Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-04-11 | Page 2 | Larson Hears Witnesses in Child's Death

lARSON HEARS IN S 'S DEATH Preliminary Hearing of Milford Man on Manslaughter Manslaughter Man Man- slaughter Charge Opens Before Justice of Peace The preliminary p pf the case wherein Harry A. A Larson Is la charged with involuntary manslaughter manslaughter man man- slaughter man slaughter in connection with th the tha death of Lola LoIa Player 7 who was killed by an an automobile on M March 30 on Redwood road b between tween Sixty Sixty- eighth South and d Sixty-ninth Sixty South streets opened this morning in Justice o of ot the Peace George E E. Eo- Eo Parkins Parkin's co court rt Larson Laxson is alleged to have been the driver of the c car cr r that caused the little girls girl's death The Tho first witness s to be examined was Dr W. W Rothwell or of Murray who arrived at the scene of If the ac accident accident accident ac- ac shortly after it occurred He Ha testified that he examined the girland girl girland girland and found that she was dead probably probably probably proba proba- bly twenty minutes before tore he ha reached her A A. broken neck he ha gave a as the immediate cause of death though upon a a. later and anif more thorough examination he ha said he found that her left lett leg leg- had been broken and was nearly severed and that she likely had a fractured skull besides having a badly lacerated lacerated lac lac- lac- lac erat d face Miss Alice Dahlberg of Bennion ward said that she was coming home from school and was a short distance from the Redwood road on oi Sixty-eighth Sixty South st street east when a a loud attra attracted ted her attention She hurried back and saw the Player girl lying on th tim th road She declared that she tried to get the number of the car that had apparently hit the child hUd but Iut that it was s too too fa far p past s for or her het to do so She described it as going very fast When she first s saw saw w ft rt she judged It to be traveling mor mors than thirty miles an au hour v lLE Dewsnup said that he was traveling In his car south on tire the Redwood road and ana that about abou t two minutes before he came upon ix Last Lor ti Player prostrate in the road he ha passed a a. powerful red car travelIng traveling traveling travel- travel Ing north at an excessive rate of speed probably forty miles an hour When he met the girl he hO got out e cJ his car for a few seconds and th then n reentered it to pursue the machine he had met a few moments before and which as far as he knew w was the only automobile that had pass d him but he ho was unable to catch Ill I'll lt he declared