Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-15
AUTO WRECK
INJURIES TWO
MACHINE DEMOLISHED CROSSING
CAR TRAcKsp
WOMEN HURLED TO STREET IN
COLLISION
G. w. Hooper, at Wheel, Arrested for
Threateninsto Shoot PatroIman.
Mrs. c. e. usher and w.
e. Smith Hurt

Two persons were injured while
three narrowly escaped being hurt In
a collision between Pico Heights car
No. s5S and auto No. 1147s, driven py
q. w. Hooper, a mining broker al
Pico and Albany streets at $3.50 O'CLOCK
last night.
The injured are Mrs. Charles E.
usher. wife of the proprietor OF tne
Hotel Acacia, sixth and Hope streets
and w. E., Smith, guest at the hotei'
Both suffered severe cuts and bruises
about their heads and bodies py peine
thrown from the machine by the col
lision hut according to the physicians
at the California hospital, where tney
were attended, the injuries Will not
prove fatal.
The others in the car at the time be-
sides the injured and the driver were
Mr.. Ussher and Mrs. G. r. Hodges, an
other guest at the hotel. All OF them
were shocked by the collision, put ~
was unnecessary to take them TO the
hospital for attention.
According to witnesses the driver Oh
the automobile attempted to pass from
the left side of the street in front Oh
the street car. The forward step OF
the trolley caught the rear part of the
automobile, wrecking the tonneau and
demolishing the rear of the machine.
Mrs. Hodges sprang from the auto at
the time of the collision and escaped
without injury.
Victims Disappear
When word of the accident was re-
ceived at the police station Patrolman
Hoover was sent to the scene to inves-
tigate.
By the time Hoover reached there the
injured had been removed and had been
accompanied by Mr.. Ussher and Mrs.
Hodges Hooper was the only man left
, and he refused to give the officer any
information. When Hoover insisted on
Hooper answering questions the latter
suddenly turned and said:
you come bothering around me here
and I'll load you full of holes. I carry
a gun for such men as you," at the
same time thrusting his hand into his
pocket as if to draw a gun.
A little later Hooper struck at by
stander and the patrolman decided to
take the man to the police station.
At the station Hooper insisted he hao
not been drinking, but was locked ur
with charge of drunkenness against
H.n. After being placed in the cell ht
4sisted on having a physician examine
Mn to see whether he was drunk
DR. Cook, an assistant police surgeon
was called and announced that Hooper
was sober. Despite his statements il
was decided by the police to keer
Hooper in Jail and to place charges oi
drunkenness against him. Police Of
ficers who saw the man said he was
too much under the influence of liquor
to take care of himself and will testify
against him when his case is called in
police court tomorrow.
Gives Another Name
At the station Hooper was booked
under the name of s. r. Mathews
which he claimed was his right one
He said he was mining operator from
Cripple Creek, Colo, and was visiting
in Los Angeles.
"There were five of us in the ma
chine when, the collision occurred, y
said Ussher last night. &c. W. Hooper,
When the auto struck the car Mrs.
Hodges jumped and thus escaped in
jury. YN
my wife and Mr.. Smith were hurled
to the ground and both suffered painful
but not serious injuries. I was not
injured and do not think Hooper was.
] did not see him after the accident.
There was no one by the name of
Mathews with us and the man who was
arrested must have been Hooper.
"T cannot tell just how the accident
occurred as it all happened so suddenly
that I had scarcely time to think. 1t
is a wonder we were not all killed.
According to witnesses the car was
going slowly and the motorman made
every EFFORT to stop. He succeeded in
bringing the car to standstill before
it had gone twenty feet after the col
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