The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., November 13, 1969, page 1
"ROCKY" TALBERT HUNT VICTIM IN MONTANA
PARADISE -- A 43-year-old Missoula man, Earl R. Talbert
of 4316 Barbara Lane, was killed Thursday afternoon when he was shot in the
head by a 30-06 bullet fired from a rifle used by his son, Richard, 15, sheriff's
officers reported.
Young Talbert apparently mistook his father for a deer
in the brush, Sanders County Sheriff Dick Cole said. The accident occurred
about 12 miles south of Paradise along the Paradise-St. Regis cutoff.
The father was wearing khaki-colored trousers and the
two were hunting on a hillside with the younger Talbert above. He told Sheriff
Cole he heard some noise in the brush, saw the brown trousers and thought
they were the rear end of the deer.
A Northern Pacific local freight crew found the distraught
youth and called for assistance from law enforcement officers.
Sheriff's officers from Mineral County took the boy to
Plains were he was met by Sheriff Cole. They then took him to Superior and
arranged to have him taken to Missoula for treatment of shock. The body of
the victim was taken to the Shrider Funeral Home at Plains and was to be
taken later to the Squire-Simmons -Carr Mortuary in Missoula.
The accident occurred about 3:30 p.m. last Thursday.
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