Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-01-08 | Page 9 | Clue Furnished to Hit Runner Involved in S. L. Death Crash

CLUE FURNISHED TO HIT RUNNER INVOLVED IN S. S L. L DEATH CRASH Friend of Victim Left Dying in Street Gives Facts to Searchers Deputy sheriffs Saturday believed they were tightening a net of evidence about the run hit-run driver responsible for the death of Julius Sachs 44 of Springview drive the night of January 5 Simultaneously Sheriff S S. S Gr Grant nt Young appealed to safety minded citizens who may possess possess' clues which would help solve the case to contact sheriffs sheriff's deputies Mr Sachs riding a bicycle east easton easton easton on Thirty-third Thirty South street near Fifth East street was struck by a vehicle believed by officers to have been a truck The injured man was left to die in the street Clue Furnished Latest clues to identity of the vehicle were furnished officers by Fred Granite high school janitor and friend of the victim Mr said he left the high school at p. p m m. and walked west on Thirty-third Thirty South street that he saw and spoke to Mr Sachs as the latter rode east on the same street A few moments after the meeting which Mr told officers probably occurred about p p. p m. m the informant said he saw a truck traveling east and heard an impact Connecting the noise with the fact that his friend was riding east on the street Mr said he turned and ran back to a a. point opposite opposite opposite op op- East Thirty third South street but was unable to see anything anything anything any any- thing that resembled effects of an accident Victim Left in Street The crash victims victim's body was discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered on the extreme south side of th the street by Rose Lamper 19 East Thirty-third Thirty South street and her friend Margaret Blazzard about They were en route to toa toa a a. basketball game at Granite high school The girls notified the sheriffs sheriff's sheriffs sheriff's sheriffs sher sher- iffs iff's deputies who removed the in injured injured injured in- in man to the hospital where he died soon after arrival Armed with additional clues to the identity of the truck officers re redoubled redoubled redoubled re- re doubled their efforts to run the driver down and complete the in in-