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Boy Shoots His Father

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
September
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Baltimore, Sept. 7.- Edward B. Bishop, aged 19, shot and mortally wounded his father, Edward A. Bishop, at their home, 2022 Boyd Street, Monday afternoon. Tlie family is an eminently respectable one and the shocting has caused quite a sensation. The parents of the youthful patricide had lived apart for some weeks past and Monday afternoon the eider Bishop came to the house and attempted to force an entrance from the rear. He was 9hot by his son as he broke throügh the kitchen door, the bullet entering his abdomen and badly laceratingr his intestines. Before losing consciousness the wounded man exclaimed: "It is my fault; the boy is not to blame." Young Bishop is held by the pólice.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Argus