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Show Igden joy ride ends in death of girl I BOY MAY LOSE ARM AS RESULT OF ACCIDENT Alleged Stolen Car Turns Over at Highway Curve " Near Marriott GIRL VICTIM ONLY 14 i Officials Investigate Tragic Joy Ride Which Follows Dance An automobile joy ride last nigh'.' In an alleged stolen car terminated in the Instant death of Lillian Keyes, 14 j years of age. daughter of Mr. and1 Mrs. John Keyes of Wilson Lane, and! serious Injury to Loyal Jenkins 16., son of Mr. and Mrs Sidney Jenkins, j 2957 Flngree avenue, when the carl turned turtle near Marriott Tho Keyes girl died from a broken neck after haing been plnm:! under the car. Jenkins received n com- pound fracture of the right arm whlshl may result In amputation. Tho accident occuind at 9.30 o'clock at a sharp turn of the road I one, half rnile north of the Marriott meeting house. CAR STOLEN L MM. According to an Investigation made: by Sheriff Richard Pfncock, Jenkins! and Wallace Sorenson. J5, stole the Dodge car belonging to A. J. Han-! sn at Twentv-dghth '--'. and ! j Washington avenue. They rode to WMlson Lan" where: a dance was In progress and wefe.1 joined there by Mist Kev. s. Bertllal I ra ppert, I't, and Man . Don whouse, I 1C. The party then started for n ride and were proceeding at a fast rate of' speed when the sharp cur'" suddenly loomed up and Jenkins. who war drilng. attempted to turn rhc machine ma-chine to the loft. The wheels went I off the road down a slight depression! and the car turned turtle, landing in. some willows DEAD WHEN KFMOVKD The Keyes girl was pinned under the back of the front seat and was dead when removed. Jenkins was also pinned in the car. his arm crushed crush-ed when the machine rolled over. The Sorenson lad and the two other girls, escaped uninjured, according to j the officers. Dr. Roy H Wilson, city and county phvslclan, rushed to the scne of the accident and mado a brief examination examina-tion of Miss Keves Finding her dead; the rushed the Jenkins boy to tho Dee j hospital In his car. R'port3 from the hospital thl.i morning were that the condition oi the Jenkins boy Is serious and he nnv lose' his right arm as a result of thei accident. The body of Miss Keyes was taken to the Lindqulst parlors in Ogden. DOCTOR QUESTIONS ROY. Mr. and Mrs Earl Stanger who reside near the point of th" accident, were the first to reach the sc no and aided the victim Dr Wilson said today that he questioned ques-tioned Jenkins while taking him to the hospital last night, but could obtain ob-tain little information owing to the dazed eondltlon of tho lad He said that Jenkins denied having stolen the machine and explained that the car, had been hired by the Sorenson boy. He said ho did not see th 3 sharp: cure until the car had rcachvd It and he then could not manipulate the I turn safely. Wallace Sorenson was taken to the city jail and toda was st'll being held i for ln estlgatlon. THEFT VDMITTED. Chief of Detectives Robert Hurl-: said today that the Sorenson boy c.on- essed to him that he and Jenkln?! itole the machine from the Ogden streets and took it to Wilson Lane in order to get some girls to go for! a ride with them The Sorenson lad is still being held In jail while further investigation Is, I . ing made. Chief Rurk said ho did not know what action he would take, in prosecuting the boys until his In-, vestigatlon bad been completed Detective Burk said the car must have been going at a rapid rate of ipeed, Judging from the position of the machine after the accident. Report that tho car had been stolen was made to the police at 'J : 1 5 O'clock and a half hour later the report of the, accident came to the police station. |