Show WHOLE shot the father and beat the mother and three children to death with gun then threw the bod es into a creek houston mo barney parsons a farmer his wife and three children aged 11 4 and 1 year were murdered friday near licking mo A farmer named joda hamilton aged 20 has been arrested charged with the mur delfi and is said to have confessed the body of parsons was found shot to death and the mother and three children had been clubbed to death parsons had sold his farm crops to hamilton and it is alleged that the men quarreled over the terms of the sale parsons and family set out from their former home in a coi ered wagon bound for northern missouri joda hamilton the alleged murder er Is in houston jail strongly guarded to prevent lynching he Is said to have made a complete confession of which the following is a summary at a timber bordered place in the road as parsons and his family were driving a ong they v ere confronted by himilton armed with a shotgun de literately aiming at parsons hamilton discharged both barrels of the gun and parsons fell to the ground ham allton then advanced upon him and clubbed him over the head with the butt end of the gun several times 1 then beat the head of the mother al most to a pulp and after killing her clubbed the three children to death the bodies of all five were then loaded into a wagon and taken to big piney creek about a mile distant from the scene of the murder and dumped into the creek |