| Show INQUEST BEG BEGUN ON IN BARKER CASE Testimony Shows That Lad Hit Ground With Great F Force the Bones of His Neck t I Being Shattered I I t David Barker 6 years o old d whose lifeless ss body vas was found on the Redwood road a week ago came to his death by being accidentally accidentally accidentally acci acci- dentally knocked from his tricycle by an auto tru truck k dri driven en by Andrew Savos This This' in substance is the verdict of the coroners coroner's jury which investigated the death of the boy at Taylorsville today The jury was composed of H. H W. W Mathews J J J. Lindsey and George Gerard The verdict was reached at at 3 Eight witnesses ss s were examined d at the inquest over the body of David Barker before Justice of the tile Peace Alfred Anderson of I Taylorsville today With the exception of D Dr C. C L. L Shields as assistant county physician all were were persons who had seen the I boy riding on a tricycle on the tile Redwood road and l later ter saw his lifeless body by the roadside Dr Shields testified as to the in injuries injuries in- in juries lez suffered by the boy as determined determined determined deter deter- mined in th the examination following his death Dr Shields declared that the boy must have have hit the ground with considerable force The Tile bones of ot the neck he said were badly shattered lIe He explained that it Is hard to shatter the bones of a child For lor this re reason son he ho ex expressed expressed expressed ex- ex pressed the belief belle that the boy had struck the ground with great force The other witnesses examined were Mrs Lucy James Clyde Panther Panther Pan Pan- ther tiler Joseph Bennion John Cook David Cook Ezra Williams and George Jenkins all of Taylorsville The stories of the seven witnesses w were re substantially the same same They I had seen the boy riding ridi g his tricycle o on the tile Redwood road Later they theys saw a heavy automobile truck p pass ss a point near near where the body o of the boy was found N one oneO the one O w s could testify that the heavy machine machine- h had d struck k the boy The three essential features s sto to their their stories were that the they had seen the boy on his tricycle then had seen the truck pass over the road and lastly they had seen the lifeless body o of the year six-year-old boy in the dirt and dust of the near Seventeenth South The boys boy's tricycle was in IQ court this morning The The spokes o of orie one wh wheel el were bent Otherwise it app appeared are to have suffered no damage Each J ach of the witnesses this morning mornIng- was asked if he could identify the driver rot of th the truck which had passed th the funeral procession before the the finding of the body With t one une ne ex exception exception ex- ex Clyde Panther they were positive they could not r i Tv- Tv Panther said he thought thought- he might be able to identity the man man if it he were to tos to's see see e him again For this reason reason rea rea- son Andrew Savos the Greek who was held for a short time following the accident was sent for Panther will wUl willbo be asked If it he Is the man at the afternoon session Har Harold ld M. M Stephens assistant coul county ty attorney Is conducting the examination for foT the the- st tate y uarl j P. P J Jensen ens ri is attending itt tt the inquest as the representative of Savos The inquest began beg at 11 o'clock and adjourned at noon It was resumed I at 2 o'clock this afternoon |
