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MANISTES, Mich. June 27.— wP—The 11-year-old son of a former supervisor of Manistee county, was in fail today charged with the murder of Archie Osborn, 60-year-old recluse of Onekama village. The youth, Lawrence Brown, confessed, state police said, that he killed the aged backwoodsman in ® @runken argument which started when he kicked the old man's dog. With a slightly bored air and no trace of fear, the boy told, according to state police, how he took §12 from the dead man's pockets and spent the night at dances in Bear Lake and Onek ama. Later he hid his revolver, a flashlight, and Osborn's wallet, in a sheep pen at the Onekama county fair grounds, where state police found the articles late yes terday. Discovery of 4 bandana hand kerchief, in which two eye-holes had been cut, led state police to doubt his story of a quarrel Of ficerh believed the boy went in Osborn’s cabin W .rob him. using the handkerchief as a man. Young Brown said he was drink ing with the old man at his cabin Near Onekama when Osborn's dog leaped at him. He cuffed the dog, he said, and Osborn attacked him with 9 hammer ‘Brown is the son of A. H. Brown , wealthy politician and former couty supervisor.
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Marshall Evening Chronicle
Marshall, Michigan, US
Sat, Jun 27, 1931
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