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Show I YOUTHFUL SLAYER OF FATHER FREED BY COURT I A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A I WOMEN SHRIEK JOY I km mm applaud I . VERDICT OF JURY I Nol guilty,1 was the verdict returned bj jury in Judge A. W. f Ageea eourl I; al oighl in the case of Rn. cl"i;-h, 1 4 - t.;-- l 1 cTirel. u boy, charged with murder in tho first degree for the shooting of his father, .James Clougii, Angus! The jury was out but forty-five minutes and a large number of spi iatnr, main nf them women, were in the eourl room when the jurors filed in to report Juelgo Agec cautioned the specta-tors specta-tors that regardless of The verdict, no demonstration must follow its reading. Respite i his warning, when Simon rw, court clerk read the words, Not guilty," many women shrieked Wlldl) end men upplawded. Judge Agee pouneled vigorously lor Bilence. but It was some time before tho court-room court-room was brought to order. Hoy KO HERO Directing his words to Ray Clough, the acquitted boy slayer, and to the court spectatoi-s, Jddge Agec said, "It should not be construed that this boy 1 Is a h'ro by reason of the crime com-mitted com-mitted or the action of the Jury in ren-derlng ren-derlng ilu- n-nlnt. H h is narrowly escaped serious punishment for a mos; serious crime 1 hope that by ra-con ra-con of the lesson taught him, he wilt profit and grow to be a useful, Ocorge KalvorsCn, counsel for tho boy, a: ose and told the court that he had talked lo the lad while the Jury ' w as in deliberation anel ho believed thai ihp youth would do everything possible to guide his actions along channel;, of iisefulnes9 and good young manhood. ,V HOY HI INKS KM S, j Hny Clough appeared the least con- erded of anyone in the entire court-room court-room He s. nnlned motionless In his sea: when the vedrict was read and the spectators cheered. " He simply blinked his eyes swiftly as has been "i babll during the entire trial. It was announced that the boy was ,H released from custody In the court-room court-room and lie was surrounded by spec-tat spec-tat ore The boy's alster. Mrs. Lloyd A. Kojo, took Ray In custody and it was said that he will be taken to her home in Ogden for the present at least The Jury retired from the court-room court-room for deliberation at 5:20 o'clock. i The verdict was returned at 6:03 o'clock -Many women openly wept in the courtroom yesterday afternoon when Attorney! Vy. Hal Farr und George jH I ah II on I 'I I "l i he hardships whl h they said the lad has been compelled to go ttirough as a result of mlsun-derstandlngs mlsun-derstandlngs at home, in their state- ' ments to the Jury. Attorney Farr fro-QjUenjlly fro-QjUenjlly brushed teai-s from his own eyes when he reviewed the testimony given In the case end explained how the boy's family and home tics had been completely swept away by the Attorney Halverson occupietl more ! than an hour's time in presenting his statement and went deeper into the 1 legal phases of the ease u District Attorney Stuart P. Dobbs. 4 who conducted the prosecution, call- 1 ed attention of the jurors that they 'i IH must not allow sympathy lo interfere with the disposal of the case and al-though al-though their part was unwelcome, it was their duty to uphold the law, which, he declared, formed the fab-rlc fab-rlc of civilization. He said he was Indifferent regarding the verdict and had simply fulfilled his duty as prose- ! e utlng attorney. i M BM H W i I l KT. The Clough case has been one of the most speedily conductetl murder trials ( ever held In Weber county. Hul three HBl days were consumed in the entire pro- r VB cocdingtf. HH The courtroom was crowded yester-day yester-day afternoon and standing room was HH .ii a premium. Tin- majority of the HJ spectators were women. The argu- HJ ments of the defense and prosecution were completed at 5:16 o'clock and then Judge A. YV. Agee read the In- HH structloua to the Jury. Fifteen min-utes min-utes were consumed In the reading ! of the Instructions, which contained HHJ thirty paragraphs BOY TELLS STORY. On the witness stand In his own de- i J fense shortly before noon yesterday, HH Ray Clough declared be did not see HH his father's body when he fired the HI fatal shots. He said the house was In darkness, he was in a daze after HH having been awakened from sleep, and HJ all that was really clear to him was 'he pain from the clutch of His moth- HH er's fingers on his arm and her voice HJ shrieking "Shoot Jhoot shoot." HH He asserted that he broke Into tears HH when his little brothers came running Into the room and he discovered that t HH they had not been murdered as his HH mother had told him. HH The boy showed no emotion or ner- HH vouaness