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Show ACCIDENTALLY KILLJDJV GUN Price, Utah. April 15. Morton 1. Adams, night hoisting engineer at the Hiawatha mine, was accidentally killed kill-ed this morning by a self-inflicted wound. Ills companion. David Laird, ; was wounded by the bullet that took I tho engineer's life. Adams had Just' come off shift from the mine at Hiawatha aud stood in the company of several other workmen, work-men, examining his 32-callber revolver. revol-ver. He was holding the muzzle pointed at his breast and fingering the mechanism when the weapon was discharged, dis-charged, the ball piercing the heart of Adams. Ho sank to the ground without a word and expired within thirty seconds. The bullet passed through the body of Adams and made a painful, but not serious, flesh wound in the hand of David Laird, a laborer, who was standing by. That tho tragedy was purely accidental acci-dental is the opinion of all who witnessed wit-nessed it, as Adams was a steady young man, well respected and without with-out financial or domestic troubles Mr. Adams, who was 21 years of age, leaves a widow and one child. The body will bo taken to Nephi, his former home, where funeral services will be held on Friday. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and the obsequies will be held under the auspices of that order nr |