| OCR Text |
Show BOY KILLS FATHER WALKING IN SLEEP ' Somnambulist Had Started Hunting Hunt-ing When He Was Halted and Discharged Gun. Little Rock, Ark. One of the, strangest cases of homicide on record In Arkansas Is reported from Bessie, a small town in the northeastern part of the state. While walking in his sleep William Delaney, a sixteen-year-old schoolboy, shot and killed his own father, Ed. ward Delaney. The father was sixty iipl I si Turned and Shot His Father. years old and one of the most ie-spected ie-spected farmers In the community. The killing, under the peculiar circumstances, cir-cumstances, has caused a commotion In the town and adjacent territory. No blame or censure, however, attaches at-taches to the young man, who has borne an exemplary reputation and was deeply attached to his father. . It appears from the meager reports that have filtered. In here that young Delaney, who lias been Inclined to a peculiar nervous disorder recently, arose shortly after 1 o'clock In the morning and, taking his double-barreled shotgun from the corner of the room, left the house and started across the yard as If to go hunting. The noise of the young man's getting get-ting up and going out aroused the elder Delaney. When he saw his son going across the yard In his night clothes, gun tn hand, he ran out after the youth. It seems the father's calls or something frightened the young man, for he turned and shot his father, the load of shot causing almost Instant death. The discharge of the gun awoke the son, who was completely overcome when he saw what he had done. |
