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Show A FATAL FALL. The Sudilen TakliiB OrT of an lufant Near Mill Creek. The attention of Coroner Harris was called to a case last evening at the corner cor-ner of Fourth South and Second East streets, where a diminutive form lay stretched upon a blanket. Around it hovered a well-nigh distracted mother ami father, who alono could recite the legend of death. The body was that of Joseph Simmons, aged five months. The parents told a straightforward story to the jury in which it was made to appear that the infant came to its death by a fall from the wagon to the ground, the blow causing fatal results and producing a orifice from which tho blood aud brains were profusely flowing. According to tho parental account they were coming to this city from Provo, and had traveled trav-eled as far as Mill creek when tho mother fell back to the body of tho wagon and resting herself and tho lucerne with which it was loaded began to uurso the infaut. She fell asleep shortly alter and when aroused by Mr. Simmons the nursling was missing. Horrified at this disclosure tho siro started back and by the side of tho road found the infant apparently asleep. It had sunk in eternal slumber. The dead child was restored to tho arms of its mother and they drove on to the city. At the conclusion of the evidence the jury rendered a verdict that death on-sued on-sued from accidental causes. It was taken to Provo for interment in the family burial ground. |