Deseret Evening News | 1907-10-15 | Page 1 | Boy Kills His Mother, Accidentally, He Claims

BOY KILLS HIS MOTHER ACCIDENTALLY HE CLAIMS Kan Kansas city ity Oct IS Smiley aged IT I 1 years yean ar shot shAt t and killed d his hla hi moth tt N 1 Mm Mr aged aced 41 4 years seer In their th lr home at ar ma 2544 Myrtle avenue at 1 JO 30 this Ihl mom morning Inc A state statement mont ment to 11 t the tb m r amlie says ys h he shot hot his hie mother in defending d her lieI against a burglar H He Is la being bM heN tar for r Investigation mlle was 11 the thue woman womans son mu by Imp hr her herant ant husband was waa separated horn from her be second ond husband William r who was in Minneapolis when whan be lat last lath h rd from lie following the shooting av VII the tIt alarm to the tb neighbors At tile the police pol itt station tUon he be said mid 14 h he be had been awakened 1 by b the screams of hi h his mother who told him there WM wai a burg burglar bun bunar lar Ir ar In the th house The woman hid had grappled with Hh lIh the man and nd Ami Smi Icy Ie to get 1 hi hh his shotgun A moment later the Ih freed frd himself and nd was waa making nicking an attempt to 10 when Mrs M ordered Smiley to shoot oot As Au A noId his hi gun a S single nete affair and sad fired tired th the burglar he h says pushed pu the th woman In n front of hIm She received th the full tull effect of th tile the discharge dying dY within In a few fe mo me mom motI menta m Mrs tI 45 waa was shot In the lIIlI breast t tand and never spoke poke after ner receiving the tile wound An Investigation of the house bou made by the showed that tt th the woman money mone and nd valuables had bad not bo been tak tall taken en on