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Show "BucF Gunderson Kills Former Wife and Then Ki!!s Self Tragedy at Price Followi Divorce Granted for Victim Three Days Age. According to telephone communications commun-ications and the Salt Lake Trib une Carlos "Bud" Gunderson, Jr., 2iS, of Price, shot and killed hi.s former wife, Leora Peacock, ?J. daughter of Deputy Sheriff Warren t-eaccck, shortly before 4:30 p. m. Friday in the yard cf the Peacock hLine in Price, and then walking in the house, killed himself with a bullet through the heart. The tragedy came only three days after a divorce and restoration restora-tion of her maiden name hai been granted to Miss Peacock. County Attorney Walter C. Gea.se has called an inquest and a coroner's jury was impaneled to view the bodies Friday evening. A number of witnesses have beii asked to appear at the inquest Saturday at 10 a. m. before Judge J. W. Hammond. Immediately after the shooting, a neighbor. Mi s. rtosella Andrea -e:n, ne.iiied Deputy Sheriff A. E. Gibson, and a few minutes la(n-Dsputies la(n-Dsputies L. A. PIkc and Walter Bennett went to the Peacock home, The first knowledge that Gunderson Gun-derson had killed himself was gained when Deputy Pike walked into the front room of the horse r.nd saw him lying on the floor. A sister of the dead womsn, Arlene Peacock, junior high schoo. student, was in the house when Gunderson came. She told investigators in-vestigators that ne ordered ner out of the room. Her sister ran outside, she repoira. Then tlvre shots were fired. Arlene ran over to Mrs. Andreasen and told her that "Bud was shooting Leora." Robert Lee, a mail carrier, who was in the vicinity, and Mrs. Bean and her daughter Ruth, neighbors:, carried the dead woman to the Bean home and she was taken from there to' the Wallace mortuary. mortu-ary. She was dead when thev reached her. The body of Gm-erson Gm-erson "was removed to the J. E. Fh-nn funeral parlors. Tom Draper, 12, who with ;-. jvoup cf other youths was. playing in the street and saw the killing, said he and the othei boys sav Miss Peacock run out the fnn.t door, with her former husband right behind her, and that she cried, "Oh, don't Bud!" She ran into an adjoining yard, the boy declared, and Gundersuii grabbed her and it looked as if he sh-.t her in the wrist. Gu'.i-erson Gu'.i-erson then pulled her around the fence into the Peacock yard aga;.i and, holding her around the waist, shot her three times in the region rf the heart. . Tne boys will be asked to appear at the hearing Se tin day morning. Deputy Pike announced five shots had been fired trom the gun, and it appeared that thf shell in the first chamber had eeen hit but failed to discharge. Leora Peacock was born in Dragon, in Uintah county, December Decem-ber 11, 1903. Her mother died a little over two years ago. Surviving Sur-viving are her father four brothers broth-ers and sisters, Lenar, Lloyd, Ar-line Ar-line and Maurine. She received her education in the Price schools and attended the Carbon high. Her father was city marshi.?l for five years and is now serving his third consecutive term as chief deputy county sheriff. Gunderson was born in Mt. Pieasant, July 28, 1902, the son of Carlos and' Capitola GroosebeiK Gunderson. He was associated with his father in the sheep business. busi-ness. Surviving are his parents l:.:1 the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. John Clifford, Denver. Co.crado; Mrs. Claude Engberg, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Charles At-wocd. At-wocd. Salt Lake City; Mrs. Art uir Dalpiaz, Helper; Louise ana K.eit.i Gunderson, both of price. His father is a prominent shee.-man shee.-man of eastern Utah and was f '.-ir.erly mayor of Price. Th.- couple were married in Price, March 28. 1926.. In her divorce ' ' suit Miss Peacock alleged that on seveial occasions her husband had beaten her. Members of the coroner's jurv are the Rev. H. M. Merkel, John C. I-orester and Henry Olson. |