TOWER CITY BOY FATALLY WOUNDED BY REVOLVER IN HANDS OF A CHUM
Ray Snell, 10 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Snell, Tower City, was fatally wounded by a revolver, discharged in the hands of a friend, Mark Norman English, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Underkoffler, that place, about 6:45 o’clock, last evening.
The English boy was playing about an automobile parked in front of his home and discovered a revolver in the vehicle. Taking the weapon, he brandished it before several youngsters whom he passed on the street, and finally came upon a group of boys of which young Snell was a member.
“See what I have,” he said and as he exhibited it, the weapon was discharged and Snell fell, mortally wounded.
Chief of Police LeRoy Kopp of Tower City, investigated and took the boy in custody. At a hearing before Justice of the Peace, W. J. Henry in Tower City, English was charged with murder and was taken to the County Detention Home at Pottsville to await further action.
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From a local newspaper at the time of the killing, 1931.
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