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Show OGDEN DOCTOR KILLEDAT L i Dr. J. S. Gordon Dies of Injuries In-juries ReceiveS When Hit by AJto i As the result of au automobile ac- 1 cident Wednesday light. Dr. J. S. Gordon, former Ogdej physician, died in Los Angeles fromfhis injuries, ac- I I cording to dispatcms received here I b is morning. Dr. Portion left Og-d Og-d ti several years no and since has been practicing meeftice In the coast city. The accident ntvurred at Laguna ' irit and Stephatyon avenue, where- jit is supposed the lector had alighted from a street cai and was making) i his wuv acro.s.t tlr street to call on a patient. 'He h his medical case with hin when lu was struck down. The truck was driven by H W. Hendrix. a ranchs". who says he was blinded by the l;hts of an automobile automo-bile coming note the opposite direction direc-tion a,id did no observe the doctor as he walked 1, to the path of the truck. An offlral Investigation has i been begun, but Officers assigned had not filed their report this after. 1 noon. Surgeons at the emergency hos- j pita!, where the injured man was j taken after the accident, found that In had suffered a basal fracture of i thc skull and that several other hones had been broken. No hope ol recelvery was helel out after the ; tent oi the injuries became known. The dor tor was well known in Lo , Angeles. lie lived at 122 West j Sixth si reel. News of the death of Dr. J. S. Gordon Was received here with deep I regret by a large circle of friend The Jacl that the doctor was killed . b an auto truck recalls a serious ac , cident which the doctor sutfered in Los Angelas lour years ago, when he was run down by an automobile and suffered a broken hip. He was in Lbfl Angeles on a is: t at the time. ' After Dr. Gordon recovered from the effects of the accident he came lo Ogden for a brief time and then moved t Los Angeles with Sirs . Gordon and daughter, Dorothy. Dr Gordon was born in Scotland about sixty five years ago. He came to Ogden in 1890 and practiced here i up io about four years ago. He was married to Miss Eunice Cogswell about twenty years ago. Mrs Gordon and Ihe daughter sunive During ihA years of his residence, in Ogden l'i Gordon was active iii the affairs Ol the Masonic lodge, thi Knights Templar and other orders, i oo |