| Show I ON TRIAL IL fOR MURDER ILOF OF HIS fATHER Shocking Disclosure 1 lit mit t Hearing of Haul Pierre at It St Sl An Anthony Anth ii thony thi th n Ida 1110 Special Correspondence 1 1ST ST 51 ANTHONY hip Ido Dec C GIn In tho tim district court this week w ek is I being i the trial of Paul Pierre for tor tint the murder of flis father Gustae Gu ta e Pierre on Jul 23 of Gf this year yea Y II at the family home homestead homestead stead at ot Mud Lake this ta The s of the tue crime is at widespread ld In li the tho trial time the being befog packed with pIth spectators from all parts of the I County Count Atty McConnell expects tj tu t implicate ote every member of or tlC tie Pierro family and even een the It pf pC one of the PIerre boys bo The attorney be believes o Paul was the agent of ot the com corn combined blood family in killing his lila father fathel ho so that they tile the might gain possession of Ills little fortune of oh go to the cities and squander er it see sen se Ute lICe The fact that Gustavo Gustave Gt wes was ini ni sane and amid aut dangerous to his household comprises es the thu chief chlof argument of Atty AU tty Holden of Idaho Falls who ho represents ls the defense But Hut tho the stand land takami by bythe the til tl prosecuting and amid his bbs re cc repealed pealed J presentation of facts pointing toward conspiracy and nod that thul there thele hunt Ivul been attempts to lo put the tile head of oC the family out of the way ra a tends to dislodge tile arguments ar of or the detente hio Pierres came to America merit from Belgium and amid for fOI several years ears lived at al tt Streator Ill III where the two boys bo s were w lc born Gustavo Gustave Cleric Pierre Plene took his family to Idaho a year ehr ago locating on n a homestead S Tile The story of the crime a told by b Paul Pierre Plene Is II a 1 most shocking one onu According tho thu Pauls statement the father had been abusing a dog in remit front of the thc home when Paul Patti seized a Win WinChester Chester cheater rule rifle aunt ami shot him him The first bullet failed ailed to take effect anti and iCIer after being hurled to tho the ground he roso rose and ana stared at his son SOli My I 1 father was very Yer said Paul Pierre when hen hien ho lie made his conies confes eo res Mon Ion I 1 t want to See sec c him die tIle with an on his lips anti and so I quick Ilick quickly ly iy I rent another bullet hullet Into his lui body both right over Oel his lila heart and he lie fell Cell dead tead The rhe scenes that followed disclosed l i by y the confession give Ive the authorities ground gOund for believing thai that tho murder of of o Gustavo Gu taYo Pierre was the tile r or a ao conspiracy o All members m of oC the Pierre family f fa ully and nod Trapp frapp who was warn soon to be bc the bride bilde of Edward Pierre came out to view the body bod when Paul hod luaU announced that tho thio old man was 11 dead anti and with apparent satisfaction at the th dispatch of the th di cd Itin it Il IlIn In n a hi Then the S nf t the dead tead man his lila two sons Ions made mate preparations for funeral services S Lumber was at al the tue Pierre ranch on Mud fud Lake Paul states In his confession and ho lie had han to rip Ill boards out of the bain of or the tim ranch In order this rude rudo to construct a coffin When rhen box had been made the tue two sons son ona placed Gustavo Gustave Pierre In tho the nude elUde cas casket ket Then Themi a shallow grave was dug duj und end the family waited until nightfall for the tho burial But expected darkness did aid tome come Instead a bright moon lit lil the plains phallus with a 11 light like day U Tins The burial was delayed for fOI hours in hope that thal a 11 cloud clou might shadow the moon But this did not come and Impatient time the two sons semis carried the tire body bod to tho the newly new opened grave The Tho casket ca was lowered louvered and the hue family knelt In prayers as Paul Pierre who had killed hum hiM fathom tossed earth carth over the casket and end attempted to say a committal service Under the bright moon the family remained in bit prayer until the mother closed this un unusual unusual unusual usual funeral service with an appeal that her youngest son Ion might bo be for fot forgiven glen given for the tire deed Suspicion was aroused among the tho neighbors when conflicting statements were made mate as to the he disappearance o othe of the head of oC the house Paul Pierre ex cx explained explaIned that his rather father had gone back to the tire old ol home In Belgium lum to look loch after acter certain affairs that had devel developed developed in the death of a 0 relative Then Mrs Era Pierre said her husband lund had gone gomia to Washington to seek work In the coal coalfields coalfields coalfields fields with later intentions to prospect for Gold in California The rhe other son SOil had a different story stor to tell and the thu prospective bride maintained that the tho aged lied had ha disappeared un unbeknown to members of the tho family Investigation of ot the tue disappearance of tho thu aged Gustave Gustavo Pierre by b Constable of or Market larket Lake threw sus suspicion suspicIon on Paul Pierre He placed him him under arrest and amid obtained a confession Then he hue removed him to St t Anthony where the tile story of tho hue unusual crime led to the lie arrest of all cli members of tho the Pierre PIerro family anti and an Alethia Trapp They had left the lie ranch where the tho moor mur murder tier der had himi been committed and amid wain dis diM discovered discovered covered at night by Idaho Falls In a secluded et mountainous section of tiC the ho county count countIn S In Iii his confession Paul Pierre Phone insisted that his Jun father had hud labored under hal hallucinations hallucinations that his wife was not true truo to him coil and that his lila children stoic try trying lr ri InK ing to rob iob him of ot his wealth and amid ant home homestead homestead stead He said that thal during the morn mornIng mornIng morning Ing before beCore the murder Gustavo Gustave Pierre had displayed terrible signs of temper and had hued made an arm oath that he hue would kill his hula wife and wid t ud two sons and his Ms cattle and horses and a burn bum the time build buildings buildIngs Ings on omu tho ho ranch and und then lien take sire lila own life On tho the following morning stated staled tate Paul Pierre my ray m father fathel terribly abused mother and amid when I saw him kick and aim curse at the he hie dog tIo I feared eared that he would curry carry out ut lila his threat of or thin day before Without a moments hesitation I seized my rifle 1100 and amid shot him hima a |
