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Show JOY RIDE ENDS IN AUTO WRECK H. E. Loan, a former Salt Lake chauffeur, faces a criminal chargo as the result of a joy ride which was suddenly terminated Saturday night wbon the "borrowed" automobile he was driving, plunged Into an irrigation irriga-tion ditch near the Sanitarium at the mouth of Ogden canyon. The car was tho property of Lee Lowcnstoin, residing resid-ing at 2159 Jefferson avenue. Loan, who was arrested by Detectives Detec-tives Georgo Wardlaw and Charles "iwrir rTrrn 1 11 1 ii 1 Pincock yesterday, declares that he M was merely testing the car after lie M had completed some repairs The owner does not deny that tho. chauffeur had worked on the car, but M he gave Loan no permission to take It M from the garase Saturday night. Ac- IH companied by a young man Loan H drove the auto through Ogdon canyon M and was returning to the city when M he lost control of tho machine on the road which branches to the north at the Sanitarium. Doth of the passen- M gers were thrown across tho ditch to l safety when the car plunged over the fifteen foot bank, landing directly on fl end in six feet of water. Loannnd his friend, who were uninjured, immo- H diately abandoned the auto. H A gang of men, with the aid of a derrick, raised tho wrecked auto from H the ditch yesterday. H 00 H H I |