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Show WHOLE FAMILY MURDERED 0Y BRUTAL MISSOURIAN Shot the Father and Beat the Mother and Three Children to Death With Gun, Then Threw tho Bodies Into a Creek. Houston, Mo. Barney Parsons, a farmer, his wlfo and three children, aged 11, 4 and 1 year, wcro murdorod Friday near Licking, Mo. A farmer named Joda Hamilton, nged 20, has been arrested, charged with the mur-dcril mur-dcril and In sntd to linvo confessed The body of Parsons was found Bhot to death, and tho mother nnd three children hrid been clubbed to death. Parsons had sold his farm' crops to Hamilton, and It Is alleged that tho mon quarreled over tho terms of tho salo. Parsons nnd family set out from their formor homo In a covered wagon, bound for northern Missouri. Joda Hamilton, tho alleged murderer, murder-er, Is In Houston Jail, Btrongly guarded to prevent lynching. Ho Is said to have made a complcto confession, of which the following 1b a summary: At a ttmbor bordered place In the road, as Parcpns nnd his family woro driving along, they wero confronted by Hamilton, irmcd with a shotgun. Deliberately De-liberately aiming at Parsons, Hamilton discharged both barrels of the' gun, and Parsons foil tcTtho ground. Hamilton Ham-ilton then advanced upon him and clubbed him ovor the head with the butt end of tho gun several times. Ie then beat tho head of tho mother almost al-most to a pulp, and after killing her, clubbed the thrco children to death The bodies of all flvo wero thon loaded Into a wagon and taken to Bis Plney crook, about a mllo distant from the scene of the raurdor, nnd dumpetWnto tho creek. |