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Show Small Visitor Dies From Car Crash Injuries Clinton Pepper, III, 6-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Pepper Pep-per Jr., of Los Angeles, died in the Fillmore hospital at 4 a. m. Tuesday of injuries received in a car accident near Holden Monday Mon-day at about 5 p. m. The little boy was a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Milo Bishop, of Hinckley, and had been visiting at their home with his family for a week. The accident occurred as Mrs. Pepper and her three children, Clinton, Craig, 2 years old, and Chris, 11 months, were returning to Hinckley after a two-day visit in Salt Lake City with Mrs. Pepper's Pep-per's sister, Mrs. Leola Walters. Mrs. Pepper was unfamiliar with the road, and missed the Delta turn at Nephi. At Holden she left Highway 91 and turned west on a seldom used dirt road. About a mile west of Holden the car, a 2-door sedan,; apparently struck the soft shoulder should-er and turned over three times. The top of the car was mashed onto the front seat. Mrs. Pepper and Clinton, in the front seat, were thrown free of the car and both knocked unconscious. uncon-scious. The two younger children who were asleep in beds in the back of the car, were not even scratched, although broken glass was inside the baby's clothing. When Mrs. Pepper regained consciousness, con-sciousness, she saw that Clinton was bleeding from head wounds. In the car one child was crying, and the youngest was still asleep. WALK FOH HELP ' The frantic young mother tried to get help for her children as there was no one in sight on the lonely road. She had a little cart in the car, and into that she put the injured boy and the baby, and. with the two-year walking at her side, started out afoot, crying for help. She had walked about M mile, pushing the cart, when a salesman sales-man drove by and stopped to help her. The man, unidentifed brought the family to Delta, where after medical aid, Clinton was rushed to the Fillmore hospital. The boy's father had brought the family here for their visit last week and had returned to Los Angeles where he is employed. He was notified of the accident, and arrived in Hinckley Tuesday afternoon late. A brother of Mrs. Pepper, Cleon Virgin, of Baldwin Park, Cal., arrived in Hinckley Monday, planning to drive the Pepper family back to California Wednesday at the end of their vacation. Clinton was born June 25, 1944, In Los Angeles. Surviving are his parents, two younger brothers, and his grandparents at Hinckley. The family left Hinckley Wednesday to return to Los Angeles, where funeral fun-eral services for the child will be held at 2 p. m. Friday. |