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Show DRIVER III CRASH FACES &L JURY A polic court Jury Friday aftsr- a noon was trying the case of a 22-year-oia Motorist wno was charged with reckless driving ss a rssult of a terrific head-on crash April 10 on the Saltair highway. On trial was J. LeRoy West Jr. of 1S76 Fourteenth East street, driv- er of an eastbound roadster thst rammed Into a westbound ssdsn in ths 100 block on West North Temple Tem-ple street. The latter machine was operated by Paul Dille. 18, Draper. West, Dills and six psseengsrs In the Dille car were seriously Injured In-jured in tho crash, which demolishsd both cars. West's explanation to police investigators wss thst he bed fallen asleep. The speedometer needle on his car stuck st 62 miles an hour, police reported. Convicted by Judge Reva Beck Boeone lata Thursday, after trial on drunken driving charges, Lee C. Christensen, 23, of 3H South Ststs street, arrested after his automobile au-tomobile leaped a curbing May 10 and crashed into a fire hydrant in ths 600 block on East Twenty-first South strset, was ordered to psy 1100 or serve 30 days in tho city jail Driver Sentenced Jar-Whits. M, MuTTayr"V)leadsd guilty to a drunken driving charge and was given a like sentence. He was arrested late Thursday at Seventh Sev-enth South and State streets. Hebe Dobbs, 39, of 358 East First South street, arrested in his truck Jute Saturday in ths 100 block on East First South street, was given until Saturday to sntsr a plea to drunken driving charges. - Cyrus G. Emerson, 43. of B23 Hawthorns Haw-thorns avenue, arrested Monday ' after a two-car crash at First South and Main streets, denied a drunken driving count and trial war set for June 2, with a jury to weigh the evidence. Charged with speeding, Sid Lock-e Lock-e wood, 42, of 1283 East South Temple street, and Howard C Badger, 24. of 435 East South Tsmpls strset, forfeited for-feited 28 bail bond each. Fine Imposed On like charges, ths following were fined 82S each, with $15 of each fine suspended: Mrs. H. P. Anderson, 37, of 1108 Seventeenth East street; Ivah M. Snyder, 80, of 1486 Edison street; John Kelly, 30. of 367 Fifth avenue, and Paul D. a Sperry, 38, of 444 Sixth East street. Charged with ignoring stop signs, Eugene Middleton, 34, of 675 East Thirty-ninth South street, and V. E. Slaughter, 35, of 263 Fifth avenue, were fined $10 each, with Slaughter's Slaugh-ter's fins suspended. W. A. So re neon, 35, of 1518 South Main street, waa fined $10 for admittedly ad-mittedly passing a rsd traffic light. |