The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-05-25
MAKES son HIS MURDERER.
Overwrought by Vision, Holds Gun
to Head Ordering ChIIu 10 FIRE.

ANS" AOl n GAAhSAlN
| mad dream from which he had
awakened was enacted in real life
by Fred Hustled at his home in the
northern part of Greenwich, Conn,
wnen by deception he made a patri-
ciGe out OF his twelve-year-old son,
| Lester.
There is only one witness to the
Staying of Husted-his son--and
rclEGrka BILE story told by the boy
has been accepted by the authori-
ties and Hustled adjudged a suicide,
although he did not fire the shot
that ended his life.
Hustled was forty-six years old
and owned a valuable farm of so
gage after years of hard work. He
was married and left five children.
the eldest the boy Lester, and the
youngest an infant in arms.
Wednesday afternoon Hustled
awoke with cry from sound
sleep, and seemed to be in a daze.
He told his wife that he had exper-
fenced horrible dream, but would
not tell her the nature of the sleep
! picture that had left him more and
trembling, and evidently not the
master of himself.
Commands Son to Pull Trigger.
/ Mrs. Hustled, alarmed and anX-
ious, attempted to calm her hus-
/ hand l.; 4
vision that still haunted him. Hus-
ted, however, directed that she
should go to the home of Charles
Young, neighbor, and ask him TO
do an errand in the city. She at
first would not consent to leave,
but her husband insisted Mrs Hus-
ted put her baby in its crib upstairs
and left the other children playing
in the garden.
AS soon as his wife was out of
sight Hustled called to his young
son and asked the boy il he had
seen a hawk flying over the chick
en- yard. Lester said he had not,
but the father insisted that he had
seen the bird of prey and told his
son to go into the dining room.
By the time the boy reached hu
house Hustled had taken from its
rack a double-barrelled shotgun
which was kept fully loaded, and
had placed it across a table Kneel-
ing SO that he looked directely into
the muzle Of the gun, Hustled told
his little boy, who could hardly
have raised the heavy arm to his
shoulder, to pull the trigger of the
gun. Lester was afraid to obey.
Not Loaded, He Insisted.
1t is all right, son." Lester says
his father told him. 1.-The gun is
not loaded, for ] want to hear how
it sounds" and again the man pre-
sented his head to the guns muz-
| Zle.
The boy pulled the triggers, but
kept his thumb on the hammers so
they were let down easily upon the
firing pins. There was no explo-
sion, and the father rebuked his
son for failing to obey him and
again cooked the gun. Placing him
self in position, Hustled said:
Now pull the trigger, son. Faith
er wants to hear how it sounds.
| The gun is not loaded"
Lester pulled one of the triggers
and there was a loud explosion
His father fell dead from the effects
of the full charge of heavy shot
which had entered the side of his
head
The little boy was stunned by
the explosion and the sight of the
dead body of his father. He hard
ly realized what had happened, but
ran to the home of Daniel Ryan,
their nearest neighbor, and eX-
planned as best he could. Mrs. Hus-
ted was found and brought back
home. Her son told those who ac-
companied her his story in simpl,
form, and his eyes, wide with
! tonishment at the commotion, reg
every face to try and gain an idea
OF what part he had played in the
! tragedy.
1T was the general opinion of
| physicians and others that the
/ dream of Hustled had taken such a
firm hold on the man that he en-
acted it just as it had come to him
/ in the vision as soon as his wife