Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-01
WARRANTS SERVED
ON OSBORNE JONES
AND R. A. RUDDER
Both Are Charged With
Exceeding Limits of
Speed Law.
AUTOMOBILES REDUCED
TO MASS OF WRECKAGE
Car Driven by H. H. Weldon
Is Torn From
Chassis.
VICTIMS CUT AND BRUISED
Driver Walks to Apartment. Covered
With Blood, and Sinks Into
Chair Exhausted.
VICTIMS CUT AND BnUIsEI
Driver Walks to Apartment. Covered
With Blood, and Sinks Into
Chair Exhausted.

Five people were injured and taken
10 lhe hospital one an cisht-ycar- Id
girl. when two automobiles. one said
10 have been travelling at terrific
speed crashed together at Remsen
Avenue and Cary Street Road. about
Sis o'clock last night.
Osborne Jones aged twcnty-sis.
ice-president Of Smith & Hicks Co,
an eN-army aviator and former in
structor in stunt aviation in France,
and his companio Richard A. Rud-
der. a bond salesman. were placed
under arrest at Stuart Circle Hospital
within an hour after the accident
Jones Is the son OF Archer c. Jones,
president Of the Duplex Envelope Com
pany, residing at 2o3 West franklin
Victims OF Smash.
The injured arc:
Dorothy Weldon. eight years OF age.
Mrs. II. W. Weldon, cuts and bruise.
about face and kneee
u: d.ha;n II; Weldon: sdo:. cuts about face.
face and neck ana 4 probable frac-
Richard A Rudder. fracture OF the
TiEht hip, cuts and bruises
Mr. Meedon was going west on tina
Gary Street Road and was turning
car driven by Jones crashed Into the
rear wheel OF his car. Both cars were
fsdvcea hodY - TO o. mass % OF wreckagc, The
from It's chass!s.
PassinE Car Hears Crash.
Dr. Beverly. Tucker was passing
wren ths acciden, occurred and stated
the cars collided He hurried to the
assistance OF the accident victims and
SysmGyed S,ras. al Of them but Jones to
Jones disappeared Immediately after
ne accident and later it was learned
way ne the nas s,uart Inn and waked an .he
4;s more than mic. Mistaking the
home Of G. L. Corbtin. az . Stuart Xpart-
nto se' The i0 parlof taG eosp'a coyersd he wsksd
and sank down on char Ths
sscreams OF his Wife brought MIR. Cor
Inight that Jones at first refused ~
IlENc ms name or where he had re-
HcciVed his injuries.
dy 1dyniance he called from the Virginia
mospltal. i. Jones is said to have objected
1ithe Stuart Circle Hospitaj Thar ~
IGsciared he was too exhausted TO wall.
[ihee ie'her; bosni,n anh ala was summoned from
Iaho he was carried there.
Jones Denies He Drove Car.
~ vas stated last night by the po-
Dftal Jones denied that nc was the
IHriver OF the car at the time or the
accident and. because of his state
| "'S"tS' potn Jones and RUdder wcrr
charged with careless and reckless
|drjTinG while under the influence OF
| nfoHicating liquor. the arrest being
made by Police Lieutenant Holt
Friends of Jones stoutly deny that
1bc was under the influence of liquor
1t the time o. the accident, or that he
had been drinking during the day.
II Rudder is twenty-siX years of a,e
Iitnd lives a 1l04 West Franklin Street
ie jt5 employed as bond salesman bv
Far Sridge & Co., of Philadelphia. His
'Irh,dries and those OF little Dorothy
|lWeedon were the only ones considered
3:erious by hospital authorities.
Weldon Way Home.
I Mr.. Weldon, who moved 10 Rich
rond only three months go from Ohio
o make it his permanent home. de-
! clared last night that although he
ooked in both directions when turning
nto Remsen Avenue he saw no one.
rhe first he knew of the accident, he
declared or OF the proximity of the
,ther car. was when he felt the shock
.i,t the collision.
Or. Tucker. the first man on the
! scene. stated that the car In which
ounG Jones was riding passed him on
he Atlantic Coast Line Bridge, aid
vas travelling at n very fast speed.
Mr.. Weedon was going west on the
1ewly purchased home, the Gillette
Mansion. near Rothesay. the home Of
onathan Bryan.
Jones was bailed after his arrest for
$500. Rudder was held under s10O
,ond Both were bailed for Saturday.
when their cases will come up for
t,earinC in Police Court