Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-08-17 | Page 5 | Boy Confesses Poisoning Parents

BOY CONFESSES POISONING PARENTS SANTA ROSA Cal Cat Au Aug 17 ColI Con Confessing eBbing that he had bad poisoned polson cd hIs hla mother father fattier and a neighbor year old Adam Clark of or broke down last n night in his ceU In the county cO Jail and amid sobs told wh why and how he lie administered ad- ad ministered the tho polson Mrs s. h Au Augusta Clark tin tile mother aged 60 50 years earl died last night at a hospital In Via this city James Clark the father a aeJ r. r 60 probably will dlo before daybreak John Joh the neighbor Is seriously ill Tho The mother and father of the bo hoi boy y l' p jP- some sonic timo ago aso Recently the boy went t tb work with a n. hl hay haling baling crow His mother objected It was his custom cus cus- tom torn to visit her o occasionally and each time he h. did Elf 59 o she became seriously III ill The last she hc was as Ill her husband returned to the homo home to nure her and anti the boy them Tho b h.- h. camo came ill and carno camo to nurse both Again tho boy came homo t became UI HI T The Tho p peculiar tance stances the illness of the Clarks Clarke aroused the thc suspicions of the tho authorities authorities au au- au- au and Adam wa was brou brought brought to ht to tho the city Jail in this city H He admitted ho he had put rough on rats rats' III in n the thc coffee correa coffeepot coffeepot pot at hl hIs mother mothers home each time he was waa there thre on a visit visit- Tho The reason for doln doing this he said laid was waa because she lie wa was continually protesting against his being a member of a baling crew and ur urging nG him to return home