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MOTHER CAUSES SON TO BE BURIED WITHIN SIGHTFormer Hall Player’s Parent Keeps Eye on Mound Just Beyond Her Window.JNew Orleans. — Jimmy Vittur’s mother hasn’t been out of sight of his grave since he was buried eight days ago, the victim of a pistol shot He was a good boy,” his mother says quietly, trying hard not to to cry, playing nervously with the corners of a handkerchief.Neat, soft spoken, tidy in that sort of black which spells an era now no more, her thinning hair tight in a knot atop her head—that’s Jimmy’s Imother, Mrs. Augusta Vittur, 65, a | widow.Fifty yards from his mother’s win - ! dow, Jimmy is buried, the flower- lt;banked mound of fresh-turned earth jf marking the spot, a marble monu-1 1 ment soon will cover it. IJ1 wanted him there so I could j * watch him,” Mrs. Vittur said. “He a was always with me.” And the tear- I came, har tears. | aThere’s a Vittur family plot in the J c Firemen’s cemetery a scant two blocks away. But that wasn’t close enough for Mrs. Vittur to have her dead Jimmy, the only one who wasn’t married, who was still just her boy.Not that you learn all this from Jimmy’s mother. She just sits and plays with the corner of her handkerchief, unless you ask what sort of a boy Jimmy was. Then she has a mother’s answer.Jimmy—he was James Vittur officially, but everyone called him Jimmy, or Jim—was shot to death on May 24 by Ignatius Mohr, 55, in a quarrel about a baseball team. Jimmy was 33.It happened on the Beauregard school grounds. Jimmy was referee-ining a fight between his 16-year-old nephew and Ignatius Mohr’s 17-year-old son. Ignatius came along, and somehow—there is a jumble of stories about it—Jimmy was shot to death. £ For fourteen year Jimmy had been !'I
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Chillicothe Daily Tribune
Chillicothe, Missouri, US
Wed, Jun 22, 1927
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