Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-07-31 | Page 27 | Coroner's Jury Given Time to Reach Verdict

CORONER'S JURY GIVEN TIME TO REACH VERDICT Special to The Tribune. OGDEN. July 30 That the high ton-1 slon wires of the Utah Light & Railway company, which caused tho death of George A, Crort, a cable splicer for the Rocky Mountain Boll Telephone company, were only fourteen Inches above the telephone tele-phone wires on the combination polo; that the cross.arm upon which Croft was working at tho time he was killed was loose and Insecurely fastened to the pole, and that the lino superintendent of th light company had told him that the wires which came In contact with Croft's body wera to carry a secondary rather than" a primary current to light the Weber We-ber academy, and that for this reason Croft was not a'waro of his danger while working on tho pole, was the testimony of Harry B. Hill, plant foreman of the telephono company, the second day of the coroner's inquest.- Mr. Hill had sent Croft to work on the pole and a number of days' work had been done on the same polo before the accident which caused his death. Several other witnesses were called during the day, but the testimony of Mr. Hill was the most Important, the story of the others relating Inrgely to tho position po-sition of the body whdn It was taken from the wires nnd the manner In which Croft was working at the time of tho accident. Both the telephone company and the llgiit company arts represented by attorneys, attor-neys, who are attempting to show that the responsibility for the electrician's death was duo to the negligence, of tho other. The jury was allowed until next week to reach a. verdict-