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Show Shot Kills Boy on Easter Hike .. . -S Iff' TO " " V 1 f f . ' Chum Sobs Tale of Tragic End to Holiday Trip . His jugular vein torn by a bullet, bul-let, Wayne Young, 18, lay dead Monday and his best friend and cousin, Gilbert Brown, 18, sobbed to pollee a story of how an Easter. Sunday hiking trip ended in tragedy. trag-edy. 1 . Wayne was shot as he handed his loaded, cocked .22 -caliber rifle, mussle pointing toward himself, to his chum in foothills a mile north of the state capitoL Police said the shooting appeared purely accidental, but that they would make a complete Investigation Investiga-tion and resume questioning Gilbert Gil-bert during the day. Police Hear Account Wayne was lying on the ground when he gave Gilbert the rifle, the latter told police. Gilbert reached for It took hold of the stock and the gun discharged. Wayne's body slumped and blood gushed from his throat "He was bleeding awfully," Gll-(Coatlnued Gll-(Coatlnued en fl Two) .4 Ostium Dvej! ' GILBERT BROWN Took gun, rt discharged WAVNE YOUNtt, VICTIM I .Was killed by his own rifle , N ..... I i 'It's Mandatory' REPRESENTATIVE DIES Sara President Unpaid Act BOY HIKER OIES 111 GUNMISHAP (OoetkHMS trees Pese Oae) bert told officers. 1 trlsd to drsg him, but It was too hard. So I tied a handkerchief around hia neck and ran for help." Gilbert ran to tha homa of Mr. and Mrs. & O. Johnson, Wsyns's grandparents, where ths wounded youth lived, at 67t Weet Capitol treat I'acls Oarrkta Lad , Wsyns's uncle, Jeaaa Johnson, 22, rsturned with Gilbert, carried Wayne SO feet to tho Johnson automobile au-tomobile and drove to tho emergency emer-gency hospital. . I Wayne was dead oa arrival Otlbert'a grief was Inconsolable 1 when hs learned his frlsnd of years wm dead, but police managed ta learn enough from htm to form a theory of tho accident The slngls shot singls action rifle automatically cocked when it wu loaded, aald' Chief of Detectives E. A. Hedman. Tha trigger touch wm light ha explained, and Gilbert Gil-bert probably had his hand on the trigger guard when ba took the gun. Shot at Targets Tha two boys had been In the foothills sines 11 a. m., ahooting a; targets. Ths accident occurred at X p. m. : ' Tha gun wm given to Wayns two years ago by hia uncle, police Mid. Gilbert wu released to custody of his psrents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Brown, 687 Wsst Capitol street Wsyns's death brought warnings to other youths and disclosure by Chief of Police Harry L. Finch that tha two chums hsd been violating the law by ahooting In the area immediately north of tha capltol, which la a game preserve and city property. Basil Cited Discharging of firearms within city limits Is forbidden by ordl- nance. Chief Finch Issued a warning that all firearms used ia city limits would be seissd. How a policeman and his two young sons aarrowljfce scaped possible possi-ble death or serious Injury by wild shots in ths same region was told after Sunday's fatal shooting. Traffic Patrolman Clarence T. Smith said that ha and his two sons, Ksith, t. and Rex, t, were climbing Ensign peak last Friday and were a few yards from ths peak when a bullet whlxxed close te them. " "I shouted to the boys to duck and ws all started running off the peak," Patrolman Smith aaid. "Before "Be-fore we had run SO yarda at least IS more shots pinged into the ground all around us. Marksmea Not Seen "We looked closely but couldn't see anyone firing. Wayne, a student at Jordan junior high school, would hsvs been graduated grad-uated this spring. Hs was a member mem-ber of tho school basketball squad. Hs was bora In Salt Lake City June 13, 1920, a aon of George and Emma Johnson Young. Besides his psrents, hs is survived by two brothers, broth-ers, John G. Young and Marvin E. Young, and his grandparents, Mr. and Mra. Johnson snd Mr. and Mrs. George Young, all of Salt Lake City. |