Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-01-14 | Page 1 | Police Appeal for Clues to Hit-Run Case

Auto Victim w p 4 2 vr v- v r r k r J. J L I EDW EDWARD AnD IAN KAUFFMAN I A tire tiro mark the on only clue POLICE APPEAL FOR CLUES TO RUN HIT CASE Motorist Drives Off II I I Leaving Leaving- Victim Dying Dying- Up a blind alley in their search for the run hit-run driver responsible for the death of Edward Kauffman 61 police Tuesday appealed to the public public public pub pub- lic to disclose any information that might aid in the hunt Two meager clues a clues a inch 24 tire mark and the story of a year old boy were boy were all police had in the killIng killing killing kill kill- ing of the Denver Rio Grande Western Vestern clerk at p. p m. m Monday at Fifth West Vest and North Temple I streets The boy Robert Goodfellow of West Vest North Temple Templo street told of seeing a tan car driven by a man strike down Mr Kauffman Thrown 31 feet feeL Mr Kauffman Kautman who lived at West Vest First North street suffered suf sif- fractures of both legs a fractured fractured fractured frac frac- I left arm and a fractured skull He died three hours later Chief of Police William Villiam L. L Payne said about the only hope of capturing capturing capturing ing the slayer was that the car that hit Mr Kauffman might have been damaged or marked by the tho Impact and that some garage or repair shop could aid the police pollee Chief Payne Tuesday assigned 30 members of the traffic and motor theft departments to the search for forthe forthe 1 the drIver drivel of tho the death car In I addition all patrolmen had been ordered to keep a close watch for forthe forthe forthe the automobile Traffic Investigator E. E J. J Stein- Stein feldt reported that Mr Kauffman apparently was crossing North Temple Templo street from rom the south side when he was run down He was about two feet from the north edge of the pavement when the machine bore down upon him tossing him into the gravel The Tho car speeding westward turned south on Sixth Vest West street The scant mark of tires was apparently left when the driver momentarily 4 applied t th brakes before speeding up t. t make malte his getaway Mr 1 Kauffman Knuffman was ss s born In Memphis Memphis Memphis Mem Mem- Tenn May 27 1874 He had been employed ed by the D. D R. R G. G Wor W W. for or 12 years ears He was a member of the E. E A. A Wedgwood post of the United Spanish War Var Veterans He Ho leaves his widow Mrs Eldora Craig Kauffman one brother J. J L. L Kauffman Gillette Wyo a sister in Salt Lake Cit City Mrs Minnie Thomas and another in Deadwood Deadwood Dead Dead- wood S. S D. D Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p. p m. m Thursday in the tho S. S T. T Ricketts mortuary East First South street Burial will wll be in the United Spanish war veterans veterans' plot in City cemetery