In 1955 at an indoor pool, a nine yr old boy was practising for a swimming race with his father. The father was at one end of the pool and his young son was at the other. When the father shouted Go! The boy dove into the pool. The father watched his stopwatch waiting for his son to rise up at his end of the pool. At the 30 second mark the father looked up and did not see his son... he ran to the edge of the pool...then he panicked...he could not see his son...anywhere... he had simply vanished. Despite his protestations and pleas of innocence he was arrested and charged with the murder of his only child. He did not have an explanation for what had happened to his child. His lawyer could not launch a defense. He was found guilty and amid the angry shouts for justice he was sentenced to death. He had no money for appeals. His wife left him. His friends and own family abandoned him... Midnight in October 1957...a solitary figure sits in a chair with a hood on in an enclosed chamber...his ex-wife sits watching the movement of the hood as the man breathes...a capsule is dropped into the water in the chamber...the breathing becomes vigorous and the mans body contorts violently...within minutes the head is slumped forward and the people who witnessed this final act are led from the windowed room. The man is gone now...as has been his son for so many years. The ex-wife suffered her life for a few more decades...always wondering why, why, why this had all happened...
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 19:03:02 +0000