The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-25
CLAUDE SHEETS BURIED
YOUNG MAN WHO WAS KILLED BY
 HIS FATHER.
Friends of w. n Sheets and Family Spared Them Humiliation of Seeing Son Fill Pau~
 per's Grave.

The earthly remains of Claude
 Sheets. the young painter who was shot and killed at 423 Houston Street, Sum day morning by his father. William T. Sheets, a glazier, were given a re- spectacle burial at Oakwood Cemetery yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock by the painters of Montgomery. who came | forward and saved the Sheets family the humiliation of seeing the youngest born of the household resting in a paul per's grave.
 Friends and neighbors of the Sheets family. early yesterday morning inter- ested themselves in raising a fund 10 defray the expenses of a decent funeral and in this they were successful.
 The young man, 1t will be recalled, was shot by his father on the front porch of the family residence. Father and son were both drinking and 1t was said that the family had been reduced to almost want by reason of the drink habit of it's male members, the father and two sons.
 Soon after the tragedy the father, w. T. Sheets surrendered himself 10 Police Chief A. S. Gerald. He is now in the county jail awaiting a prelimi- nary hearing before Justice J. N. Brow der on May 4th.
 Mrs. Sheets, mother of the dead boy,
  day morning. The meeting of the fath- CT and mother. the first meeting after the tragedy which had deprived them of their son, was touching. Sheets cried out in his remorse and talked incoher- ently of the tragedy. He still contends that he did not know that the pistol with which he killed his son was load ed and that no one should entertain the thought that he killed his boy with reconciliation.
 The funeral services for young Sheets were conducted at Tice's undertaking establishment on South Court Street. by Rev. O. F. Gregory. D. D., pastor of the Adams Street Baptist Church. who spoke with great tenderness of the affliction which had been visited upon the Sheets family. Mrs. Sheets, her sister, Mrs. Burdette, with whom she Is staying at Pickett Springs, and several of their women friends were present at the undertaking establishment. They rode in carriages to the cemetery, the crowd being swelled by a number of painters and others who were friends or acquaintances of the dead young man.
 The funeral cortege did not pass by the county jail The father was spared the horror of viewing the procession which accompanied the body of his son to the grave, Dy the Ioretn0ught or Coroner Tice, who had charge of the funeral. By direction of the coroner the cortege turned from Washington Street into Perry Street before reach ing the jail.
 The terrible tragedy in our neigh borhood Easter morning would not have been possible" said a citizen of Hous- ton Street yesterday, If the police would enforce the laws and make the whiskey saloons on the Red Bridge Road close on Sunday. As The Adver- tiser has frequently pointed out, these saloons are fragrant vlolators of the law in this respect. Young Sheets had just gone home from a bar room when ne was Killed and his brother was drinking in saloon when he was mo- titled of the tragedy at his home. And this on Sunday morningw