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MURDER.A Sister Kills Her Brother With aShot Gun.nThe people living in the neighborhood of the corner ot Maiden Lane and Fifth street were s^rrtled Tuesday morning about 10 o’clock by hearing the report of a gun ami immediately afterward heart rendering cries were heard. Some of the neighbors saw a young girl rush from one of t he stick houses in that vicinity with A double barrel shot gun in her bn ad and on lea'.ing the house brought it to her shoulder, there was a hash, a report, and when the smoke cleared away, a young boy could be seen laying fuil if length on the ground, with one side of his face blown off. The she devil's” work accomplished she threw the gun ‘ down Beside the dcAil boy and turned s to make her escape. The mother 1 made her appearance on the scene and j grasped her daughter by the hair and I endeavored to hold her, but the fren-^ ' zied murderess soon disengaged herself y and ran through a saloon into an ad-H joining room w here rK« remained until e taken to jail by the officers,Tuc girl who had committed murder t was Maria Moreno, aged 10 years, and ■ the boy who laid on the ground in the £ burning and blistering sun, a victim of 1 r.n ungovernable temper, was her J brother, Alberto, aged 15 years, f It seems the boy liutl been repri-^ I matiding his fister for participating in thp pasooU dance, which r. fls going on nightly next door, as she wa* doing ;I things unbecoming a decent girl. | She took offense at this .and retaliated by ending' him unmentionable names and in return he slapped her with a z shoe. She instantly whirled andwalked into tlie room where the shot gun was, and the boy storied toward Gilii s»Te»t. Only a few yards had3 I bcrn traversed by him when his sister* came out with the gun and cnlleV afterhim: ‘'I am going to kill von.” The] rbrother turned about ami in reply rsid: “Kill me. These were hisjr last words nu earth for ImrJly had| th'ky left his lips when she pulledthe trigger with the above terrible jl results.The boy bore ihe reputation of be—j | ing a gool »ud quiet Lid an-! it is the \ opini m of all that the girl is to blame.1 f From wliut we can learn there is no *-i* I1
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Yuma Arizona Sentinel
Yuma, Arizona, US
Sat, Jul 04, 1896
Page 3
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Julieta C.
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