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Show BOY FATALLY HURT UNDER AUTO WHEELS Touring Car Driven by Fourteen-year-old Lad Runs Over Youngster. A larg-e touring- car driven by George Geogtiegran, 14 years of age, ran over Allen Abeling-, 10 years of agre, at First West and South Temple street at 5:20 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The boy suffered suf-fered a fracture of the base of the skull, a facial fracture and possible internal injuries. in-juries. Ho was taken to the emergency hospital where Drs. Charles F. Pinker-ton Pinker-ton and First Lieutenant John J. Galli-gran, Galli-gran, medical corps, United States army, were called In. After a consultation they decided that the boy was beyond Burgi-cal Burgi-cal aid and pronounced his death aj onlj- a matter of hours. The Abeline boy, who in the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Abeling, 37 East North Temple street, was riding on an American Express wagon. He Jumped off the wagron, according: to witnesses, directly in front of the Geogheg-an automobile. auto-mobile. The machine passed over hia body. The driver of the car is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Geoghegan, 200 North State street. In the machine with htm were his sister. Miss Gertrude Geogheeran, and Mr. and Mrs. K. A. Smith of Beck's Hot Springs. Miss Geoghegan was in the froirt seat with her brother and had turned to spenk to the Smiths and none of them saw the accident. Aa the ambulance was rushing to the hospital with the injured boy it narrowly missed crashing Into an express wagon which crossed its' path. The ambulance was run Into the curb by Chauffeur Joseph Jo-seph Thomas to avoid a collision. Mrs. Geoghegan and other members of the family remained at the emergency hospital until a late hour last night, doing do-ing everything that they could for the Injured In-jured boy and his parents. Mrs. Geoghegan Geoghe-gan a few years iigo lost a -boy who was suffocated by smoke when, their residence resi-dence burned. She declared that she would sell her car and never own another. an-other. ' Chief of Police J. Parley White said that while the affair was a pure accident he would take the Geoghegan boy to the 1 county attorney's office today and have j the juvenile court take charge of the case. The law provides that an owner of a car allowing a person under 16 years of age to drive it is contributing to the ; delinquency of a minor. Gene Thurell, 7 years of age, who lives at 734 South Seventh East street, i Jumped from a moving auto at Ninth South and Lake street yesterday after-: after-: noon. He fell and narrowly missed being run over by an auto that was following. At the emergency hospital it was found that he . had sustained a serious injury about the head, although the skull was not fractured. After three houm' attention. atten-tion. he was sent home. |