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Show EUREKA BOY SEOTINBACK Xorval Gris, 22, injured by I-ullci. Wound Sunday Even:i", in Auto. Xorval Grid's, 2o son of Mrs. I'alph Sylves.er of Eureka, is at the Aird hospital suffering from a bad bullet wound in (he l ack. The voting man with fmir other Eureka boys were traveling in a small automobile to Pruvo. They stopped at I lie world Drug store in Spanish Fork for a few minutes and 1 hen continued on their way. About a block and a half north of t he drug store, Kols Ferguson, niuht watchman of Spanish Fork, was standing on the railroad tracks of the Orem line. Clarence SLapley, IS, who was driving the car, claims that he did not bear Ferguson call to the boys and the other boys also claim that they heard no orders to stop. '"Without warning us at all, Ferguson Fer-guson fired a shot at us," said Stap-ley. Stap-ley. "One of the hoys in the car told me that no one was hurt and to go on. When the second shot was fired, Griggs who was sitting in the back seat on the right side of the car, told me to stop since he had been hit. "Just as I stopped less than 30 feet from where we were when the first shot was fired, the night watchman fired another shot at us, but it went wild. "When Ferguson learned that Griggs had been shot, he told us to rush him to a doctor and that all charges against us would be drop- -ra-" i7- Joseph Hughes of Spanish Fork bttfldaged the injured young man after Vfcich he was taken to the Aird hospita-4rs..Provo. An operation op-eration was performed !a.te Sunday night to remove the bulled which had lodged itself about half aii loch to the right of the end of the spina)' column. The others boys were questioned at the sheriff's office by County Attorney At-torney Martin M. Larson and Sheriff Sher-iff J. D. Boyd. All of them claim that they were not exceeding the speed limit. Besides Griggs and Stapley the other members of the auto party were James Stanton, 22; Lawrence Harper, 21 ; Bernard Fennell, 20; all of Eureka. |