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Show to go oiT, and young SUHwell had' said, taking the revolver from Brown: . "Here's tho way to make It go off." With the click, of the hammer the bullet was discharged nDd plowed Its way through the body of -Brown,- vn tering the abdomen. With a cry Brown 6tageered out of the room to the veranda and as be fell cried: "Got a doctor and take me over tn Mr. Pen roue's house." The limp body was picked up by neighbors and carried iato the home of Mr. Ernest Penrose. 4.17 Pearl avenue, ave-nue, and Dr. I). II. Robinson summoned. sum-moned. After the medical examlna tiou Dr. Robinson ordered the wound ed boy removed to the German-American hospital, where an all-night attempt at-tempt to save his life was mad without with-out avail. This momkig, when the end and its realization came near. Mr. Brown, tho father of the boy, was brought to the hospital by a friend, and the tragedy was intensified In Its pathos. The lad, realizing bis dath, bade his father good-bye and in the last request asked ihat his father Lias his mother goodbye good-bye for him. 'Stillwell Is Prostrated. In the wide- circle of friends, the accident fell with a pall of gloom. The yountr man had barely entered into tho rironiiso of a splendid career, and one devoted to the assistance of his parontn. Emplosed for a time lu the store of S. Christenxen. 047 Fifth East street, he had only lately entered the employ of the accounting department of the Oregon Short Line, and In his sorvico had won promotion. Howard Stillwell. the unwitting cause of the tragedy. Is stricken today under the shock of the event, and sobs his heart out in grief. The body of Brown la now lying at S. M. Taylor's undertaking parlors, and dependent upon the arrival of relatives from out-of-town points the funeral will be held either Wednesday Wednes-day or Thursday from the Tenth ward I meeting house. -- DIES FROM GGIMI SALT LAKE. July 4 The death this morning at C;30 o'clock of Wm. Robb Brown, the 18- ear-old son of Mr. and .Mrs. David R. Brown, re-. re-. siding in the rear of the Third ward meeting house at. Seventh South and State streets, marked iu tragic manner tho beginning of the city, observance ob-servance of Independence day. In the flush of, youthful pleasure In the approaching celebration of the nation's holiday, William Brown fell 1 victim to a bullet fired Innocently by his chum and bosom friend, Howard Stillwell. In the moment that they were planning for tho enjoyment of tho Fourth. Adding to the distressing distress-ing features of the tragedy were the incidents that on Saturday the youth bad celebrated his eighteenth birthday birth-day and yesterday, the day of the accident ac-cident that resulted fatally this morning, morn-ing, the day was one of glad observance observ-ance of the twenty-first anniversar of the marriage of the boy'6 father a ud mother. The accident that resulted iu the youth's death occurred yesterday afternoon af-ternoon at 5:15 o'clock at the home of Howard Stillwell, postmaster at Alta, and whose Salt lake residence is 450 Pearl avenue. The two chums. Brown and Stillwell, the latter 19 years of age, had planned for tho celebration of the Fourth. The Fatal Accident. They had secured fireworks, and also al-so a .3S calibre revolver. During the afternoon, and at the time of the accident ac-cident they had, been inspect Ing their stere of explosive?, Mid Brown, with the revolver pointed towardu the ceiling; ceil-ing; tried to te.Ni U bv pulling the trigger several times The )?ua. failed |