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Show SPALDING CRIES WHILE ON WITNESS STAND Continuing the case of Myrtle Spalding again3t Ogdon City in Judge N. J. Harris' division of the district court this morning, the plaintiff again was on the witness stand. Miss Spalding testified that, on the evening of November 5, 1913, while crossing tho street from the Sylmar boarding house to her room, she fell into a water main trench on Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth street, in the vicinity of Jeffer-! Jeffer-! son avenue, and suffered severe injuries, in-juries, which, she had been inform ed, would be permanent. She said that thero were no barriers around the trench to prevent one from walking walk-ing into it and that there were no lights. At the time that she fell to the bottom of the trench, which was more than three feet deep, there was no light except that which was given by the street lamps, It being after 7 o'clock In tho evening. She Bald that she hald no Idea that the trench was thero aud that she was horrified when she fell. MIbs Spalding said that her greatest dread was that she would be buried alive, when she fell the dirt talline In uDon her The plaintiff related that she was badly injured about the body and that the left leg and ankle were broken She said she was carried to her room by friends and taken care of She had been under the care of nurses and doctors nearly all the time since she was injured, incurring a heavy expense. On cross- examination, the plaintiff said that three weeks after hor leg was broken she was taken to the hospital, a new doctor telling her that the cast would have to be re moved In order to make a more careful care-ful examination of the broken bones, but that she did not know what the doctor did as she could not see the broken parts of tho leg. 8he said, however, that she had suffered pain ever since the injury, both before and after she was taken to the hospital. hos-pital. The witness was much disturbed dis-turbed when closely questioned bv tho attorney for the city and the examination ex-amination had to be suspended at this timo whilf the witness cried. In connection with the change of doctors, which the attornev for th city iniulrd Into, it Is said by the attorney that he expects to show that the broken bone In the leg was not properly set In the beginning and had to be rebroken and reset, which was the cause .of greater Injury to Miss Spalding than the fall in the trench. yesterday Harry Eggleston corro borated the story told by the former witness, W J. Kouw, both having appeared ap-peared on the scene of the accident soon after it happened. He said that there were no lights at the trench and that there were no barriers to prevent one from walking Into the hole. This afternoon Dr. Edward I. Rich was placed on the stand and testified that he was called to attend Miss Spalding, November 26, and that on November 28 he had her removed to the hospital where he subjected the broken leg to an X-ray examination, discovering that a readjustment of the broken parts was necessary. The doctor doc-tor said that the X-ray disclosed that both bones of the leg, near the ankle, had been fractured and that the internal in-ternal alteral ligament of the foot had been torn. He stated also that the foot was black and blue. Indicating Indicat-ing that It had been severely bruised The. witness said that he removed the cast, readjusted the fractured parts and replaced the cast. He also treated the pattent for other bruises about the body and abdomen, as Miss Spalding at the time, was suffering severe pains in the abdomen. The doctor said that the arch of the left foot was broken and that Miss Spalding Spald-ing now has a flat foot. He 6ald that a flat foot did not always come from Injuries, as heavy people sometimes would have flat feet through their weight straining the ligaments and muscles. He was of the opinion that Miss Spalding's flat foot was caused by the Injuries inflicted In the fall. |