OBIT: Loman Charles WILT, 1945, of interest in Somerset County, PA File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Meyersdale Library. Transcribed and proofread by: Richard Boyer. Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ ________________________________________________ LOMAN CHARLES WILT Murder Charge Is Result of Hunting Tragedy Herman Fazenbaker Held For Fatal Shooting of Loman Charles Wilt GRANTSVILLE, Md., Oct. 31 - Loman Charles Wilt, 42, a farmer who lived near Jennings died in the Memorial Hospital, Wednesday, Oct. 24, from a gunshot wound inflicted on him, Oct. 17, while hunting in the woods near Bittinger. Wilt and Allen Stanton had been hunting together that day and were walking home on a back road after dark, when they heard a shot fired. They spotted Herman Ray Fazenbaker in the woods with a carbide light on his hat, and turned a flashlight on him. He immediately fired a shot which hit Wilt in the abdomen, groin and right arm. Stanton took Wilt to the Memorial Hospital where he was operated on shortly after being admitted. He lived one week after being shot. Fazenbaker has been held in the county jail, without bail, since the shooting, and since Wilt's death has been charged with murder. He has admitted firing the fatal shot, and also admitted that he had been deer hunting unlawfully and had fired at a deer just before a flash light was turned on him. That scared him, he said, and in his excitement he fired at the light, without knowing who turned it on him, but thought possible he was shooting at a game warden. The victim of the shooting was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilt. Surviving are his wife and the following children: Mrs. Mary E. Fazenbaker, Addison, Pa.; Mrs. Annabel Fazenbaker, Jennings; Alverta, Betty, Jane, Charles, Scherbine, Fay, and Calvin Wilt, at home. One sister, Mrs. Walter Wilburn, Jennings; four half-sisters, Mrs. Tom Bittinger, Mrs. Leslie Fazenbaker, Mrs. Jane Mason, and Mrs. Sam Bittinger, and three half-brothers, Nelson Wilt, James Metz and George Burkholder, also survive. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon in the Bittinger Lutheran Church, with Rev. Charles Sisk, pastor of the Grantsville Methodist Church, officiating. Interment in Church Cemetery. A murder charge has been issued by State's Attorney Neil C. Fraley, pending a hearing this week. Meyersdale Republican, November 1, 1945