The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-20
PROO|GAL FATHER
WOULD BOSS HOME
Man Who Left Wife and
Child 10 Years Ago Re-
turns from Alaska.

KANSAS CITY. Mo-, Sept 90
The return OF the prodigal father from
the gold mines OF Alaska and the re-
union with son he had virtually cast
aside nineteen year ago formed chap
tiers in a stirring court novel told in
1.-The south municipal court, where the
aforementioned prodigal was fined
k25.
1t was really heartbreaking, this po-
llice court ending of real life story
filled in every other respect with dra-
Smatic situations calculated to delight
THE most critical novel writer's.
ID. w. Hedrick, middle aged man,
latter years in Alaska, returned to the
home country comparatively wealthy.
Nineteen years before he separated
from his wife and little son in Kan
sas City Subsequently the wife, we'd
ed a business man here. Arriving in
Kansas City, the father love, having
I'm the lonely years in Alaska asserted
itself, Hedrick entered on a quiet but
Thorough search for his son, who was
a little boy three years old when he
last saw him.
Won q comeiy Bride.
After much inquiry the Alaskan
learned that his boy, Roy Hedrick, was
a plumber and had recently found a
comely bride. Overjoyed at having
gained both a son and a daughter,
tho returning prodigal prepared to
kill, figuratively, the fatted calf, he
himself furnishing the said calf.
Under an assumed name Hedrick
made an appointment with his son.
The reunion, when the father disclos-
ed himself, was satisfyingly dramatic.
A strong family resemblance exists
between father and son, and it took
little questioning to bridge the years.
In view of the prodigal fathers
rosy plan for the future, the son for
got the past. Hedrick, ST., was intro
duced to his new daughter-in-law and
was at once SO pleased with his sons
good fortune in the matrimonial lot
terry that he declared his one aim
would be to make the young people at
once prosperous and happy.
Spent His Coin Freely.
No prodigal father ever killed the
fatted calf in better style. Money was
spent freely. A home was secured
and furnished for the young people
at 2619 Chestnut avenue. Hedrick, ST.,
proceeded to make himself and his
bank book a part Of the family.
But alas. they dismally failed to
live happily ever after.
They didn't live bit happily when
Hedrick and his pretty daughter-in-
law quarreled over hot water baths.
Hedrick. provoked because the young
woman had been to the tub first, de-
clared that he was tired of bathing in
water with merely a tinge of warm
ness. that as the head of the house
hold he was going to battle In hot wa
ter whenever it suited him to. The
others would have to adjust themselv-
es to his bathing schedule. Was a
man who had sacrificed himself, toll
ing for dollars in bathless Alaska to
be cheated out of his due of hot wa
ter in Kansas City?
There Were Hot Words.
When the father came home, how
ever, hot words passed between faith
yer and son. Roy complained that his
father sought to be overly attentive to
Mrs. Roy. that his wife had been fore
ed to repel annoying advances. Also
he said his long lost father had bad
kemper and got NOR disagreeable on
acquaintance.
Before Judge +. f. Halstead, He'd
'ric. ST.. and Hedrick, jr, disagreed as
to who struck the proverbial first
blow. After that the milling was fast.
Hedrick, ST.. said his daughter-in-law
entered the fray with an ice pick and
that he came out second best on &C
count of his prejudice against strik-
ing a woman. Mrs. Roy said she
merely got between father and son to
separate them. She denied mauling
the prodigal father with an ice pick.
Hedrick, ST., admitted that he had
Mold his son that he COuld whiD fOur