Evening star., 1925-01-26
DRIVER IS FREED
IN CH|LD'S DEATH
"AccidentaI" Verdict Given
in Case of Six-Year-OId
Mary Wehn.

Accidental death" was the verdict
today of coroner's jury investigat-
Ing the accident at Twenty eighth
and NJ streets Saturday afternoon, in
which 6-year-old Mary Elizabeth
Wehn of 2919 NJ street was fatally
injured by an automobile truck.
AS result of the verdict, Albert
Simms, colored, of 2124 Wards court.
driver of the truck, was freed by the
police. Simms stopped his car as
soon as possible, picked up the in
jured child and rushed her to the
Columbia Hospital, several blocks
away, where she was pronounced dead
from broken neck and fractured
skull. Testimony of witnesses ex-
onerated the driver.
Many Accidents Reported.
Numerous traffic accidents, includ-
Ing "hit and run" and driving while
intoxicated affairs, were reported by
the police Saturday night and yester-
day. Collaterals of $500 were de-
manded in the cases of driving while
drunk, an exception being made in
the case of Burt W. Phillips, retired
Army officer, patient at Walter Reed
Hospital, whose automobile collided
with a bus at Sixteenth and Harvard
streets Saturday night. He was
charged with intoxicatlon. driving
while intoxicated, colliding and
leaving the scene of accident without
making his identity known. He was
turned over to Walter Reed Hospital
authorities.
Reporter in Accident.
Maurice Judd. 80, a reporter. resid-
ing at 1718 Corcoran street, was one
of the several personsh arrested on
a charge of driving while under the
influence Of liquor, an additional
charge of colliding being preferred
Judd, according to the police, was
driving a car that collided with an
other similar vehicle, occupants OF
the vehicles escaping injury. He de-
posted S340 collateral for his appear
ance.
A similar amount of collateral was
deposited with the police by Joseph
Murphy Bewley, 1907 Fourteenth
street, whose car figured in an ac-
cident at Fourth and c streets north
east yesterday morning. Daniel
Lyons, 2725 NJ street, was the driver
of the other car. Bewley also was
required to deposit an additional IS
to answer a charge of cutting corners.
Leaves $340 Deposit.
Jesse Blake Adams, 80, l4O6 Eme r.
son street. was required to deposit
$40 collateral at the tenth precinct
police station yesterday afternoon on
charges OF driving while intoxicat ed
and colliotng. Police reported that
Adams machine collided with the car
of l. y. Oppenheimer, 1927 Webster
street. No one was injured.
Automobiles of James J. Wilmot
l13h Bates street, and Benjamin F.
Dixon, 405 @ street, figured in a traf-
fic accident at Second and H streets
northeast early yesterday morning,
the impact being severe enough TO
overturn the Wilmot car. Four per-
sons were injured. They were Will
mot, P. ]. Shanahan and Mrs. Mabel
Shanahan, 52s Twelfth street south
east, and Mrs. Anna Frazer, 56, 81
Second street northeast.
A bus of the Washington Rapit
Transit Company and the automobile
OF Miss May Smith. Rockville, Md.
collided at Sixteenth and r street:
last night. Miss Smith. Mrs. Mabe
Smith, her mother. and Miss Alma
Haulkenberg, all residents of Rock
vile, were injured. They were treat
ed at Garfield Hospital.
Elzear Howder, 1928 Trinidad ave
nue. northeast, was driver of an au.
tomobile that collided with the ma
chine of J. T. Mulroe, 1403 Varnun
street, in front of Al 1 street thi:
morning and was overturned. Howdel
and companions who accompanied
him were injured Hospital treatment
was refused.
Robert White, coIored. IA P street