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Boy murder in Boston.

--At Boston, on Wednesday evening, a rough fellow named Fitzgerald, annoyed at the badinage of several little boys, struck one of the number, named Richard Orpin, six years old, over the head with a loaded whip stock, crushing in his temple and killing him. The murderer was arrested.

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