UNWRITTEN LAW.
SON SHOOTS HIS FATHER.
(Received 26, 8.15 a.m.)
New York, Jan. 25. John Drost, a farm hand, shut his father dead.
When arrested at Northbend, in Washington State, he said. ‘ I shot him because I am Americanised. If we had still lived in Holland. I would not have done it, but here is the greatest country on earth, ami no jury will convict me when I tell them the motive."
A daughter: in attempting to sav. her father, w? - LtidU wounded.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 37, 26 January 1911, Page 1
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