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Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-07-16 | Page 12 | Young Lad Meets Death by Drowning

Type issue
Date 1908-07-16
Paper Salt Lake Tribune
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Young Lad Meets Death by Drowning
Type article
Date 1908-07-16
Paper Salt Lake Tribune
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 12
OCR Text rIOUl m MEETS Tom Matthews Sinks in Reservoir Reser-voir East of Mt. Olivet Cemetery. , ' SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUND THE CASE Victim's Brother Says Boy Was Pushed Into Water by J - Young Negro. j I Thomas Matthews, tho 9-year-old son ,of. Thomas 15. Matthews of 124 Leaker court, met death by drowning under somewhat some-what mysterious nnd suspicious cirouui-! cirouui-! stances In tho esercolr cast of Mount Olivet cemetery about I o'clock Wednes day afternoon. ft According to the story of the dead l.nVs- younger hi oilier, i-5lao Matthews, 6 years old: two negro lads, who livo In theOi nelshborhooil of Seventh Host and Klr.t ' South stronts, near tho Matthews home, enticed you lie Matthews away from home. ) against tho orders of his parents, ld him to the reservoir and pushed him Into the water. Young Matthews e-juld not swim and drowned In a fc-w minutes. j Tho police are muklng an p.vstlp.itinn and there may he an Inuuost. The negro ' lads deny the charge "lia: they In any vvav are responsible for tho boy: drowning. drown-ing. Chief PUT. however, has not Mod the 1 boys to appear In his office at 10 o'clock this morning- and will put them through 'Itjid examination to learn whether thev were to blame for the drowning. my ure Lloyd Davis of 701 East First f South street, 11 years old. and Carl Scott of T57 East First South street. 12 I years old. Young Matthews, his younqor brother. ,' and another wlute boy an. I the two negro k , lads went to the rcservor. about noon. According to Blade Mut'hnv.-s Ills broth. r was afraid to go Into the water and did -not Intend to enter the reservoir, but the ne-iro lads, one of whom hears a bid reputation with two or threj neighboring neighbor-ing families, ordered hlrr. to remove his Hothes and come In. and threatened to 1 throw li Iid Into tho water with his clothes ; on If he did not take them off r nJ eniei : of his own accord. Intimidated, the youth took off his ; ilothes. but still did not enter the 7ool. ' through fonr of the wale'1. Then the . elder of tho negro boys shoved hint Into the reservoir backwards, the junior Matthews Mat-thews boy says. I Efforts to Resuscitate Fail, L'nable to swim. young Matthews floundered from the edge of Uie pool, . where the water Is only three or four feef deep, to the center, in which the water .stands at a depth of seven or eight feet, and sank. Terrified, the brother and the negroes ran to spread the alan.i. John McDonald, a construction worker on the Emigration Canyon railway, which passes near the pool, heard their cries, and, running to the reservoir, rescued tho lnd. Me found his body submerged In an upright position in the center of the pool, ami. after laying it upon the bank, notl-ilcd notl-ilcd the police. Chief Pitt and Dr. R IS. Steele dashed to the scene In the chief's buggy, while Detectives Janney and Chase and Patrolman Hots and .futile C. B. Diehl closely followed In the patrol wagon. Effort." to resuscitate the lad proved futile. fu-tile. Ills body then was taicen home. The negro lads say that they advised Matthews not to go In bath".v.r, hut "hut while they were not w.uHilr.g him iii lemovi d his clothes a, id slipped In. They also deny that they cnll-'ed him away from home to tho reservoir. The drowned lad's father Is a miner and mill worker, ytit recently has h.en employed as a temnsler by .btmos K - -nedy. a contractor. The lad's body was laken to Joseph l. Taylors undertaK-in; parlors.
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