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Show oo FATHER COMMENDS SON WHO SHOT HIM MISSOULA, Mont., Nov 3. Aft.-r Leland Tucker. 21 years old . had shot and fatally wounded his father last Friday, the father called Leland In him. shook his hand, declared he loved him and commended him for the shooting, according to witnesses In the boy's preliminary hearing here on a charge of first degree murder The charge was dismissed by the justice who heard tho case. "You've done jus1, what I wanted you to do." witnesses declared the father told the son after the xhoot-ljig- The boy declared he fired in self-defense self-defense after his father threatened him with a knife The youth's mother and other witnesses told the tmrne storv The shooting occurred on a ranch 30 miles from here. |