| Show A cla fat E ia T ia A brutal boy kills hill his cathor and aas mother wit with h a revolver at chester cheater pa the other lay day a tragedy was enacted which will result in the loss ss of two lives and the conviction of thamas rodgers as a double patricide the latter is a young man an 24 years old and the victims axe are his hia father thomas rodgers CO 60 years old his mother martha ann rodgers Eod gers of bout about the same age and his hi married a sister mrs Vl llam kildey thomas sat back of tie tha stove tn in the kito Iri hon of his parents parente home jut just after tho the noonday meal when his father reprimanded him for his laziness declaring he must go 90 to work thomas thamas answered you can cant t put me out and stairs secured his brother in laws revolver the wife and daughter attempted attempt e d to save mr rodgers Eod gers but the young m man a n pushed them aside and fired two bullets into I 1 his father at short range 1 I 1 r 0 I 1 2 1 I 1 R I 1 IF I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 ill I 1 ira I 1 V THE imort F the first shot th the thi a a sod 4 d the second lodged tp in the adril while j a the Led the old inana clothing after we his father lidd had fallen alien to the floor young rodgers fi odgers kicked him in the fam face the mother attempted to escape by the cellar door but a bullet from her sot sons s revolver struck her in the back and penetrated iter her left lung the sister mrs 1311 kildey dey fled fied from the house by the front d door 0 or and r d her brother pursued her to the street and shot her while thiis sho she ran in almost the same place that tat he had woun wounded aled hia bis mother the bullet glanced on the shoulder blade and this savea the young womans comans life md ala revolver now empty the would be murderer ran up the th street to tc an Aldor mane domce two blocks distant and eater ing lock lochead edthe the door against a large crowd which joU followed owed the police were notified and rodgers was locked up there Is much ezolt excitement ement in ii the community and lynching lunching lyn ching Is IB threatened enact |
