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Show FORMER RESIDENT IS INVOLVED IN NEVADAJEATHS S. Mochizuki, who ran amuck at the Copper Flats Japanese camp near Ruth, New, late Monday Mon-day evening, taking the lives of two persons and wounding another an-other before committing suicide, was well known among the Japanese Jap-anese of Bingham district. Mochizuki approached the boarding house, operated by Mr. and Mrs. M. Ito, and fired two shots from a .45 automatic at j Mrs. Ito, who was standing outside out-side the building, one shot wound-3 wound-3 ing her in the shoulder. He then entered the house and , killed Mrs. H. Shiki, 61, and Y. ; Urabe, 52. Mochizuki then left ; the house, walked about 100 f yards, laid down on the ground, :' and placed the gun to his head , and killed himself. ; Mochizuki left Bingham in i December, 1937, for Ruth, New He previously worked several years in the U. S. Mines at Cop-perfield. Cop-perfield. Y. Urabe, one of the victims, worked as cook at the Joe Miya boarding house in Copperfield for several years, leaving Bingham about two years ago for Ruth. Funeral services were conducted conduct-ed for the victims and Mochizuki Thursday afternoon. Joe Miya, Tusi Yameanshi, T. Kubota, II. Andow, Teddy Kawaguchi and K. Miyake of Bingham attended the rites. - |