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Show SON SLAYS HIS FATHER. J. N. Baroham Commits Patricide In Nebraska. Ne-braska. James N. "uruham, publisher of the Wymorean, at Wymore, Neb., shot and killed his father. Captain Collins A. Burnham, at their home Sunday. A coroners jury immediately exonerated the son. The killing was in self-defense. Captain Burnham was a captain in Jbc civil war and was uncontrolable when intoxicated. Many times he had threatened to kill all the members of ' his family. This morning the father came home and made an assault upon his son. The father used a butcher-knife; butcher-knife; and after getting his son into a corner was in the act of plunging the knife into his body. When there'was no other alternative, the son drew a revolver and fired a shot, which went through Captain Burnham's heart, kill- ing him instantly. |