Evening star., 1925-06-24
TWO IN DEATH CAR
HELD FOR KILLING
Of NUN IN CRASH
Coroner's Jury De|iberates
But Two Minutes-Prose-
CutiOn to Be Pushed.
HEAVY GUARD PLACED
ON PRISONERS AT PROBE
Hospital Auto Struck by Rum Car
Making Mile-a-Minute, Wit
nesses Say.

! With the hearing room heavil,
! guarded by policemen and detectives
a Coroner'S jury today held an inqueS
into the death Of Sister Cephas, ''th'
Little Angel of Providence" who wa!
killed yesterday, and ordered E,stell,
! Robinson and Clifton Young. colored
! occupants of the car that struck th'
( machine she occupied, held for tn,
J gra nd jury.
! The verdict was reached in less tha
| two minutes after the testimony
| which occupied a little more than al
hour, had been completed. Coroner
Ramsey J. hewitt presided, and
despite severe cross-eXamination by
defense counsel of the witnesses, the
| inquest proceeded with the utmos
| dispatch.
Case to BE Pushed.
! simultaneously with the verdict OF
! the coroner's jury, District Attorney
! Peyton Gordon ordered that all wit
| nesses in the case be summoned be
| fore the grand jury and announced
that he intended prosecutin the case
TO the utmost limits of justice. The
death of Sister Cephas and the manner
in which ii occurred have shocked the
entire city, and the Government pros
! ecutor intends 10 see that those re
sponsible for the tragedy receive the
utmost penalty allowed by law as Z
| warning to others of what might be
| expected for repetition.
Guard Is Increased.
| Half an hour before the inquest was
! to begin the street in front of the
morgue was lined with cars largely
! occupied by men and women. More
| than 100 others, the majority colored
crowded about the morgue door. Ap
! parently fearing some of the prison
ers' cronies might attempt a demon
| Stration or possibly a rescue, the
| ordinarily small police guard outside
! the morgue was quickly reinforced
! with half a dozen reserves and several
motor cycle officers.
! In the hearing room Capt. Albert ]
! Headley, commander of the fourth
| precinct, sag beside the Robinson
woman, while a policeman occupied
| the chair next to Young and kept his
hands constantly on the death driv
er's arm. While Detectives Scrivener
| and Kelly guarded the two doors with
! in the room uniformed officers stood
outside with drawn clubs.
! The room itself was packed The
| testimony was brief and pointed
| Deputy Coroner Martyr, the first wit
| ness, told the jury that Sister Cephas
/ had died of a fractured skull and hem
morrhage of the brain. Death oc
CURED, he said, within a few minutes
| after the accident and before the
police had had time to carry her the
| two blocks from the scene back tC
| Providence Hospital.
Driver Makes Admission.
Capt. Headley testified that he an6
other officers had questioned the Rob
inson woman and Young both at the
| Fourth precinct station house and al
| detective headquarters. Young, the
witness declared, admitted that he hat
! driven his car in excess of the Dis
| trict speed law and that it had col
lided with another car in which one
woman was killed and another injured
| The Robinson woman, he added, de
! clined to make any statement anC
! both definitely refused to sign theil
names to the admission creditd tC
Young.
| shaken from her narrowing expert
ence, Sister Agnes, who occupied the
| demolished car with Sister Cephas
! took the stand. Before she was per
! mitted to testify Coroner Newt
warned the attorneys that she wa
still in a highly nervous condition
and that any questions they wished tt
ask must be put in quiet tones anC
| language easily understood Sister
Agnes hand quiyered badly as sh'
| clutched her chair to steady herself.
''Just an Awful Crash"
"Our car was going north just afteI
leaving the hospital at very mod
crate rate Of speed" she said. II
happened that l was looking down tn,
street in the direction from which thu
car that struck us was approaching
1t was travelling very fast. We hat
no time to do anything. There wa
just an awful crash. l don't believ'
! 1 lost consciousness. I must hav'
been stunned, for the next thing
knew l found myself on the floor ant
within minute or two was able t
| get back to the seat. Then they tool
me back to the hospital. That is al
1 can remember
| Detective Ogle said that he ant
Detective Schenck, both of the fourth
precinct, were driving north on Del
aware avenue about 7:45 O'Clock
yesterday morning when they no
ticed a fast car going ahead of them
Ogle testified that he immediatel!
! recognized it as the machine of th'
Robinson woman and told Schenck
who was at the wheel, to follow it
AS the pursued car turned into Vir'
! ginia avenue he said the Robinson
woman turned. recognized him ane
| Immediately began throwing quar-
jars out of the side. simultaneously
it was testified, the chauffeur. whom
he identified as Young, put on NOR,
speed and darted out in the direction
of the Southeast.
| Car Misses Truck.
En- route the car missed a Goa
truck by only few inches, and {
few minutes later the Robinson
woman again began to heave quar-
jars from the rear, the detective de
clared In another minute the Prov
idence Hospital sedan passed int,
the intersection and the collision oc
Cured before there was any time t,
prevent it.
Ogle said Schenck drove his ma
chine up beside the crippled machin
occupied by the pursued couple an,
stopped. Young was trying to extri
cate himself from the steering ar
paratus but before he could flee, Ogl
grabbed him. The Robinson woman
had leaped out the other side an
disappeared down an alley, bu
Schenck gave chase. overlook he
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