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Show Kanarra Man Faces Murder Charge For Fatal Attach Following Auto Crash Pdwin Hamblin Dies Of Injuries; Second Victim Recovering John Hulse, 30, Kanarra Garage operator, is being held in the county coun-ty Jail facing a charge of murder as the result of the death Monday afternoon of Edwin Hamblin, 49, of . Cedar City who allegedly died cf injuries inflicted by Hulse at Midnight Mid-night Saturday. A cornorer's Jury, composed of Chart s R Hunter, C. L. Beasley and Roy Houchen, after a hearing Monday evening, " returned a verdict ver-dict that 'Hamblin met his death as the result of being brutally beaten, tramped, and kicked about the head chest and body, and believed to have been Inflicted by John Hulse with felonious Intent". Cecil Starr, 40, of Cedar" City, was also badly beaten at the same time and has be n in a critical condition since. The two men were beaten Into In-to unconciousness during an altercation alter-cation with Hulse ov?T damage to Hulse's car when a truck owned by Starr and driven by Hamblin side-swiped side-swiped Hulse's machine. Imemdiately after the fight Hulse telephoned Sherriff S. C. Lamb and told him of the Incident. The Sherriff Sher-riff call-d City Police Preston Wood and Alonzo Ahlstrom. who interviewed inter-viewed Hulse, and were told that after spending the evening s with irieuus nuiac niiu ina muc . wcic , returning to Kanarra wh-n the cars sldeswlped. Starr and Hamblin did not stop, but Hulse followed them home, where an argument started and the fight ensued. The injured men were taken to the hospital by a neighbor, and Hulse was hot arrested. However, an assault and battery charge was placed against him, but before hs could be brought to trial Hamlin died, and Hulse was taken into custody. cus-tody. He was arraigned bfore Precinct Justice Alex H. Rollo on a murder charge Tuesday afternoon, but the dats for preliminary hearing was delayed indefinitely pending the re-coverv re-coverv of Starr, who at the pr sent time is reported to be making slight Improvement. According to the att ndlng physician phys-ician Hamblin was severely brusled and cut about the head and face, and that his ribs were fractured and had perforated a lung and the dlaphiagm. Starr sustained extremely extrem-ely severe cuts and multiple bruises and sev ral ribs were broken. Mr. Hamblin was born in New Zealand while his parents Ben and Delia Hamblin were filling a mis-.sion mis-.sion for the IpS church. Th?y I njarm t-AO (rln fit rf lf"nnoh TVa mar. rled Delia Adams of Cedar City on January 1, 1916. and had resided here since. Surviving Is his widow; and the following sons and daughters: daugh-ters: Mrs. Jean Evans, Parowan; Ambrose Hamblin, with the navy in the Pacific; Ball y and LaMar Hamblin, Cedar City. Funeral services were conducted in the First Ward Chapel Wednesday Wednes-day afternoon. Hulse is a native of Malvern, la., but came to Iron county about a year and a half ago from Worland, Wyoming. He worked In Cedar City until about seven months ago, when he moved to Kanarra to operate a garage there. |