Evening star., 1925-04-06
FOUR POLICEMEN
HURT IN ACCIDENTS
None Seriously Injured, How.
ever--SeveraI Women
Are Victims.

-Four policemen were victims in
yesterdays traffic accidents. but little
damage resulted and no serious in
jury was inflicted.
Policeman Suthard of No. precinct
was in front of 337 Pennsylvania
avenue yesterday afternoon giving
dire ctions to DR.. c. D. Castle. 3 West
Chase street, Baltimore. when the
physicians car was struck by an
automobile driven by Zach Rich. col
ored. 217 c street southwest the
policeman also being struck and
knocked down
Rich was arrested and charged
with reckless driving and failing to
have a registration card. Unable to
furnish collateral, Rich was locked
up.
Officer and Prisoner Hit,
Policeman c. c. Carver Of the ninth
precinct and James Goodman colored,
the latter under arrest, were knocked
| down by the automobile Of Richard
F. Anderson, Mount Rainer, Md,
| while crossing at Maryland avenue
and Fifteenth street northeast early
yesterday afternoon.
| Policeman Raymond L. Spaulding.
also of No. 9 precinct. was in charge
of the precinct patrol wagon return
| ing from a fire when the wagon ana
| the automobile of Joseph r. Baum
bach. 1913 G street northeast. collided
at Ninth and H streets northeast.
| Baumbach was held to answer
| charges of failing to give right OF
| way and having no registration card.
Motor Cycle Policeman Ernest w.
Hiser, No. 10 precinct was riding near
Sherman avenue and Irving street
yesterday afternoon when the auto
mobile Of Irving Levinson, 1874 JEFF
! ferscn street. bumped against it.
| Hiser was slightly hurt.
| Patrol Wagon I'm Collision
| No. precinct patrol wagon. respond
| ing to a call about noon, was given
| a quick turn on U between Tenth and
| Eleventh streets to avoid striking a
! pedestrian, and 1t collided with a Cap
| ital Traction car. Little damage re-
suited.
Leroy Edmonds, 755 Morton street
| and c. A. Cole, 621 A street south
east, were drivers OF automobiles that
collided at Sherman avenue and Barry
| place yesterday afternoon. Both ma
| chimes were damaged. and Reginald
| c. Green. colored. IS years old, occu-
| pant of Edmonds' car, was cut about
| the face by broken glass. He was
taken to Garfield Hospital.
| Mrs Adelne Heironimus. 3711 Four
teenth street, was injured about the
head and legs yesterday afternoon when
the automobile in which she was a pas
senger colided with another car near
| Fourteenth and Shepherd streets.
Woman Hurt in Collision.
A taxicab driven by James E. Thomas
922 l street, and the automobile of r
| E. Buchanan. s35 Allison street col
lided last night at Fifteenth and M
streets. Both vehicles were damaged
| and Miss Octa Bassett, 220 Second
cuts and bruises. She received first aid
at Episcopal Ear, Eye and Throat Hos
pital.
John Thomas, colored. 40 years old
| of 2S13 Dumbarton avenue, was the
1 victim of a hit-and-run traffic accident
| at Pennsylvania avenue and Twenty
sixth street early this morning. His right
| leg was fractured and his head hurt
| The injured man was taken to Emer-
! gency Hospital and treated for frac-
ture of the right leg and injuries to his
| head.
Blanche Hungerford, $3.50 Adams Mill
| road, sustained an injury to her right
| arm yesterday morning when struck by
a motor vehicle Of Penn Oil Co. driven
| by Abraham Borak, 2S01 Georgia ave-
| nue.. She was given first aid at Erner-
| gency Hospital.
| Maryland State police today are in
| vestigating a traffic accident that
happened on Washington Baltimore
boulevard about two miles from Ber-
| wyn last night. The machine struck
| a culvert and overturned Its occu-
pants were thrown from the car anc
| injured, one of them, Miss Mae Karl
son, Everett, Wash, said to be on g
hike and given a lift by occupants
of the car. was brought to the city
and treated at Casualty Hospital fol
slight injuries.