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Show BDY III BY 10T0 DIESJTHOSP!TAL Fatal Accident to Bicycle Rider Occurs on North Second West Street, AUTOISTS NOT ELAMED Body Is Not Identified for Several Hours After Death Comes. Leonard Me Hale, 1 ? years of ae, while riding a bicycle, colli'led with an automobile on .Second West, near Fourth North street, at S o'clock last evening aud was yo severely injured that he died a few minutes later at St. Maik hospital, where he was taken immediately after the accident. The body of the boy was not identified identi-fied until after midnight, and only then after much work on the part of the police department. Police, officers obtained ob-tained the number of the boy's bicycle and then called dealers until they found the one who had sold the machine. Learning that the name of the purchaser pur-chaser was Mclfale, J. B. McIIale, residing re-siding at 1529 West Fourth Xorth street, was visited and it was learned that Leonard Mellule, his son, was missing. Mr. and Mrs. Metlale then hurried to the hospital and identified the body as that of their son. The. boy, in addition to his parents, is survived .by a twin rother and eight other brothers and sisters. The father is a switchman and is in the employ of the Oregon Short Line. No Blame Attached. The automobile with which the boy collided was driven by Albert Bolton, 23 years of age, son of Frederick Bolton,' Bol-ton,' a well-known market gardener of Bountiful. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Bolton Bol-ton and their daughter also were in the machine at the time. The Boltons were returning from Springvillc, whither they had been to visit relatives. On the return trip their car had passed through the business part of the city and was going north on Second West street. Just after Fourth North street had been passetl, they said, the boy on his wheel approached ap-proached from the south and on the west side of the street. He was traveling travel-ing faster than the auto, which, according accord-ing to Albert. Bolton, was not moving faster than fifteen miles an hour. It appears from the investigation made by the police that the .boy attempted at-tempted to cross the street in front of the autoists. He turned almost squarely square-ly across the street. His front wheel struck a front lamp of the automobile and he was thrown over the fender, striking on the pavement, his neck being be-ing broken and his skull fractured by the impact. Mr. Bolton at once picked up the injured in-jured youth and hastened on to the St. Mark's hospital, only three blocks to the north. Death Came Quickly. House physicians and nurses were at hand, but the boy died within a few minutes without regaining consciousness. conscious-ness. Mr. Bolton notified the police station without delay and Chief of Police J. Parley White, Chief of Detectives De-tectives Joseph "C. Sharp and Sergeant W. H. Pierce responded and made an investigation. Members 0f the Bolton party were frank and unreserved in their statements state-ments concerning the accident and the investigating officers are confident that no blame attaches to Albert Bolton, who was driving the car. Both he and his father expressed a willingness to return to the city at any time the officers of-ficers might desire. The news of the boy's tragic end soon spread and within the next three hours scores of persons called at the hospital and viewed the body, but it was not until midnight that his identity iden-tity was established by the father and mother. |
