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Show teddy mm is" ELECTROCUTED I j FOOTHILLS With his right hand tightly gripping grip-ping one end of a broken electric ! wire, Theodore Broadbent the 11-j 11-j ear-old son of Mr, and Mrs. Enoch J. Broadbeni of 1755 Twenty-second street, was found dead about P o'clock yesterday afternoon. The electrocution electrocu-tion of the boy occurred sometime between be-tween 12 o'clock noon and 3 o'clock, about two blocks south of the old sanitarium sani-tarium site at the mouth of Ogden canj on, and the body was first seen by Ruth Kokes. the little daughter of Mrs. Lola Pokes of 3203 Grant avenue. ave-nue. The little girl, with her mother and brother, lohn D. Arrowsmith, was having an Faster stroll on the hills when she noticed a boy lying below them on the hill, apparently asleep. She told her mother and Mrs. Rokes called, but noi being able to got any answer, sent her son to investigate, who returned, saying that the boy was dead, and the mother sent him to secure help. At the mouth of the canyon he stopped Hay Belnap, who was passing in his automobile and the latter hurried to the scene. Mr Belnap, being an electrician, was fearful of further accidents, but while he was looking around for a -tick to remove the wire from the body, the dead boy's dog, which had , followed him from home, jumped upon the body and began licking the face. The animal was not injured and Belnap then removed the wires, took the body to his automobile and drove to the police station The right thumb was burned nearly off, the knuckles of the left hand were burner and a large hole was burned in the head near the left ear There were no identification marks on the body but about 8:30 o'clock, Mr. Broadbent telephoned police head quarters and asked if they had seen anything of his son. also saying that he had sent him to the hills after the cows about noon Desk Sergeant asKon mm to describe de-scribe how the boy was dressed The description was identical to that of the appearance of the dead boy and the father was then told of the aoei dent. He Immediately came to the station and had the body removed to the Lindquist undertaking parlors The mother and a sister were in Salt Lake City yesterday attending the Mormon conference and did not learn of the distressing accident until un-til their return home An investigation was made by Officers Offi-cers Robert Chambers, Charles Pin cock and Guy Nelson of the police department and Carl Allison, cashier of the Utah Light & Power company The broken wire was found to be the property of the power company and had been used to operate the city rock crusher. It was broken at a place, where it had previously been "tied," but only a small part of it was bare Persons familiar with electricity, however, state that under the conditions considering that the ground and grass around the place were wet the boy could have received ,i shock powerful enough to kill, by coming in contact with the wiro where it was Insulated. nn |