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Show The Pati it-ide. - A few days ago a -special dispatch was pub!i3hed in the Herald which told of the killing of a father by his son, butthe particulars were not guen. From a private letter the following details are gleaned: Tne tragedy took place near Marshall's ranche, on tbe Sevier-river. The man's name was Pickering, and for some trivial cause he whipped his 12-year old son most unmercifully. Ho also told him that 'f he (the boy) allowed the sheep to1 get into tbe meadow ho would cut him into inch pieces. The boy ia said to have told his parent that he would never te him after that night. The following morning one of the boys went out , witn the sheep and another with the calves. Sidney, the 12-year old boy who bad been beaten, remained at home. He took a pistol, rested it on a chair and fired, the ball entering, his father's breast, near the right nipple, and ranged no. The lather wa inetantly killed, and it is supposed the boy went out and milked the cows as ubuhI and then went and told the neighbors that his father had been killed by a man. He told several stories, which conflicted with each other, and finally confessed to having committed the murder himself. Tho hoy, it is said, neither shed a tear nor showed the least i remorse nor regret when taken into Lhe-presenca of his dead father, nor c iid he exhibit any when talked to i about it, ihe examination of the boy was going on when tbe letter was written, with what result, however, is not yet known. The Beaver Chronicle says the lad "narrowly escaped lynching at the bands of the exasperated citizens, when ho confessed and was arrested." |