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Show INJURED MAN TELLS STORY OF ACCIDENT Transient Found Unconscious on Roadside Near Pleasant Grove Tuesday Night Crumpled on the side of the state highway near Pleasant Grove during dur-ing the heavy rain storm Tuesday night, Itobert John Parker, 33, of Los Angeles, was picked up hy Marshal Mar-shal Kay Winters of Pleasant Grove. Parker was exhausted from a long walk and injuries he said he received in an automobile accident in .Spanish Fork canyon Tuesday afternoon. He was taken to the office of-fice of Dr. C. B. Linobaugh at Pleasant Grove, who dressed his wounds and notified Sheriff J. D. Boyd. The sheriff brought Parker to Provo where he was placed in tne Aird hospital. Examination hy County Physician J. Karl Beck revealed re-vealed the fact that Parker had suffered a fractured left rib, a cut on the hand, a badly bruised leg and was otherwise cut and bruised. Awakened from a deep sleep from which he had not aroused since he was placed in the hospital last evening, the patient this morning told the sheriff a somewhat incoherent inco-herent story of his life, pathetic, if true, but at best not likely." "I wish I was dead," he murmured. mur-mured. "I have nothing to live for since wife and three children, my father and my mother were all burned to death on the 28th of February, Feb-ruary, this year, in a fire which destroyed de-stroyed the St. Nicholas hotel at Los Angeles. They were never seen after that fire and I wandered away the next day. I bummed my way to Kansas City where I worked a short time sellipg flower baskets and was on my way to Salt Lake to meet a very good friend of mine, Mr. Chapman, Chap-man, 234 ' South Second East. "While coming out of Spanish Fork canyon a traveling salesman picked me up, and we had not gone far when his car skidded and turned completely over an embankment. He did not get hurt. I decided I would rather wulk after that. I never learned his name." Parker declares that his father's name was Benjamin J. Pnrker, that he had plenty of money to keep all of them in the hotel. He admitted, however, that his father had worked in the oil fields for wages from which he was able to keep the family fam-ily in- the hotel. Dr. Beck expressed the belief that the patient was suffering for want of sleep and was thoroughly chilled when picked up, but that his injuries were not serious and that he will be on his way within with-in a day or two. |