Show TRIAL Sf STARTED A Jf Driver Charged With Death of Aged Man Manin in Accident The trial of Elwood Lunn 22 and Lyle Seddon 22 on an involuntary manslaughter charge came cams to an abrupt end Wednesday afternoon when the tue defendants changed their plea of not guilty to guilty On recommendation recommendation rec rec- of District Attorney Ray Flay Van Cott District Jud e D D. D W. W Moffat suspended sentence Elwood 1 Lunn 2 22 2 charged har Cd with voluntary mans manslaughter went on trial in Third district court Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day dar after nUN District Judge Jude D D. AV W. Moffat Moffat lor fat overruled o a demurrer to the amended complaint filed by DIstrict District Dis DIs- triet Attorney nay flay nayan Van an Cott Cotto Lunn is charged ed jointly with ith Lyle Seddon 2 22 of running down and fatally Injuring William La Ia Coste 03 63 63 on March 3 3 as the latter alighted from a street car at Thirty Thirty- third South street and Highland drive Lunn Junn was allegedly driving the automobile at the time timo of or the fatal acci accident ent The Time complaint charges es that the young men were driving at an ex excessive ex- ex p rate rale of speed on the time wrong wrong- side of the li la and andere were ere under I Ithe the influence of liquor or when l the their r I struck La Ia Cost Coste AcCording AcCordI According Accord Accord- I ing lag to officers who investigated the case both Lunn and amid Seddon signed statements to the er effect that they ther sped away oro fj-oro rom JUie cene of at t tIme tho e accident because they had be been bee dt drinking beer opel They were arrested after abandoning the tIme car near flear the state penitentiary and reporting it stolen to police headquarters headquarter Lunn LunnIs Is being def defended by Attorney E. E R. R Callister |