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Show Pedestrian Struck Down, Killed by Auto in Salt Lake (Contlnuaa from Fa Ona) and was 'struck on his left side from behind. Mr. Davis "apparently was crowing crow-ing southeast," Patrolman Heath reported, indicating the pedestrian was crossing the street at an angle an-gle with his back partly turned toward the southbound automobile. Eugene Scott, 272 North Seventh West street, who was in a service station at the time, was one of the first on the scene. He said he heard tires screench on the pavement pave-ment and ran to the scene from a near-by service station. The street was dry and weather clear. Patrolman Heath reported, and no defects were found on the automobile. Mr. Davis was born In Lehl March 7, 1879, tt son 'of Henry Thomas and Elizabeth Evans Davis, and had been a Salt Lake City resident for 35 years. He was a former locomotive engineer en-gineer for the Union Pacific railroad rail-road and was a member of the L. D. S. Twenty-second ward. Mr. Davis was unmarried. Surviving Sur-viving are three brothers, D. Davis of Caliente, Nev.; Edward Davis of Los Angeles, and Charles B. Davis of Salt Lake City, and jeven 1 sisters, Mrs. William Trinnaman and, Mrs. Ray Carter of Lehl; Mrs. Harry Erskine, Mrs. Lucy D. Mc-Hugh Mc-Hugh and Mrs. N. V. Sorensen of Salt Lake City: Mrs. Rosa May of Oregon, and Mrs. Robert Drum-mond Drum-mond of Bakersfield, Cal. |