Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1908 — AGER THAT IS DEVILIBH [ARTICLE]

AGER THAT IS DEVILIBH

Case of Rage of a Father That Results tn Dreadful Murder and Then Suicide. Dr. C. O. Swimney, who recently arrived in’'Asheville, N. C., from New York, shot and fatally woupded his sixt^en-year-old daughter Nellie, and tlicn killed himself, in the tlonroom of a girl's boarding school In that city. It Is said ihe became enraged because his daughter took part in an April fool prank, when she. together with a number of other students, absented themselves from school. Dr. Swinney called on his daughter at the school. Shortly after she entered the receptionroom four shots were heard, and Miss Swinney ran from the room with blood streaming from her hend. Swinney was found on the floor with n revolver under him.