Show Currant Creek Service Station Own Killed Edison Ricord Takes Life of father Step father to Save Moth Mother or er Youth Attended Urn Urn- tah High Last Year HEBER-A HEBER HEBER A coroners coroner s jury here year 18 Saturday decided an ye 18 old 18 old r-old deer hunter had shot and killed his step-father step In in de defense tense of his mother I The youth Edison Ricord was being held In Wasatch county jail In connection with the fatal shoot shoot- shootIng shooting shooting ing late Friday of Jack Sweat eat 55 operator of a service station at Currant Creek on the highway atI I midway between Duchesne and Heber City I Ricord fly used the same caliber rifle with which he I had killed a deer earlier in the day to shoot his stepfather sher- sher sheriff's iffs iff's officers officer reported The shooting shoot shoot- shooting shooting ing allegedly occurred in the 11 its liv statton ing living quarters of Sweats servi service e sta- sta station sta station tion The boy bov told officers his mother motherland and stepfather had been arguing over the name in m 3 a claim was to be filed I I fired in defense of my mother the lad was quoted by the sheriff as saying He He referring to his stepfather had been drinking and was vas choking her I was ass afraid he would kill her According to the sheriff Mrs Sweat upheld her son sons s story story- that her husband choked her We have had some disputes in the several years ears earse we se have been married several she said but but had always kissed and made up After the shooting Mrs S ran out onto the highway to stop the first automobile in n r She asked h ti h d dr di r vier vier I who has not been Identified to stop t at the nearest telephone and end call the sheriff The sheriff said ai ald he found Sweat calli crumpled up where he had fallen After a preliminary Investigation n I an inquest was sas as called by Justice of the Peace R C Buys and con con- conducted conducted con conducted ducted by County Attorney Geu Geo B Stanley Members of the jury L J Col- Col Colman Colman man Col-man man William Dahlman and Eldon Ritchie held Sweat eat came to his death from a caliber rifle In Inthe inthe inthe the hands of Edison Ricord who fired In defense of Df his mother Ricord attended the Uintah high school at Vernal last year Funeral services for Mr Sweat eat sere vere conducted Monday at 1 I p pm pm pm m in Heber First yard ward ard chapel cha- cha chapel cha chapel pel Burial v was sas as In Park City cemetery cemetery cemetery tery I |