Show ALBERT SWEET IS SHOT DOWN the victim of an accidental discharge of a gun was reading a letter alen fatal bullet plowed through his head fine young man the many of mr and mrs F P sweet formerly of huntington will regret to icari of the fatal accident to their oldest son albert near Thatcher arizona a few days ago the appended account of the accident is aiom a that cher paper and mr sweet informs us it is correct except that the shot did not tell away the whole top of albert s head for when he was laid in the coffin it could not be noticed that his head was injured albert sweet was respected by everyone who knew him in almery county and it is sad news to all to learn that he has passed away in so shock ing a manner mr and mrs sweet have moved to pima arizona the following is the local paper s account of the sad affair the camp of the mt graham lumber co on the graham mountains was the scene of a most deplorable ac aident on sunday morning albrt sweet was instantly killed by the ace dental discharge of a winchester rifle the accident came about in this way one of the men employed in the camp was going hunting will crumm had a SO 40 winchester which he was going to loan to his companion mr crumm was showing how the loading mechanism of the gun worked and placed the cartridge in the chamber he held the muzzle of the rifle under his left arm in some unaccountable way the cartridge v as discharged the ball passed through the board wall of the I 1 house and struck albert sweet who was walking along the road a short d stance from the house mr sweet had just received mail and was in the act of reading a letter when the fatal shot was fired he had his head bowed forward intently scanning the page when the deadly miss ie struck him death was in as the ball was what is known as a soft nose and had been flattened by pass ng through the boards and toie avay a vay nearly the entire top of the head the accident word was sent to justice of the peace silas P jenkins of central who v ent imme to the scene and held an inquest over the remains the coroner s jury rendered a verdict that the deceased came to hi death by purely accidental means the remains were prepared for burial and brought to thatcher the f meral was held tuesday at 3 30 p m from the mormon meeting house albert sweet was about 26 years of age and a very industrious young man his parents live at eden while the death of young sweet is an extremely sad one there is in connection circumstances which make it doubly so mr sweet had been in the valley for more than a year and had been working hard and saving his earnings ond was planning to go to idaho where he was to meet a young lady to he had been engaged for some time and bring hei to salt lake city they were to be married and then come back here and build up a home |