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Show BLAME NOT FIXED BY CORONER'S JURY Verdict Is Returned After Inquest Is Held Over the Body of R. Lee Rose. Special to The Tribune. IDAHO FALLS. Idaho, June 15. A coroner 's inquest was held yesterday yester-day over the bodv of E. Lee Hose, who was shot aud killed on Sunday last at t h o sheep camp of Arthur Bell, n e a r Gray's lake, about ninety miles east of Idaho Falls. All the evidence was circumstantial, as no one was with the two men, William Hawkins and Rose. From the circumstances it seems that the men were at breakfast and Hawkins Haw-kins had a gun belonging to Mr. Bell. It is supposed that Hawkins and Bell had an argument. Rose got up to get something and noticed Hawkins had the gnn in his hand and stepped around the wagon, wheu he was snot, the bullet entering the back of the neck. He is supposed to have died instantly. Hawkins left, going to headquarters and asking for his money, saying he was going to quit and that Mr. Bell wouUf better go to the camp as the sheep were alone. A posse found Hawkins Haw-kins about twelve miles away with the gun he had at camp. It was reported that Kose was a German, Ger-man, but such was not the case. He had relatives in Blackfoot. Idaho, but the body will be sent to North Carolina, Caro-lina, to his parents. Hawkins is 73 years of ace and Rose was '6ll. The verdict of the jury was that Rose came to his death from a gunshot wound and that the shot was tired by parties unknown. Hawkins was brought to Tdaho Falls and is in jail. |