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Show WHISKY-LADEN AUTO MEETSDISASTEfl Turns Turtle When Man and Woman Occupants Try to Escape. Aji automobile carrying a man, a woman and a load of whisky and pursued by two deputy sheriffs on motorcycles came to disaster in effort yesterday morning to dash past the station bouse on the road near Beck's Hot springs. Leaving the pavement it was overturned when the wheels struck the gravel, the accident occurring about half a mile this side of the station house. Deputies J. A. Turnbow and lSd Lar-sen, Lar-sen, the motorcyclists, placed the man and the woman under arrest and sent them to St. Mark's hospital. There the man was given surgical attention for cuts on the head and then removed to the -county jail, 'where the gave the name of Joseph Soule. His real name is said to be Sollis and he is said to be a' public chauffeur. The woman, suffering from severe bruises, remained at the hospital under the name of Ruth Jorgensen of the Stewart hotel. Gather Intoxicants. From the wreckage occasioned by the accident, the deputies gathered forty-seven forty-seven unbroken quart and two pint bottles bot-tles of whisky. Many bottles were broken. Sollis is said to have been under un-der the influence of liquor when driving the car and the woman is said also to have shown evidence of drinking. The car, a high power one, was badly demolished. de-molished. It was towed to the county jail. The two had driven through from Evans ton yesterday, it is understood. They are said to have asked for Harry Johnson and "Buddy" Ryan when recovering recov-ering from the shock of their experience. Mae Donnelly, proprietor of the Brunswick Bruns-wick hotel at 159Mi South Main street, and of a hotel in Evanston, where she lives, was before Frank 'B. Scott yesterday on a charge of bringing liquor into Salt Lake. She pleaded not guilty at first and later changed her plea to guilty when the liquor found in the automobile was claimed by her friend, Mrs. Fred Baxter, who gave her true name as Esther Roux and entered a plea of guilty. In court, Mae Donnelly gave the name of Mrs. Jane Jones, admitting that it was not her true name. Harry Davis, another an-other passenger in the car, pleaded not guilty to having any Interest In the two suit cases of liquor found in the car and admitted his right name to be Charles Gorham. Occupants Arrested. Discovery of the contraband in the car was made by deputy sheriffs when the automobile au-tomobile came to a standstill in Parley's canyon from a breakdown. The occupants occu-pants were placed under arrest and brought to Salt Iake late Tuesday night being arraigned before Justice Scott early ear-ly yesterday morning and released upon $500 bail each, their cases being continued until 10 o'clock this morning, that of Esther Roux for sentence and of Mae Donnelly and Gorham for hearing. C. H. McWhinney, a Salt Lake chauffeur, chauf-feur, who was sent up to bring in the disabled car, was arrested yesterday on a charge of intoxication and was not sufficiently suf-ficiently recovered to be arraigned during the day. He was released on bond last evening. When first arraigned yesterdav, Mae Donnelly pleaded guilty, then consulted with the other woman and informed the court that she had no interest in the liquor found in the suit cases, saying: "It belonged to her," pointing to the other woman. This the other woman admitted, admit-ted, explaining that she had concealed it in the car with the purpose of bringing it to some friends in Salt Lake. Mae Donnelly was thereupon permitted to change her plea to not guilty. |
