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Show GIRL ADMITS SHOOTING HER OWN MOTHER Resented Restraint From Going Out to Parties, She . Said. SAN FRANCISCO, fcal., Jan., 15. (U.P.) Dorothy Ellingson, aged 10, confessed today that she shot her mother to death because of parental par-ental opposition to the gay life she desired to lead, police announced. The girl was arrested this morning morn-ing in a rooming house here. She first denied even knowing her mother was dead. Then, under questioning, she told a story of a drug addict coming to her home and killing Mrs. Ellingson. Then, suddenly she cried: "Call the police woman, I killed her Tuesday morning," police quoted the girl as saying. 'Mother scolded me because of the parties I went to and. the men I went with and a lot of things that happened. She was old fashioned aifd I thought my life was my own and I was going to live it my own way. !"I just couldn't stand it and I shot her with my brother's revolver. 'Then I gathered up my things and I left and came to the rooming house where yoti found me and told them my name was Dunerl and I paid two weeks rent In advance and stayed here all day Tuesday. The girl will be given her preliminary prelim-inary hearing before Superior Judge Lazarus today, it was announced. |