Evening star., 1924-09-13
WILD RIDE ON AUTO
BUMPERSAVESL|FE
Three Charge Taxi Driver,
Held After Crash, DELHI
erateIy Ran Them Down.

Infuriated because or a threat to
report him for drunkenness, Reginald
Fitzgerald, a Blue and Gray taxicab
driver. early today deliberately ran
down President George K. Horn of
the International Typothetae and
Ralph A. Packwood, president Of the
Packwood Publishing Co. of this city,
at Thirteenth street and Ohio avenue
northwest, and then sped his machine
at a high rate across the Highway
Bridge with Edward Rollman, the
third member of the party of pub
fishers. clinging for life to the front
bumper, on which he had jumped to
avoid injury, it was charged today
by police who arrested Fitzgerald for
three cases of assault and for driving
an automobile while drunk.
The sensational case is alleged to
have resulted from demonstrations
made to Fitzgerald by Horn and
Packwood, after he had taken them
in hired touring car from the office
of Mr.. Packwood, at 1912 7th street,
for a trip about the city. Five
master printers, who had been at
tending the fourth district convention
of the Typothetae were originally in
the machine, but two got out at the
Washington Hotel and Packwood.
Horn and Rollman continued down
Pennsylvania avenue. Actions of the
operator of the machine, according to
the story Parkwood told police, caused
them to threaten reporting him for
drunkenness at Thirteenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue. Accordingly
the three men got out to walk down
where the garage of the company is
located.
Car SwOOps on Them.
AS the three men crossed Thir-
teenth street at Ohio avenue, Pack
wood said. the machine swooped
down on them. One wheel ran over
Packwoods foot. Rollman and Horn
were scooped up on the bump
er and Horn was carried a block be-
fore jumping of. Rollman stayed on
The car sped down Thirteenth
street to B street, with Rollman
hanging on the front bumper, then
down Fourteenth street, rolling and
lurching over the rough cobblestones.
Rollman's hat fell off while the ma
chine was speeding south on Four
teenth street. Just at this time,
Luther Smith of 1410 Columbia street
northwest, came by and saw the ma
chine hurtling down the street with
man doubled up on the front bump
er. The mans derby hat dropped off,
Smith brought it to police head
quarters and reported the case.
Managed to Jump on.
Meanwhile. police declare, the sem
sational ride of Rollman continued
for several blocks, when lie managed
to jump off. Later the car was
ditched near Four Mile Run.
Rollman hailed a passing motorist
and was brought back to the city.
Meanwhile Packwood had run after
the machine to B street, where Horn
had jumped off, and assisted him to
his feet. A passing motorist took
both to Emergency Hospital, where
Packwoods leg was found not badly
hurt and Horns cuts and bruises
were treated. Neither suffered seri-
Gus injury and, for that matter,
neither did Rollman. Horns clothes,
however, were almost completely in
tatters, PackWood said, as a result of
the dragging ride of one block.
Driver IL Arrested.
How Fitzgerald got back to Wash
ington is not known to the police He
was found, however, by police from
the first precinct near Thirteenth and B
streets northwest about an hour and
a half after the occurrence and was
arrested on the charges mentioned
above. 1t is believed he also found
a motorist. who brought him back to
the city.
Officials of the Blue and Gray Cab Co.
today stated that summary dismissal
would be meted out to Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald is "a years old and lives
at 4318 Wisconsin avenue.
Horn, who is a resident of Balti-
more, is well known nationally as the
head of the Typothetae, while Roll
man Is one of the partners of large
Baltimore printing house. Packwood
is president of the Packwood Pub
fishing Co. here.