when he described in detail 8 HJ the firing of the shots and the shrieks i HH of his Insane mother. He answered HH questions Quickly and sharply. HH "For three nights before the shoot- HH Ing occurred," the boy said, "1 had HH slept In vacant lots, in the basement HH and In a vacant house. I was afraiu HH to go home for fear that father would 1 HJ kill me. Mother said he would. i HH did not have much to eat and I got f HH very little sleep HH When my mother came to the vacant house where 1 was sleeping on t HH i( ontlnUCtl Oil lnge Two.) JhI SH HWB3H IKjBW IWOMLN SHRIEK THffl JOY AUD MEN UPPUUID WHEN JURY IN MURDER GASEFREES RAY CLOUGH i lip floor Just before the shooting I was In a daze. I remember hearing her call my name. She kept screaming scream-ing something ahoul father killing One of my little brothers with a butcher knife, but 1 dn't reimn.u.r how siw said mv other brothel had been mur- "Mother screamed, 'Com with me.'j . I followed her to our house. She, throat a revolver In m hand and Krlp-H Krlp-H ped my right arm until it pained She pushed me in a door, pointed H my arm downward and cried, 'shoot' H I could not see anything. There wo-sl H no light tu th house. I did r.ot sec' H T-7- oiy lather lying on the floor in the j H wm small room. Mother kept screaming H shoot' and I pulled the trigger. There H was a bright flash and 1 fell some-, thing burn my hand which held the J H 1 B gun BEGINS TO KV B "The fla.Mli and the noise of the' H gun helped to awaken me. I triad to1 B draw back, but mother held my arm H tighter and uhneked In inj car, 'Shoot i H r' shoot nhoot." I kept pulling tin H trigger until my mother let go my1 B" arm. My little brothers cams run-; H nlng Into the room from their beds. I H H knew then that the) iiad not been' BH 85 k,1,ecl and began to cry. J - Mother told me to throw the gun B 1" away. 1 ran cut the front door and. V i,.".. threw the revolver in aorac weeds. H, ' When 1 returned, mother then began K - t i Iking about two other men who had' j killed father She- told mo to tell the - officers about two men, one- with a H S3 black heard, who had killed father. I told the officers this story to pro- i: iin.xt B KOT ADMn n i H It was trouht out in the cxami- H nation cf the boy thai his mother had H told him that Mr. dough left Texas. B where the fumlh previously resided, H I a fugitive from Justice after having I fl made an attack upon a small girl. Nu- mertua attempts were m; l during the, H trial Attorney George H - counsel for the boy, to bring oui ink; H testimony, but objections came from H ihu prosecution, and were sustained H When the boj first look Hj ' stand he was guided in his examina- fl B non by Attorney Halveraon, but as h H proceeded, he was allowed to practical fl Jt ly tell his own story- He said that 1 BJ 5 several days previous to the death of' his father, he had pped him and shoved undf r the t.ed. He declared his father whipped him witb , a saw in Texas and U on is j bare flesh. Several days before the shooting he U Bf said he ran away from home on ac- BBL '.' count of fear of his father. That j! night he said he slept ill B Yt oant lot. He had but little foo l. hi and was terribly hungry wh n he arpse j from his bed ah. h he m omi I bushes In the lou lie . to the I Brown brother's grocery rfre al lolj 1 Twenty-second; si i i-el to g j some tpod, Bk but was caughi as lj. entered the "J rear door of the store! he said GIVER TO ifV HI, BJr Someone in the. .-juirv Polled his fath- Bl er, he declared, and within a .short I time his lather am ed ROd look him over to the police and 'he v. to the city Jail, where he ren alnei three or four days, be. declared. L t r the Juvenile cuun pa'bjd him In his! father's custody. On Thursday, precdln the killing I of his father. Kay said thai Ins ntol er went to Glen wood park with somv friends, and wrten she arrived home late in the afternoon, n ip .. - terrible rage, she told him that-' had left a note fanned.' upon, theftom' asking him to ccan,ci (JIunwocJd park and help her homf? $fch.i1c hfty, flay declared the noto mas'; h.iVfr blown away, for he had hot seen it on the door. Ray declared that hi mother threatened threat-ened to tell hu$ fathor when he got home from Wheio and apparently did so. The boy said that when his father arrived that night he swore at him and said, "I'll attend to you in the morning. HIDES UNDER HOUSE. The boy declared thai he returned to hlB bed, but got up before dawn and hid under a house in the re-, r of the dough home. Fear thai hit f er would carry' out his threat, he I dd, led him to leave his bed and hide under un-der the house. Crowling from under the house at about a o'clock he said he made his way to idcnwood park, where