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Show CLOUGH BOUND OVER FOR TRIAL Youth Who Killed Father Is Given His Preliminary Hearing I Roy Clough was bound over to the district court for trial, and commit-I commit-I ted to the sheriff with Instructions I that suitable accommodations other 1 than the county Jail be furnished tho I prisoner, by Judge D. R. Roberts of the City court following tho prelim-. prelim-. inary hearing this mornlnc Clough, a 14 -year-old boy, who shot1 j and killed his father. Jamos Clough, I on August 22. showed little sign of 'emotion as he sat In the court room.; except when the Revolver with which I he had committed tho deed was in -1 I troduced as evidence. The boy blinked' his eves rapidly striving to keep back 1 tears. Twelve prominent women of the city were at the court room as spectators spec-tators and throughout the hearing manifested Interest In the stories as pet forth by the witnesses Lylcs W. Larkln was the flr.t wit-1 wit-1 noss to b called. He related his trip to tho Clough home. 2 1 7 S Jackson . avenue, and the events that followed. He said the dead man was laying on an Improvised bed. Five bullet wounds were found In the abdonilnal region of his body. 1 Wo III LLE7TS Kl M l.l. One bullet bat passed through thel body, two were lodged against the spine and could not be removed,' while two others, which Struck near! the pelvis, were extracted. Mi.-'. 1 'lough. Larkln said, claimed two men, armed with knife and a shotgun, had killed her husband Larkln, after examining the body, told her thut the wounds had not been caused from knife or shotgun. "Wait until tho undertaker conies and you will see," she said. L'pon being told that Larkln was the undertaker, Mrs ("lough started singing and praying pray-ing and offered no explanation re-gardln- her story Robert Burk, chief of detectives, a? the next witness examined and corroborated the Story told by Iarkln. It was while he was testifying that the revolver was Introduced as evidence. evi-dence. While Larkln was examined, two bullets, the same that were taken trom dough's body, were introduced j as evidence. When Detective C. E. Noble was called, ho introduced evidence somewhat some-what different tO that of the other' officers and witnesses. Clough had confessed to Noble and had given him a more complete account ac-count of the happenings than he had given the other officers. Mrs Clough hnd also called Noble, a day or two prior to the shooting and claimed that her husband had attacked at-tacked one of the children and had injured him o serioush that he had to be removed to the hospital The stories of all three of the witnesses wit-nesses corroborated the boy's story that it was his mother who told him to shoot hi. father. Mrs. Clough. No-1 ble said, had admitted telling the boyl that his father had killed his two brothers, and had told him to kill his' lather unless he wanted to bo killed I himself. The boy told practically the same story to tho brothers of his father when, accompanied by Officer James Heani. the bo waa taken to the morgue to view his father's body prior to its shipment to Texas. From the testimony of the witnesses, spectators at the city court sensed the circumstances of the tragedy 'a 14-year-old bo spurred on by a mentally unbalanced mother until he was willing will-ing to kill his own father, thinking that hy committing this act be was avenging the death of his two vounger brothers, and preventing the father from ulso killing him,'" as outlines by the police. The mother, testimony tended to show, had been the cause of the shooting. It was she who had caused the boy to leave home, threatening that the father Intend-. I killing him. She had warned the youngster to keep out of his father s sight and had provided pro-vided him ulth bedding and food so he could remain away from the house. She played upon his emotions. It Is said, until he thought thRt his mother hims'-lf and his brothers wore being persecuted. H s HALLUCINATIONS. According to police reports, the bov was becoming exceedingly nerv ous l from his solitary confinement. Because Be-cause of his youth he was kept separate separ-ate from other prisoners and the loneliness lone-liness of his position, together with his constant brooding over the tragedy, trage-dy, were breaking down the lad's reserve re-serve He imagined he could see phantoms phan-toms standing In the door of hN cell and rarely slept normally. |