The boy's name I didn't know. He told me he was eleven years old. He was carrying a basket or pail in his hand. He told me he was going to the store to do an errand. He told me his aunt ran this store. I asked him if he would like to earn fifty cents. He said yes.…I hit him on the back of the head with a 10 pound club. It didn't kill him but he was good and sick and he left me alone after that.

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Carl Panzram’s Written Confession From Prison, 1928.

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