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Show Tolllrer said thai the gun was safe. 1 began to show Winn how it worked, at. the same time putting the muzzle to bis right breast and pressed the trigger. There was a report, and Tol-Hvor Tol-Hvor dropped over the chair, dead. A coroner's Inquest was held and a verdict returned that Tolllver had come lo hl death by his own hand. Tolliver wan married and loaves a widow and a number of children. A curious thing about the shooting wan tho fact that, threo days previously, prev-iously, Tolllver had purchased a plot of ground in tho Vernal cemetery, and it la said, had told frienda that he would have us for the property shortly. JOE TOLLIVER KILLS HIMSELF AT VERNAL While proving the safety of an automatic aut-omatic revolver to a' friend at Vernal, last Wednesday, Joe Tolllver, known here, accidentally shot and killed himself. Besides being known here, Tolllver had a host of friends at Rock Springs, and Just a day or so before the accident had intimated that he was going back to that place to live. It was about 1 "'clock Wednesday that Tolllver entered the barber shop I nt Vernal, owned by Will Winn, tind . asked fpr a shave. While Winn -was shaving him, Tolltver pulled bis auto-malic auto-malic revolver from his pocket and laid it in his lap. The barber cautioned cau-tioned him, whereupon Tolllver poked the gtin playfully against his spine. |