Evening star., 1925-01-11
MOTOR|ST PLOWS
INTO SAFETY ZONE,
KILLS |, INJURIES
Police Hold Stewart Hayes
Pending Verdict of
Coroner's Jury.

An automobile plowed through a
crowd of persons waiting for street
car at the safety zone on Fifteenth
street between F street and Penn
sylvania avenue. last night, fatally
injuring Ralph Albert, cashier of the
branch of the Merchants Bank and
Trust CO., at Twentieth street and
Pennsylvania avenue.
Policeman H. d. Thomas of the
traffic bureau, VINO was pursuing the
automobile az the time, continued the
chase after the accident and arrested
Stewart S. Hayes. publicity repre-
sentative of the Chesapeake and Po-
tomac Telephone Company, resident
of Chain Bridge, Md.
Hayes was taken to the first pre-
cinct. where he was held on the order
of Coroner hewitt to await the out
come of the inquest tomorrow morn
ing.
Dies at Hospital.
Alberti died at Emergency Hospital
within an hour after arrival Police
reported that Philip H. Budd, no ad-
dress given, was injured as well as
woman who was also standing in
the safety zone at the time, but rec
ords of hospital treatment were not
available
According to Policeman Thomas. he
signalled the machine to halt at Fif-
teenth street and New York avenue,
when he saw it collide with A street
car platform as 1t was coming toward
him from Pennsylvania avenue after
having passed the front of the Treasury.
The machine did not stop, Thomas said
and he hailed another to follow II.
They proceeded at about Is miles an
hour down Fifteenth, on account of
the crowds, Thomas declared, with
the machine he was pursuing run
ming with it's left wheel about even
with the outer rail of the street car
tracks. This route, according to
Thomas, brought the fugitive machine
head-on into a crowd of about eight
persons awaiting the street car in the
safety zone between the Washington
Hotel and the Treasury Building.
woman was the first to be hit, ac-
cording to the policeman, being struck
glancing blow as her escort pulled
her away. Her name was not avail
able to police at an early hour this
morning. Next Budd was struck and
then the machine crashed into Alberti
dragging him beneath the wheels a
distance of some 70 feet, according to
the policeman.
Car Speeds Away.
Then, Thomas said, the driver of
the car put on more gas and shot at
a rapid rate of speed south on Fiji
thence east to Thirteenth street, where
thence east to Fifteenth street, where
he was hedged into the curbing.
Thomas said that the operator at
tempted to make a getaway, but that
he caught him. He said he took a
pint of liquor from Hayes.
Alberti was said at Emergency
Hospital to have come to his death
by crushing of the left side and
internal injuries
At the first precinct last night
Hayes pointed out that the murky
weather made driving uncertain and
denied that he had any knowledge
of striking any one.
Il saw a man run out into the
| street." he said, "and 1 put on my
brakes, but they skidded. l did not
know l had hit any one and conse-
quently kept on my way. The first
1 knew of any accident was when
the policeman told me about it at
Thirteenth street and Ohio avenue. y
No charge was entreed on the books
at the first precinct against Hayes
1t was simply announced he was be-
ing held for action of the coroner's
jury.