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Father Wages Mercy for Patrigide in Fatal Roadhouse Fight
Chicago December 15 a conflict between a shell shocked veteran son and his father ended in the father Bruce Shaw Oak Park inventor dying from a saber wound at home after a roadhouse wine party. George Shaw 28 is charged with the slaying as police say the son attacked during a quarrel with a blade pulled from the saber a World War relic. The father urged mercy and exoneration of his son amid details of drinking a party attended by a sister and a companion and others. The son a veteran of the Marine Corps had been gassed and hospitalised since the war and recently discharged at the father’s request.
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