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Show CORONER'S JURY IS SIFTING AUTO TRAGEDY Witnesses Tell of Accident Which Killed Miss Pearl Hudson, From the lips of half a score of eyewitnesses, eye-witnesses, a coroner's jury heard yesterday yester-day the story of how Miss Pearl Hudson came to her death last Monday afternoon under the wheels of an automobile owned by Mayor "YV. Mont Ferry, and driven by Miss Gertrude Thomas, while William Ferry, son of the mayor, sat beside her. ieuner young erry nor iviiss inomas testified, Assistant County Attorney Paul H. Ray explaining that it was not the intention to call either as a witness. Later, J. L. Thomas, brother of Miss Thomas, expressed the desire of the family that Miss Thomas be heard as soon as she recovers from the collapse subsequent to the fatality. Accordingly, a continuance was taken in the investigation, investi-gation, after all other witnesses had been examined, until Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, when it is expected that Miss Thomas will give IVer version of the affair. Mrs. S. H. Young, the third occupant of the car at the time it ran down Miss Hudson at the intersection of Second South and Thirteenth East streets, testified tes-tified that she had been unaware of any impending trouble until she felt the car jerk, and looked up from reading a book to see that it was already within a foot of Miss Hudson- She said" that the shock came immediately thereafter, and that Miss Thomas collapsed, her feet slipping off the clutch and brake as young Ferry reached for the emergency brake. Professor E. II. -Beckstrand of the University Uni-versity of Utah told of seeing Miss Hudson Hud-son go down under the automobile. lie said that young Ferry told htm that, as they drew -up alongside the street car, he had told Miss Thomas she need not stop, that if she slowed up the street car would be started again before they had passed it. , ' Dean William H. Leary told of seeing the automobile catching up with the street car from the north, as he was .alighting from the rear step of the street I car, himself watchful for his safety. He testified that when the automobile passed the street car it was nearer the curb than the car, that he had anticipated an accident when he saw that the automobile auto-mobile was not stopping, as he had ex-1 ex-1 pected it would. He said that the young woman driving the car was looking eastward toward the university, as if listening to someone in the back seat, as the automobile overtook the street car, and that when she turned and looked forward, an expression of consternation crossed her features. A moment later, he testified, the automobile automo-bile had gone over Miss Hudson, the automobile being stopped about half way across Second South street. Dean Leary testified that when Mr.1 Ferry called at his home after the accident, acci-dent, while trying to establish the identity iden-tity of Miss Hudson, the young man had explained that when he reached for the emergency brake Miss 1 homas. in her excitement and at the moment of collapse, col-lapse, had put her foot on the accelerator, with the result that the car kept going. Parley I.. Williams said lie alighted from the rear pf the street car, when it stopped at the second South street crossing. cross-ing. He told of seeing the tragedy, and of asking the occupants of the car how "the terrible accident had happened." Young Kerry bad answered, he testified, that "the girl" was driving the car and couldn't stop it. Miss Thomas spoke up, Mr. Williams testified, and said: "Yes, I was driving." - ! Dr. W. R. Tyndall testified that Miss Hudson died from, direct injury to her 1 ... Unn. T3t.L' milnrii.!ln nf Ihc street car, and James J. McUeod, conductor, con-ductor, told of having seen the woman struck. Captain W. S. Knight of the citv fire department told of seeing the tragedy and of lifting-Miss Hudson, from the" pavement into the Ferry automobile aftr it had stopped. Twenty miles an hour was the estimate of the car's speed as it passed the street car. given by most of the witnesses. They disagreed as to the distance it had gone after striking the girl, some saying thirty-five, thirty-five, some 100 feet. All testified that they had not heard a warning horn or bell from the automobile. : |