Clark County NV Archives Obituaries.....PEARSON, Kenneth July 18 1920
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Las Vegas Age - 7/24/1920


SUICIDE OF YOUTH AT ST. THOMAS SUNDAY



KENNETH PEARSON TAKES OWN LIFE FOLLOWING TROUBLE WITH HIS FATHER.



    Sunday morning, July 18, District Attorney STEBENNE received the

following message from St. Thomas:

    "There has been either murder or suicide this morning.  Come at once.

Wire answer.  A. L. SELLERS."

    Upon the arrival of Mr.  STEBENNE at St. Thomas he found that an inquest

had already been held before Judge A. L. F. MAC DERMOTT sitting as coroner,

the jury rendering a verdict of accidental death.

    Kenneth PEARSON, 22 years of age, a son of George PEARSON was found by

his father lying on the floor near his bed about five o'clock in the

morning.  The father arose some time before daylight and awoke his daughter

so she could get breakfast as they intended to haul some grain to the train

leaving for Moapa at 6:20.  He did not wake the boy but went to a neighbor's

to get a team and wagon.

    Upon his return the father went into the room where the boy was

apparently sleeping on the floor and found him dead.  There was a bullet

hole in the boy's forehead, the bullet having lodged somewhere in the head.

There were no powder marks upon the face, though the next morning there

appeared a small black ring around the hole where the bullet had entered,

indicating that the barrel of the gun had been placed against the head

before discharging, which might also account for the family not hearing the

shot.

    The district attorney states that {illegible} of there being some

suspicion that the boy might have met his death by violence, he investigated

the matter very thoroughly.  Aside from a little spat the night before and

some evidence of both the boy and his father being of a very querulous

nature, the district attorney found nothing upon which to predicate a theory

of the boy coming to his death through the violence of another.











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