he remained until 2 o clock in the afternoon when he met his small brothers They told him that their father had gone to work and his mother wanted him to come home That night he raid his mother told .him to sleep in the basement of the house and he madt his hed worn newspapers. news-papers. The following morning his brothers brought him food, but he was told his father had not yet left for work and nut tu make any noise Ray said that his mother called him 'after his father h d gone and told him that during the mornlna he had whipped his brothers and pdshed h ipon the bed when she attempted to 7" interfere. Ills mother then brought -tut the gun, he said, and ave k to -'"-Ohlm, ulllng him to protect himself. Jia raid he look the gun to Olenwood wm.'rl;. where he hid It In aoino wccils I MOTHER INFLAMES BOY. Toward oenlng his brothers came to the park and told him his mother "i -wanted him to come home, he declnr-3'd. declnr-3'd. He returned and his mother told him many stories of Ill-treatment '-from Mr. dounh and also told htm i . Jhnt his father had trouble in Texas! With a young girl and had to flee I from that state. She told him that his father had hit her that morning the boy stated. Later that evening, the boy declared that his mother sent him and his email brother to Glenwood park to get "he gun. They returned shortly before be-fore dark, he said. His mother took the pun and hid it in the bod cloth-' cloth-' Ing, saying that she would jirofect hcr-- hcr-- aelf with It when her husband came .""home. Ray dc-clared. I J After his brothers had bone to bed, Ray said that his mother gate him a - SUtlt and a pillow ,and told him to Sleep in a vacant house two doors away. Tie went to the hour.e and , made his bed on the floor. In tho ulght his mother awakened him as re lated and the shooting followed ho said. He then explained telling the true Story to Detective Noble the following fol-lowing morning when the officer took; him In the police automobile. VIEW'S FATHER'S BODY In answer to close questioning in regard re-gard to the actual shooting the boy said he was ilaz -d and did not realize real-ize clearly what he had done until after af-ter the shots were fired and his little lit-tle brothers came running into the room. He said he remained in the house until morning, after the killing and frequently went over and looked at bin lather's body. Mrs Lloyd A Rose, a sister of Ray Clough, was called to the stand at the opening of the court session ester-day ester-day morning and testified that she had visited her mother. Mrs Clough, about tWo weeks before Mr. dough's death, id i mother then appeared In an un-USUal un-USUal state of excitement, she asserted. assert-ed. The daughter testified that her mo! her had been confined In the mental hospital in Texas either four or five times. BROl HER TESTIFIES, Leo Clough, 1 -year-old brother of Ray, took the stand and testified i h at he saw Kay bring the gun with which his father is alleged to have been shot, to the Clough home. This was the evening eve-ning before the killing, the boy said, and the gun was brought from Glenwood Glen-wood park, where Kay Had hit it early in thi- morning after his mother had given it to him and told him o ' protect pro-tect himself against his father." it was stated. The revolver was brought home upon up-on direction of his mother who told Kay to go to the park und get it. Uie Witness declared Kny und his other brother i une With the kuii about dusk, the lad said. William Howell, son of Mr. and Mrs, David Howell, wno reside next door to the Clough home, testified that late In the afternoon following the shooting shoot-ing he went to the vacant house in which Ruy is said to have slept the night before Ke said he sav. a quilt and a pillow upon the floor in one of tho rooms. nori LE OF CHLOROFORM Lloyd A. Rose, nusband of Mrs. Rose, a daughter uf Mrs Clough testified tes-tified that he went to the Ciuugh homo after the shooting and saw where one bullet had plectied the floor in the small room Where Mr. Clough is alleged al-leged to have been killed. He aUo testified that he found a bottle labeled "chloroform." which had apparently been emptied a short time before. W hen Kay clough look the stand in Ms own defense shortly before noon yesterday, there was a commotion commo-tion in tho court room, while people whispered and moved about to get a glimpse of th6 youthful slayer as hoi walked to th stand. During the entire en-tire trial he had been sitting In a position posi-tion with his back to the spectators. The cool manner in which he faced i"t-.e Jury ami told his story was surprising sur-prising and he answered questions in a manner which would have done credit l to a veteran witness. 1A |