| OCR Text |
Show TRAGEDY OCCURS I SUIT LAKE CITY sunny Salt Lake, Nov. 15. Henry Mitchell, father of Gladys Mitchell, who is dying dy-ing in the police emergency hospital as a result of injuries received when Bhe and her fiance, Edward Davles, wero struck by an automobllo Saturday Satur-day night, reached Salt Lake at 4:30 yesterday afternoon with his wife from their homo in Riverside, Ida., a town seven miles west of Blackfoot. The parents of the girl went at once to the omergency hospital and sat at tho bedsido of their daughter. Suffering from two compound fractures frac-tures at tho base of her skull, the young woman has not regained consciousness con-sciousness since the accident at 11 o'clock Saturday night, and she is not expected to survive the day. Both Mr. Mitchell and his wife were too overcome over-come with grief Inst night to speak of tho accident. Throughout the night and into the small hours of morning they remained at the bedside, watching watch-ing the paralysis spread over the body of their daughter. No Hope Given. Edward Davies, who was engaged to marry Miss Mitchell, was killed almost instantly when the big touring car driven by Jesse GeBas sped past a standing street car near Fifth East and Seventh South streets and hurled the couple to the pavement. Spectators Specta-tors declare that the girl was hurled 150 feet through the air and fell to the pavement with a concussion that crushed nor skull and rendered her unconscious. The body of the man was brought to the police station in tho car that struck them, and the limp form of the girl was carried into tho station on the patrol wagon stretcher. All Saturday night and into the morning, Miss Teresa Stevens, night nurse at the police hospital, and Steward Stew-ard William Robinson watched at the bedside and attempted to relieve tha-4 suffering of the unconscious woman.; Dr. H B. Sprague dressed the Injured i head, but expressed little hope for her I life. Davies was found to have three ( fractures in each leg, one ankle brok-, 2n and his neck broken, in addition to . many broken bones in the walls of j lis chest. I Bank Book Missing. That Edward Davies had a bank jook showing deposits In a local bank !or several hundred dollars, and that He had about $15 in cash on his person per-son when he left the house with his 'Sancee, was the statement made last . light by George A. Cranfield, a broth- :r-in-law, living at 3371 Fifth East strnnt. When the bodv of the man was searched at police headquarters there was no money and no bank book was found. His watch with the monogram, "E. L. D" was the only clue. What became of the money and the bank book is a question that puzzles the police. The car that brought death to the man threw him several feet, but although the ground was searched at once for possible clues to the elusive identity, nothing was found other than the girl's handkerchief. handker-chief. Mr. Cranfield will ask that an Investigation be made into the disappearance dis-appearance of the bank book and the money. Young Gesas was released from custody yesterday. His bond was fixed at $1000. - ' Relatives In California. Because neither Davies nor Miss Mitchell had anything to identify them in their possession, it was several sev-eral hours before the police could learn their identity. Captain Roberts and Detectives Glenn and Brown, however, made a tour of the neighborhood neigh-borhood and located B. W. Maycock, an uncle of the girl, and at whose home sho had been living, at 653" Park street Through Mr. Maycock it was learned that the man was a brother-in-law of George A. Cranfield, who is employed in the auditor's office at the Newhouse hotel, and at whose house Davies had been staying, at 3371 Fifth East street. Early yesterday moraine: Mr. Cranfield Cran-field telegraphed to Reese Davies, a brother of tho dead man. who lives in Gait, Sacramento county, Cal, The aged father and mother of Davies live in Gait, and it falls to the brother Reese to break the news to them. In addition to Reese there are three other brothers, Walter, living in Pasadena; Pasa-dena; Ausdell, in San Francisco, and William, in San Francisco. In telegraphing tele-graphing to the brother Mr. Cranfield suggested that Edward Davies be burled in Salt Lake, and if the girl dies that she, too. be buried here beside be-side her sweetheart, waom she was to havo married .Wednesday in the temple. Father Is Farmer. The elder Davies, William T is a retired farmer. Ho came from England Eng-land in the pioneer days and passed through Salt Lako in 1852, remaining here four months. According to Mr. Cranfield, whose wife is a sister of Davies, tho young man could have remained at home on his father's ranch, but he wished to see a bit of the country; so taking his tool kit, ho went to Idaho, whore1 he was employed as a carpenter for the "Utah-Idaho Sugar company at Idaho Falls. The body of Davies is in tho Qual-trough-Alcott undertaking rooms, pending word from the parents in Gait. - -oo |
