Show THAT FATAL ACCIDENT Peter soa tells how lie came to kill at the inquest held at hyrum cache county upon the body of hyrum jensen henry peterson ar baid I 1 am twenty three years of age my occupation is a school teacher and I 1 reside in hyrum on tuesday evening last hyrum jensen aid I 1 agreed to go to the canyon on wednesday and hunt deer we started about 1130 on wednesday we went to the left hand fork and arrived there about 3 we camped at the cave we arose at daybreak on thursday morning we then took our guns and went up the road my gun a needle gun was loaded deceased loaded his as we went up the road he had a winchester rifle I 1 should judge it was three miles from camp where we stopped As we came up the road I 1 saw fresh deer tracks we ihen walked further up the canyon to a grove of timber I 1 told deceased to go along the edge of the timber and I 1 would go through it I 1 told him to go slow and also told him that when I 1 hunted deer I 1 always went very slow and desired him to do the same I 1 saw him start along the edge of the timber and I 1 went through it I 1 could see him for a short time As I 1 went along I 1 saw more signs of deer I 1 heard a crackling noise in the brush on my right when we parted hyrum took the left I 1 looked carefully to the right but saw nothing I 1 then looked straight ahead and saw what I 1 supposed to be a deer I 1 raised my gun but lowered it again so as to make sure that it was a deer I 1 looked again and concluded that it really was a deer I 1 gun and fired here the witness broke down and cried bitterly and was deeply affected during the whole time he was giving his evidence I 1 then heard deceased cry out and say henry henry hurry up you have shot me I 1 ran over to him and found him lying on his right side the distance between us was about yards the brush and timber was very dense it was broad day light I 1 said what is the matter he replied oh henry you have shot me I 1 kneeled down by his side and held him up I 1 saw he was becoming weaker and sinking I 1 then asked him where he was shot he did not answer I 1 then said hyrum I 1 know I 1 have shot yon but I 1 could not help it I 1 mistook you for a deer I 1 know this is your last day forgive me and said goodbye good bye he merely gasped 1 I forgive louhenry you Henry these were bis last words I 1 then laid him down and looked for the wound I 1 found a bullet hole just below his belt and loosened his clothes and found that the intestines were protruding he gasped a few times then I 1 thought he was dead I 1 ran down the canyon for help and found octavius smith near the cave smith and augustus benson went up the canyon and found the body the head bad moved a litho since I 1 had left him we found him dead my needle gun was fifty calibre seventy grains we made a litter and placed it upon a cart and brought him down to the foot of the mountain we then too khim from the litter and placed him in his wagon and then I 1 brought him home we had no quarrel I 1 dont remember us having had one we have been boys together he was one of my pupils |