Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-08-28
FATHER
| FOR HIS MONEY
s,ptane Boy Confesses he
Chopped Parent in
Head With Ak

.noKANE Aug. 2s.-The body o
IS Sloane. a pioneer merchan
This city. was found this morninI
'..,nd a pile of rocks in the allie.
his home on Sixth avenue. Grea
80. on his head showed that h
- heen murdered apparently with
| ....het and the trail of blood lee
..,, the alley to Sloane's home. In.
,.sigation proved that the crime oc'
,rred at his room shortly after mid
,,ebt his body being loaded in
vheelbarrow, trundled to the alley and
mmped against the rocks.
sidney Sloane, the 17-year-old son
i the murdered man, was taken into
,,stody by the police after the body
~ Uncovered. At first he protested
h. innocence, but afterward broke
avn and confessed the murder. He
aid that he slew his father with an
x IN the hope of getting $500 which
Ne thought his father was carrying.
The murdered man has been one of
suokane's leading merchants for
years being the senior member of the
firm Of Sloane Paine Co.
An Investigation of the Sloane mur-
der BY representative of the Asso-
| cisted Press shows 1t to be one Of the
most d-blooded crimes ever COM
mitted IN this city.
Covered Up His Tracks.
Young Sloane had made every prep
ration for covering UP his tracks. He
ia stolen an axe from the neighbor's q
hck yard and waited for his fathers
appearance on the upper fioor OF his
home, He evidently struck his father
on the head with the. axe as the father
entered his room. -
This awakened Mrs. /. and Miss
syphen, who slept directly under the
sloanes room. Sloane was heavy
drinker and they thought he had Stun
bled over the center table and so let
the matter rest
AS soon as the boy searched his
fathers clothes, he went to the neigh
bcrs back yard and unloaded a lot
OF apples from wheelbarrow and, car
fy'ns his fathers body down stairs,
placed It IN the vehicle. He then
wheeled Il around the block and dump
% the body in the alley.
Washes Blood of Axe.
Returning, he washed out the wheel
sl'0s, replaced the apples and left
n" their original location. He
@'eug washed the blood off the axe
M rs9aced it.
s were rugs on the floor of the
~uu0m and blood from the wound In
'asnes head had soaked through the
~ ~ 0n'o the floor. The boy rolled
: uss up and carried them to the
40 porch and thoroughly washed
~ ne washed the floor clean and
floor. "ne's on the
s snis morning he called Mrs
M 80 ana told her his father had
,ss u ''ne home yet. and that he was
~ % look for him. While he
And ,.,s ."'s several policemen arrived
sa'., ~ 'o'd the boy his father had been
~ .a He Had Aeeomplicss.
s,a 4 police suspect that young sloane
r.n.a oner accomplices. Including >
p4ct.s ne young man is also sus-
- ~ q being the burglar who roh,sa
TN, es IN the block where his
nra y s living and long was en-
NM 7 business. and as being the
LHss = a burglar who was shot and
h. sbsrs ing sweated by Chief wal
NJ ane told a rambling ta,a .s
here named Riley. who he said csms
deed - wyoming and planned The
blow and oe,'ea ,oe,' that Riley struck the
land a. ,sa took $3.50 and fed to Rose
broke ao.- Sloane $50. He later
alone ail,sa , and confessed that he
ttAer h.S,. ~ IN the heat of passion his
''sieated ing attacked him while in
Planned us''sr .hs ,,,,. believes the boy coolv
shich "a, murder to secure ~. go
believed his father had. at '''0