| Show I Lives O Loi- Loi Jo in Fi Fires Fis AA s W Wedding Guest G ests Perish Perish RAY X-RAY fAilS TO SHOW TRACE Of HUttEl WOUND Excessive Speed Blamed for fox Crash on Bingham Bing Bing- ham Highway HEAD IS EXAMINED Skull Fractured Neck Broken in Wreck That excessive speed was responsible responsible sible for the automobile crash which brought death to United States Marshal Marsh 1 J. J Ray ay Ward on the tho Bingham Bingham Bingham Bing- Bing ham highway way Sunday morning was the theory held by investigators of the fatal accident Monday I Suspicions entertained by the sheriffs sheriff's office Monday l morning that a buU bullet t might have caused the death of Marshal Ward were pi pi pied red led groundless by an X-ray X examination examina examina- tion of his head A wound near the left ear which inv investigators thought might have been made by a bullet was a skull fracture caused by bI a severe bump according to Dr James Tames P P. P Kerby who made the X-ray X examination There is nothing in the nature of or wound the to suggest that it was not the re result of a bump Dr Kerby declared Funeral services will vIli be held Thursday afternoon at at 2 o'clock Inthe inthe in inthe the Immanuel Baptist church here Interment will be in Salt Lake Marshal Ward Yard prominently mentioned mentioned men men- as a possible candidate for governor on the Republican ticket was found pinned behind the wheel of t his lila wrecked machine near the I Hogan dairy four fourteen een miles mUes from Bingham about Sunday ji morning The machine had left Jef t the pavement on a curve and after atter weaving and skidding in the tile loose gravel for a distance of nearly feet had crashed into a telegraph pole with an Imp Impetus that overturn overturned overturned over over- turn turned d the machine and shattered the pole at the base Marshal Ward Yard apparently was hurled against the top of the sedan fracturing his skull skullS breaking his bis neck and nd back and driving splinters of glass into his head It is believed that the accident oc occurred occurred occurred oc- oc about 2 o'clock in itt the mornIng mornand morning morn morn- ing and that Ward Vard was instantly killed The body was discovered by C. C and Mrs H. H L. L Lew of the Bingham Mercantile company who were returning from Salt Lake Both the sheriffs sheriff's office and the United States marshals marshal's of- of ice flee ice reported that their Continued on page 7 X-RAY X FAILS TO SHOW TRACE OF BULLET WOUND Cor inu d from page 1 J dons indicated Ward Yard had been dead from several minutes to a hour half when the body was WM discovered He was last se seen it in Bingham shortly after 1 o'clock Sunday Sundo morning morning morn morn- ing according to Chief Deputy Roy RoyL L L. Larson RETURNING TO S. S L L. L When Marshal Ward ard took his death plunge off the highway he was was' returning to Salt Lake from Bingham where he had been selVing serving ing federal court subpoenas Ex Examination of the accident scene scene by Sheriff Clifford Patten Deputies Roy Hoy L L. Larson Karl Earl William William Wil ViI liam Totes otes J J. J S S. S Larson and the chief of the local United States se secret secret secret se- se cret service bureau Henry C Cr Taggart Taggart Tag Tag- gart showed that Mr 11 Ward Vard had made a desperate effort to regain control of the machine after aCter it left the pavement It had plowed through the loose gravel for a hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred feet or more swerved back t to the highway and and then had taken a straight course over a depression and crashed he headon don into the telegraph telegraph telegraph tele tele- graph pole After the wrecked ed machine was as found by Christensen and Mrs Lew the body was removed to the ranch home of C C. C E E. Hogan and Dr R R. W Born was called Later it was taken to the Midvale morgue where a complete examination was made The remains arc are now at the Eber W. W Ricketts mortuary Fu Fu- Fu- Fu arrangements have not yet jet et been announced Mr 11 Ward Yard a native of ot Republic Kan came to Utah in 1914 to enter the service of the Union Pacific railroad Shortly a afterward he went into the real estate business in Ogden Ogden Ogden Og- Og den which he continued until 1927 when he became active in the or organization organization or- or of battery B of the One OneHundred OneHundred OneHundred Hundred and fifth ort fifth artillery He lie served throughout the war first as battery commander in the Utah regiment and later as regimental adjutant Reentering the real estate business in 19 1919 9 he heas Was as elected city commissioner of ot Ogden and in 19 1921 was appointed United States marshal marshal mar mar- for the Utah district by bv President dent HardIn Harding on recommendation of Senator ne Reed d Smoot He lie was reappointed in 1926 and had two more 3 years rears ears to serve at the time of his hig death lie He was one of the founders of ot the Herman Dal Baker el post No 9 o of the American legion and in 1925 1926 he lie was elected grande chef de grae Brae of oi voi- ture La des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux He also was a x member member member mem mem- ber United lodge No Nd a. a 18 Free and Accepted Masons of ot Ogden th the Orden Ogden Ogden Og Or- Og- Og den chapter No 0 2 2 no Royal Rojal al Arch Masons Ma Ma- Masons ra- ra sons the Salt Lake Elks lodge and the Kiwanis club He has been a resident of Salt SaIt Lake for six years year cars Marshal l Ray nay Ward ard gained national national national na na- notice and the tion of high government officials for his work in suppressing the Piute Tin an revolt Instigated and led by bv n San Juan county four tour years jears ago go ud ude hi his widow Mrs Jr I h Henrietta Gebhardt Ward Yard a son John Richard Yard Ward and three daughters Jean Alice and Ruth all of Salt Lake Lale his mother Mrs firs Irs Francis Ward Yard Smith of ot Lincoln Neb a brother Orie Orbe Ward of ot Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago four sisters Mrs Van OrtwIck Ortwick Ort- Ort wIck and Mrs Irs Henry Willis of Republic Republic Republic Re Re- public Kan Ian Mrs 1 Grace Glace Willis of Huguenot Kan and firs Mis Irs Thomas Charles of Alamogordo N N. M M. and andI two half brothers Earl Smith of I Tokio Japan and Leonard Smith of Republic Kan Nan |
