| Show DEFENDS MOTHER SLAYS FATHERS Sensational and Shocking Case Of or Brutality and Patricide At Ogden VICTIM IS JOSEPH CHECKETTS Scene of Murder Was Family Home Where There Had Been Domestic Trouble for Years Perpetrator of ot the tho Iced Deed Is L nn year car Old Hoy no Who U Ii Now for tor Special to the News Now Ogden Feb 28 A father r lies lk dead on 01 B P lab In fn tho morgue a II mother Is 1 nut suf suffer fer from a I frightful wound In n the head n rt son lion la Is I In jail charged with tho murder of ot his hili father rather and a homo home Is 18 I filled with grief ret over a terrible tragedy which occurred hero here this morning about I 4 SON INTERFERED The man who was wa killed was Joseph Checketts Checkett a stationary engineer CS years yeaTs of at age The woman who was wall wa Flashed by a II butcher la li Mrs Checketts and her son eon Frank Is the person charged with Ith murder Tha rho of ot thu tragedy waa va tho the family home homo Thirtieth street CAUSE OP 01 TROUBLE Although trouble had been brewing In the family for years due toe It H Is said to the tile uglY habits and disposition of ot the head of the family the tho Incidents which culminated In the tho death of ot Checketts occurred Monday night On that night might a u party was as given glen at lit the th Checketts homo to 10 some young folks In the neighborhood Mr Checketts panic rane home In Inn an Intoxicated condition and began to abuse his children and create ft u disturbance generally Ills daughter Eva Em remonstrated with him him and this made him bun moro more angry than ever everI THREATENED DAUGHTER I Yesterday afternoon he h wont to his home and was II apparently hi III the tho same samo ugly mood lIe He threatened to kilt kill his daughter and then went away pre pie me to secure more drink About n C ho he returned and again ter terrorized the family About midnight he ordered the children to bed and threatened violence If It any ony of or them got up liP USED BUTCHER DUTCHER KNIFE KIFF It seems that for some Rome time he ho and his mis have hene been occupying separate rooms Checketts called to tu his wife nod and tho the two engaged In an nn an animated conversation children heard their father tather enter en tor their mothers room md then thell followed a n scream and the ho sound of ot scuttling The fhe enraged man hud lied secured a sharp butcher knife and was Vas va bent upon murder murler Seizing his wife by the hair hall he slashed sla hed nt t her with the tho knife cutting a n deep gash gosh In her head just above the left lett ear eliI earTHE THE FATAL ATAL WARNING Hj Ii 11 this time the boy bo Frank was aroused Seizing a n 38 3 caliber Smith Wesson revolver he ho rushed Into Inlo tho tine room to save sac his mother Drop that knife and let mother alone or Ill Fit kill 1 jou ou he said to his maddened father rather The en cn enraged enraged raged man mall lot lol go of or his wife and anti with Kith a howl of rage rushed upon his hla lon ion Dropping tho the bloody knife ho grabbed his mis son eon with hits hili right hand baud end with the tho loft attempted to 10 taka tako possession pl of at tho revolver Young 10 U II Checketts was waH too quick for tOl him him how however ever ner and quickly raising tho weapon h b ins fired Ired Without so o much as a u groan the father sank to the floor loor death dead The bullet entered tho the head of oil on tho Iho left letl tide ilde and passed tl clear through tho the train brain ARRIVAL OF TIm THE POUCH Young was cool coot imd ind collected Tho The police wore Wf noil noti fled and aud Sergt Chambers amid ami Officer Morrl hurried to tIne tho bloody scene Upon their arrival they found tho the oung man waiting Ho lie quietly told toM tic Iho officers what whal had lund happened nii turned over to them the Iho gun Iun antI the tho knife from which tho the blood from tram Mrs dripped TUB fUE WOUNDED WIFE A physician was called to attend to 10 Iho Itie Injured woman and found a gash cash cashIn gashin In her head nearly n arh four tour Inches lunches long This was sewel up and seine somo minor wounds were attended to the tho rut Is a R dangerous our Ol It II Is believed that tho the woman wilt will wi recover DELIBERATE SAYS When the officers asked young Check ills 11 for it 1 statement h lie he detailed the nc cc mounts lounts as given herewith Ho Ito le admit admitted admitted ted that ho shot ahot hl his hll father In order to protect his hll mother mOlher and It I Is said Mid hl that Eva EI Checketts told lold tine tho that her brother deliberately killed their fattier father NEIGHBORS NOT 01 SURPRISED That Checketts has hns been killed does dols Dot In the neighborhood ulio h were familiar with wih the hab nab habIl habits It Il its for tH the part several years eMS It I Is I laid said that for u II long hang time the thu tl police polIo avo IVO had a great groat neat den I of trouble with aim Dim When Vinen he ho got drunk he became very Fery vicious and IS saved from pros several times by hi his family It Lt It is claimed here that Checketts has been most lost brutal brIn I to 10 his wife anti and fann I ll ii Ih for tor years and that It I lied had hal been al at almost most roost a thing for him to come home drunk and Ind beat and kick hi hl his wife REVOLVER ANt AND KNIFE KNItE Tho The am are Iro now In possession po ea lut of ot the tha revolver and Gnu knife which figured In inn the tine tragedy anti they the have the Iho state slate statement ment of ot young Checked Checketts It Is II likely that nn al Inquest will wi be held hel unit and that a n complaint will vill 11 bo ho tiled d against the tho prisoner although tho thu th feeling Is II one of ot sympathy for tor him hint mind p per persons r ons have not nt been reluctant to say s that thal Check Checketts etta etts ets deserved hins hil fate tale terrible though It I has been |
