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Show loose Writes Last Chapter For Clark Oarum The conclusions of officers investigating in-vestigating the death by hanging of Clark Oarum, Jr., prominent Union High School graduate and vocalist, were summed up last Saturday in the following article appearing in the Salt Lake Thi-bune: Clark Oarum, Jr. died of remorse. re-morse. His body was found Sunday afternoon, hanging by the neck, hands tied and knees touching the ground. And not until Thursday did the reason come to light. Sunday at 5 a.m., he was driving a buddy home. They were in the friend's car. Young Oarum, 19, must have dozed and the car veered and overturned near their home at Whiterocks, Uintah County. Coun-ty. Tragic Story Reports filed Thursday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation traced the course of the tragic story. The friend, knocked, unconscious in the accident, awoke to see Clark Oarum running from the scene. Dazed, he was unable to stop him, and later went for aid. Indian trackers followed the trail of young Oarum. They found where he slashed a wrist with a piece of broken glass from the car window. They found where he lay on the ground and clawed the earth with his fingers. Braided Death Rope They found where he stopped, braided a rope from strips of his nylon shirt. And they found where his tracks and no others led to the juniper tree, where he slipped a noose over his head and tied his own hands with two simple slip knots. An autopsy gave cause of death as stoppage of blood to the brain. Conclusion of investigators: Self-I Self-I inflicted death due to remorse because be-cause he thought he had killed a friend. |