Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-20 | Page 13 | Crash Driver is Convicted

CRASH DRIVER S IS IS CONVICTED Although he said his automobile could not go fast Leonard Wilkes 41 Duluth uluth avenue was convicted convict convict- ed cd Friday of at reckless driving I 1 was going 18 miles an hour he testified in police court answerIng answerIng answering answer- answer Ing the charge arising from a crash at Eighth West and Fourth North streets November 27 How do you know the prosecution prosecution prosecution prose prose- cution asked Because my car will wm not go over 25 miles an hour at any time and andI I was driving much slower Mr Wilkes answered Tells of Wreck reck His head bandaged Harmon Meinhart 11 lH North Ninth West street took the stand and told old of ot suffering severe scalp laceration in the wreck His mother Mrs Foster E. E Meinhart Meinhart Mein- Mein hart lart driver of the car with Which the he Wilkes machine collided also testified Both machines crashed and overturned records revealed Judge C. C F. F Dalby will sentence Mr Wilkes December 28 William Varney 47 Ogden pleaded plead plead- ed not guilty to reckless driving He Ho will be tried January 3 Driver Arrested Varney was arrested by warrant Thursday as an aftermath of ot an accident December 2 on Beck street in which he and another motorist Paul C C. Lyon B street were in In- Raymond McNeil 23 Bountiful Friday stood acquitted of ot reckless driving following a a. jury trial Th Thursday McNeil was arrested December 8 after an automobile driven by him overturned near 2200 Beck street while passing a car piloted by Jack Huckvale 25 Fourth East t street I Miss Elaine Sparks 48 38 Lucy avenue was thrown 40 feet and suffered Buttered severe lacerations Glenn Wiseman Bountiful also a passenger passenger pas passenger pas pas- In the McNeil machine was injured slightly i Denies Guilt Ed Almstedt 32 S Seventh East street Friday pleaded not guilty to drunken drunk n driving Ho He will be tried January 3 His car police said ran into the rear of ot a sedan driven by Mrs Ray Cornia 34 1209 Harrison avenue avenue avenue av av- early Thursday in front of ot East Fourth South street The gasoline tank on the Cornia car was was pierced and a fire tire destroyed the machine and partly damaged the Almstedt sedan Earl Moore 43 will plead Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day to a l similar charge His car police reported crashed into a 3 machine machino ma- ma chino chine par parked ed In front of ot West Vest Second South street street Wednesday Sterling Blair 22 Park City arrested arrested ar ax- rested In the 1200 block of ot South State street Thursday on a charge chargo of of ot speeding forfeited 5 5 James E. E Adams 23 arrested at South Main street on a n similar charge Thursday forfeited 7 Clarence Clar Clar- enco ence Walton pleaded guilty to speeding and was yas fined 8 Trials Dials Scheduled Trials of ot Charles J J. Drobney and O. O P. P Pearce charged with drunken driving were set for January 8 George Rhodes accused of ot reckless driving will be tried December 27 Three men arrested in the emergency emer- emer gency jency hospital early Friday when the they hey allegedly resisted an officer pleaded beaded not guilty gum and will be tried Saturday The Tho men James Steed 22 1180 Princeton avenue Wa Wayne ne Parkinson Parkin Parkin- son 20 13 G street and Lowell Jenkins 21 1180 Princeton avenue were being treated for tor minor In Injuries Injuries In- In juries suffered in an accident near M Murray rray when according to police their boisterous conduct led to the arrests