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Show MARIO SPILLSBURY SHOT DOWN 111 COLD BLOODFD MUBDER' Mario Spillsbury, age 2 2, son or Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Spillgbury of Cedar City, Utah was sometime between be-tween Sunday night and Tuesday morning, shot in the forehead by a bullet discharged from a 2520 high power rifle held far enough away from the young man to leave a clean cut bullet wound in the middle of his forehead with no sign of power marks Or burns. The bullet took a downward course and. lodged at the base of the skull at the buck of the l:ead. It is not definately known who held the gun when the bullet was discharged into Mario's head. The body of Mario was found Tuesday Tues-day morning fully clothed lying on the bed in the sheep wagon located on 'the Spillsbury farm about 13 miles west of Ceder City. The body lay in a position so that when Dr. L. Leonard raised the head up it faced directly toward the door of the wagon A rifle was found l4ng ipe9iae the body of Mario against his left leg with the muizzle tucked under the left artm pit. From the position of the body and magazines on the bed it could reasonably reason-ably be believed that Mario was .reading .read-ing at the time the bullet struck him, his head toeing slightly leaning forward for-ward penmitti' the bullet to taice the course it did. In reading Mario's diary in which he made a practice of daily recording little events in his life one couid easily tell that he had many fond 'hopes of the future. Among some of these was the hoipe of getting married to Miss Nellie Tebbs aa soon a school was out. He said there was .so much for him to do in this life Right up to the last he had so many things in mind wiilch tie contemplated con-templated that 'he would do, and among these things was the hope to go on a mission for his church. . Mario always kept the Bible together to-gether with some of the church works to read at his camp. The w-r'ter of this article sincerely 'believes that some one held the giuu, from which the deadly ibullet was discharged some place near the door of the sheep wagon. A beautiful service was held this Friday afternoon at 3 oclock in the tabernacle which was filled to capacity capac-ity with friends of the Spillsbury family. A beautiful a.rray of flowers were banked high around the casket. Among the mourners (besides the Immediate family were Dr. and Mrs. L. Leonard and Mrs. Seymour Dorius Mr. and Mis. Samuel Chrtstensen and Irvin Spillsbury of Salt Lake City, Edgar Mc Arthur of Provo, Burke Mc Arthur of Mt. Pleasant, Mrs. William Tebbs and daughter, Nellie Tebbs of Panguitch. Mario was engaged to 'be married this spring to Miss Nellie Tebbs, a student of the Utah Agriculture College. |