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Show DRIVER OF TRUCK IS FREED BY OFFICERS Andrew Savas Thought Not to Have Been Responsible for Death of Boy. Andrew Savas, held under suspicion of having boon responsible for the death of little David Barker on the Redwood road Saturday, was released from the county jail on a writ of habeas corpus yesterday noon. Sheriff John S. Corless made no attempt to resist the application for the writ and consented to Its issuance bv Judge M. L. Ritchie. Savas drives a two-ton truck between Salt Lake and Bingham and was known to have driven past the spot where the boy's body was found. Other than this circumstance, the authorities found no evidence to show that he had run down the little fellow. An autopsy on the boy's body revealed a broken neck, but none of the lacera-r tions and abrasions that would be inevitable in-evitable had a great truck struck and run over him. Neither was the little tricycle the boy was ridin? demolished. The sheriff also learned yesterday that the Barker boy was subject to spinal trouble and that frequently in school his head would loll to one side or the other, as though he could not control it. The theory advanced on this bit of information informa-tion is that the boy was seized with this trouble and fell from his tricycle, breaking his neck. Melvin Deverill, aped 10 years, who lives on the Redwood road near the scene of the accident-, told the sheriff Sunday that he saw young Barker passing along on his wheel and he saw him fall just before the truest came along. He did not see the truck Strike him and paid no attention at-tention to the incident. |