Murder of a School Mate by Two Girls.

(From Sun,  Baltimore, Maryland, December 25, 1879) Cincinnati, Dec. 24. –A dispatch to the Enquirer, from Hogerstown, Ind., states that a murder, which occurred near a country schoolhouse between Centreville and Williamsburg, two weeks since, had just come to light. Two school-girls, about fifteen years old, daughters of wealthy parents, were expelled from the school for bad treatment of a school-mate of the same age, named Miss Kates. While the latter was on her way home, after school, they assaulted her—one knocking her down with a base ball bat and the other jumping on her and breaking four of her ribs—Miss Kates managed to crawl home, and died soon after communicating the facts to her mother. According to reports the parents of the assailants went to the murdered girl’s mother and persuaded her by a bribe of $3,000 to keep the affair secret. The facts, however, leaked out through school children who witnessed the assault, and have created much excitement. Labels: 1870s , Beating , Bully , Indiana , Schoolgirl

Heather Lindekugel says:
December 21, 2015 at 1:35 PM And we thought kid only became evilin this century! Nope. When it comes to sin, there's nothing new under the sun.

NorthsideRasta says:
January 14, 2016 at 6:17 PM "We only became evil this cemtury"?Wow,ever hear of Australia,South,& North America? Settlers decimating the indigenous populations?

Moonraker says:
February 11, 2016 at 11:52 PM She specified crimes by kids, which has little to do with crimes against Native Americans, as heinous as those were.
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