AMERICAN TRAGEDIES
BOY SHOOTS HIS PARENTS
AUSTIN (Texas), April 25.
An extraordinary confession was made By Howard Pierspn, aged 20, whp informed the sheriff, Mr. Allen, that he had shot and killed his father, who was an associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, and his mother, to get their property, which included 17,000 dollars life insurance. . The sheriff explained that relations between the boy and his parents had not been amicable recently. The youth, who was on five days' vacation from the oilfields where he was employed, took his parents ..or an automobile ride in desolate country, and lured them from the car on the pretext of showing his mother, who was interested in Indian relics, an old aboriginal grindstone. After killing his parents he hid their purses, shot and wounded himself in the arm, and raced hysterically back to town, declaring that robbers had murdered his father and mother and had attempted to kill The police searched all night for highwaymen, but after many hours of questioning, due to discrepancies in the youth's story, he broke down and confessed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 9
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181AMERICAN TRAGEDIES Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 9
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