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D. F. Sanderson, Sr., 40 years of age, was shot and killed with a 45-calibre automatic pistol at the family home in this city at 3:30 p. m. Tuesday.  D. F. Sanderson, Jr., his 18 years old son, voluntarily surrendered a few minutes later and a charge of murder has been filed against him.  He made bond of $5,000 yesterday and the examining trial has been set for September 10th.  

According to the best available information officers were called to the Sanderson home Monday night to quell a family disturbance.  The elder Sanderson was taken in charge by officers and held in custody until the following day.  Soon after he was released Tuesday, officers served a divorce citation in a suit filed by Mrs. Sanderson.  It is alleged that he returned to the home and again started to abuse the mother.  The boy went to the defense of his mother.  Two shots from an automatic were fired.  One entered the left side of the nose, shattered teeth and cut the big arteries in the neck.  The other entered the body below the right nipple and came out on the left side.  Death was almost instantaneous.

Young Sanderson immediately after started for the court house in an automobile to surrender to officers.  In front of the Taylor-Allison garage he saw Constable Berry Bishop.  He quickly turned the car near the M System store on Live Oak street and met Mr. Bishop.  He stopped the car suddenly and went to where Bishop was standing in front of the garage and surrendered, turning the gun over to the officer, and telling him that he had killed his father.  As Bishop and Sanderson were going to the court house they met sheriff-elect W. R. Hamilton.  The first words spoken by Mr. Hamilton were “Boy what have you done.”  Sanderson said: “I just had to do it, he was beating mother to death.”

Sanderson collapsed at the court house and was revived with a hypodermic.  He was later sent to the home of Mrs. Annie Stubblefield and placed under guard Tuesday night.  Wednesday attorneys agreed upon a $5,000.00 bond and he has been released.  The examining trial will be held September 10th.  The boy is in a highly nervous condition and a trial prior to the date set is not advisable.

D. F. Sanderson, Sr., was buried Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock from the Stevens Undertaking Parlor.  Rev. C. E. Lancaster, pastor of the Baptist church, conducted the funeral service and the deceased was laid to rest in the Coleman cemetery.  Mr. Sanderson is survived by his wife and four children, two boys and two girls.  He also has a brother in Coleman.  Until recently he was engaged in the meat market and grocery business in a building west of the court house and with his son was soon a open a meat market in the rear of the new store being started by H. M. Thomson in the building on Commercial Avenue, recently vacated by the Wilson Motor Company.

This is the third time within two years that sons have been charged with the killing of their fathers.  Emmet Rumfield killed his father in 1924 and Wren Bell killed his father, A. S. Bell at Talpa early this year, under similar provoking circumstances.