Show WHOLE FAMilY IS I CLUBBED ED TO DEATH Murderer Uses Butt of Shotgun II in Killing Parents and Three Children THROWS S BODIES IN RIVER f J 1 I r u Awful rill fimi etl Neur f I Mol I 1 JI to tu Sao Sn Mob lol Iob IVoin Mo lo Oct II lt It It developed de tle- elop today that th the LIme entire fatuity family of or Barney Parsons consisting con of or I fattier father mother and three children nino miles mileR were murdered l Friday from Houston a small town seventy se miles from front Springfield anti and their bodies thrown into 1 a creek A telephone me sago message l O from Houston tonight ht says say that Joda Hamilton has hns confessed to the lie crime and that lie Ito Isnow is isnow now in the tile Houston jail guarded by bya b bya a largo large o force of or deputies who have been beon sworn in III to prevent a threatened lynching The murder took place in tim a remote spot on un a country road l Parsons an ons sold his crops to Hamilton und anti l loaded his I goods In Iii a wagon with the ne intention to return to lo northern Missouri his former home He lie and Hamilton hadI had I quarrelled over O the thc t sale ale of or the time crops but nothing was vas expected to come of or orthe the time matter mailer I Deals With Butt of Gun Gnu At a place on the tIme road heavily lined with timber limber us as Pardons and family were driving driving- along tho thie they were confronted confronted con- con fronted by the Iho murderer armed with wilh wilha wItha a a. shotgun Deliberately aiming at Parsons Parson ho dischar discharged cd both barrels of or orthe I the gun und and Parsons fell to the time ground Hamilton then Ihen clubbed him over time the head with the time butt hutt of the gun un He lie then lien beat heat tile the head hend o of the mother al almost almost at- at most to a pulp with wilh the same ame weapon and an after killing l her clubbed the time three children to death The bodies of or all au five were then hell I I loaded Into n a wa wagon aann on and amid taken cn to Big lila I il Piny creek about a mile distant from the tho scene of the time murder and dumped Into the tile water A party Part o of fishermen from roni Houston found the th bodies of r two Iwo of or the Iho dron drui late lalo Saturday afternoon and foul toul play was a sU suspected 4 A further search Sunday Sunda brought ht to light the time bodies bodle of or both parents and word vord was sent to Houston Short Shortly a after Iho tho news had hud been received there Hamilton rode into town on 00 a mule that was recognized as having belonged ed to Parsons He lie was arrested ted and held pending In in- in L Helling lull Spreads The rime news of or if hl hits his arrest spread rapidly and there thele Is much talk lalk of lynching Citizens 11 from all over o Texas county are aro assembling n In lit Houston Hous ilous- ton tonight It Il was at first Intended to 0 take lako Hamilton to sonic some other oIlier town for safe keeping but the tho plan has I been abandoned i iI Hou Houston is 25 5 miles from front the railroad rail rall- rallI I road roal and J If tho prisoner was re removed ru- ru I moved he would have havo to bo be taken OWL over the time hilly hili timbered roads road of time the Ozarks OZark This Tills would make It Il e easy for fora a few determined men nun to take tak him from the officers and amid lynch him The body of one child has not yet yot been found At 10 o'clock tonight ht Sheriff Coogan said over the tile telephone that ho hu has control of or the situation and that ho could protect the p prisoner I |