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Show AUTO SOMERSAULTS; i Mflrj HAS CLOSE CALL 1 Sheriff's Baby Is Tossed H Thirty Feet, but Escapes H Special to-. The' Tribune. jR BLACKFOOT, Idaho. May 2. Charles 38 W. Berryman of tills city had a nar- Wi row escape .from. dea.lh this evanlng. ! BR when an automobile belonging to Her- mm man Stuffleboam. chairman of he board Sj of county comnilgslonors, turned its sec- ;KB ond complete somersault. jHH Berryman is tonight In tha hands of MKj surgeons, suffering from a dislocated hip. . LBH Internal Injuries not yet determined and BM many bruises. The four-year-old babv HI of Sherirf Dekay was tossed thirty feet UB) and landed uninjured, as were the other HJ passengers and driver. WM This afternoon six autos filled with B members of the Auto club or Blackfoot. H with shovels and picks, started north H towards Idaho Falls to repair bad spots BH In the roads. All available county pris- S oners were also pressed into service. ni The accident occurred upon the return SB Commissioner Stuffleboam, driving his wji own handsome car, was going at a. Mj speed of thirty-five miles, when he lilt aft an unknown soft spot in the road and Sij In an instant ull four wheels were spin- Mj ning in the air with Mr. Berryman jH pinned underneath. HI Commissioner Stuff lebeam's first ex- Bflj perlence was a high dive off a ferry HJ near Helse Hot Springs late last fall. IS when his car turned bottom up in the II Snake river, giving the driver and his 13 wife a drenching and close call. n |