Filial Affection!
JL trial which reveals extraordinary brutality, reminding one of the duels on the borderland of American civilization, aggravated by the fact that the combat* ants were father and son. has just taken place before the assizes at Lille. Both parties were small farmers, and having quarrelled about the ownership of two young ealrea," they met armed with revolvers. The xon, aged 28, fired the first tfhot, lodging a bullet in his father's shoalder. The other replied with a shot which entered the breast of theyoung man, n;ho ran away, the father following, and Iteeping up a running fire without, however, again nit tun; him. The son reloaded his revolver, and concealed himisflf behind a tomb in a cemetery through which his father would pass. On the old man appearing he aimed and wounded him in the arm. and almost at the same moment he received a bullet in the side. Tlw son was tried for attempted murder, and was sentenced to five years' hard - ifcbor One of the bullets is still lod^d fh liif abdomen, and he had to be assisted from the Court by the eoniarmes. The jury were.disposeJ to sign a petition for a pardon.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 97, 26 January 1886, Page 3
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199Filial Affection! Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 97, 26 January 1886, Page 3
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