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Show BOY KILLED HER WHEELSJIF MD1 Mangled Form of Little Victim Vic-tim Found by Members of Funeral Cortege. LYING BY ROADSIDE Andros Savas, Charged With Running Over Child, Declares Innocence. Andros Savas, who operates an automobile auto-mobile truck between Bingham and Salt Lake to carry freight and express, is in the county jail on suspicion of being responsible for the death of David Barker, six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Barker, who live on Redwood road, a mile and a half south of Fourteenth South street. The killing of young Barker has incensed in-censed the entire neighborhood near TaylorsviHe, as it was one of the most brutal affairs that has come to the attention at-tention of the sheriff's office for some time. The driver of the machine which hit and instantly killed the child drove on, leaving the mangled and broken form on the roadside. Body Found by Roadside. The boy 's body was discovered by George Jenkins of Midvale, assistant to a Murray undertaker. Jenkins was driving along the road immediately in advance of the funeral cortege of Henry Dimond of TaylorsviHe. Approaching a point almost opposite the cemetery, Jenkins saw the body lying at the roadside, road-side, beside the wreck of the little tricycle tri-cycle the boy had been riding. He stopped the funeral procession and the mourners got out to examine the body. Horror was added" to their grief, when they beheld tho mangled form. Harry W. Matthews went to a nearby near-by telephone and notified the sheriff's office in Salt Lake, while other mourners mourn-ers started a search for the boy's home. It was quickly learned that he was the son of Charles D. Barker, whose home was only 200 to 300 yards further on. The boy's father, who was in TaylorsviHe, Taylors-viHe, was notified, and then the funeral procession proceeded to the cemetery. It was nearly noon yesterday when Mr. Barker took his little bov in a buggy with him and drove to TaylorsviHe. Taylors-viHe. There were some slight repairs to be made on the boy's tricycle, which was taken to the blacksmith shop. After Af-ter the tricycle was repaired the youngster young-ster started home on it. Truck Tracks Seen, According to Mr. Matthews and others, who examined the tracks made by the machine and the tricycle, the boy had been riding along at the side of the road. Tne size of the tracks made by the machine, he says, indicate that it was a heavy truck, such as the one operated by Savas. As the truck tracks approached the spot where the boy was killed they veered from the center of the road, directly toward the bov's tracks, witnesses declare. There were several men in the vicinity vicin-ity who declared last night that Savas 's truck was the only machine which drove along the road toward the north at the time of the accident. According Accord-ing to the time the boy was said to have left TaylorsviHe and the time the body was discovered, he could not have been dead more- than half an hour. In that time, neighbors insist, the Savas truck was the only machine that passed that way. Savas Enters Denial. "I shudder to think what would have happened to the man that killed that boy had we found him when we came along there with the funeral . procession, proces-sion, " said Mr. Matthows last night. " Automobilists have been in the habit of using that road for a speedway until it has become intolerably dangerous. j The residents along there have been incensed over the matter, and this ter- 1 rible accident has aggravated that feeling. feel-ing. ' ' Savas was arrested on West Second South street in this city a few hours later by deputies from the sheriff's office. of-fice. Ho denied all knowledge of the killing. Sheriff Corless took personal charge of the investigation. The boy 'b body was taken to the Banks undertaking rooms in Murray. Funeral services for the unfortunate child will be held next Tuesday at 1 oclock in the TaylorsviHe ward meeting meet-ing house. Interment will be in the TaylorsviHe cemetery, just opposite the point where the boy was killed. The body may be viewed' at the Barker residence resi-dence between 12 and 12:30 o'clock the day of the funeral. |