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Show ELECTRICITY KILLS KESLER WIFE FINDS CRUMPLED BODY Loten Kesler was killed Tuesday noon while working near his pump on his farm ten miles south of Milford. No one witnessed his dqath. His wife found his body crumpled up at the foot of the pole that held the transformers for his pump and a burn on his left hand showed clearly that he had been electrocuted. What he had been doing and how he had come into contact with a live wire ' is a matter of supposition. Efforts on the part of Dr. Addison' Bybee and a number of men who gathered gath-ered at the scene of the accident to revive Kesler by artificial respiration were unavailing as he had been dead several hours before Bybee had been summoned. Visited Neighbor Kesler had spent the morning on the day of 'his death with his neighbor, neigh-bor, H. P. Mack and they had discussed discuss-ed the details of putting in a pump on the land of the latter. Sometime before be-fore noon Kesler had left the Mack place. At eleven o'clock he was seen by James Goff riding toward his well and at about that time Kesler's daughter had seen him tie his horse at the fence near the well. Wife Finds Body At twelve thirty Kesler's wife, wondering why he had not returned home for lunch, went out to look for him and found his dead body at the foot of the transformer pole near his " well. Her daughter, hearing her crys, drove over to the Mack place and asked for help. Mack drove to the spot where Kesler ay, ordered Mrs. Kesler not to touch the dead man and then drove to Milford to summon authorities. On his way into town he stopped to notify several of Kesler's relatives and friends. He reached Milford around two o'clock and notified the deputy sheriff, Theodore Kronholm., who phoned Beaver authorities, got Dr. Bybee and drove out to the Kesler ranch. Dr. Bybee immediately began working on Kesler and made every possible effort ef-fort to revive him but too much time had elapsed since the accident. Authorities Investigate Sheriff Niels Jensen and County Attorney, At-torney, Abe Murdock arrived late in the clay to look over the ground where the accident had occurred and to observe ob-serve the pole, transformer and wiring. wir-ing. They viewed the body there and later at the Southern Utah Morturay in Milford. However, no official autopsy au-topsy was held, and the authorities made no official statement as to whether any blame could be attached in the case of his death br if Kesler's death was entirely his own fault. o |