Show L d A cco 1 d CUI jr t I 1 ow M lair 01 WM I 1 1 5 if W ith ehg gun un VICTIM OF FAUL emil son of mr and mrs ben brinkerhoff shot himself to death accidentally the town of bicknell was stunned monday when news spread that emil brinkerhoff 15 year old son of mr and mrs ben brinkerhoff had been fatally shot an inquest ais disclosed closed that death was caused byan by an accident emil a student in the eighth grade had pre gone home from school at noor noon for his lunch and later had taken his gyn gun and gone to the barn bani to 3 shoot hoot pigeons evidently in crawling over the hay or other obstacles in the barn bam tie he had unwittingly pulled the trigger and the full charge of the gun entered his heart no one ere heard the report of the gun and emil was not mis missed ed because his people thought though the he had gone to school about an hour later elmer taylor passed he saw protruding from the lam barn a hand and foot the hand covered with blood thinking the boy had probably hurt himself on a pitchfork and fainted elmer went to the rescue but a pile of hay had fallen or on top of the body he hurried to the house to get et mrs brinkerhoff mr brinkerhoff hofF being away at the time to assist in removing the hay and not until the task was complete was the awful aa ful tragedy revealed surviving are the parents four sisters sis and one brother |