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The White Cloud Eagle
Thursday Morning, November 22, 1951

        SAM SCHOTTS KILLED
          IN HUNTING ACCIDENT
       
     SAM SCHOTTS, 46, a life-long re-
   sident of Lincoln township was
   killed Saturday, Nov. 17, in a hunt-
   ing accident.
      SAM was hunting with his boy
   CARL, 16, and STANLEY BURR, a neigh-
   bor, near Stiles swamp just south
   of the Lake-Newaygo county line
   on M-37.  He was alone when he
   was hit by a bullet from the gun
   of DARRELL AIKEN, 17, of Walker-
   ville, and died shortly.  AIKEN
   said he sho at a noise in the brush.
      AIKEN and the party with him
   took the body to the sheriff's
   office at Baldwin where he report-
   ed the accident to the Lake Coun-
   ty Sheriff B. E. BROMLEY.
      Meanwhile, CARL ans STANLEY
   BURR, knew nothing of the accident
   until late in the day when Con-
   servation officers notified them of
   the death.
      State police transferred Mr.
   AIKEN to White Cloud where he
   waived examination in Justice
   WELLS BRANCH'S court on a charge
   of involuntary manslaughter.  He
   was bound over to the December
   term of Circuit court.  Bond was
   set at $1000.
      Funeral services for SAM
   SCHOTTS were held Tuesday at 2
   p.m. at the Crandell & Ensing
   funeral chapel at Fremont with
   Rev. VERNON PAULSON officiating.
   Burial was in Lincoln cemetery.
      SAM was a lifelong resident of
   Lincoln township.  He was born
   May 11, 1905.  He was married to
   RUTH ELMAN 24 years ago.  They
   made their home on the old
   SCHOTTS homesead, formerly own-
   ed by his brother, FRED SCHOTTS.
      He was employed by Gerber Pro-
   ducts company for the past eight
   years.  He enjoyed the hobbies of
   hunting and fishing.  He previously
   lost his left arm in a gun mishap.
      It was SAM, who two years ago,
   helped Sheriff HART and State Police
   capture HARRY STEVENS.
   HARRY had been hunted 12 hours
   after attempting to kill MARTHA
   ZACHARIAS of White Cloud by shoot-
   ing her.  STEVENS appeared at the
   SCHOTTS home, asking for food.
   SAM phoned Sheriff HART and his
   wife stalled in preparing a meal.
   STEVENS surrendered after a gun
   battle on the SCHOTTS farm.
      Surviving are his wife, RUTH,
   six sons and daughter, DALE of
   Muskegon, KENNETH in Korea,
   ROBERT of Lousiana and CARL,
   ARTHUR, JERRY and KATHLEEN, all at
   home; three sisters, Mrs. WALTER
   GRAVES of White Cloud, Mrs.
   CLAUDE HENRY of Fremont and Mrs.
   GRAHAM of Grant.
   
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