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Show FEEBLE OLD MAN SHOOTS HIS SON Paris. France. Dec. 31 An extra ordinary tragedy occurred In Paris to night. A popular English vaudeville performer, known on the stage as I Harry F. Ragson. was shot and killed by his 84-year-old father, Victor Pott Fragson had dined at a restaurant and on the way to the theatre where he has been appearing called at the apartment which he occupied with nis aged rather in the Rue de la Kay ette He found the door bolted and was kept waiting before It was opened by his father. Words ensued and suddenly the father seemed to lose control of himeelf He drew a revolver re-volver and the son fell with a bul let In his head The report of the revolver attracted attract-ed police and those living In the ad Joining rooms. The son was hurried to a hospital where he died; the father fa-ther was taken to the police station The feeble old man was greatly shaken as he told his story to the police. He had bought the revolver, he said, with the intention of commit ting suicide, he said, because life had becofme unbearable His son had brought a woman to the house in spite of repeated protests Last night he said his son was accompanied accompan-ied by the same woman and reproached reproach-ed him for keeping him waiting. He meant to kill himself In their pros ence and drew the pistol What pass ?d he did not understand, but iustead )f putting a bullet in his own temple 1 be fired at his son. Why, he could not explain. The janitor of the apartment house ind neighbors informed the police that they had often heard the iather and Bon quarreling. oo |