| Show BROTHERS IDAHO RANCHER YOUTHFUL THIEVES SHOT DOWN MAN WITH HIS OWN GUN AFTER ROBBING HIM eleven eleven and rold r old boys confess to brutal time after being caught in act of b robbing rancher hancher twin falls idaho lynn ni at 1 far old lovelace 11 and 12 years of age were held by a coroners jury here for tile the murder of prof thomas hamill a teacher aroa carson nev whose choso body was found near ills his hom homestead estead forty five miles south of twin falls the two boys were apprehended 1 near buhl bub 1 twenty miles west of twin falls sunday evening six days atter alter the murder they had traveled about miles ingles with camills Ham Ha mills llla horse and light wagon sleeping in the sagebrush without bedding and thinly clad they had with them supplies which they had taken from Ha camills mills house also eight guns and revolvers of various kinds hinds they also had stolen guns guna and other things from ranches ranch es along alone the way U upon p od arrest the boys confessed the tha crime cri me admitting that they had robba professor Ha camills mills house a week ago sunday while he was absent returning the next day professor hamill went to a neighboring ranch where the lovelace boys boya were and forced them to return the stolen property he started to take the boys to another neighbor but they escaped the boys returned to professor ha mills home arriving there before him armed with rifles and awaited his return hamill ordered the boys boya away but they retreated into the house and covered I 1 him with ils own guns he parleyed parl eyed and asked for food and after they came out lynn stood guard over him while harold entered the cabin to get him some bread hamill grab grabbed bed the younger boy lynn ordered harold to shoot the bullet passed so close to harold whom professor hamill held in front of him as a shield that it tore a hole in tile tha boys undergarment after which it struck professor hamill in the eye penetrating the brain professor hamill died instantly the boys kicked the body aside and then left in a wagon and drove miles over a trackless country in six days camping out at night they were headed tor for lebanon ore where they said a grandfather lived their stepfather went to colorado two weeks ago leaving them with neighbors from whom they ran away |
