Show CORONERS CORONER'S JURY VISITS SCENE Of DOUBLE mA TRAGEDY Preparations ons for Inquest k Thursday Finished ed i RUTHS RUTH'S FATHER HERE 1 f Vigorously Defends His It Daughter Preparation for tor the inquest into th the cir circumstances surrounding the the tr tragic deaths last Sunday night of Ruth Rith th Drake and Sarah Lunstedt ere completed Wednesday Wednes Wednes- were ere pr practically I day a ay under the direction of Justice of If f the Peace J. J W. W Hill of Bountiful fut ful- ui and andr Sheriff George Mann Iann of Davis ls county count The coroners coroner's jury jur of three men Tas ras Impaneled shortly after noon in paid a visit to the scene where he bodies of the two young oun women vere re discovered beside a borrowed automobile belonging to one of Ruth Drakes Drake's friends According to County Attorney Robinson of of Davis county five thirty witnesses have been supplied by the police Sheriff Iann Mann while declining to express my positive theory regarding the theaSe thease ase said he was vas somewhat In- In lIned to doubt the double suicide h leory Police wi will continue to work the the sheriff in the ion The Weber county sheriffs sheriff s of- of Ice discovered Wednesday why Ruth Drake and Sarah Lunstedt ot out of th their lr machine at the ocene cene of the tragedy Sunday night According to the officers Ole OlEon Dieson OlE Die son con a garage arage man said the girls oft eft their theil car at tire O Ogden den Auto lub while in that city and he parked it ft in a stall In In order to driVe drie e It It about he aid he hp climbed in the machine nd found that there was no ther- ther 1101 1105 bottle such uch as the girls are believed to have carried curled in or blut the seat but that the that the car lad ad a rear container su such h as is used for tools and other objects nd h in in tills this the girls had stowed everal articles This container could only be reached by hy getting out of the machine machine ma ma- chine The officers believe that thatto to obtain n the thermos bottle which had b been en stowed in inthe tIle the container the girls climbed from their car carand car carand carand and then sat on the running board I before tire Ure tragedy occurred Hurry back Oleson called called as the girls drove a away way I dont don't think we wil ever be hack one one of them called accordIng accordIng accord accord- Ing In Into to the stor story told lold the officers officers' C C. E E. Drake father of Ruth who 1 Iii is master mechanic for the Utah- Utah Idaho Sugar company at Belling Belling- ham Wash arrived in Salt Lake Ike Wednesday morning bringing with him his son Oscar 25 5 who Is employed employed employed em em- bv by the same ame corporation Almost simultaneously Mrs Drake at tire the Cotta Cottage e. e Second Sec Sec- ond ond nd avenue where her daughter had made her home The meetIng meeting meet- meet In Ing of Mrs Drake with her husband husband hus hus- band and and son both of whom had been living In Bellingham for the thelast thelast last five fhe months on account of the their r employment was he mother being ho the verge of Jn ln addition to her grief ove overt the t tragedy Mrs Drake whose se home heme is at Payson has been compelled to carry the double burden bur bur- den denot of having a baby seriously III ill bronchitis The baby was J reported ported to be he In somewhat imProved improved improved im im- im- im proved condition Wednesday REFUSES TO TALK Mr Drake declined fo to make an any extended statement regarding the case ase saying baying that he will say what he le has to say at the inquest and that hat I will viiI prove my statements with witnesses With the arrival In the city elt of Mr Drake j it was learned for the time that Ruth was also plan- plan r flog throughout tOe past summer n leaving leaving- Salt Lak Lake All sumner sum sum- ner Iner said her father Ruth has een planning to come to Bellingham Belling Belling- ham barn with her mother and we had hadil hadl all il l planned to make our future home there on account of my employment employment employment em em- and that of my sori son Ruth was writing me about it every few lays and 1 had hat already arranged for or a position for her in the office of t the Utah-Idaho Utah Su Sugar ar com corn pany Vigorously fr defending his Ms daugh- daugh Continued d on page 8 I CORONERS CORONER'S JURY VISITS SCENE OF DOUBLE TRAGEDY T Continued from page l I t. t ter Mr tr Drake took emphatic exception exception ex ex- to published statements statementS' at attributed attributed attributed at- at t to Reuben Lundstedt father fa father father fa- fa ther ther ther of Sarah in which the latter w was s quoted as saying that he ho had at atone one time about a year ago or ordered ordered ordered or- or dered Ruth from hl his home hom Mr Drake declared that Ruth at that thai time Ime left the Lunds ed home of oC her wn volition and denied that she shed ted fed d been ordered out WAS lAS MISQUOTED When hen reached J by telephone at atthe atthe atthe the home of ot his brother In Layton Mr tr Lundstedt commenting on Mr Ir Drakes Drake's version of the incident denIed denied denied de de- de- de nied that he had s sold said ld Ruth was ordered out What I said Raid was m merely rely that Ruth left led our home in response to a wish we had ex cx expressed pressed to her that she find other 1 I was misquoted In this co connection and I do not want the theDra Dra e family a mil to feel that our famIly family fam fam- ily lly v i r at all antagonistic to them MY tr and Mrs Drape Drake with their son Ascar planned to go to Payson Wc afternoon the father tathel ant eon m both being anxious to s seethe see e ethe the baby which Is sick lIck They will Thursday morning and then proceed to Bountiful to attend the quest No Xo No arran arrangements have as yet b been en made for or funeral services for tor either cither of ot the girls It being sib e to make definite plans until the inquest has been con eon d. d W While Ill ile Mr Ir Drake declined to mak an extended statement he decat declared d the idea that his dau ter iter pd iad el either her ter forced Sarah Lundstedt to tak the poison polson or had deceived her her Int Into taking it Ft on some pretext that It vas ivas was harmless was preposterous preposterous Ruth Built could not by p physical ysl cal force orce have compelled Sarah arah to drink She Vivas not strong enough and there was no evidence of a struggle On the other hand the smell ot or the stuff Is la such that aa an anthe the state chemist has pointed out anyone smelling It would know it was poison polson The Identity of the three women who occupied a car parked directly opposite apposite the spot where Ruth and nna Sarah were found dead and who were said by by bv Mr Ir and nd Mrs F. F E. E Llant Plant of 1304 South Fourteenth East treet to have attempted to stop motorists along the highway a few moments before the were found was learned j Wednesday morning h by a Telegram reporter THREE GIRLS J The three girls in t be e car were Blanche Wynne 19 19 o 0 of Emeril avenue Anna Meyer 1 eyer SO North NorthWest West Vest ut Tempe Temple and Dolores Metcalf South Ninth East Miss Mies Wynne Vynne said We e ran out of gas just opposite that thit car and we must have hae been parked there for some time Howe However r we assumed assumed assumed as as- that the roadster contained some spooning couple and we did not go near it for that reason There wt were re three boys with us and nd they walked north along the highway high high- highway way in search of gas sas while we e girls tried to catch eatch a ride back to town with the understanding that the boys lays would return the car to the city after procuring gasoline We e hailed several motorists but they did not stop Finally one stopped and the bodies were dis dis- dis covered We Ve saw them but they Were ere apparently both dead then After that W we caught 1 I ride Into town and left our names a at the police station in ease they tJ wanted us as witnesses Evidently the officers of officers of- of who were searching for us yesterday e did not know kno that our names were on file right in police headquarters |