The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-08-29
PENNYWELLS TELL
STORY OF ABSENCE
Declare They Mace Proper
Provisions for LOveIaCe Boys
THOSE PRESENT WHEN PENNY
WELL TELLS OF ADMINITIONS.
Wife Went to Boise and Joined Him
In Time For Preliminary
Not Yet Set.

Not Yet Set.
That they supposed that the chill
dren would be properly taken care of
when they bade them goodbye with
many admOnisiOns to be good and to
do right, is the story told by Mr.. and
Mrs. J. A. Pennywell, stepfather and
mother of Harold and Lynn Lovelace,
who killed r. Thomas Hamill at his
home August Is.
81 heard Pennywell talk to the boys |
as he left the home of Mrs. Tolman,
in company with II. c. VanAusdeln |
and myself July &c." said Deputy |
Sheriff p. o. Herman, speaking of |
the matter yesterday, "and he said /
only what any of us would have said |
and all that we could have said to our
own children, warning them to behave |
themselves and do what they were
told. Had he said anything that was
not right and proper l certainly would |
have noticed it at once" Messrs. Her !
riman and VanAusdeln were in the
neighborhood on business and happen
ed to be present when Pennywell left.
The Pennywells arrived in Twin
Falls Thursday and rushed to the
COuIL iOuSe 10 St6 TIE DOyS lnlO WuOot
presence they were later admitted.
The story of the mother as told to
Probation Officer V. II. Ormsby, is
that she married the father Of the
boys when she was quite young, and
discovered soon afterward that he had
taken to drink He proved to be cruel
and brutal in the extreme and fire.
quently beat her. About eight months
after the birth of the second baby, she
wrote home to her father in Lebanon,
Ore, telling about the circumstances.
Her father sent her money to come
home on. LOvelace got the letter, op-
ened it and took out the money, which
he used for drink and then beat her
for complaining to her father She
again wrote to her father who tele-
graphed her money to come home on.
AS soon as she got this, she left Love-
lace, taking her children with her and
has never seen him since. In the
course of time she got divorce and
three years ago married Pennywell, of
whom she speaks in the highest terms,
saying that he has literally proven a
father to his step children.
She says that some time ago she
I went to Boise with a view of having
an operation performed if necessary,
or steps taken to avoid having it per-
formed if possible. The operation
was averted Four weeks ago Penny
L we'll, hearing that he could get six
dollars a day in Montana, left home
to go there. He wrote to his wife tell
ing her of his intentions and they met
= at Pocatello, from which point they
= went on together to Montana. Penny
well failed to get the work which he
sought in Montana, and as they did
not know for a time what they would
do, and as the mail was delivered ir-
:, regularly at the claim, they did not
. write.
; They knew nothing of the trouble
+ until they arrived at Pocatello Oh
l. their return trip when a trainmar
+ who knew Pennywell asked him if h'
= we're coming back to help the the boys
g out He asked the railroader wha
a boys he referred to. On the conductor
n asking the same question and receiv
; ing similar reply, the latter got
e paper and showed it to Pennywen
Is They rushed to the boys as soon a
e they got to the city. When admitte'
n in the evening, the boys were sleep
b. and did not respond promptly to tn
# demonstrations of the parents. Fri
ri Qeig uOWCNcis lhCg oiloN
if intense interest Their mother erie
At and pressing them to her breast ask
n ed again and again why they had com
re mitted the crime and asked them
ot she had not always tried to do wha
J. she could for them. The childre
ol through their tears replied that sh
id had done so. The younger boy sal
IN that he thought that Hamill was chol
e. ing his brother and that when the ole
e. er boy called to shoot he did so. Mr.
st Pennywell told them that she woul
h. rather have one of them shoot he
rd than shoot another.
She said, Eve were planning pi'
e. mic for you boys and intended to brin
b. cut watermelon and lots of nice thing
s. for you to eat and were talking abol
ne what jolly time we would have whe
Is. we got back, and here we find you
ed Jail charged with this awful Grim
ne why, oh, why did you do it?'
or The Pennywells left Friday for the
at ranch to dispose of their stock an
r use the proceeds if necessary in II
d. defense of the boys. The boys haN
a been cleaned up and with new sui
n look much better than when they wei
lg taken into custody Their mother sai
that they had plenty of good cloth'