Williams news., 1921-05-13
MILLER
 ACCIDENTALLY KILLED

dent Ot w 1ll1amS TOT L10 peoe
 twenty-one years, died Mon
 day evening as the result of the
 accidental discharge of a .22 1 rifle. He was at his home al 1 the time of the accident. He
 was in good health and good
 spirits, and is thought t0 have i accidentally discharged the
 gun while adjusting the sights.
 On Monday afternoon MT.
 Miller came down town and go-
 ing to the barber's got a hair
 cut and shave, and appeared to
 be feeling well and in high spirits. Upon his return home near the middle of the after
 noon, he stopped in the kitchen to speak to Mrs. Miller who
 was at work in that room. He
 called attention to his new hair
 cut asking Mrs. Miller how she
 liked it. She replied that it looked fine little think
 ing that these were the last
 words she would ever speak to
 her husband, on earth.
 MT. Miller went on out into the back yard and Mrs. Miller went on with her work. A neighbor woman called and stayed for a time while Mrs. Miller continued ironing. Up on completing the ironing of a pair of overa1ls for Mr. Miller she stepped out to hang these in the garage. When she opened the garage door. there lay her husband, mortally shot and unconscious but still
 breathing.
 Ascertaining MT. Miller's condition and that he still lived Mrs. Miller rushed out to get help. She reached the hos pltal before finding anyone to aid her. Here Mrs. M click phoned for the doctor, who hurried to MT. Miller's side. pr. Melick rushed MT. Miller to the hospital that he might be oper- .ated upon at once. A shot from .22 caliber rifle had en- tered the forehead above the right eye and had traveled to-. ward the left side of the head so that it would have come out above the left ear if it had had sufficient force.
 The operation consisted ln openlng the wound to relieve the pressure on the brain by re- movlng blood clotS. This was done and seemed to give relief, but Mir. Miller passed away only about half an hour after ward, without having regained 
 A coroner's jury was called by Justice McDougall, and to them, Mrs. Miller, prostrated with shock and grief, told what she knew. of Mir. Miller's last acts and words. There was but one shot in the gun and it probable that MT. Miller did not know of the pres ence of that cartridge in the gun. The gun was little .22 that Mir. Miller had given Mrs. Miller and with which she had learned to shoot. This gun had not been shooting as well as formerly and Mrs. Miller had remarked upon this point a number of times, on former oc- casions. MT. Miller had once that he would some | time readjust the sights. It | probable that he had | been looking down the sights with the muzzle of the gun to- ward his right eye when the | fatal discharge occurred. The coroner's jury rendered a yer dict of accidental death.
 Arrangements were made to hold the funeral Friday alter noon at 80, in order to allow ,ime for all of MT. Miller's children to reach Williams. MT. Miller was a Mason and this order took charge of the burial Interment was made in the local cemetery. The services were held from he home, theRev. I. w. Lowe of the Methodist Church of iciating. A quartette sang he ever beautiful "Ye Banks and Braes of Bonnie Doon," Crossing the Bar," and loft n the Silly Night"
 In respect to the memory of MT. Miller, the mill and the tores closed during the funeral