The New York Herald

PARRICIDE—A BOY FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE STABS AND KILLS HIS FATHER.—On Thursday of last week a man named Thomas, a farmer, residing in Centre township, Greene county, Pa., came to his death under the following circumstances:—On the day mentioned Thomas was in the act of cruelly beating his youngest child, when the mother interfered to save the little one. Upon this Thomas seized his wife by the throat and choked her. All this time a little son of the pair had been quietly looking on, but upon the instant that his mother was attacked he drew from his pocket a penknife, with which he stabbed his father several times, cutting the intestines, inflicting, of course, fatal injuries. The lad had not been arrested at last accounts, the neighbors generally regarding the act as justifiable. The age of young Thomas is only fourteen.