The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

more, recovering from opiates
administered when she was
brought there screaming hys-
terically, I've shot my boy,
I've killed my son."
Youths Father at Side
The youths father arrived here
this morning. He came by airplane
from St. Louis He went imme-
diately to the hospital.
DR.. Neville usher told him the
boy was holding his own" He ther
escorted Mr.. Livermore into the sick
room while deputy sheriffs barred
the way to others.
DR.. usher, in bulletin issued
this morning, said:
Jesse Livermore Jr. is slightly
improved, but little change in con-
dition is expected for several hours
His condition is very critical, the
small bore bullet having entered the
lower right area of the chest and
probably penetrating the liver
X-rays show the bullet shattered
into minute particles which lodged
behind the right lung near the
spine"
Calls for Girl Friend
The boy was kept under opiates
to alleviate his pain When the drug
wore off, Jesse Jr. kept calling out
Mary want to see Mary"
Outside the door stood Mary. 16-
year-o'd Mary Frank, his blonc
CIR lend" who pleaded with ply
sici is to see the youth Dr. USHER
II ormed the girl she could not see
Livermore Jr., because excitement
might cause recurrence of hemor
rhage.'
Mary, daughter of the proprietor
of an exclusive Santa Barbara dress
shop, had been LivermoreS com
panion at prep school dances and
athletic contests for more than six
months.
District Attorney Percy Hecken-
dorf prepared to file charges of as
sault with intent to kill against Mrs
LivermOre as soon as she RECEIVERS
from the opiates. She was under a
sheriffs guard at the hospital
Mr.. Heckendorf said he removed
fn no ioi1
today where she would be ques-
toned on the shooting.
Tutor Only Witness
The only witness to the shooting
was the youths tutor, D. B. BID
NEVILLE, who was reported to be
Mrs. Livermore's f1ance. QUESTIONED
by Undersheriff Jack Ross, Nevellt
gave the only coherent story of the
shooting.
Mrs. Livermore was delivering the
youth lecture on excessive drink
ing after a gay evening at their
home when the boy grabbed a qua: t
of whisky and tilted it to his mouth
III show you" the youth shouted
according to Nevelle.
Slapping the bottle from his lips
Mrs. Livermore cried
I'D rather see you dead than
drinking that way
Whisky Bottle Near Rifle
Young Livermore marched from
the room. returning a few seconds
later with Small-bore shotgun.
You haven't the nerve to shoot
me- he tainted, handing his moth
er the weapon.
Nevelle said he rushed over and
took the gun away from the boy
taking the shotgun back to bed
room. AS he returned, he heard a
shot. Stretched out on the floor
was the youth, blood pouring from
his body. A few feet away lay the
whisky bottle and .22-caliber rifle
Huddled over the wounded boy
Mrs. Livermore was screaming, I've
shot my SON"
Don't Blame Mother"
NEVILLE said the boy apparently
went to guest house in the garden
and obtained the second gun while
he was returning the shotgun to
the bedroom.
AS the youth was carried from the
14-room mansion to an ambulance.
he muttered, ITS all right-it S
nothing. Don't blame mother
AT the hospital, physicians 1aid
both young Livermore and his
mother were intoxicated.
Mrs. Livermore, the former Doro-
thea Wendt of New York. set socie :
ty in a whirl few years ago when
she married Walter Longcope. New
York prohibition agent, a few min
utes after divorcing Livermore in
Reno, New, in 1882.
She married Liyermore in 1918