Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-19 | Page 16 | Police Accused; Probe is Begun

POLICE ACCUSED: PROBEJS BEGUN Salt Laker Makes Charges Following Auto Crash Sunday Night. That one woman was seriously injured, while four other persons narrowly escaped es-caped fatal hurts Sunday night, when an automobile said to have been driven by a.u auto iliicf crashed into a bujrfry belonging be-longing to A. Li. Price of S3 5 Colorado avenue, was learned yesterday when heads of the police department conducted a quiet investigation into chars ea of ot-ficial ot-ficial negliyencu made by Mr. Price. The latter asserts that officers called for at tiie time oi the accident, which occurred in front of I'M West North Temple Tem-ple .street, failed lo respond lo the .summons .sum-mons dud that the alleged thief succeeded" in making his escape in the machine as a result. ".Yly wife." said Mr. Price last nipht, " touc tlier with her m oilier, " is. Kliza-heth Kliza-heth Tall, Su vcara old, who lives ai 71 Xorth Sixth Vvost .street, and my sons, Kodne-. 4 years old; Marvin, .LI, and Honghion, ) 1, were driving east on North Temple street about a o'clock when the car, which carried no lights, earne up in their rear. Without warning the machine ma-chine struck the buggy with such force that the occupants were pitched to the street, my wife failing beneath the vheeis of the automobile, which passed over her. .She is confined to her bed witu a serious Injury to her back. Her aged mother .suffered severe bruises and lacerations lacer-ations about ;he head and for a time was prostrated by the shock. The boys all escaped with a few bruises. "Poilowing the smashup the driver stopped, but refused to ive his name, and wiien the boys attempted to get the number of his t ar he threatened them, lie also used obscene language toward tiie women and declined to assist tnem in any wa v. My wife's brother, A. J. Tall, Nor til Sixth West street, hannened on the hvene and, after securing the car number, telephoned for the police. He waited until midnight, but no officers came in answer to tiie call. Meanwhile the driver of the car drove off. The injured in-jured women were taken to their homes." The poll' e say the automobile is the proper I y of J . I. lvarr of j;:fM South ihghth Kat street, and that Mr. Karr alleges t.iat his machine was stolen Sunday Sun-day afternoon, aUhouKh he failed to report re-port the fact to them until 7 o'e'ook Monday Mon-day night, or almost twenty-four hour after the accident. Mr. Karr could not be reached lJ-"t nit;ht, but Mrs. Karr, when asked about the matter, s.ild: "My husband Is out of t"c city to-lay. It is "true that our automobile was in an accident Hundav night, but it was driven by a thief, not by Mr. karr. The machine ma-chine bad been stolen ear.ier in the day, although we did not report it stolen until the following uiv. The po'ice recovered the .-ar, hidden Li Mme wt-ds on the OU'.Sklrtf Of the e(y."