BOY OF FIFTEEN SHOT

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 133, 2 December 1935, Page 11

BOY OF FIFTEEN SHOT

SANTA BARBARA TRAGEDY

MOTHER'S ALLEGED

ADMISSION

SANTA BARBARA (Calif.), Nov. 29,

Jesse Livermore, jun., 15 years of age, son of a famous Wall Street financial and stock manipulator, is near death in hospital from a bullet wound which the police declare was inflicted by his mother, Mrs. Dorothea Livermore, the financier's second wife, from whom he was divorced several years ago. The shooting occurred at Mrs. Livermore's home, where, according to guests, both mother and son were "very intoxicated," and were, engaging in a drunken argument over the youth's drinking habits.

The woman is quoted as having said she would rather see her son dead than intoxicated, upon which tne boy got a small calibre revolver and said, "Well, here you are."

' A few moments later, when the two were alone in a room, servants and others heard a shot. On entering they found the boy on the floor and the mother with the weapon in her hand. She exclaimed: "I have shot my boy."

According to hospital officials, the youth, before losing consciousness, exonerated his mother arid said, "It was an accident; that is all I wish to say about it."

According to a revised version of the affair obtained by the police, young Livermore -was away from home while his mother was entertaining what is described as an extremely lively party. He bod not been drinking. It is said that on his return home he remonstrated regarding the condition of the guests, most of whom left in anger, and the intoxicated condidition of his mother. Apparently to shame her, he started gulping neat whisky, saying, "I can drink as much as any woman," upon which the argument and shooting followed.