Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-09 | Page 6 | Mother of Long Assailant Thanks God Senator Lives

Mother of Long Assailant Thanks God Senator Senat r Lives La Sept 9 AP AP-A AP A bereaved dm mother thet Mrs C. C A. A Weiss Sr thanked God today that Senator Huey P. P Long Longis I is still alive Her son Dr C Carl ri Austin Weiss Jr died last night under the blazing guns of f Longs Long's bodyguards guards after he had shot and nd seI seriously wounded the sen senator tor pry Dry ey eyed d but obviously suffering tremendously from the shock Mrs V Weiss told of t her her sons son's activities prIor prior to the thes the's s sho shootings ting When he did a thing like that he hem m must zt lt have known be killed instantly she said But the they the bodyguard didn't have to kill him th the way ya they did They didn't have to kill him himat at alL At 9 o'clock last night he had to togo togo go out on a a sick call The Tho capitol is Is' only a R stones stone's throw from his hish h house use Maybe he h went over over there thereto to lookin be knew knew would be in session last night i I d dont don't nt know why ho he went in None of us can understand It But he must have gone almost straight from his hia house to the tho captol capitol capitol capi cap tol f for r his wife says says positively ly it was about 9 o'clock when ho he left lett All day Sunday we were were just a happy family group We have been so so proud of him Ho He had the whole world in front of him The first I knew of what had bad happened was when a newspaper newspaperman newspaper newspaperman man came to this house last las night and nd told me inc my boy had shot Senator Sen ator Long Oh no nono no I cried My boy never did that My boy never could have done anything like that Not Not my boy I guess now that is wh what t tany any mother would h have ve 8 said ld But Buthe Buthe Buthe he was a fine bo boy keen and intelligent intelli intelli- g gent nt beyond the average He e was always reading in a book and he could do anything Electricity ho he could take care of that Carpentry Cooking Anything His future was waa brilliant