MOTHER WHO SHOT SON

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1923, Page 1

MOTHER WHO SHOT SON

■ “FOR THE GOOD OF MIS SOUL.” i j .j NEW YORK, Aug. 27. i I A woman named Mrs Rose Simiz is | to-day restlessly pacing her small cell in j a Chicago police station, torn between j anxiety and remorse, while her 19-years j old son hovers between life and death I with a bullet wound in his neck which she inflicted “for the good of his soul.” “1 am sorry now, so sorry,” she 1 moaned, as she went over the story of i how she shot her son Dozzo. j “Me wouldn't work, and lie loafed all j the time. This morning lie got homo |at li o’clock alter spending all night 1 with a hunch of wild follows. I tried j to make him clean up and go to look j for work. “'ll you nisi.-r on gelling money from me,' he answered, '1 can go out and steal all you want.' “Then he laughed siieeringly and prepared to go to bed. “A kind of blind rage seized me. The idea of a soil of mine becoming a thief overwhelmed me. 1 stepped into my bedroom and got a revolver, and said to him: I'll kill you before I’ll see you started on your way to the gallows.’ “I pointed the gun threateningly. “ ‘You daren’t shoot,’ ho said throwing up his arms and mocking me. “f was beside myself. Before 1 could help it the gun went off and blood spourted from his neck, lie sank to the floor. “The next thing 1 remember was calling lor the police to bring an ambulance.” \ derail Chicago policemen fail to remember any similar case.