Show BASSETT DEATH PROBE IS HELD i Members l of Auto Party With ith Fatal Ending Tell Tellof of Accident I 1 TWO STORIES TALLY Victim In of Crash Turned on onto to Tracks ly y Mistake l Is Test Testimony J Given t Special S to Th The I Ogden O Oct 24 For 4 For more than an nn hour t today da A G G. Finch an nn employee of or I Ithe the Salt lit L I company and andI I LA L. II 11 Hadley Radle 31 Lincoln avenue a Sa Salt t Lake wore questioned by County Count Attorney Attorney At At- torney torne Joseph E. E 1 an and others Jear re regarding ye- ye which ended ended ended end end- garding ar ln the automobile trip ed with th the death th last Thurs Thursday even evening Ven- Ven I en ing n ng of or l Don on Jon Carlos Caros Bassett of or Salt Lake Finch and Hartley Hallie were members o of I tho the automobile party part Besides t s Mr Ir Bas Bas- sctt sett the others other w were re John Livingston I and George Seaman employees of ot the tho Cottonwood Metal Metals Mining company Finch and dle appeared voluntarily I before Count County Attorney Evans but tho the other oilier two were said s to be at atthe the mine mint 1 Questions were asked d by the county count I attorney nn and b by C C. H It and id P W. W Yo Jai ls Jal ls representing the Union Pacific company n 4 A stenographic record of or the 1 proceedings rot llIn s W was wan R taken b by I Miss Eva E l Urb Erh rh district court reporter Each Hach was vas questioned separately and I the stories told did not vary an except on minor details Their testimony In substance substance sub sub- stance was as as follows s SUb SUb-I Tell of ur Hadl and FInch F met Mr 11 at a saloon In Salt Sail Lake Laki and later inthe In Inthe I Ithe the aft afternoon thic i Party part art were er joined b by I ln Livingston ton and anil Seaman who were In Introduced Introduced introduced In- In b bv by Finch The Tho five drove droe to the Hotel Utah where here drinks were I bought at the bar bal The party left loft for Ogden O den about 4 41 was in the front scat seat with t Bassett Hassett The other three occupied the I and Finch rear reni seat Reat of ot the oar ear Hadley Hallie say that t thieve there was W only ony one occasion when na Bassett lett to lose control of or orthe the he machine anti and that was nf near ar the convict Con roa road camp where the toe car skidded lc I ti ci ed edThe The party part ha hind had 1 been about three hours on the thc toad load roa 1 when tho the crossing crossIng cross cross- crO 8 Ing was VaS Hadley lt says sars Bassett Bas- Bas sett seemingly mistook the railway right ht of ot va for the hi highway for or he turned his car ear north along tho the railway rail rall- wa way tracks and the car had moved d several sev sev- eral ral yards before he realised ed his mis nils- take Then ho lie stopped the car ear and en endeavored n n- n le to back l out nod and regain the theroa roa road sounded S lit Just this time the crossing boll bell beS' beS began to ring anti and the headlight o of the tho passenger train coming from O Ogden den was 3 seen en At the same ame time tho those e in the thc rear lear seat seit cat shouted that another train was bearing bearing- down bearing down n upon t them from rom the rear on oil the second track Well Yell have to tn hurr hurry ahead Bassett aid ald and started the car forward again driving rf ln about 00 feet Ceet cros crossing ln a Cattle ringing ln The guard in the meantime I hells bells the headlights ahead and behind And the roar of or the tile two trains threw all Into a n panic and they legan to cramble from the curtain au au- r Finch says safI toP they all got ot out and be began lie lie- I gan ari running up the track to stop the approaching train Hadley S says f when le lc left lett the car Bassett was Just leaving leav lea In ing Ig the machine There was plenty of or time to get et safely lr away aWa and ho thought h had d escaped Both trains were ivere topped Stopped suddenly after the automobile was fit struck ruck find the train crew came to inquire as to the tho trouble Four lion A Away Ao way Hadley and Finch Finci say sw the they shouted for or Bassett and concluded that he had gotten otten safely Va n away The four our rode to Ogden upon the work r train arriving A here about o O'ClOCK clock ann and departing at 1030 o'clock for Salt SaIl Lake They thought that Bassett was alive until tho they thoy read of or his death the next day daj in Salt Snit Lake papers r I Thes' Thes were unable to explain why the they did Il not see Bassetts Bassett's hod body on tho the east st embankment ment of the tho tracks within with with- in a few feet of ot the path they took In returning to the scene where the tr train ln crew re gathered Hadley says a s 's he suffered suffered suf suf- sur-I sur a a. terrible nervous OUS shock when ho he learned the truth the next da day P. P W. W Jarvis claim agent gave ave the Information that after atter the four our had been brou brought t to Ogden trainmen re returned returned returned re- re turned to the scene Icene on a n freight engine and these theBe trainmen found body It was his opinion he said that Bassett became confused contused b by reason of or orthe the two approaching trains and was struck b by one while attempting to dodge the other j Tho charges charges- of or trespass tre issued against Bassetts Bassett's companions will not nol be pressed County Count Attorney Evans as as- as lert TONS TOS OF O. FISH FROM RESERVOIR Halley Batie Ida Oct 2 24 Thousands Thousands o of bass porch and carp have been taken from the Deer Flat reservoir b by tho the I state tate game warden and distributed in InI inthe I the Ole streams at Bruneau Gooding and and Lakeport Of or the tons of oC carp taken from the tho reservoir reser they I were taken away b by farmers an and oth- oth b by sl who will salt them themI I 10 down Wn |