Word: asotin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1931-1931
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...night last August a peaked 12-year-old named Herbert Niccolls broke into a grocery store at Asotin, in southeastern Washington. Sheriff John L. Wormell, 72, went into the store after him. From his hiding place behind a pickle barrel, Herbert Niccolls shot & killed the aged officer. At his trial it was brought out the boy's father was in a hospital for the criminally insane. Already Herbert was something of a criminal prodigy: at nine he had stolen an automobile, and tried his hand at a mail robbery. For the latter offense he was jailed 15 months, later...
| 1 |