Arizona republican., 1921-12-19
MOTORCYCL|ST
 INJURED WHEN
 HIT BY TRUCK; DRIVER FLIES
Youthful Rider In Critical Condition - Driver of Truck Disappears From Scene After Accident

Theodore Tribolet, 19, an employe at the Arizona Packing company plant. was critically injured at ' o'clock last night when motorcycle he was riding collided head-on with a Ford truck about 50 yards west of the Green Mill Garden on the Tempe road. The driver of the truck aban- doned his machine and disappeared following the collision. Young Trib- olet is the son of MT. and Mrs. Otto Tribolet, Nineteenth and Portland streets.
 Tribolet was headed west on Van Buren street, en route home from work, when the accident occurred. The Ford truck, headed east and running without lights, was travelling at high rate of speed, young Tribo let told his father a few minutes after the accident.
 T tried to avoid the collision, but whenever I turned from one side of the road to the other, the truck driver turned with me- he said. T was travelling between 20 and p miles an hour: the truck was making at least 30 miles when we met" Youth Is Badly Hurt "A injured young man and rushed him to St. Joseph's hospital, where he was attended by Dr. E. Payne Palmer.
 The right leg had been broken in ! five places the examination disclosed, <. three times between the hip and knee l once between the knee and ankle and l the knee was completely shattered. 1 The muscles of the left leg had been i severed at the thigh; there were deep l gashes in the neck, three deep cuts -in the forehead and the scalp laid 1 back from the top of the head. There l were deep cuts on the chin and the | bridge of the nose also, Dr. Palmer said.
 Young Tribolet remained conscious | until he was placed on the operating
 table at the hospital. He told his
 father. who had been quickly sum-
 moned from home, how the accident 1 happened and insisted that the truck
 was running without lights. Autoists 1 behind Tribolet corroborated this 1 statement.
 Attention of motorists, quite natu- ! rally, was directed to the injured mar and in the excitement the driver oi the truck, which was damaged, dis | appeared. He had not been located | by investigating officers at an early hour this morning.
 May Be Stolen Truck Deputy Sleriffs Blanco, Dewitt and Smith responded to the call, sen' in from Acre City, and found tha' the truck was operating without h- 1 cense plates on front and rear, a: prescribed by law. The two plate:
 were later found in the body of th'
 truck. They were Arizona licens'
 plates No. 2696. Investigation dis
 closed that this license was issued t
 Dolores Garica at Superior.
 Further investigation showed, how
 ever, that it was for Ford engine No 3,175,32f, a 1919 model car, wherea
 the engine number on the car tha figured in the collision was 2,l45,3 ,365 1 an 1918 model car.
 1 Officers are working on the theor. that the machine was a stolen ca and abandoned by the thief after tn accident rather than await outcom of the investigation to deterrnin causes for the collision. Members 0 the sheriffs office will communicat
 with Superior officers in an effort t 1 clear up the mystery.
 Young Tribolet has been employe : at the Arizona Packing compan : plant since it's opening as a driver c 7 one of the big delivery trucks. H l | made the trip from the compan 5 plant to his home each evening, hi father said last night, and was con P sidered a careful, cautious motor |, l cycle rider