Show A UTAH BOY SHOT A young man from springville Spring ville killed in colorado the following is taken from the san miguel mieuel journal of june jane ath published at telluride colorado sunday afternoon about six word reached town that a man had been killed at the quinley saw mill on prospect creek an and d soon after charles benton canoe came in and save gave himself up acknowledging to the shooting shoo tins but claiming to have done it in self de f bense euse As the grand jury were to sit the following morning it was not dot considered necessary that a preliminary hearing be nad and benton was placed in ia the custody of deputy sheriff ricker the kill killing ing and the circumstances which led to it as related by eyewitnesses eye witnesses are as follows evening men were playing a friendly game of cards when benton and missouri bill got to quarreling and fighting they were stopped ant and mr barry who is running the mill told the men he would have no more of it sunday afternoon while mr barry was in town benton was sitting behind the stove reading when bill came into the room with a heavy bootjack boot jack in his iban and nourishing flourishing it over benton demanded that he give up them knuckles this benton refused ref based to do and the two men clinched but were immediately separated by wm sellers who was also in the room benton stepped back into the kitchen took down a rifle put in a cartridge stepped back to the door and aiming at what he supposed was bill pulled the trigger buckley the murdered man it appears was lying on the bunk and had criscu rise u when tie kie row started he was standing ending st by the bedside in a direct line with bill whom it is supposed Benton intended intender int endea to 0 kill when benton came in with ah the e gun bill stepped qui kly to one side both he and buckley tad lad on red flannel shirts the room was not very light and the theory of the witnesses is that in his ra rage rac c and excitement benton did not discern the difference the ball a springfield rifle 44 call calibre bre entered the left breast lust below the be nipple passed through the budy body came out under the right arm and passed on into the arm and was cut out of the fleshy muscle part after the shot buckley throwing both hands to his breast exclaimed my mv god im shot I 1 reeled forward a f few steps and fell clo down wn dead A representative of the journal viewed the corpse at undertaking der taking rooms yesterday and found the corpse considerably bruised and marked indicating that the murdered man had bad also been in the tight fight and there is some talk that perhaps the shooting of buckley was not altogether a mistake in reference toabe sad affair detailed above james M peirce esq writes us as follows from springville Spring ville utah june r editor deseret news I 1 herewith send you a copy of the san miguel journal giving an account of the murder of A L buckley backley the name should have been given wm win S bulkley as that was the name of the young man who is the son of newman balkley bulkley of springville Spring ville by consent of the boys father I 1 wish to give a few items relative to the character of the young man which I 1 think will be sufficient to convince any one who wao may read the report as given in the journal that he could not have had any hand in the fight I 1 will briefly say that I 1 have lived a near neighbor to brother bulkley forace last thirty years and a more worthy man citizen and member of the church is not to be found his son william has been trained up ud under good examples in the family ds as also in the Y M M I 1 A he was a member of the elders quorum kere here until twe tw I 1 years 8 since when he went to cas caetto valley to live he was a member cy tile the branch there in good standing when he left for colorado lie ile had also in connection with his father and mother done clone considerable work in the st george temple had been prompt in paying his tithing etc he was born april hence was 25 years old when killed according to my close observation he was of a mild disposition and aad was never quarrelsome elsome to my knowledge I 1 give mese anese facts in behalf of the grief stricken ken f family am ily |