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Show AUTO ACCiOB'iT z - 'Clifford P. Evans Testifies He Did Not See Mrs. Jacob Myers. i A : An inquest was lie.Tun yesterday after-.V after-.V noon V.i e fore City .luugo 1 lenry C. Fund, ; acting coroner, into the death Saturday ; night of Mrs. Jacob Myers of Hi! Fourth i Fast street, after she was run down by i an automobile driven by Clifford P. Evans 't of 2ol Fifth Fast street, at the intersec- , . l ion of First South and Fourth Fast streets. Flovcn witnesses, including Mr. Evans, were examined, at the conclusion of which . "a recess until this morning at 10 o'clock . was taken. The jury viewed the body of ' M rs. Myers in the meantime. On the witness stand, Mr. Evans admitted ad-mitted that his car struck Mrs. Myers and tiiat he later took her in it to the E. D. S. - hospital, tie testified that ho did not sec I ,. her standing beside the car track until , the instant that his machine struck her. All witnesses agreed that the automobile . was driven at a speed of about lifieen or ' twenty miles an hour when it struck Mrs. Myers. Nephi Hansen, motorman of ' a westbound street car oil First South ".street. testified that the automobile V.' passed the street car he was driving at about the midd'e of the block, between j-Fourth and Fifth East streets. He said .'that he could see Mrs. Myers standing near the north rail of the north car track, V as though waiting for tiie street car. Mr. ' Poll testified that lie saw the woman standing beside the track only an Instant 'before the automobile in which he and '' Sul livan were riding with Evans struck her. Motorman Hansen and his conductor. I. H. Hughes, were agreed that the body ' of the woman lay at a spot about, thi: tv-, tv-, six feet southeast of the. front of the street car when they stopped it at I he , intersection, or about that distance from Adhere the woman was standing when she : .was struck. They also said tha t t he automobile was about twenty-one feet be- yond the body. They stepped the dis-' dis-' lance, the witnesses explained, upon their ' next trip, a pool of blood marking the -V place from which the body was picked ' ' up and put into the Evans car. :" Richard P. Broughton. who was on the " street car, testified that, from a position r near the motorman, he had seen the auto- mobile pass the car and that he could "- see Mrs. Myers as it bore down upon her. ' 'Joseph A. Thoresen and George E. Bemis "'testified that they were in an ati tomo-' tomo-' 'bile, driving down Fourth East street, and : that they sa w the Evans car hit M rs. ' M vers as they neared the intersection. They drove away, they testified, as they -' saw" others preparing to place the injured ".woman in the automobile that struck her. |