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Show Goshen Man Killed In Gun Mishap lert James Menlove s Ac-cidently Ac-cidently Killed Near His Home. Catching his leg on a fence Wiie and falling on his gun, Albert Al-bert James Menlove, OS-year old Goshen farmer, accidentally discharged dis-charged the weapon and was killed this morning a little before 5 15 o'clock. Ho was found by jls daughter Bertie, his legs still caught In the barbed wire of a fence a short distance back of their home one and one half miles north of Goshen. The bullet, from his .22 caliber bolt action single shot rifle which lie hod taken with him to shoot hawks, entered through the right temple, ranging slightly upward and apparently brought instant death. It lodged in the brain, shooting at Huuks fence. Apparently his trousers caught on one of the barbed wires as he pulled his leg through and he fell, striking his temple on the - gun muzzle, which bruised his head. Attempting perhaps to retard his fall, he seems to have seized the barrel. As his hand slid down along it, he accidentally pressed the trigger, which was found to protrude from the guard The possibility that the jar discharged the rifle was discounted because the investigators tried both theories, theor-ies, and jarring the gun failed to affect it. Friends who went from Goshen and moved the body into the house were Mr. and Mrs. Evelyn Kirk, Mrs. Dclbert White and Mr. Alma Jepperson, all of Goshen. They found him lying face downward down-ward on the rifle. The body was Shortly before he had gone out to shoot at hawks which had been molesting his poultry. His daughter daugh-ter heard a shot, but expecting to bear shooting, she thought little of it. Then through the door she saw him lying entangled in the fence. After assuring herself that he Was dead, she drove to Goshen and secured the help of friends, permission was obtained from the fheriff's office to move the body into the house. County Attorney W. Stanley Dunford and Deputy Sheriff Wm. Lewis went to investigate. in-vestigate. As they reconstructed the accident, ac-cident, Mr. Menlove had thrust the gun through the fence and leaned it against the wires with the butt on the ground in preparation prep-aration for climbing through the taken later to the Claudin funeral home in Payson. Mr. Menlove was born at St. Albans, England. His wife died in 1930. He is survived by four daughters, Bertie Menlove, Mrs. Alex White, Mrs. Harold Palmer, of Goshen, and Mrs. Reed Peterson Peter-son of Santaquin; two sisters, Mrs. Zina Butler. Spring Lake, and Mrs. Flora Reynolds, Payson; and three brothers, Walter and Thomas Menlove, Spring Lake, and Arthur Menlove, Redondo Beach, Calif., and a niece, Miss Edith Jasperson, who has been a member of the family since infancy. |