Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1917 — WOULD SERVE FOR FATHER [ARTICLE]

WOULD SERVE FOR FATHER

Son of a Banker Convicted of tyurder in Texas Would Go to Prison. Waco, Tex. —A son’s devotion to his father was witnessed here recently when Roscoe Watson, a member of the Texas National Guard, told Judge R. I. Munroe that he would like to assume the penalty assessed against his father, T. R. Watson, who was guilty of the murder of John S. Patterson, state commissioner 'bT"6anklng and insurance, and sentenced to 99 years in state prison. The Jury <ook the case at night at six_ o’clock, and the verdict was returned next morning at 10:35. Watson, it was chargec^^shot,.Patterson at Teague on August 28, after Patterson had closed the Farmers and Merchants’ State bank at that place, of which Watson was president.' Patterson died at Waco on August 23.