Article November 1, 1975 Issue

To Tell the Truth

Bobbe L. Davey

One Sunday afternoon John came to his mother, looking scared. He said he had to be down at the police station within an hour. He and two other boys were to be questioned by a detective about a small pistol that had been taken from a place in John's house, where his parents thought it had been put safely away.

John's mother, who was a Christian Scientist, listened as calmly as she could to her son's story. He told her how the pistol, which the family used for target practice, had been taken without his knowledge by another teen-age boy, named Fred. Fred had flashed the gun around, trying to impress a group of other teenagers at a party several evenings before.

John had recognized the gun and had tried to get Fred to put it away. But some young girls screamed, and the youth counselor of the organization sponsoring the party came to investigate. Quickly, Fred forced the gun under the jacket of a third boy, Tom, telling him to hide it. The girls told the counselor about the gun, and all activities were stopped until the gun was found. When its owner was identified as John's father, John was involved, along with Fred and Tom.

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