Shot Father According to Instructions
Re;eived Tuesday, 7 p.m. NEW YORK, May 23. A boy aged four shot and knled his father today as directed, after his father had pumped seven hullets into his estranged wue on a farm at Mt. Pleasant, North Carolina. "I shot my daddy," Boyle Talhert calmly told the police. "Daddy shot mommy on the back porch. He carried her into the bedroom and askett me to shoot him." Sheriff Ray Hoover said Fetzer Lee Talhert, aged 37, went this moming to the farm where his wife haa been living for four mohths. He accused her of running around with other men and an argument started. The sheriff said Talhert fired six shots from a rifle into the woman's chest. Then he carried her to the bedroom and shot her again through the head. Placing the rifle against his own chest, Talhert ordered the hoy to pull the trigger. Doyle followed instructions as his sister, Judine, aged 5, looked on, said the sheriff.
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 May 1949, Page 5
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