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Show person's life can be saved by stop. ping and rendering- assistance," stated Judge Ellertson, after pass-ing pass-ing sentence. The offense charged is a mis-demeanor, mis-demeanor, carrying a maximum penalty of six months. Sundquist began serving hia sentence immediately. YOUTH JAILED IN HIT, RUN CAR FATALITY Pleasant Grove Youth Admits Ad-mits Being Driver Of Death Car Niels Sundquist, 18, of Pleasant Grove, was sentenced sen-tenced to serve four months in the county jail by Judge Don R. Ellertson this morning morn-ing when he pleaded guilty to being the driver of the car which killed 11-year old Ray Rowley of Orem, Sunday night in in a hit-and-run accident. He was charged with failing to stop at the scene of an accident. The youth, an employee at the Pleasant Grove Canning company in Orem, was arrested late yesterday yester-day afternoon at the plant by Deputy Sheriffs Walter Durrant and J. P. Gourley, following a country-wide search that had been pushed relentlessly from the moment of the accident by state patrolmen and sheriff's officers According to the officers, Sundquist Sund-quist said: "I don't know where the boy was on the highway. I didn't see him until after I hit him. I put on my brakes and nearly turned around, then turned turn-ed back and drove north. I thought T knew what 1 hit. It seemed like I hit him and he flew ui, and that was all there was to it. I did not see him after 1 hit him." The accident occurred when the Rowley boy was riding his bicycle along the state highway in Orem, Sunday night. The boy was dragged drag-ged and thrown sixty feet by the impact, officers say. The accident acci-dent happened about 9:30 p. m. Apparently becoming frightened frighten-ed following the accident, Sundquist Sund-quist drove off to his home in Pleasant Grove, where he said he went to bed. He did not tell anyone any-one about the accident. The car, a light pickup truck, Sundquist was driving at the time of the accident, was detected yesterday yes-terday afternoon by Deputy Sheriffs Sher-iffs Durrant and Gourley while they were checking suspected cars in Pleasant Grove. Deputy Gourley Gour-ley noticed a car pass with a dent in the front fender. They overtook over-took the driver, Charles Sundquist. Sund-quist. the youth's father. Marks of blue paint, the color of the boy's bicycle, were evident on the bumper, as well as recent dents on the fender. Mr. Sundquist stated that his son had been driving the car Sunday, Sun-day, but that he had not had a chance to ask him where the dent had occurred. The Sundquist youth told officers offi-cers that he had taken a friend, Ellis Devereaux, to Provo. It was on his way home that the accident occurred. 1 "Hit and run drivers are very prevalent and hard to apprehend. We wish to discourage that sort of action. Oftentimes the |