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Show MURDER IN NEVADA , TOWN Sons Kill Their Father in Defense of Their Own Lives San Francisco, Cal , April C Harry Irviugtcn, a miner, arrived yesterday, and brought news of a tragedy at Del- 1 amar, Nevada, In which three boys killed their father in defending thorn- : selves after he had attacked their 1 mother. According to lrvlngtou, last Thursday, William Thomas, a well- 1 known miner at Dolamax, attempted to kill his wife by beating and kloklng her to death. Leaving her unconscious, uncon-scious, lie went to a shed nearby where his three tons were chopping l wood. Thomas, who had armed himself with a rope, declared that ho had come to hang them all. Ho had placed plac-ed the uoose about the younger boy's neck and was preparing to haul him from the ground when his other sons Interfered. With axes they ni9hed upon up-on their father, who was compelled to back away, but as he leaped to one side ho picked up an axe and with this attacked his sous. The older boy seized a shotgun and fired, the father dying almost Immediately. Tho boys then packed the corpse on a burro and took It to Delamar, wber they surrendered to the officers. |