Accused of Killing His Father Charles DUNKEL, Jr., aged 43 years, of Midway, was held for the murder of his father, Charles DUNKEL, Sr., aged 73, at Midway on Saturday, August 21, 1920, at an inquest conducted by Coroner William GREENLEE. The accused man, who had been a prisoner in the county jail since the crime, was returned to Washington by County Detective Bert M. LAIRD. The Commonwealth way represented at the inquest by Assistant District Attorney, W. S. BURCHINAL. Only a few witnesses were examined and testimony presented by them did not differ from the facts published at the time of the killing. Members of the DUNKEL family, including the defendant and his aged father, had been drinking heavily during the day. Late in the afternoon the father and son started an argument and both, it is said, became angry. The father was shaving at the time and the son claims started toward him with a drawn razor. The son then pulled his revolver and fired three times. The aged man died within a few hours. When arrested by a constable, DUNKEL admitted, it is said, having shot his father but thought he did so in self-defense.