Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-08-07
tim CLARK BADLY
MANGLED BY HORSE
Mystery Cleared when Andy Hal.
vosen finds where tragedy
occurred.

The mystery surrounding the
terrible accident which befel Tim
Clark on Monday evening Of this
week was solved Thursday after
noon about two O'Clock when An
dy Halvosen found the missing
hat and coat and the scene of the
battle between Mr.. Clark and a
neighbour horse.
All sorts Of theories had been
going the rounds, and on Thurs
day two men from the sheriff's Of
flee came over to the island to in.
vestigate. Clues Of all kinds were
run down with no results. Then
the two men, with X. K. Prigg,
Finney Shattuck, Garner Kimmel
and Andy Halvosen started to
comb the pasture back of the
Clark house, in which the hors,
was being kept. In the extreme
northwest corner Of the back pas.
ture Mr.. Halvosen found the spoi
of the accident. There lay the car
and coat, both spattered with
blood, part of an unused box OF
cigarettes, with several broken
cigarettes tramped into the deep
dust, traces of blood, and the
mystery was solved. When Hal,
vosen called out he had found the
place, the horse started for him
and it was only by use of clul
that he was driven back from
commencing an attack on Halvo
sen.
A few minutes later the News
Record man; with Mr.. Shattuck.
started to look for the place where
MI. Clark crossed the fence fol
home. Mr.. Shattuck found this
place at the south end Of the line
fence, with a number of spots Of
blood on the rail over which he
had crawled. This act showed
how game Mr.. Clark proved to the
very end-as he stayed in the same
field with the horse until he reach
ed the usual place of crossing, in
stead of crawling through the
fence at the place of the accident.
Mr.. Clark made his way into thc
house where he was found by his
family. DR.. McMurray was call
ed and dressed the wounds wher
he was rushed to the Seattle hos
pital, and speed was made when
it is known that it was less than
three hours from the time the am
bulance left Seattle for the island
until it pulled up in front of the
hospital door. Over 60 miles pei
hour was made on the Vashon and
Seattle highway and the ferry
made special trip. On Tuesday
the surgeons operated, finding d,
fracture of the skull extending
from three to four inches over
and around the right eye. His left
arm was badly mangled. After he
came out from the Influence of thu
aenesthetic, he was irrational for
some time. He is in a very bad
condition but surgeons say he will
fully recover. His wife stuck by
his side night and day, refusing
all sleep, and rendering every ser
vice possible. In all of our s.
years of life we have never seen
a community so wrought up wit
profound sympathy as in this &C,
cident. On Tuesday the feeling
was so strong that he had been
struck by hit and run auto dri-
yer, that when name was men
toned, in more than one place
groups formed and talked of a
lynching party. Happily for the
island it has done three things
it proves how much Mr.. Clark was
liked, it proves the island will not
stand for any foul play, and it
proves the people refuse to act
without being first absolutely Ger.
tain of their suspicion. Thus is
cleared the shadow from all our
citizens, and the island is happy
that Mr. Clark will recover, and
that the injury was caused by a
horse and not a nerson