The Sentinel=record., 1912-04-18


 really shoot but five shots.
 The tragedy enacted as it was only in the presence of the members of the family. might have been followed with pretentious story of self-de- fense Such things have happened. But every one of the Vanderburgs told the same story of the domestic rela- tions, the threats made formerly, the fear of the father and relied on this.
 q am not going to tell no lie on him. said the wife of the dead man and the mother of the slayer as on her bed she recited to Coroner Ran dolph and newspaper man what shA had to say.
 Four sons, a daughter. and the widow of the slain man. all hinted at some particular thing that led to the trouble between father and son, but Burr Vanderburg told his whole sto- ry. He told it immediately on the arrival of Coroner Randolph to this officer and a SentinelRecord man. and he told it afterward when 16 of his neighbors were sitting as jury to investigate the case.
 The story of Burr Vanderburg had its beginning back about three years ago, when the "1O1 Ranch" wild west show visited Hot Springs. Burr. his sister, his mother and his father, all came to town to see the show They were separated, at least the father was away from them, part of the time in the city.
 After the show, according to the Burr Vanderburg story, the father "jawed" at the mother and sister, charging them with having been ill houses of questionable repute during the day. Burr says he ridiculed the story before his father. He knew such was not the case.
 The father did not return to the country with them that night, but stayed in the city. The next day he got home late. The son intimates the father spent that night in de- bauchery about this city. About a week later there was an echo of the fathers debauchery in physical dis ability. The father had physical trouble for long time, and was about IA months fully recovering.
 Burr says that about this time his mother was taken sick. He says the father accused the mother of all tine trouble. He charged her with the grossest infidelity. The sons heard this "jawing," but they did not be- lieye any part of it, and they half tolerated it.
 The mothers illness continued. The longer it continued, Burr told the jury, the more the father would blame her. He said the father refused 10 let them have doctor for her at first, and also refused to buy her medicines Burr stated that all the medicine that Vanderburg did buy for her on his visits in town, the mother had to pay for on his arrival home.
 The boys, according to this version, had heard the father blame the moth CT so much, so hard, and so often, with infidelty, and with bringing on her condition, and his, they deter mined that the mother should have the advice of physicians, and two were brought in by them. The phy- sicians pronounced the illness of the mother due to a cancerous condition.
 "I knew all the time mother had nothing but an honest disease" Is the crude manner in which Burr Wander burg told his story.
 One week ago last Monday Burr was at his fathers house. having stopped on his way to town to get some medicine orders for his mother Again the father "jawed" about the origin of the mothers infirmity to the son.
 q told him it was lie" said Burr Then when he said again it was true, said it was damn lie, anc then when he again said it was true I gave him the stronger lie."
 That was the breach. The father ran to the house to get a Winchester rifle to kill Burr. Lester, another son, took the gun from the father Burr ran away and on to the city Afterwards when the father and Les ter were at work that day in the tielC the father told Lester that he would kill Burr, and that he might kill then all, for it seemed they were all .tak ing the part of the mother, and non' took his part
 One bit of evidence that nigh have been presented to the jury dit not arrive until after the verdict hat | been agreed on. That was from w | D. Matthews, farmer residing abou l two miles away Yesterday mOrninj