Show norris E stuart rites held here on mop monday day mineral funeral services were conducted monday at morgan lorgan Ik stake tabernacle for norris morris edward dilward stuart 34 victim of a gun shot wound indicted 12 ducted last thursday night S services erv were directed by dishop shop earl butters of imoigean boig an ward mr air stuart lied died almost instantly with a bullet through the ligart heart fired from a 22 revolver in tile the hand of a brother verde stuart 48 also of morgan mr air stuart had been deputized by tits his brother sheriff T J stuart and the two men had placed the older brother under arrest and were just entering the ahe morgan county jail ihen ahen the fatal shooting took place A report of the incident by she sheriff stuart was that he was called by verdes wife about pm to report tier her husband lius band drunk and cau causing 9 difficulty the sheriff said he entered his automobile and was preparing to leave when he asked tits his younger brother it if he would like to go along and assist the younger brother said he w would they had been working together at their mink farm verde had bad visited them earlier in the atter afternoon ter noon in a drunken condition the officer said they got verde into their automobile without difficulty at the home when they arrived at the jail norris got out of the right hand band side of the car with his older brother and started walking toward the jail holding his arm suddenly verde stepped ahead of norris whirled and whipped a 22 caliber pistol from beneath his aih L ile he had been searched earlier but apparently the gun had bad lleen missed ile he tired fired one shot into the younger brother norris csank sank to his knees with a cry for chelp help to the sheriff verde was immediately thrown to the ground by the sheriff who handcuffed him after taking the gun i sheriff stuart said his younger brother made an attempt to rise but sank back and was dead when lie reached his side ile he sa said I 1 d the shooting took place about pm the said that he be continued on page 6 stuart continued from rage page i 1 handcuff verde because he was a brother and he think anything like that would happen A charge of second degree murder has been placed against verde stuart by county attorney grant nielsen on the advice of C roland anderson district attorney ot of ogden stuart waived preliminary hearing when he appeared saturday in the court of justice of the peace george H pratt of morgan and he was bound over to second district court ile he la is held in the weber county jail at ogden norris edward stuart was born at morgan aug 11 1919 a son of charles W and ann wadsworth stuart ile ho received his education in morgan county schools and later spent three years in the U S army since that time he had been a railroad employee working in tucson ariz and tor for ahe past year for the union pacific in ogden i in 1350 1950 he was married to joyce heslop of tucson there la is a daughter ann surviving in addition to his widow and daughter are his mother and brothers verde T J and paul all ot of morgan and charles IV stuart jr kansas city kan his sisters al mrs maye canaper and mrs catherine taber both ol of oakland cat cal services monday were prelude and postlude music rosella compton vocal solo in the garden eldren parker vocal solo goin home emma smith speakers were john compton 0 S helner heiner and walter dale francis invocation was by roy E francis with the benediction by richard francis prayer at the chapel was by milton farr pallbearers Pall bearers aers were harold E little tom littlefield august E rose hose bud francis kenneth tucker and homer francis the grave in ogden city cemetery was dedicated by earl francis |