Coalville Times | 1906-09-07 | Page 2 | Youth Slays Aged Father Seventeen-Year-Old Spokane Las Confesses to Most Horrible Crime

t I YOUTH SLAYS , ACEDFATHER SeYenteen-Year-OId Spokane Lad Confesses to Most Horrible Crime. Pioneer Merchant Falls Victim to Hla Own Son, Who Slew Him In Hopes of Securing a Few Dollars Which He Thought His Father Waa Carrying. Spokane, Wash Tho body of Jamct F. Bloane, rt pioneer merchant ot thlt city, waa found behind n plto of rockn In an alley near hla home on Sixth avenuo near Slovens street Great gashes on his head showed thnt hn had been murdered, apparently with n hatchet, and A trail of blood led from Iho alley to Mr Slonnu'a home Investigation Inves-tigation proved that ho wat murdered In his room shortly after midnight, his body being loaded Into a wheelbarrow, trundled to tho alley and dumped against the rocks Sidney Bloane tho 17 year old sort of the murdered man, was taken Into custody by Ihe police shortly after th body wat discovered At first ho protested pro-tested complete Innocence, but bioko down nnd confessed tho murder. Hn raid hn slew his father with nn nxn In Ihe hnpo of getting fSOO which ho thought his father was cnrr)lng Tho murdered man had been ono of Spokane's Spo-kane's lending merchants for )cars, being the senior member of tho Bloane-Talno company