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Show UTAH BOY MURDERS SLEEPING FAIRER FIRE8 8IX BULLET8 INTO PAR. ENT8 BODY AT REQUE8T OF HIS MOTHER. Fourteon-Year.Old Lad Urged by Kls Mother, a Former Inmate of Insane Asylum, to Commit Brutal Murder. Ogdeti, Utah. James A. ("lough, -17 years of nge, engine Inspector for the Southern I'nclflc, wns shot to dentil Sunday morning by his sou, llnymond Clough, 14 years of age, who committed commit-ted tho cold-blooded murder nt Iho In-statico In-statico of his mother, Olllo Clotigh, -10 years of uge, who is reported to be apparently demented. After tho sou fjrod the first shot of the .118 cullbro revolver Into his father's fath-er's breast, nbout ii o'clock In the morning, the father stnrteif to raise himself and Iho mother Jumped back of the sou and held his arm and told him to empty the gun, according to tho confession said to have been mnilo to the police by the mother and i-on shortly after their arrest lit (I o'clock. According to the police, Mrs. dough was In the statu mental hosptnl of Texas n number of years ago. It Is said that she lias acted peculiarly of late. Tho police believe that dough wus nervous nbout his wife's condl-tlofn, condl-tlofn, since ho had tho revolver locked in a drawer, while he kept the key. The woman said she "sneaked away the key und got tho gun early In the day." |