Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-07-27 | Page 3 | Boy is Beaten Nearly Dead

OY IS BEATEN TEN NEARLY DEAD 1 j COL COLORADO RADO SPRINGS Colo Cob July 27 UP Physicians P continued their desperate efforts today to save the life of Corwin Hull 11 brutally beaten aten with a sharp plank a as his hs father w was wa spirited away to the t state te penitentiary to avoid possible mob iob violence The father John Hull 31 was charged d. d with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill He wilbe will wil willbe b be kept at Canon City until the extent of th the boys boy's InjurIeS InjurIeS' is Is' determined dc de- de- de Assistant District Attorney hey ney T. T I. I Purcell reported Police Chief C. C D. D Harper said th that t under questioning the father lather admitted striking the boy during a flit fit of ot temper Previously he h had bad d claimed the boy was WM beaten by 1 thugs i Chief Harper said he had le learned lerned that Hull recently took out a 1000 life insurance policy on the boy r r The officer reported that Hull an n unemployed shoemaker came carne here here five years ago from J Jefferson City Mo MD The boys boy's mother he said is dead and Hull and his second wife were Were separated The child remained in a critical I condition at a hospital and physicians said that if he survived he would bear scars from the beating I