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Show Slain Texas Pair Related In Milford Associate Justice William Pier-son Pier-son of the Texas supreme court and Mrs. Pierson, the latter a sister sis-ter of C. G. Haskell and Mrs. E. E. Gray of Milford, were fatally shot in a holdup on a county road 20 miles west of Austin, Texas, Wednesday Wed-nesday night. Howard Pierson, 21, their son who was driving with them, was shot in the left arm. Both the judge and his wife bore head and body wounds. They were found lying near together on the road. . The boy said they were shot when two men, brandishing revolvers, revol-vers, ordered them from the automobile auto-mobile and they resisted. Unable to get his parents back into the car in his wounded condition, he drove back to Austin. Young Pierson was treated at Seton infirmary at Austin and is said to be seriously hurt. He said that before ordering them to leave the car, the men directed di-rected them to drive up a side road. The bodies were found about 100 yards from the main Bull Creek road near the county's pecan experiment orchard. I Willie Phillips, who was at a f ill J ing station some distance away, said he heard seven shots. First i there were three shots, a woman's scream, then two shots, followed almost immediately by two more shots. Mrs. Pierson's body was in the road and Judge Pierson's a little off the road. i The aged judge had been on the i supreme court bench hearing argu-I argu-I ments until late in the day, and had gone with his wife and son on an evening drive. The bodies were found after t dark, about the time the youth j reached Austin. |