Glynn County GaArchives Obituaries.....Lane, Lawrence Aiken December 11, 1943 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Amy Hedrick http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00013.html#0003209 November 1, 2006, 10:45 pm The Brunswick News; Monday 13 December 1943; pg. 8 col. 6 SON IS HELD FOR KILLING FATHER—William Lane Held in Jail Here As Result of Unfortunate Tragedy on St. Simons Saturday. William Lane, 20-year-old Brunswick man, is in the Glynn county jail charged with the murder of his father, Lawrence A. Lane, 42, which occurred on St Simons Island Saturday afternoon, in the presence of the dead man’s wife and the wife of the son. The tragedy seems to have been the aftermath of a family quarrel over a sum of money the father is said to have loaned his son when he purchased an automobile, according to an investigation made by State Troopers D.H. Branch and R.T. Taft, but entirely different versions are told by the man held for murder and his step-mother. The shooting occurred just north of the Nineteenth Hole Club on St. Simons, where, it is stated, the elder Mr. Lane had stopped his automobile because of engine trouble. Trooper Branch said according to a statement made by the son his father and step-mother visited his home in the city Saturday morning and insulted his wife, an argument over the reported indebtedness being the cause. His father, a driver of a public school bus who was formerly engaged in the upholstering business, left with his wife Saturday afternoon to deliver some furniture on St. Simons, Mrs. Lane continuing to do upholstering at her home near Dock Junction. The trooper said young Lane later went in search of his father, and passed him on the road where he was stopped. He stopped his car, the trooper reported, and went back to talk to his father, when another argument started. Young Lane told the officer his father was advancing on him “and I told him to stop or I’ll shoot you,” the officer quoted him as saying. When his father continued to advance he shot him in the leg with one barrel of a double-barreled shot gun. He continued to advance, the son said, and he fired the second load, which struck the father in the heart, killing him instantly. Mrs. Lane, wife of the dead man, told a different story. She said her step- son got out of his automobile, walked up and asked his father “What do you mean by cursing my wife,” and immediately fired. Trooper Branch said the elder Mr. Lane was not armed, further than having a knife which was in his pocket. The investigation is being continued. Both Mr. Lane and his son have resided in Brunswick for many years. Besides his wife, Mr. Lane is survived by a number of children and step- children, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Lane of Jesup, and five brothers. Services will be conducted at Norwich Street Baptist church Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock by the Rev. C.H. Moss, interment to be in Palmetto cemetery. Arrangements are in charge of Mortician Edo Miller. Local school bus drivers will serve as pall bearers. Additional Comments: More Glynn County Genealogy & History can be found at www.glynngen.com or the sister site at www.rootsweb.com/~gaglynn/ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/glynn/obits/l/lane5645gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.6 Kb