the gates. There It was found 'that Hie detective was badlv wounded The milli t had entered ih Is ft ear and. iinnglng downward, had lodged against I 1'ie spin. Partington is partially para- I I vied. A eprdal engine atur.hd to a coacn ok Parrlngton and Mian a tP peed to Haokenaack, to the naaTreBt Uahls hospital. Thers surgeons ni-obed immedlatery for the millet In the deii -live neok and braugJit H out, but tha wounded man waa In such a wsak ened condition that they feared ha wotdd die. Mtah auffered nothing more aeeioua than a aptH acalp. Meanwhile tha railroad company had sent an krgent telephone oall to Sheriff r'onklln at Hakcnaaok, within whose halllnrltc HhadysMs Is, and deputies v. rue Bent to the scene of the trinr'.ile. The coal docks were closed temporarily, Thomas Parrtngtrir), n Kris Railroad detective, waa shot and probably fa tally wounded sarly to-day when a sud den riot atsrted among the 310 strik ing Italian coal handlers at the Egg quehanna and Wsstern Knllroad coal docks at 8hadyalds, the railroad ter minal on the Jersey shore, opposite Ntnety-nlrth atrewt, Manlia'tan, Mchsc1 iMlah, a 1ar..res-. was hit on the head with a cluh and was hurried with the wounded detective on s special train to the Hackensnok Hospital. Ths strlks of the ooal handlera upon ! the refusal of their demands for an inrre.. 'nv from 12 to X cents an hour began at 7 o inuctt h,s morning. The men refuard to go to work mi gathered nutslde th OOgl docks In a threatening erowd. The llrle ltalli i d, owner f the Htisouehanna end West srn, fearing trouble, had sent several I detectives from Jersey ('lt.v and Police Honor lei em sator. Vincent Aator was elected Uun night an honorary member of the Lg1on of Honor of the Poll -e Department, to tske the place of his father, Col. Aator. He wo proposed by Sergsant Daniel Po garty of the Bast Pifty-flrst street sta tion at the regular monhhly meeting t Pollre Headquartera, and waa unani mously elected. There are but four other honorary mamhera Philip Rhlns lander. R. A. ('. Smith, Ui llev. Pranola p. HulHvan and Police t'ommlsstoner Waldo. LA FARGE MYSTERY REVIVED IN FRANCE AFTER72 YEARS Noted Men Join to Have Court Reopen Case of Woman Convicted of Poisoning. Tramps aj-e thought to have sot fire to an unoccupied slnblc nt one Kttlt ureu aim . i , .. . .. i... .... i ,J.,.. ,,.. .,, vi avnus sarly lo-day. 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