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Show ATTORNEY DIES Gunnison C. M. Edwards, affectionately affect-ionately known to his friends as "Clint", died at a Salt Lake hospital Saturday afternoon at 4:15, following an operation that was necessary as a results of injuries he recieved in an automobile accident at Union, near Salt Lake, the previous night at 9 o'clock. The operation performed consisted con-sisted of correcting a vertebrae of the back, which was broken during the collison of two cars. Soon after the completion of the operation and just as the patient was recovering from the anaesthetic, the life string snapped snap-ped by .a bloob clot. . . Mr. Edwards, as county attorney, ' accompanied by sheriff Ed. J. Peterson, Peter-son, was enroute to Salt Lake to follow fol-low a clue that may have led to the identity of the robbers of the Gunison Drug store last Thursday morning. According to the information given, Edwards and Peterson were traveling travel-ing north and were following a large truck. When near Union and at a point where road repairs were being made. Peterson driving the ill-fated car, was traveling about 30 miles an hour, when the truck suddenly stopped Peterson threw on the brakes of his car on and slowly passed the truck. At the same moment Miss Mary Richardson, Rich-ardson, 19, of Midvale, traveling South, turned to pass the truck, when the two machines collided head-on. Neither of the machines, it was stated, stat-ed, were traveling more than 10 miles per hour. When the two cars crashed, Mr. bdwards was thrown forward to the front of the car, and in the plunge his neck was broken and his left shoulder was thrown out of place. Besides Be-sides the serious injuries, he received bad body cuts, head cuts and bruises. |