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Show AUTO VICTIM DIES FROM MENINGITIS Salt Lake, April 17. After suffering for more than throe weeks, Mrs. Alma A. Mincer,, aged twenty-nine years, of 757 West First South street, who was picked un In an unconscious condition con-dition on Main street, between South Temple and First South, on the night of March 23, died shortly after C o'clock yestcrdny morning at Judse Mercy hospital. The cause of death, was meningitis developed from concussion con-cussion of the brain. Though he denied It, witnesses .claimed that the- woman was nui down by Oscar L, Cox, former secretary secre-tary of the Y. M. C. A., while driving driv-ing an automobile. C6x 'told Uie police that he had found the woman In the street lying unconscious. He drove her to the Emergency hospital at police headquarters, where she was first attended by Dr. H B. Sprague. Witnesses Accident. Mrs. John O'Conner. wife of an advertising ad-vertising man, with offices in room 506 Constitution building, witnessed the ! accident from a window overlooking Main street immediately above where tho woman was picked un She said that Cox ran down Mrs. Mineer, giving out the following statement of tne accident: ac-cident: "I was standing in a window overlooking over-looking Main street when the accident that Injured the woman occurred. It was raining and the street was quite dark. Because It had no lights I was attracted by an automobile that came down Main street. A woman left tho curb and started to cross the street Though it was not running fast,, the automobile crashed Into tho woman. It stopped after it had run over her. The driver apparently did not seo the woman wom-an and did not stop until the, front wheels had passed over her. Tho woman wom-an was walking when the automobllo struck her. She was not sitting down or lyin? down." After he had learned of the death of Mrs. Mineer yesterday, Mr. Cox still maintained that ho did not believe that he ran her down with his automobile. auto-mobile. He said that he was certain that she had at no time 'been In front of his machine. However, he admitted that he had voluntarily paid all hospital hospi-tal oxpenses and doctor's .bills and said that he had furnished Mr. Mineer, tho husband, every assistance. |