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Show BONAR FUNERAL RITES ARRANGED Fall Victim's Services Set for Tuesday Funeral services for Dr. Barnet E. Bonar, prominent Salt Lake City specialist killed in a fall from the Mayflower apartments, 1283 Eaat South Temple street, will be conducted at 1 p. m. Tuesday at the Evans Early mortuary, 874 Eaat First South street. Private entombment will follow at the Salt Lake Memorial mausoleum. mauso-leum. Police advanced an intended prank aa tha possible cause of Dr. Bonar'a death. The fall occurred during a dinner party Saturday night at the apartment apart-ment of Sidney Lockhart, at which Dr. and Mrs. Bonar and eight other couples were gueste. Dr. Bonar, whose research in gynecology gyn-ecology had attracted widespread attention, left a card table and went into the bathroom, apparently intending in-tending to leave the bathroom j through the window, reach the 1 ground floor and reenter the apart - men t by its front door to surprise the other guests. He crawled through a small window win-dow and along an eight-inch ledge, 20 feet above a concrete driveway on the west side of the apartment building. As he moved along the ledge, he apparently struck a radio antenna wire that is strung down the sid' of the building, lost his balance and fell backward Into the driveway. Death was instantaneous. The belief, as advanced by Detectives De-tectives J. J. Ferrin and W. C. Smith, was strengthened by an account ac-count given by Ethel Richins, maid at the adjoining apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Arnovits. Miss Richins told police she was asleep in a room facing the lodge and was awakened by a scraping! noise outside her window. Dr. Bonar had resided In Salt Lake City 15 years. Recently. he; won attention by his work in using colored motion pictures to deter- i mine safety and effectiveness of anesthesia in childbirth. He waa born at St re a tor, 111., and studied at the University of Wisconsin Wiscon-sin and at Rush Medical college. Surviving Sur-viving are his widow, Mrs. Madge Bonar; three sons, Samuel, Kenneth and Barnet E. Bonar Jr., and his mother, Mrs. S. A. Bonar, all of Salt Lake City. |