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FAMILYN A SINGLE GRAVEh!ijrlit Bodies, \ ietiins of Insane Father’s Attack Onli1Oliristmas Daw Buried This(Afternoon TWALM T COVE, Dec.A plot in the Browder burying round, near Germanton, waited t day to receive the bodies of‘hades D. Lawson, Stokes countfarmer, his wife, and six of their hildren. Two p. m. was the hou set for the funeral.On Christmas Day. Lawson.* ized with a fit. of insanity, slew he seven members of his family. In went to a patch of woods near he home a few minutes later and bred a bullet through his heart \ rifle and a shotgun were found y the body*One Son Survive*Out of a family of nine, only a on, Arthur Lawson, age lb, was pared, lie was visiting an unclelear (iermanton when his father, yielding a disjointed gun barrel,i rifle and a shotgun, slaughtered he rest of the familyThe dead:The father and mother, bothdmt to d‘ath\Iari‘\ 17; lt;htrrie. 1 t. and Mari-e lie, 1 0 slain with a shotgun uid rifle. jJames, 7; Rh mond, and Maty aoi, f months beaten to deathAith a h I u ill iustiunient, appar-Mitl a tw rood and bloody gun ci r Vi I found in the home.'Those in charg* of the funeral waited until near the last hour to decide whether the eight bodies were to he lowered into a single grave or buried separately. Last night tiny were inclined to decide in favor of the single large grave.t «rtiesome Tragedy Neighbors of the family and per-■oils living a* a distance as they prepared today to attend the mass Mineral wondered at the gruesome tragedy that horrified Stokes coun-in the midst of its Christmas celehra ? ion.Charles Lawson, who owned his home and provided \v-!{ for his family, had h a good neighbor. Ho was honest, sober and consider-a’e and especially kind to his family.Residents of the community, trying to lt;xplain w hy ho suddenly he-lt; ant done titcd and nearly wiped lt;*uf bi- whole fa mil \ . remembered that a year ago he accidentally re-cejv* i a harp b ow on the headLhv Ccians who performed a: autopsy, howev* r, discredited thet ho. •»ry th.i r this biovv cus* d r he middle-aged farmer to become in sane. Dr. ( . .1. H else b* « k coroners tid signs of dcgf io ration wenfound in ’he middle part of Law son's brain, ind mating a proaressive type of insanity. HHe sai l that Lawson, evidentl; f:gj ring acaiu.-? r h«* * ne alt; hnv n of the insidious d; -a-e, had ncent v complained oi s^ver; 1 head nlt; he- and had hoi observed t act “utieerly*’ at tim- s
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High Point Enterprise
High Point, North Carolina, US
Fri, Dec 27, 1929
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