Grief prevades the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Williams, 1124 Fourth Avenue, parents of Robert "Earl" Williams, Council Bluffs boy killed Wednesday night in Omaha in a gun fight with a policeman who suspected him of having killed Depty Sheriff O.L. Case at Logan.

The mother, grey haired and weeping, declared to a reporter that never could she believe that her son killed the officer in Harrison County. But the father seemed not to be so faithful. "It appears to me that Bob was just trying to bring a little more grief upon the heads of his poor old parents," was his brief comment.

Robert Williams first came into notariety when he was arrested and tried in this city on the charge of having stolen an automobile from L.H. Metzger, commercial traveler, then living at 611 Fifth Avenue. That was in October 1919. The car was found in Williams' possession, and he was found guilty and sentenced to a term in the state penitentiary at Anamosa. It was after his release from this confinement that he adopted the name of Earl, which he was using up to the time of his death.

Neither the father nor the mother expressed any desire to attend the coroner's inquest, which was held in Omaha Thursday afternoon. They were both very noticeably full of sorrow and discouragement over the calamity to their home.