Evening star., 1898-08-15
LOST BOTH HER LEGS
Mamie Honesty Run Over by a Great Falls
II
Electric Car.
Two COlored Men Under Arrest Pend
ing an Investigation Into sus-
picfOus circumstances.

Mamie Honesty, colored servant, who
lives on the Little Falls road between the
Canal road and the tracks Of the Washing
ton ard Great Falls electric road. was
seriously and perhaps fatally injured last
evening shortly after II o'clock one of the
cars running over both her lower limbs.
AS a result of the matter, Curly johnson,
aged thirty-five, and Arthur Hazebrook,
aged twenty-six, both coiored, were arrest
ed about / o'clock this morning by Police
men Steinbraker and Bergman and held
at the Georgetown station on a charge of
suspicion.
The accident occurred at the road which
leads from the car track to the Girls Re
form School. perhaps quarter of a mile
inside the District line. The ELECTRIC car,
tram NO rs, was in charge Of Claude
Clements, motorman.- and s. 8. f. Shoe
maker, conductor. On either side of the
there are gullies, which are used for gut
tiers. Spanning these natural cutters are
wooden bridges, which enable wagons to
cross. - ''.'.- -
The Motorman's story.
According to the story of the motorman,
when coming down the track he noticed
something lying partly across the tracks
on the wooden bridge. He applied the
brakes as quickly as possible, but too late
to avoid running over the object. BY the
way in which the car jolted the employees
knew that they had run over a person, and
when the train was stopped few feet dis
tant an investigation disclosed the fact
that a cclored woman had been run over,
10th legs being crushed.
Judging by the wounds the woman must
have been lying obliquely across the track
One limb was crushed near the calf, while
the other was crushed exactly across the
knee cap. Without any delay the woman
was lifted up and placed on the train.
While doing this two colored men ap-
preached, claimed that the woman was
with them, and they wanted to fight the
conductor and motorman because of the
accident. When the train reached George
town the patrol wagon was in readiness
and carried the to the Emergency
Hospital. Here it vas found that amputa-
ton was necessary, and both legs were
cut off. This morning the woman appeared
to be resting quietly. with the cnance OF
recovery in her favor.
Two Men Arrested.
Acting under instructions, Policemen
Steinbraker and Bergman went out to the
scene of the accident, DR.: Hagner accom-
panying them. At the track they found
piece of the kree cap and other portions of
the bones of the legs. Going to the wo-
mans home, they met Johnson and Haze
brook. who admitted being with the wo-
n an. They claimed that they had been to
Curtins club house, and that they wanted
10 put mamie Honesty on a car, but she
refused to go. One of the men walked
down with her, and carried her to near the
scene of the accident He alleges that he
left ner inside of fence. about ten feet
from the track. Another woman, by the
name of Mary Deehas, was with the ,arty,
so they stated. and after leaving Mamie
Honesty al the place described they went
back after the other woman. Immediately
after the accident, when johnson and
Hazebrook appeared and wanted to fight,
there was no other, woman with them. The
police were unable to find the whereabouts
of the supposed Dechas girl ard according
II placed the two young men under arrest,
pending further Investigation of the mat
ter.