The Kimball Graphic

A BOY DELIGHTS IN MURDER
Willie Crago, an Eleven-Year-Old Ohio Lad, Revels in Bloodshed and Crime.

Columbus, O. Aug. 30.--A mere lad, more degenerate than the famous and world-known Jesse Pomeroy, is now an inmate of the boys' industrial home at Lancaster.

This degenerate is named Willie Crago, and is only 11 years of age, yet he coolly talks of his deeds of bloodshed with a nonchalance that would do credit to the most depraved of murderers.

The crime for which he will be sent to the reformatory is the attempt he made on the life of his little baby sister a few weeks ago at the home of his parents, about ten miles from this city. The fact that he murdered a 4-year-old brother about four years ago in Tuscarawas county did not come to light until the attempt to murder the baby was made known. He regrets very much the failure to accomplish his intention to murder the little baby sister, and says that he will do so when he first has an opportunity.

The lad told of how he killed the little child in Tuscarawas county with evident delight. He said that he cut off the head of the child with an ax, and then, after the death, he took a sharp knife and cut off the nose and both ears and finally wound up by cutting the arms off near the shoulders.