The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-11-13
'Ones,s;ng,
8 Hurt in
Accidents
Jean Jenkins, Involved in
Chain Man Case, Fatally
Injured in Smashup,-
Husband Is Jailed.
Tenth Mishap Of Day

lenln MlSIldp OF Lay
Jean Jenkins, 20, one OF the Fred
Brown chain girls, In dying In Lord
Lister hospital, the result Of an auto.
mobile smashup. Her skull is frac.
tured
Two friends, Elizabeth Hickman,
20i7 Cass street, and Tony Franck.
South Omaha, are also IN the hospital,
Miss Hickman seriously injured and
F'ranek bruised and shaken up.
II was tho 10th automobile accl.
dent to come 10 the notice Of the 20.
lice between TAO Saturday afternoon
and $40 Sunday morning.
Mrs. Jenkins, Miss Hickman. Tranek
and Roy Jenkins were speeding nortn
on tho Tenth street viaduct near the
Union station. They were riding In
a small coupe. Near the approach to
"the hole" where cars leave the VIA
duct to descend TO the train level OF
the station, the coupe collided with a
World.IIcrald truck.
Women Unconscious.
When the party was extricated from
tho wreckage Mrs. Jenkins md Miss
Hickman were unconscious.
Jenkins was taken to jail. He said
the party had come from drinking
parlor on -South Tenth street and
was going north to another one.
"We-were out on party and
we'd already had couple OF drinks" /"
he told police. I'VE wanted more and
we were going out north to get them.
Our car was going about rs miles an
hour. II was raining and I couldn't
see very we'll
Reconclled After Claiming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jenkins, whose mari.
tai affairs were being adjusted in
divorce court last spring. became rec
onciled after. the prison episode. They
have been making their home at 2707
North Slxty.flrst street.
Shortly before the Jenkins acci-
dent police were called to attend Earl
Ebling, 2412 Decatur street, who was
struck at Sixteenth and Douglas
streets by q inotorist who-sped from
the scene and escaped. Ebling was
only slightly injured.
There were eight other accidents
In which noe Of the principals was
injured seriously.
Mrs. Maren Defines, 1000 Seward
street. employed by the Bemis Bag
Co. sustained body bruises. lacera.
tions and possible internal injuries,
when she was struck at Thirteenth
and Jackson streets by car driven
by Griffith Jones. 1914 Burdette
street.
Jones was pursued by crowd led
by Harry Janickc, 2S12 Leavenworth
street, ana at Twelfth and Farnam
streets Emergency Officer George
Brigham encountered Jones who is
was severely beaten by the officer be-
fore he was subdued
Woman Knocked Down.
Mrs. Betty Bergstein, $500 North
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Amy, 10, were-knocked down at Six.
teenth and Douglas streets, by an
driven by Mrs. G. Vim.
cent, 800 South Fortieth street. Mrs.
Bergstein sustained severe bruises.
Mrs. X. G. Talbert, Millard hotel,
and her year-old granddaughter, Betty
Murray, suffered minor injuries when
an automobile driven north on Six
teenth street by Mrs. Talbert collided
with machine beings backed from
the curb in front of the Lincoln Inn,
21S South Sixteenth street by Frank
Gambino, 7l3 South Nineteenth street.
Gambino was held for reckless driv-
ing.
The automobiles Of D. r.. Batney,
1140 North Nineteenth street, and Il.
Herman. 1888 North Nineteenth street,
were badly damaged when machine
crashed into them while they were
parked In front Of the homes OF their
owners. The driver Of the machine
Jumped out Of the car and ran away
following the accident, deserting his
wrecked car in the street. The name
plate in the car read &c. II. Walton,
1853 Farnam street."
Driver Abandons Car.
John Lenehen, Havens hotel, was |
struck by an automobile at Fifteenth
and Chicago streets. lie snffered Sc.
we're bruises TO his head and body. |
The driver Of the machine sped on. |
Police Officer Kreneck. who witnessed |
the accident, fired three times at the
fleeing autoist. The man stopped his
car and jumped out. making his es.
cape. Police contiscated the machine. |
Emil Gustafson, Holdrege. Neb.,
was hit by an automobile driven by
s. Sutliff. i2< South Twenty.fourth
street, at Eighteenth and Cass
Witnesses said that Sutlin
was going 10 miles an hour. Gustaf.
SON was arrested and charged with
being drunk.
An automobile driven by w. C. Var.
lev, bis William street. struck Paul
Parmenter. IL, Peoria apartments. at
Tenth and Pierce streets. varley
was arrested aud charged with reck.
less driving. The boy suffered minor
nlnries-