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Show FATHER SHOOTS ins mm cm CLARENCE WARD, 11, MEET DEATH WHEN HE AND FATHER FA-THER HUNT FOR PEST Overwhelmed With Grief on Flndlnfl Body of Boy Instead of Quarry; Quar-ry; Inquest Probably Will Be Held .Roosevelt, Utah. Clarence Wan, 11 years of age, son of W. F. Ward, a rancher, living three miles east of hore, was accidentally shot and instantly in-stantly killed by his father ot 8 o'clock Sunday morning. The father and son were chasing a cat which had been troublesome about the premises. The animal had gone under the floor of the barn and the son crawled beneath the flooring at one end to chase It out. When his head appeared at the other end, the movement in some brush through which he was emerging, caused the father to think it was the cat He-fired. He-fired. The shot from a 2li-caliber rifle entered the lad s head above the right ear and penetrateo. to the brain, killing him instantly. "When the father went to the brusft heap, expecting to pull out the body of the cat he found the son. Screaming for help and almost demented de-mented with grief, the father summoned sum-moned neighbors, who took the body to tbrj home and notified City Marshal Mar-shal A. M. Jacobs. The lad is survived by his" mother nnd several brothers and sisters who reside in St. George. Mr. and Mrs. Ward are separated, the mother taking tak-ing some of the -children to relatives in St. George about two years ago, the father and two sons remaining here. |
