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NEW YORK, January 26. John Drost, a farm hand, shot his father dead.
When lie was arrested at Northbend, Washington State, be said “I shot him because lam Americanized. If we had still lived in Holland I would not have done it, but here is the greatest country on earth,- and no jury will convict me when I tell them the motive.
The daughter in attempting to save her father was badly wounded.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 January 1911, Page 5
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