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Show oo EARL WILLOUGHBY IS ACCIDENTALLY KILLED Salt Lake, Jan. 22.- Earl Willough-by Willough-by of Coalville, 22 years of age, iatal-ly iatal-ly shot himself by accident at Jud Brothers' sheep camp, two and one-half one-half miles northeast of Vernon. Tooele county, yesterday morning. The body was brought to Salt Lake last night bv E S Saxton of Coalville, companion compan-ion of Willoughby. It will be sent to Coalville this morning by Joseph t William Taylor, undertaker. Willoughby picked up a rifle by the muzzle from where he had laid it on a sagebrush. The hammer caught on I a twig and the gun was discharged, , the bullet passing through the young man's chest Irom side to side, just below the shoulders. Saxton, at the time, was gathering a pan of snow to melt over the eampflre. "My God, I'm shot," said Willoughby. Wil-loughby. "No, you're not." protested Saxton. "Yes, I am." insisted the wounded man. whereupon he fell to the ground and died without speaking again Saxton Sax-ton went to Vernon for help, and putting put-ting two herders from there in charge of the sheep, brought the body of his comrade to Salt Lake. Mrs John Willoughby. the widowed mother, resides at Sprlnghollow, near Coalville. |