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Show Jury Verdict Id Bryce Park Death Verdlct of "death at hands ot person or persons unknown" still stands after receipt of the final findings of Dr. Homer Clark, Salt Lake City pathologist, who per formed autopsy on the' body of the late Henry Tevls. The fatally Injured Mr, Tevls was found In a washroom at the Bryce Canyon National Park. A coronor's Jury of three men set In Inquisition Into the death, under Justice of the Peace Harry DeLong. The verdict was returned after three medical men who appeared before the Jury testified to the "terrific" force of a blow necessary to do the extensive brain damage found In the body. Proponents of an "accidental death" theory pinned their hop on the microscopic postmortem finding something in one of the organs to account for a sudden seizure which would render the victim "stiff ss a board" and make him fall jver sideways. The detailed postmortem findings failed to disclose any such aliment. As Dr. Clark pointed out If the victim simply fainted he would have sagged and not gone over full force and sideways to hit an adjacent wash basin. Mr. Tevls, unconscious and on the brink of death, was stiff a a board when found, a condition Induced by the terrific blow on the head and not necessarily preceding that blow, according to the medical testimony. Exhaustive teats at the sceTie, run by the people sticking up for the "accident" theory, showed that it was possible for a man to fall down In a washroom and bump his head, but the other two bruises were left unexplained. |