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Show DAUGHTER DYING; ESTHER DRUNK JranK Peterson Misses Last Words of His Daughter, I by Being in Jail Drnntt. ' ': Lying in jail drunk while his daughter daugh-ter was dying is the record made by Prank "Peterson of Payson Wednesday sight. Friends of the daughter, Mrs. Hilda Burnett, sent word to her parents on Wednesday that she was dying. The father at once decided to come to Salt Lake. When he arrived in this city he took, a' drink; then he took several ' mere. 'Later he was arrested and placed . in jail. The police had no idea as to where the man eame from nor where he was going. While death was claiming his daughter daugh-ter the man lay in a drunken stupor in the city jail. Yesterday he appeared before Judge .Whitaker. It was the first time that the man had ever faced the court and "he was allowed to go. Thoroughly sober and penitent the man hurried to the place where his daughter had lived. The cold , hand of death had left its touch before the father arrived. The dying words which the daughter daugh-ter had expected to send to her moth-, moth-, er at home were not spoken. |