Show Suicide Murder-Suicide Takes Take's Place At Red Wash ash Sheep Gamp Cramp The double shooting of a Vernal housewife housewife house house- wife and a sheepherder in n a camp camp- trailer at a sheep camp at the he head d of Deadman Bench five miles east east of of the town of Red Wash has been ruled a murder su suicide murder cide by Uintah Cou County ty Sheriff Sheriff Sher Sher- iff Arden W Stewart and County Attorney At Attorney At Attorney torney Whitney D D. D Hammond FOUND DEAD in the trailer camper at 8 am a.m. Monday were Joe Martinez 45 still holding a 22 caliber revolver and Mrs Wilbur Alice Fisher Bingham Bingham Bing Bing- ham 49 49 Keith L. L Squires owner of the sheep company which employed Mr Martinez Martin ez broke into the camper which had been locked from the inside through a a window and discovered the bodies when he arrived Monday morning at the campsite campsite camp camp- site for a routine check SHERIFF STEWART said that Mr Martinez was found slumped over Mrs 1 Bingham Mrs Bingham had two bullet holes in n her head and Mr Martinez had one Time of the shootings was set at from 10 pm p.m. to 12 midnight Sunday since Mrs Bingham had been seen in Vernal at 7 pm p.m. Sunday Mrs Bingham's car was parked near the fatal camper site Three empty cartridges were found inthe in inthe inthe the pistol still by Mr Martin Martin- ez AFTER INVESTIGATING the trajectory tory angle of the shote by Sheriff Stewart it was declared that Mr 1 Martinez Mar 1 apparently shot Mrs Bingham twice in n the head and then put the pistol to his own head firing a single singleshot singleshot singleshot shot killing himself Mrs Bingham head cook cook at at Vernal Junior High School was the mother of five children MRM as Ju as-Ju Juan as-Juan Juan n Ch Christomo Martinez a Mexican was accused of first degree murder in the sho shooting ting of Hadden May 7 1969 five miles northeast of Vernal at a ashe she sheep p counting corral He was acquitted by a jury trail September 24 1969 F Funeral eral services for Mrs Bingham were were held Wednesday at 11 am a.m. in the Ashley Stake Center SHE WAS born November 26 1921 inVernal InVernal in inVernal Vernal to James and Kurd Kuni Strecker Fish er She married Wilbur Bingham February February Feb Feb- 14 1938 in Roosevelt The marriage marriage mar mar- was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple Mrs Bingham attended local schools and was in charge of the school lunch program at Vernal Jr High School at atthe atthe atthe the time of death SURVIVORS include her husband Vernal Vernal Ver- Ver nal sons and daughters Marc Price Jack Salt Lake City Scott Vernal Mrs Terry Susan Boren and Mrs Michael Bonnie Night all of Vernal eight grandchildren Also mother Los Angeles brothers and sisters James Pauline Luck and Gladys Vernal Wanda Sizemore Sizemore Size Size- more Confluence Kentucky Merle Palmer Palmer Pal Pal- mer Los Angeles Pearl Wiley Brigham Brigham Brig Brig- ham City Bettye Mae Sizemore Dayton Day Day- ton Ohio and Dorothy Morris Denver |