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OLDER MANJWOUNDED AFTERSERVING TERMBoy Says Life Had Nothin? For Him as Lon? as Lively Lived: HeFeared Deathf5IsbrbdhP*ob(n HegisSrr S'*MT. HOPF. Officers said *Gordon Lively evened the lt;* score with His father todav ^ with a shotgun wound in th ami shortlv after the fath r finished a jail sentence for shooting the son.Police said the father. C.F. Lively, accompanied by Chief of Police Jess Spade. bcame to the home this nmorning and gathered his belongings from the house j n to take to Stotesburv w here pthe father got a job. I'he pfather was reelased from Mthe penitentiary’ three weeks ago. having served a term for shooting the son in the neck.Spade and the elder Lively, police continued, loaded the clothes into a trunk. Then Lively went :to the bus station to buy a : ticket, caught a bus. and asked tlx* driver to stop at the home for the trunks piled in the vard. As thedriver helper! C. E. Lively j load them, the shot came ( from the window.The driver, F. E. Holdren,said:“I was standing with my shoulder rubbing Lively's. I heard a noise, and asked d Lively if the trunk barf blown n up. He groaned and answer-ed No. That damn boy just shot me.’ ” 1Holdren said wadding from the pf shotgun charge struck him but he ma was uninjured He continued with y0his run to Berkley, and drove u»y back to Charles*on after calling j j*yitste troopers and local police «on Mayor Pat Garret made the ar- p,jj rest, and Gordon is held in the f]j| local jail for action, jHoldren said Lively didn’t fall, this He was treated by a local physi- ; eblj ess-, who feared blood-poisoning w-a and sect him to a Beckley hoepi-Itr1jarlt;!n1*At the Beckley hospital attaches *;d it wasn’t venous Lively was given first ad and left.wLivriy'i comment was *Tm! ^ ruined Witnesses said he did not ^want to prosecute the boy :cesAt the jail (iordon sat tool?diein the cell and talked «? thecrime“I gttets I «i§ just craiv.” heccnMasaid with a ha!f.*mile. “I could- *'KilHI*Bt stand sight of the old man i^ai He had told one of our rooraett j”'1 that he would kill me and %r- J^nold in the st*t« penitentiary ^ serving a term for breakins and entering* as soon as hr sot a chance. I stole a shotgun from N the roomer and waited for my I chance. I guessWAsked if he would plead guilty h*y to felonious wounding, he replied j lt;*1 d * . chlt;I shot low so I wouldn’t hit any- »ho:wone else.” Gordon said. “When he dei was in the house with Spade he 1 whispered to mother that he wish- wl ed the house would go up in flames J lip and her with it. That made me mad. When he shot me last year thlt; it was because I tried to stop him wi from beating her and my little brother with a telephone wire. I tried to get out of the house and the old man shot me m the neck. J SC) I was in the hospital for three m(weeks miContinuing, rising from his cell- je; bed and hanging by the bars, he j an said:“I went half nuts when 1 knew j to that the old man brought a cop to j shnomiI .eon* I Notireitri
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Beckley Sunday Register
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Sun, Nov 06, 1938
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