The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-02-14
IN DEFENSE CT His MOTHER
A DEAF MUTE CUTS HIS FATHERS
THROAT.
A sad Domestic Tragedy IN Which Form
er Dawson Printer Is Chief Actor.
Full Particulars.

A sad Domestic Tra@edy IN Which Form
er Dawson Printer Is Chief Actor.
FUN Particulars.
Cliff Thompson, deaf and dumb
printer who held cases on the old Daw-
son Journal under the management of
Mr.. w. 0. Johnson, is in jail at Column
bus tor killing his father
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun gives the
following particulars Of the tragedy
For the second time within a month
Columbus has experienced a Sunday
morning tradegy.
1t was East Highlands this time which
furnished one of the saddest and most
shocking tragedies that has occurr-
ed here in a long time. Not only was
the killing itself terrible, for it was. a
son who took the life of father, but all
of the circumstances which led to it are
lamentable.
A man degraded and overcome by
liquor drives his wife and daugh-
tiers out into binding, beating rain
storm, away from home to spend the
night, and when the wife returns timidly
home early the nexU morning, renews
his abuse, so that the good woman has
to Jump from window to escape him,
and a mute son, appealed to by the
mother for protection, takes a razor
with which he was preparing to shave
and cuts the father so frightfully that he
dies in a few minutes, constitutes the
features Of the terrible story Of the kill
ing of James Thompson by his son Cliff
Thompson, on East Highlands, Sunday
morning about 9 O'Clock
On Saturday night the husband and
father returned home about 1920
o'clock. He was drinking heavily, and
was in a very quarrelsome humor. He
began TRADE of abuse against his wife,
and little later drove his whole family
out in the rain and wind to spend the
night where best they could. They
went to the house of a neighbour, and
were willingly given lodging for the
night. 1t was about 80 o'clock when
the mother returned quietly home Sun
day morning. Her husband met her,
not with words of rem0rse and pleas for
forgivness, but with renewal of his
abase, and would have mistreated her
second time had not the mother appeal
ed to her mute son, Cliff, for protection.
The young man, who is a printer, had
been at work until early morning, and
was not at home when the father made
the attack upon the family Saturday
might. The son took in the situation
and circumstances very quickly. The
mother in the meantime, it is stated,
had been forced to jump from window
in the front room of the house. The
son was preparing to shave, and carried
in his hand razor. He demonstrated
with his father by gesticulations, The
Young man claims that circumstances
were of no avail, and the father, he says,
started for pistol 1t was then that,
the son says, he did the cutting. The
young man, after he had inflicted the
the wounds, left the house and hurried
to the home of his sister, Mrs. Ernest
johnson. To the sister the young man
related the affair.
At this time, however, he did not
know that the wounds were fatal. After
leaving his sisters house the young man
went directly to police headquarters and
gave himself in to the custody of the
officers. The young man told the sta
ton house keeper that he cut his father,
and that he had come to give himself up
and ask for protection. The statements,
of course, were made to the officer in
writing, young Thompson using pencil
d. and paper.
AS soon as Mrs. Johnson had been told
of the cutting she got her father-in-law.
Mr.. John johnson, to 60 to the house to