Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-24
Insists on Its Disagreement.
RECEIVES FATAL INJURIES
John q. Hawkins, Colored, Knocked Down
by an Electric Car.

John H. Hawkins. an elderly colored man.
who lived at No. % E street southwest
was struck by an electric car at Garfield
avenue and LIST street southwest about 10
O'Clock last night and fatally injured. his
skull being fractured. He was taken TO
the Emergency Hospital. where he died
about midnight. In addition to the injury
to the skull, the jawbone was fractured
and the body was badly bruised
The deceased had attended meeting of
the board of trustees of Israel A. NJ E..
Cnurch. corner of LIST and B streets south
west. and was on his way home at the time
the accident happened. He started across
the street and reached the track lust as A
moving car reached the crossing This car
struck him and threw him from the track
put qua not stop. Fortunately, two friends
OF the injured man were present to look
after him. He was picked I'D and taken
into the office at the District property yard
where he was cared for until the arrival of
the hospital.
Dr.; Whitson. realizing the serious nature
or the injury, summoned other surgeons
and soon had the patient on the operating
table. He was unconscious when he
reached the institution and did moi regain
consciousness before he died
Trainmen Arrested
When the informat ton of the mans dea.
reached police headquarters Sergeant Car
ter directed that the motorman and con-
ductor in charge Of the car which inflicted
the injury be arrested. Sergeant Williams
and Policeman Hayden of the fourth pre-
c!nct went to the car sheds of the Anacos
tia and Potomac River Railroad Company
and arrested Motorman Ashton Smith and
conductor Richard Fall. These men denied
knowing anything about an accident, but
as the dead mans hat was found on their
car they We're held to await the result Of
the investigation. Friends Of the decea sed
stated to the police that the car was going
at a high rate Of speed. and that the bell
was not sounded to warn pedestrians at the
crossing.
Hawkins was about sXty-five years old
and was prominent in church and Masonic
circles His wife and three children sur
vive him. For many years he was en-
ployed at Havenner's bakery. He was also
jsnitor of Masonic Hall on Virginia avenue
This morning the body of the deceased was
removed to the morgue where Deputy Cor
oner Glazebrook performed an autopsy. This
afternoon at 2 o'clock the coroner held an
Inquest at the sixth precinct station.
The Inquest.
Attorney Edwin Forrest was present at
the inquest in behalf OF the family of the
deceased.
Deputy Coroner Glazebrook testified that
death resulted from cerebral hemorrhage
following a fracture of the skull The dead
mans jaw was also fractured.
Policeman Hayden testified that when he
was told of the accident he went and found
the injured man, who was unconscious
lying south of the car tracks It was then
about 1875. Witness told of the finding of
the dead mans hat on car 106 of the Ana
costa and Potomac River Railroad Com
pany. He SAID the car was equipped with
Tenders. The nat was found under the gate
on the side Of the car Witness said the
streets about the vicinity of the accident
were lighted but not very Well with gas
and naphtha. The nearest gas lamp. he
thouSht' was about sixty or seventy feet
from the car
When witness reached the scene of the
accident two or three men were there Soon
afterWard crowd collected.
William Newman's Discovery.
William Newman, colored, testified that
he found Mr.. Hawkins lying on the street
He did not witness the accident. man
who was standing on the corner told him
car had struck the man. The pavement
on both sides of the tracks, witness said.
are paved with cobble stones. The man
who told him street car had injured the
man, he said, is named Johnson. He was
standing in front of saloon on the corner
when he spoke to witness
Harry Johnson. colored, told the jury that
Mr.. Hawkins was crossing the track at
Canal street when the car struck him. All
he could say was that the pedestrian was
nearly across the track when the car,
which was going at full speed, struck him.
He did not hear any alarm given Mr..
Hawkins, he said, was walking RAPIDLY.
him. The witness was under examination
when this report closed