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Show FATHER GRANT. A Short Talk With the Sorrow Stricken Parent of Royal Grant Who Was Shot at Weatwater lest Sunday. G. D. Grant, father of Royal Grant who was shot at Westwater on Sunday last, bent with age and his heart torn with anguish, was a caller at this office today. An attempt was made to interview inter-view the old gentleman, but his grief was so great that it seemed unnecessary cruelty to refer to the tragedy in his presence. The dead boy was the idol of hia father's heart and his death it seems ib unro tnan Fath-r Grant can bear. Father Grant will be sixty-four years oi age it ne nevs to see the nineteenth day of the present month. He has had more trouble than falls to the lot of many men. He had a brother shot in cold blood at Columbus, Nebraska the assassin was taken from the courtroom court-room by a crowd of citizens and hanged. Mr. Grant was instrumental after long continued hard work in bringing to justice the murderers of a brother-in-law at Omaha, and now he is called upon to bring to justice the murderer of his favjrite son. He Bays that when the tragedy occurred oc-curred he and his two sons were on the public highway going to work on a house his son was erecting on ground that belonged to him the Grants, bo he claims, were on the ground ten years ago, and of late had spent thousands thou-sands of dollars in an attempt to raise water to irrigate it. On getting to the details of the shooting in the interviewer. inter-viewer. Grant was so affected he could not speak. He was shown the report of the tragedy as first published in The Dispatch. It took him some time to read the article, tears bo blinded his eyes. On its conclusion he said that it told tbe exact truth in nearly every detail. His son was shot by a man,a stranger to them, who came suddenly out from behind the cabin, who shot without warning. The old gentleman has been before the grand jury and goes home this evening, but he says that it seems now he has no home. I |