The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-28
SHOT HIS SON.
Hugh Wallace of Rossville in the
County Jail.
Son Hugh in Hospital With Two
Bullet Wounds.
RESULT OF A QUARREL
Father Is 73 Years Old and the
Son Is 50.
Stories of the Two Men Are
Widely Divergent.
Air of Mystery Surrounds the
Trap0dy.
RESULT OF A QUARREL
Air of Mystery surrounds the
Tragedy.

Hugh Wallace, Jr., lies at Christ hos
pital with two bullet wounds in his
back and his father, Hugh Wallace, ST.,
is a prisoner in the county Jail charged
with the shooting. The wounded man is
of age. The father lived with his son
at his home in RosSville.
The shooting was the outgrowth of a
quarrel between the father and son.
There were no witnesses to the affair
and each of the participants claims
that the other was at fault. The son
claims that his father shot him from
behind while he was shelling corn and
the father claims that the boy attempt
ed to shoot him while he was getting
feed for the COW and that in the scuffie
the revolver, which belonged to the boy,
was accidentally discharged and that
the boy shot himself. The father N ade
no attempt to escape and was arrested
by Deputy Sheriff Mcpherson. The faith
er was brought to the county Jail and
the boy to the hospital on the Union
Pacific train that arrived here at 3
o'clock Sunday afternoon
The story of Hugh Wallace, Sr., is
that he made trip through Oklahoma
several months ago and that when he
returned he told his son that there was
some good land there and advised him to
go there and look the ground over. He
new country and finally induced him to
make a trip there. The son returned
and was angry because he had found no
good land and had paid out considerable
money on the trip. The father and son
quarreled about the trip and about the
land
The father claims that he was prepar-
ing some feed for the COW about seven
O'Clock Sunday morning when his son
came to the barn where he was and
threatened to shoot him. The father
says that the son had revolver in his
hand. The father grappled with the boy
and the revolver was discharged twice
and the boy was shot under the left
shoulder and in the right side of the
small of his back The father claims
that his son always carried the revolver.
The sons story is that he was shelling
some corn when his father came up be-
hind him and shot him. The son ran
for the gate, which was about 10 feet
away. The father ran after him with
the revolver in his hand. When Hugh
Wallace, Jr., reached the gate he found
it closed. His father was gaining on
him.
He partly turned around and his
father shot him the second time in the
side. The son grappled with his father
and took the revolver from him. The
son says that the revolver was his and
was lying on the bureau in the house
when his father got it. Several neigh
bors were attracted by the shots and
ran to the scene of the shooting Mrs
Hugh Wallace, jr-, was in the house and
heard the shooting, but did not witness
the affair, but says she saw the father
holding the revolver Immediately after
the shooting.
Deputy Sheriff Mcpherson said this
morning: There is considerable mys-
terry about the shooting. Nobody saw
it. When the neighbors reached the
place they found that the son had been
shot twice. The father claimed the boy
shot himself and the son claimed his
father shot him. Mr.. Wallace offered
7 m
There was some talk among the neigh
bors that the old man is crazy"
Hugh Wallace. jr:, is resting fairly
comfortable at the hospital. The sur
geons have been unable SO far to ex-
tract the bullets. but they believe the
wounded man will live
FATHER TELLS HIS STORY.
The father is in the county jail He
talks rather coolly about the shooting.
The following is his account of the
shooting:
My son had gone out to the barn to
feed his horses, and / followed shortly
the COW, which I milked. when Hugh
came in at the door suddenly and yell
ed, L am going to shoot you. at the
same time jerking the revolver from his
pocket. I dropped the pail / held in my
hand and grappled with him. holding
the wrist of the hand in which he held
the pistol. We both fell and as we
went down the gun was discharged. |
sui STRUGGLING, we TOlleQ over, ana the
gun went off again. That's all there
was to it. We had no previous quarrel,
and I don't know why he did so, unless
it was insanity. He is subject to fits,
and Bob Neasley, ranch foreman on
the Holden ranch. told me that Hugh
had fit while working for him, and a
pistol fell out of his pocket while he
was rolling on the ground.
About seven years ago he bought a
farm south of Auburn, and STAYED on
it one season, then had a row with his
wife and she left him He then sold out
for 800, after paying $1,000 on the prop
erty, and acted very queer, quit work !
and refused to do anything. 1 talked to
him and tried to get him to brace up, |
but he said. I'll be d if I do. I'm not |
going to stay here or anywhere else
My son is about 3S years old and I !
am nearly l3. I had not quarreled with |
him and his outbreak Sunday morning |
was so sudden / am sure he is crazy
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