The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-24
William Marshall, 20, Arrested on Attempted
Murder Charge for Shooting His
Father, James Marshall.
OUTCOME OF A FAMILY QUARREL
Son Claims He Shot Because He Wasn't Going to be
Beaten Again."-Father in Hospital
is Ready to Aid Son.

lookup awaiting the report on the
condition of the wounds of the father.
The shooting followed quarrel be-
tween the father and son in which both
are declared to have used bitter Lam
guage. Just before the shooting the
father had ordered the boy to 60 to
his room and stay in for the night and
the boy had denied the authority Of
his father.
The father started to the room ON
the second floor of the home at AL
bion place. Ke had just reached tho
first stair-landing when the son with
an oath pointed the shot gun down the
stairway and fired one barrel. The
older man fell to the floor where he
was picked up by members of the FAM
lily and neighbors. He had suffered
terribly from loss of blood when he was
taken to the Kenosha hospital, and
surgeons who attended him were forced
to resort to TRANSMISSION of blood to
save his life and to keep him alive ur-
til he had recovered sufficiently from
the shock of the wounds to make pos
sible the amputation of his leg just
above the knee.
The young Marshall was found by
the detectives at the home of neigh
Dor and he made no resistance when
the detectives placed him under arrest.
He was hatless and shoeless when he
! TeEs drought to the police station and
\ booked on charge Of attempted muir
der. He was laboring under great ex-
! element and very laxative. He adj
mitted to the police that he had drank
two bottles Of needle beer" at place
on the south side some time before
the Shooting but he insisted that he
was not drunk and with considerable
show of profanity insisted that he had
shot his father in self-defense when
the latter had started upstairs with the
declarations that he was going to beat
the boy. This portion of Che story
was not substantiated by other mem
bers Of the family seen after the shoot-
ing.
In the presence of several MEMBER
of the department Marshall told his
version of the attempted suicide and he
insisted that there had been n lot Of
trouble between himself and his father
in recent months.
Much Profanity in Evidence. 4
The story told by the accused man
would hardly be fit for public print
on account of the excess of profanity.
He said with the profanity eliminated)
II came home about six o'clock and
my father said, Where have you been
all this time p and l said ! took girl
home and then came right home.
"Then he said with an oath: I'm go-
ing to show you who is boss around;
here and told him that had Gate
and was going to walk and leave the
car for ma. Then / went upstairs and
started to dress and my sister came
up and said PAS going to give you a
licking / said I'll be --.. if lie
is; he can beat up ma but he can't
beat up me.
when he came up the stairs my sis
ter shouted "Billy, don't shoot and
said T'll shoot and be damned {
Tells Details of Shooting.
Marshall seemed to calm down a
little after he had given this version
of the trouble and he became more de-
tailed in his statement. "My father
hit me in the ear and told me to go to
bed and then we had some hot words
and went and got the gun. He said
that he was going to beat me and he
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