Small grandson threatens Granny after playing with matches

A family circle is staying at his home — grandchildren on their way back to Vietnam where their father is a Marine flier — and that morning his wife caught one small boy with the matches, and when she threatened to spank him he said he was going to shoot Granny dead.
Date (happened)
24 February 1967
unresolved
  1. 24 February 1967 stated · preferred
    Source Election ¶8"this morning", told in Election (nid 1262)
Place
Los Angeles
Persons
Catherine Willa Van Schmus
Told
  1. 24 February 1967 stated
    Source ElectionElection (nid 1262), telling 1262-1, told 1967-02-24
Sources

Source

  • Election ¶8 (One got up this morning and he was corrected by my wife, “Don’t play with the matches!” The phone rang and she was diverted and she went to the phone. Came back to find he was tearing off one, just about to scratch it, and she said, “I told you I would s…)