FATHER SHOOTS HIS SON.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 19 October 1915, Page 7

FATHER SHOOTS HIS SON.

"Pop, plase stop swearing. It. isn’t nice, and it will give us a bad name,” pleaded George Lynch, fifteen years old, of Passaic, N.J. (U.S.A. John Lynch, his father, replied by shooting the boy through the right arm and the chest, the bullet stopping in the back just under the skin. The boy s condition is serious. After the shooting Lynch, who is a detective for the Eric railroad, tied from his home. As he had been drinking, he was unable to get more than nine blocks when the police overtook him. They found on him a revolver and blackjjack. According to the boy’s statement, his father had taken too much drink, and came home in bad humour. While in a front room the elder Lynch objected to persons walking through an alley and began to use bad language. Enraged by what he regarded as his son’s impertinence, Lynch cursed the boy and drew a revolver. The boy attempted to take the weapon from him, but before he could put his hands on it his father shot him.