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Show PAYSON BOY KILLED IN GUN MISHAP PAYSON Remorse struck ;Uep at the heart of Cornell Wilson, 13-year-old Payson youth, today, but could not bring back the life of his little lit-tle pal, Gordon Schramm, 12. Gordon lay dead upon his hospital bed last night, three hours after Cornell unwittingly pulled the trigger of his father's unloaded" gun. The charge struck Gordon in the upper chest, almost severing his arm. Screaming. Cornell ran for help. His father. Hoy Wilson, and James Mitchell, with neighbors, ran into the Wilson family home, where Cornell and Gordon, alone, were examining the gun, a 30-30 deer rifle owned by Cornell's father. Dies At Hospital City Marshal Braxton Barnett and City Pnysician L. D. Stewart rushed the injured boy to the Payson hospital, where death came. It was the second time the Wilson Wil-son boy had witnessed a gun tragedy, although he was in no way implicated in the former. With other companions he was with Lynn Wilson, 15, son of Bishop Robert L. Wilson of Pay-son, Pay-son, last November 30. While duck-shooting, duck-shooting, Lynn accidentally discharged dis-charged his weapon, inflictirfg injuries in-juries on himself that kept him in bed nearly all winter. Gordon Merle Schramm was born in Payson January 11, 1925, the son of Martin F. and Hettie Shepherd Schramm, and was at his death a student in Payson junior high school. His parents; three brothers, Roland, Orvill and Clarence; his .grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Schramm of Pay-son Pay-son and Mrs. Hattie Shepherd of Wyoming, survive. |
