Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1912 — FATHER IS KILLED BY SON [ARTICLE]

FATHER IS KILLED BY SON

Boy Confesses He Shot Parent Because Latter Was Abusive to His Wife. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 13.—Daniel H. Riekart was shot and killed by Martin, his thirteen-year-old son, while whipping an older son. The boy confessed, saying his father had been brutal to his wife. The shooting, he said, followed , a family quarrel in which their mother had taken the boys’ part when the father sought to chastise them for not having obeyed orders to bring in firewood.