Father Was Hanged For Crime of Son

1920

FLESHERTON, Ontario, Canada. — "Arise and confess your sins," shouted the Rev. G. N. Sharp, evangelist, in appealing to a revival meeting at Salem, Grey County.

Arnold Love, 21, an industrious and respected farmer, arose and confessed to murdering his mother seven years ago. His father was hanged for the crime on circumstantial evidence. Arnold, 14 years old at the time, never was suspected.

"I was eating my breakfast," Love said, in describing the murder, "when my mother warned me to avoid keeping bad company.

"I grabbed a stick of wood and hit her on the head. I dragged the body to the cellar and covered it with earth and then went to school."

Love was held by authorities of Owen Sound.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Aug. 7, 1920, p. 1.