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Show JILTED, IE SHOOTS GilL KILLS SELF Rancher Fatally Wounds Former For-mer Fiancee While She Is Picking Grapes. Special to Tlio Tribune. PROVO. Ocl. 2. Unrequited lovo was tho cause of one death here this afternoon, after-noon, and Lho niortal 'wounding of another an-other person. Vail Wlglilman, 23 years uf asc a ranch owner, shot and perhaps fatally wounded illss Frances -La Bello, Brown, 18 years of age, shot and perhaus fatally wounded himself, at 2:30 Ihls afternoon. "Wight-man "Wight-man is dead and the girl Is in the Provo General hospital. The tragedy took place at the fruit farm of Philip Guardio on the Pleasant View bench, about two miles north of Provo. From tho story told by the young woman's plater, Carrie Brown, Wlghtman was engaged to Miss Urown, but about a. month ago she broke off the engagement. Breaks Engagement. The younger girl states that her sister wrote AVlghtman a letter, dated September Septem-ber 1, as follows; Provo, Utah, Sept. 1, 1912. Mr. Wlghtman I have heard a good deal lately, so It Is all off between you and I forovec So consider this llnal- Am returning ring In same mall. BELL, BROWN. P. S. Kindly return all my let ters at onoe. 1 hnve burned -what-I have here of yours. B. B. Bell Brown Is tho daughter of Mr. and, .Mrs. Hunter H. Brown and the family caJiio to Utah from the east about six yearn ago and made their home' In Ouray, Uintah county. They came here about six weeks nno and pitched their tent near the boulevard about half way between be-tween Provo and Olmsted and for hcv-erul hcv-erul weeks. the girls picked fruit In the orchauls nearby. Today the two girls were engaged In picking gnip.es In tho orchard of Philip' Guardio. when, at 2;.'ll) o'clock", tbo young man appeared at the farm and inquired for the Brown girls. nnd was directed to the grape arbor. He found them and spoko to them, but neither of the girls paid any attention lo him. Their attitude nnd demeanor seemed to angnr Wlghtman, and, drawing draw-ing a .25-callber automatic pistol, he sold: "1 will clean out the whole family." lie pointed the pistol llrst at MIps Clinic, why screamed ami dodged behind some grapevine?. The enrnged man, pointing tho revolver djrcetly at Bell Brown. Hrcd. The bullet entered the girl's body on the right aide jusl under The arm, "penetrating this right lung. Rancher Xills Self. After Hhooting Ml Brown, Wlghtman ran out of this orchard and down a winding wind-ing road about 200 yards, when hu espied I wo men standing in the lane- They wcro It, 15. and lilmm" Hrcrlou, broth--it.. Wlghtman stopped on seeing these men and threw down his coal, nut the pistol to his lcfL breast at id flrod. crying an h did so, "Como on, fellow, I am through." Wlghtman was dead when the brother;! broth-er;! picked him up. Dr. 13. G. Hughes, who examined the body, said that ho thought that death was Instantaneous. Mr. Brown, mother of the girls, told lho following slory f ihu love affair between Wlghtman and her daughters: "Wlghtman owned a ranch about three mlh'S from Ouray, where we II vo and had befti a visitor at our home as a. neighbor for four years, but nothing .-ferlous occurred oc-curred In regard to marriage until about nix nionthfi ago. Then T took the young mt.n liito m.v confldenco and made him Continued on Pago Eleven. JILTED, HE SHOOTS GIRL; KILLS SELF (Continued. From Page One.) promlso me that ho would not ask Bell to marry him for two years at least- Ho willingly gave me this promise and we were getting ready to send Belj cast to study music. I felt that lf she wished to marry Vflghtman after two years had passed, Mr. Brown would not object. After coming to Provo, however, Boll had heard something aoout "Wlghtman which seemed to cool her ardor and caused her to break off the engagement. After writing tho letter, Miss Brown received letters from him dated at Ouray, but she did not answer them. When Wight-man Wight-man came to the farm today where the girls were working he said that he bad boon hunting them for .three days, but that neither of them cave him a civil answer when he spoke to them." "Wlghtman was the son or W. C. Wight-man Wight-man ot Payson and had resided In this county most of his life. A brother, Roy Wlghtman, Is living at Sprlngvllle. |