It was a warm summer night on August 26th, 1928; warm enough for tempers to be hot. A Bingham miner had murdered a fellow worker and gone into hiding. Deputy Sheriff Oscar Fullmer started a search for the killer. He drove to the top of Bingham Canyon to interview witnesses and had possibly gained knowledge of the whereabouts of the suspect. Deputy Fullmer then started down the
mountainside. At 0245 hours that Sunday morning, Fullmer lost
control of his vehicle and the car plunged two hundred feet down the canyon,
rolling four times. Deputy Fullmer, who was a family man and talented musician, died instantly. The rough and wild mining town of Bingham had claimed yet another man who wore the badge of a Salt Lake County Deputy Sheriff.
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