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Show Jury Convicts Roy Bruno for Involuntary Man Slaughter "Guilay" as charged In the complaint was the verdict of the eight jurors to whom was given the responsibility of weighing the evidence in the LeRoy Bruno case. Sentence will be pronounced pro-nounced by Judge Wooley Saturday at 2 o'clock. The case occupied from Monday morning morn-ing until Thursday night at 9 o'clock when the Jury brought in the verdict. Bruno was charged with Involuntary manslaughter as the result of the accidental acci-dental killing of James A. Golden, an Ephriam lad of eleven years in an automobile bicycle collision on the state highway on the evening of the 7th of June, a mile and a half south of Ephriam. Eph-riam. When the jury had been sworn the , first witness called was Sheriff James H. Sanderson. He testified that he . was at the scene of the accident within twenty minutes after Its occurance. He described the black "rub mark" , two and a half feet from the east edge of the cement highway made by the bicycle as it was pushed along before the car driven by the defendant, Bruno. He described the condition of Bruno as being dumpish, slow of speech, and that he was not himself like he normally nor-mally would be. In his opinion the defendant de-fendant was drunk. He took Bruno back to Mantl and placed him in jail. Ernell Keith Mortenson, one of the four bicycle boys was the second witness. wit-ness. He told about the four boys returning re-turning from Chrystal Springs on bicycles bi-cycles where they had been to qualify in swimming for their scout work. He stated that he and Jack Sudweeks were about forty yards ahead of Golden and Floyd Brienholt and that Golden called to them, "Look out. Keith, here comes a car." These were, perhaps, the last words ever uttered by Golden. Mortenson stated that he was not a- ware of the accident until he heard a crash and turning saw a cloud of dust. He jumped from his bicycle and ran back to the injured boy lying on the east side of the pavement and he and the Brienholt boy felt of his heart to see if he were dead, that the heart was beating faintly. They decided to ride for help when P. C. Madsen and family came along in an automobile Immediately Imme-diately followed by a Mr. Carter and wife from Ephriam. Keith said he ran up to the Bruno car and told him that he had killed a boy back there but received no reply. j The Mortenson story was corrober-' ated by Floyd Brienholt, the third wit- ; ness, and one of the quadrant of rid- i ers. He said he and Golden were rid-ing rid-ing together on the east side of the pavement with the latter about two and a half feet to the west of him, that he knew they all understood the car was coming and thought that It would pass them as the others had done. This car rushed by so fast he did not know that Golden was hit until he sa' him lying off to the side of the road six or eight feet from the east edge of the pavement. The boys called to P. C. Madson as he was passing for help and also to Mr. Carter. Jack Sudweeks the fourth of the boys told a similar story. P. C. Madson was next called. ' He testified coming upon the scene, that he was not aware of the accident until he observed the anxious lopk on the boy's faces and that Mr. Carter arrived about the same time as he did. When they saw the situation, Mr. Carter was sent to Ephraim for the doctor and the injured boy's father, ne to stay at the scene of the accident. The Bruno car was parked 300 yards away. He went (Continued on Inside page.) Jury Convicts Roy Bruno for Man Slaughter (Cunt Iniicd from flint page.) over mid asked Bruno If "lie hud lilt Hint boy?" and tlio answer was "no, I wouldn't lilt anybody." The yoniiu; ,'lrl who hud been riding with Bruno siild, "lie did lilt Unit boy," according to the testimony. Mr. Mud.son In describing de-scribing the condition of the defendant said, "Well, I will say that Tie was drunk." He testified that when Mr. Golden arrived he pulled Mr. Bruno out of the car by the coat collar nnd the latter .slumped to the ground. Mr Golden told him to stand up, that he would not hit nny man when he was (town. IIo helped to hold Mr. Golden from attacking Bruno and that he knew that he had had plenty of opportunity oppor-tunity to strike him If ho wanted to. The father of the dead boy followed is a witness. Ho reported Mr. Carter Miming for lilm and his rushing to the scene. He said he could see his boy was unconscious. He then ran to the Bruno car and pulled him out of the ar, that Bruno slumped to the ground and refused to stand up, that lie could smell the odor of vanilla extract from the breath of Bruno, that he did not strike him at any time. It was then Dr.Nlelson arrived and he went to the side of his boy. The doctor pronounced pronounc-ed the boy dead. Golden returned to the Bruno car and again pulled the defendant de-fendant out of his cur by his legs Bruno again slumped to the ground Donald Hansen held Golden away from Bruno. Calvin Mlckelson testified that he sold the defendant on eight ounce bottle bot-tle of vanilla extract about noon ol hat day. Clinton Bralthwaite testified testi-fied that he hnd sold tho defendant an Ight ounce bottle of vanilla late In .he afternoon of the same day. Dr. Nielson technically described the several cuts and bruises sustained by the boy of which he had several, either of whieh would have been fatal. It was his opinion that death was almost instantaneous. E. P. Chri.stenson who was laboring in the fields near by was attracted bv the crash and came to the scene; his testimony corroborated that of the other witnesses and he gave It as his opinion that Bruno was drunk. Dr. Scars examined the defendant when he was brought to toantl and gave It as his opinion that he was Intoxicated. Glendon Reld testified that he passed the defendant before the accident and that he. Bruno was traveling at a high rate of speed and was "whipping the road." Glen went off onto the shoulder of the road fearing a collision. Wilford Brienholt brought the smashed bicycle to the court house where It was presented to the Jury as evidence. The defendant stated that he came to Manti to witness the Clark trial then In progress. He admitted buying the two bottles of extract but stoutly denied drinking enough of It to become be-come Intoxicated, that three shared the first bottle and four the second. He said he saw the boys and honked twice, one boy In the rear and to the west turned to the left as if he Intended the car to pass between them, then suddenly sud-denly he turned back to the right, too late to avoid an accident. He said he knew that he had hi, something but did not think the impact of sufficient force to do much injury. He said he did not remember any of the conversation conversa-tion with the first witness at his car. He said that when Mr. Golden came to the car the first time he hit him on the temple knocking him out so that he did not remember anything thereafter, that the blow dazed him and made him drousy. At all times when the subject was under discussion he emphatically em-phatically denied that he was drunk. Some of the witnesses who testified for the defendant, stated that In their opinion Mr. Bruno was drunk or under the influence of intoxicating liquor. Manti Messenger. |