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Show Son Slays Giani Father; Murder Curse In Fanil BET .LOWS FALLS, Vt., Aug. G. d'.Iii Tho curse of niunicr that inns in tho blood of the pinnt mn:n-bpi-3 of the Kent family has broken I out npnin this time over whether a 7-1-year-oul man has the riht to I spank a 412-year-oid son. Georao Kent, 42, sat in the county coun-ty jail at Newfane last night and confessed he killed his father who despite his extreme nf,re was known as the strongest man in the village of Grafton. It was the third murder in the family in 17 ycai-3 and the second case of parricide. ' Llewellyn Kent, the father, died last night. "He was always beating me up," the younger Kent said. "I was always al-ways afraid of him. He was ugly The old man thought ho could keep on licking me just the same as he always did when I was a boy." The quarrel between father and son started over the disappearance of a few eggs from the former's chicken coop. Llewellyn i- I charged his da!ghter-ln-law stealing the eggs. Din-ins; the (gument C.corgo Kent onlci-m j farmhouse where they all liWl, Llewellyn Kent told l,j3 leave the farm and never c , back, ncco'-dinc; to wii,!; , Geo:ge Kent said his father t'i attempted to beat him aad thni ran into another room and'o, .25-calibor pistol. They scu",: and witnesses coid George I three times, the first bullet c,' wild and the second and tJl striking Llewellyn Kent n ' head. ' i A brother of the. dead man killed in Warrtsboro, Vt., , years ago hy his son, Fred Ki who stabbed his father to i with a fish spear. A son of Llewellyn Kent i hanged for the mnnlr of r Condon, whom he chopped to d, with a meat cleaver at Wni, ford, Vt. ' |