Another of those little domestic episodes freighted with atrocious details comes to us from Massachusetts. At Lowell, Edwin Slavin, aged eighteen, knocked his father down with a club, and while the parent was insensible Edwin robbed him of $35. Anything really choice in this line is very apt to come from Massachusetts.

Brooklyn (New York) Daily Eagle, March 19, 1873.

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