People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — Negro Boy Kills His Father. [ARTICLE]

Negro Boy Kills His Father.

Henderson, Ky., Jan. I.—-Near Beech Grove Tony Golf, 13 years old, a negro, was whipped by his father for having stolen the old man’s penknife. Monday night, when the family was asleep, the boy crept from his pallet, and, Securing the father’s pistol, placed the barrel against the head of the unconscious sleeper and sent a ball into his brain, causing instant ’death.