The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-26
he SHOT HIS FATHER
FRANK DEYERELL FIRED A Bull
LET INTO HIS PATERNAL AN
CESTOR'S ARM.
He SAYS IT WAS III DEFENSE
OF HIS MOTHER, WHO ALLEGES
ABUSE BY THE WOUNDED
HUSBAND.
RESULT WILL NOT BE SERIOUS.
Arm Alone Is Injured, and 1t Is
Not Thought to Be Men-
acing.
HE SAYS IT WAS IN DEFENSE
RESULT WILL NOT BE sERIoU

Frank A. Deverell, twenty three
years old, residing at 474 Eighth
street, took a shot at his father, F.
D. Deverell, with a 32-caliber revolver
yesterday morning. As a result the
young man ate his Thanksgiving tur-
key in the female ward of the central
station, and if the elder Deverell had
any turkey at all it was relished while
he lay on cot at the city hospital. The
shooting came near being a murder. as
Frank DevereH told Chief of Detectives
Schweitzer. the latter says, that he
had aimed at his fathers heart, but in
his excitement had missed the mark.
AS it was, the bullet struck the elder
Deverell in the left arm, just above
the elbow, and ploughed it's way
through the flesh into the shoulder.
Father and son were arrested by Pa
trolmen Squires and Peterson and TAX
en- to the central station. Both were
very cool and collected, and so far as
appearances went neither seemed to
think there was anything out Of the
ordinary In the affair. Blood dripped
from the arm Of the father as the
twain were walked to the central sta
ton, and DR.. Leavitt, who had been
summoned to the station, ordered the
wounded man to be taken to the city
hospital The report from the hospital
last evening was to the effect that
Deverell was not seriously injured, and
would be able to appear in court
against his son this morning.
According to the father, the shooting
grew out of a family quarrel which oc-
CURED yesterday morning shortly after
o'clock His two sons, Frank A, who
did the shooting, and Henry j., entered
into a dispute with him, which had
been brewing for some time, as to who
was the head of the house. DeVerell
says he intended to bring matters to a
head, and ordered the young men to
leave the house and not to come back
again. Instead of taking their depart
ure, Deverell says, they threatened him
with assault, and Frank attacked him.
He picked up a stick of wood to defend
himself and without any warning
Frank pulled out a pistol and fired.
Frank DeverelI, who is charged with
attempted murder, was seen at the
central station last evening. He re
fused to talk about the shooting. and
referred a reporter for the G to
his attorney, Percy d. Godfrey, who
he said had advised him not to talk.
He said he was employed as clerk III
the Great Northern offices, and that ms
father was employed as clerk in the
Northern Pacific offices. Further than
this he was deaf and dumb. A call
made at the family residence on
Eighth street was even less fruitful.
Mrs. Deveren said the whole matter
would come out in the courts, and until
that time she had nothing to say. Hen
nv j. Deverell, the younger son, SAID
the trouble arose owing to his rather
abusing his mother, and he and his
brother had decided not to allow the
thing to go further. He possibly
would have given out the details OF the
affair had his mother not Interrupted
and reminded him that there had bet
ten be nothing said until there was
judicial investigation in the courts.
The story gathered by the police is to
the effect that the elder DeVereN ana
his wife had some words shortly after
arising yesterday morning. Henry
came down stairs first and tried to stop
his father from abusing his mother.
The father threw a fiat iron at the boy,
and just about this time Frank came
on the scene. Realizing that his father
was in a bad mood, Frank went TO an
other room and secured "a revolver,
which was in a bureau drawer. AS ne
returned to the room where the trouble
was going on another fiat iron was
thrown at him, and he fired at his
father. The police say that Mrs. Dew
ereIl charged her husbandwit abusing
her for years. From friend of the
family it was learned that DeVerell
has at various times threatened to Kill
the members of the family and throw
himself from the high bridge
Attorney Godfrey, seen last evening
was not inclined to talk about the
case. The family. he said, were very
nice people, and the sons had simply
tried to protect their mother from the
abuse which at times their father
heaped on her. The shooting by Frank,
the attorney said was done in self-de-
Tense, and the statement made that
Frank had intended to Kill his father
when he fired the shot was not cor
rect. Frank, he said, had been for sew
en- years employed in the general offices
of the Great Northern, and was well
liked by his employers.