From his brothers obit:
THE PARIS NEWS, October 29, 1915
Roscoe Ables, a married young man twenty-one years old, was fatally stabbed at 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon between Atlas and Ambia by his sixteen-year-old brother, Roy Ables.
Their father, J. C. Ables, is a tenant on the Jim Yates farm and the sons lived on the place with him.
When the unfortunate tragedy occurred the boys had gone to the field in a wagon after a load of maize, and their father was picking cotton a short distance away. It is said that the brothers started to scuffling in a playful way in the wagon and that they fell out on the ground and continued scuffling unto the young brother became angry and thrust a knife blade in the other's heart, killing him almost instantly.
The father of the boys stated to a News reporter that when he first noticed the boys they were running after the scuffle was over and that Roy was about twenty steps ahead.
After chasing his brother a short distance Roscoe turned and went back to the wagon and Roy beckoned to his father, who came to where they were. Roy went forward to meet him and said: 'Father, I've stabbed Roscoe and wouldn't have done it for the world. I would have rather he had beaten me to death.' The father went up to Roscoe and found him breathing his last breath.
From DEATHS, MURDERS AND OTHER TRIBULATIONS edited by Patricia Armstrong Newhouse
THE PARIS NEWS, October 29, 1915
Roscoe Ables, a married young man twenty-one years old, was fatally stabbed at 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon between Atlas and Ambia by his sixteen-year-old brother, Roy Ables.
Their father, J. C. Ables, is a tenant on the Jim Yates farm and the sons lived on the place with him.
When the unfortunate tragedy occurred the boys had gone to the field in a wagon after a load of maize, and their father was picking cotton a short distance away. It is said that the brothers started to scuffling in a playful way in the wagon and that they fell out on the ground and continued scuffling unto the young brother became angry and thrust a knife blade in the other's heart, killing him almost instantly.
The father of the boys stated to a News reporter that when he first noticed the boys they were running after the scuffle was over and that Roy was about twenty steps ahead.
After chasing his brother a short distance Roscoe turned and went back to the wagon and Roy beckoned to his father, who came to where they were. Roy went forward to meet him and said: 'Father, I've stabbed Roscoe and wouldn't have done it for the world. I would have rather he had beaten me to death.' The father went up to Roscoe and found him breathing his last breath.
From DEATHS, MURDERS AND OTHER TRIBULATIONS edited by Patricia Armstrong Newhouse
From his brothers obit:
THE PARIS NEWS, October 29, 1915
Roscoe Ables, a married young man twenty-one years old, was fatally stabbed at 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon between Atlas and Ambia by his sixteen-year-old brother, Roy Ables.
Their father, J. C. Ables, is a tenant on the Jim Yates farm and the sons lived on the place with him.
When the unfortunate tragedy occurred the boys had gone to the field in a wagon after a load of maize, and their father was picking cotton a short distance away. It is said that the brothers started to scuffling in a playful way in the wagon and that they fell out on the ground and continued scuffling unto the young brother became angry and thrust a knife blade in the other's heart, killing him almost instantly.
The father of the boys stated to a News reporter that when he first noticed the boys they were running after the scuffle was over and that Roy was about twenty steps ahead.
After chasing his brother a short distance Roscoe turned and went back to the wagon and Roy beckoned to his father, who came to where they were. Roy went forward to meet him and said: 'Father, I've stabbed Roscoe and wouldn't have done it for the world. I would have rather he had beaten me to death.' The father went up to Roscoe and found him breathing his last breath.
From DEATHS, MURDERS AND OTHER TRIBULATIONS edited by Patricia Armstrong Newhouse
THE PARIS NEWS, October 29, 1915
Roscoe Ables, a married young man twenty-one years old, was fatally stabbed at 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon between Atlas and Ambia by his sixteen-year-old brother, Roy Ables.
Their father, J. C. Ables, is a tenant on the Jim Yates farm and the sons lived on the place with him.
When the unfortunate tragedy occurred the boys had gone to the field in a wagon after a load of maize, and their father was picking cotton a short distance away. It is said that the brothers started to scuffling in a playful way in the wagon and that they fell out on the ground and continued scuffling unto the young brother became angry and thrust a knife blade in the other's heart, killing him almost instantly.
The father of the boys stated to a News reporter that when he first noticed the boys they were running after the scuffle was over and that Roy was about twenty steps ahead.
After chasing his brother a short distance Roscoe turned and went back to the wagon and Roy beckoned to his father, who came to where they were. Roy went forward to meet him and said: 'Father, I've stabbed Roscoe and wouldn't have done it for the world. I would have rather he had beaten me to death.' The father went up to Roscoe and found him breathing his last breath.
From DEATHS, MURDERS AND OTHER TRIBULATIONS edited by Patricia Armstrong Newhouse
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