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Show Ufcii fwlcn I7cu:::b Wcnicn.EaiJpc:;;': Telegram State gw rhjo t HELPER, Carbon County, Nov. Sheriffs efaoata .Satnrdag sought to' untangle the story of the shooting and critical wounding wound-ing of Mrs. Pstra Rogas, 44, Spring Canyon, and tha apparent suicide of Daniel Chaves, 69, unemployed their mother came stacreting into their room. They ruaaed for help to a neighbor, Mrs. Lucy Trujiiio, next door, where a doctor was summoned sum-moned and Mrs. Trujiiio returned with the boys te give what aid she eould nntil the doctor arrived. Mrs. Trunjlllo said she found Seepage t, Coiumas ooal field worker, lets Friday night la the Rogas home about six miles west of here. - Mrs. Rogas, shot from above, over the heart wss reported at the Btandardvllla hospital, where she wss rushed, ss "still holding her own" Saturday. Tha bullet ranged downward, passing through the lung aad kidney and coming out of Mn. Rogas' body, Sheriff David Wallace said. Rsva Rogas, Is, daughter of tha wounded woman, an eyewitness to the tragedy, said that Chaves, a Beighbor, walked Into the front room without knocking, and seeing Mrs. Rogas sitting on a chair, said: "I am going to kill youl" and started shooting. The first shot missed, and the second shot struck Mrs. Rogas, who got up, went through the kitchen and reached the door of the Soys' "bedroom, "bed-room, where aha told her sona, Max and Manuel, tn bed, to "go for the doctor." Then she collapsed la the doorway. Chaves then turned the gun on himself, inflicting a fatal wound, and died on the floor of the front room, the sheriff said Rsva told him. The boys, not yet asleep,' said they heard four shots fired before Utah Man Wounds Woman, Kills Self in Carbon County CettauHI trttm Fmg Om Mrs. Itof u Bttn lyinff in the doof-wmy doof-wmy of the boy bedroom. ' Lonfftno Rogu, husband of the wounded woman, who wu working in the Spring: Canyon coal mine at the time of the ehootlnff, could givo no reaaon for the act, the sheriff aaldl He told the latter: "Mr. Chaves and I were the beat of friend." The Rofrae children were taken by their father to the home of a aiater, Mrs. Albert Mar tines, Rains, about four miles west of Spring Canyon. Aa inquest Into the attempted j murder and suicide will be held Monday at 1 p.m. in the Price city court before Judge S. J. Bwset-ring, Bwset-ring, the sheriff said. Surviving Mr. Chaves are his widow, Mrs. Mary Chaves; four sons, Daniel Jr, Andrew, Lewis and Nick, and a daughtsr, Mrs. Connie Jlmes, Kenllworth, Carbon county. Mr. Chavea body was taken to the Mitchell funeral home, from where funeral services will be announced. |