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Show TRAFFIC DEATH SUSPECT FREED A highway crash on the curve this side of Hogan's dairy took the lives of two persons and seriously ser-iously injured two others October Octo-ber 18, 1939. Investigating officers offi-cers said the car was being driven driv-en not less than 80 miles an hour. Doubt of jurors that Thome Coggle, 31, of 1448 Browning avenue, Salt Lake City, was driver driv-er of the car, resulted in acquit-al acquit-al of Mr. Coggle, charged specifically speci-fically with the death of Dallas F. Brown Jr. Miss Alice Seely of Salt Lake City was a second victim vic-tim of the smash-up. Miss Jennie Madsen, formerly a nurse at the Bingham hospital, testified that Richard Bergan, another occupant of the car, was driving when the party left her at the hospital and started on a return trip to Salt Lake City. Mr. Bergan declared Coggle was driver, testimony which was substantiated sub-stantiated by Miss Beth Bur-bidge, Bur-bidge, another passenger. The trial was in Third district court and was conducted before Judge Peter C. Evans. With less than an hour's deliberation, de-liberation, the jury reached their verdict, not guilty. Mr. Coggle received a fractured fractur-ed leg, punctured bladder, multiple mul-tiple cuts and bruises in the accident. |