OCR Text |
Show Gun Accident West Of Delta Kills Herder Wiliam Morris (Mark) Coombs. 37, of Fountain Green, was killed instantly early Friday when he was accidentally shot in the head by his companion, Pat Cambron, 69, of Salt Lake City. 11 The accident occurred at 9:30 a. m. in Tule Valley, about 70 miles west of Delta. The men were there employed as sheepherders for Tom Cook, of Fountain Green. The herders had spread the sheep out to graze and had then gone hunting wild horses. They located a herd and had done some shooting shoot-ing as they hoped to get the hides to sell. Apparently Mr. Coombs stepped into the line tit fire when Mr. Cam bron made a shot, and the 30-30 rifle bullet struck him in the head back of the left ear and emerged above his eye. They were 25 feet or less apart at the time. Mr. Cambron, who Is unable to drive, went horseback to another sheep camp 15 miles distant for help. He sent word in to the sheriff's sher-iff's office by Peter Sabey reporting report-ing the accident. Deputy sheriff O. J. Bennett and Albert Nickle, from the Nickle mortuary, mor-tuary, left at 3:30 p. m. to go to the scene and they returned at 11 p. m. with the body to the mortuary. mor-tuary. A coroner's inquest was held on Saturday at the site of the accident, accid-ent, and a verdict 'of "death by accident" was reached. The coroner's cor-oner's party Included Deputy Sheriff Sher-iff O. J. Bennett, County Attorney Eldon Eliason, Albert J. Skidmore, justice of the peace, Delta Marsha-all Marsha-all Karl Miller, Tom Judd and Peter Pet-er Sabey. Mr. Coombs was bom in Fountain Foun-tain Green, Jan. 10, 1914, a son of Wilford and Ella Crowther Coombs. He married Bessie Jensen, Moroni, in 1937. They later separated. He was a sheepherder and laborer all his life. He is survived by his father, Fountain Green, four children, Inez, In-ez, Markay, Lula and James all of Salt Lake City; two brothers, De-vere De-vere Coombs, Lark Elwood, Provo, and Ken Coombs, in the service in Japan; four sisters, Mrs. Valera Parkin, Bessie Coombs, and Mrs. Mont Taylor, Nephi, and Arlene Coombs Fountain Green. Funeral services were held in ' Fountain Green Tuesday, and burial bur-ial was in the cemetery there un-I un-I der direction oi Nickle mortuary. ' |