MOUNTAINEER KILLED.
SON ACCUSED OF CRIME. ! T The picturesque career of Hey Tate, 75-year-old cattle dealer of Bruceton Mills, West Virgina, was ended by shooting in the mountains of northern "West Viiwjinia. A son, George Tate, 19, was charged with the killing. The son is alleged to have toH State police that he lay in ambush and fired a bullet through the head of his father as he passed. He confessed, the police said, to taking 160dol from the clothing of hie father and dividing it with two other brothers, Sam, 17, and John, 24. The youth said he had quarrelled with the elder Tate earlier in the week because he was not permitted to leave the house in the evening. Tate had figured in half a dozen shootings in his section. When he was 45 years old he married a 12-year-old girl, his fourth wife. They had eleven children.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 261, 3 November 1932, Page 11
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