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Show YOUTH THROWS SELF ON DEADLY WIRES Guy It. Frampton, 20 years old, was electrocuted yesterday afternoon when he climbed a thirty-five-foot telephone pole, In plain view of his father, V. H. Frampton of pleasant Grove; his brother, Franklin Frampton, and his brother-in-law, J. L. .Ash, and stretched his body across a 44,000-volt wire connecting Olm-stead Olm-stead Narrows and Salt Lake. The young: man had bern a sufferer of Spanish Influenza In March, and the disease was thought to have deranged his mind. When requested by his father to brintr him a drink of water from an adjoining; Held, he walked to the fence, and, oa.HllriK a glance over his shoulder, dashed frr be pole, carrying the heavily heav-ily charged wire, and climbed to the top. The victim';-; mental condition had ben cart-h'iV.y watched by his relative, nnd yesterday, while working In the field with hlfc father and brothers, was twice caught nttnmV'tlnt,' to escape. His father had planned to brim? him to Ealt Lake today to-day for treatment. |