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Killing of Clarence Hake, 21, by Father-in-Law, Pete Schubert, 76, Termed Justifiable Testimony of Hearing Brings About Release Turned Shotgun on Youth When He Feared Daughter Was Being Choked to Death A coroner’s jury yesterday re turned a verdict of justifiable homicide in the slaying late Tues day night of Clarence Hake, 21, who was shot and instantly killed with a 12-gauge shotgun by his 76-year-old father-in-law, Pete Schubert. The slaying occurred at the Schubert farm home in Frog Hol low on the southern city limits, climaxing a family quarrel of sev eral months duration. Hake was shot in the chest. Prosecuting Attorney Elliott M. Campf said that on the face of evidence at hand no charges would be filed against the elderly farmer, who was freed immedi ately after the inquest verdict was returned. Accounts of threats and abuse on the part of Young Hake punc tuated the inquest, at which both Schubert and his 44-year-old daughter, who was married to Hake only last September, testi fied. Shot in Yard of Home Hake was shot to death as he allegedly chased Mrs. Hake out of the house following a quarrel Schubert, who had heard the cou ple scuffling, seized his shotgun, hurried out another door and shot Hake when “I believed my daugh ter’s life was in danger.” Testifying at the inquest, Schu bert, member of a pioneer and widely known Cole county told of seizing the gun and into the farm yard where, he said, he found Hake choking his daughter. “I raised the gun and fired,” Schubert told the jury in an even voice. “I didn’t realize that the gun had gone off until I saw him fall to the ground.” Testimony further disclosed that trouble started soon after Hake, a farmhand employed by Schubert, married Julia Schubert, twice his age, last September. Mrs. Hake, an expectant moth er, first on the stand, testified her youthful husband had become abusive two weeks after their marriage. On several occasions, she said, he had struck her. Had Been Struck Twice “Yesterday,” she testified, “he struck me twice, once with his fists and once with a shoe.” Her father, hearing sounds of the scuffle in the second floor bedroom, went to the room and attempted to quiet his son-in-law. They both fell to the floor. Hake’s father, Bertram Hake, who also lives at the house, rushed into the room and pulled his son off Schu bert. “None of you will live to see to morrow morning,” Schubert quot ed the youth as shouting as the two were parted. Mrs. Hake said her husband had been drinking tghtly all day, adding, “He was Sera mean as soon as he had a ink or two.” Tuesday night’s events leading up to the fatal shooting, as dis closed at the inquest, were that Hake and his wife had retired to their bedroom. Mrs. Hake testified that a little later her husband “struck me and threatened to kill me and said my father wouldn’t live to see tomor row morning.” Flees Down Stairs We were in our night cloth ing,’ she related, “and I was frightened and ran downstairs. My husband followed me and caught me at the corner of the house. “I told him, ‘Let’s be good,’ and at first he was quiet. We started to walk toward the front porch.” Suddenly, she testified further, he seized her by the throat and started choking her. Her father, who had been at tracted by the noise, secured his single-barrel shotgun, came out of the house and confronted young Jake. “I believed my daughter’s life was in danger when I shot,” Schu (Continued on page 5)
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Jefferson City Daily Capital News
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Thu, Feb 13, 1936
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