While at the library copying obits for someone, I managed to get a copy of the following story from the Lowell Sun. I wanted to post it in the hope that it is helpful to someone.

Lowell Sun
Lowell MA
December 28, 1922


DETECTIVES PUZZLED

Brooklyn's Keenest Sleuths Trying to Solve Mysterious Shooting of Girl

NEW YORK, Dec. 28. - Brooklyn's keenest detectives, puzzled for a solution of the mysterious shooting of Theresa McCarthy, 10-year old school girl, in her home Tuesday, took note of the slightly upward course of the .22 caliber bullet that pierced her heart, disclosed by the autopsy, and today inclined more to the theory that another child of similar age was responsible for the tragedy.

The deduction was that the bullet's course would have been downward, rather than upward, had an older and taller person fired the shot, and in this belief the search was continued for one of Theresa's playmates, frightened into silence by the tragic consequences.

The police, working on various angles in hope of the merest clue and with a dragnet over the city, have in custody James P. Grace, of Brooklyn, 25, a collector, on complain of the father of a six-year-old Bronx girl, who was attacked by a man in the hallway of her home Dec. 6. The prisoner, the public said, is being investigated in connection with a similar complain concerning a girl in East 39th street, Manhattan, two days later, and also in the case of the McCarthy girl. Thus far, however, nothing has been established, the police said, to connect this man with the Brooklyn mystery.