Evening star., 1925-02-16
RUNAWAY DRIVERS
|NJURE 3 PERSONS
One Stops and Takes Drink
From Bottle Before Fleeing
From Accident Scene.

Police are looking for three hit
and-run" motorists whose cars in
jured three persons over the week
end
One of the fugitives is reported to
have stopped long enough. after
knocking a pedestrian down, to take
a drink from bottle before CON
ttnuins: another driver, with a wom-
an companion, sideswiped A man
standing beside another machine and
failed TO stop, and a third driver,
said to have been on the wrong side
of the street, left the scene OF col
lision with another car, although an
occupant of the latter car was In
jured by the smash-up.
Eugene Rose, 19 years old, of Lees
burg, Va, was the victim left in the
road by the driver with the bottle.
He was struck down early yesterday
morning on the Military road, near
the Highway Bridge, en- route to Fort
Myer, by an automobile said by
witness to contain a colored driver
and woman companion. The wit
ness reported that the driver brought
his car temporarily to stop, hoisted
bottle to his mouth, and then step
ped on the gas and disappeared Rose
lay. unable to move, for nearly half
al hour before he was picked up by
removed to Emergency Hospital.
where an examination is being made
of possibly serious injuries To his
spine
Stdeswiped by Car.
Michael Capossela. 1905 PENNSYLVANIA
avenue southeast, was struck by a car
operated by an unidentified driver and
woman while he was standing beside
an automobile at Third street and Penn
syivania avenue last night. He was
moved to Providence Hospital and
treated for injuries to his legs.
Mrs. Emma Speed, 1919 NJ street,
was bruised on the arm yesterday after
noon when thrown against the side Of
the automobile of ]. q. Speed. of which
she was an occupant, and which was
struck by an automobile operated by
an unknown driver on Vermont avenue
between l. and NJ streets. Her condition
Is not serious, police reported. Mr.. Speed
told the police he was driving north on
Vermont avenue when the other car
coming from the opposite direction on
/ the wrong side of the street. collided
with his car. The co!ored driver failed
to stop.
Several other traffic accidents added
to the toll of injured persons and dam
aged machines last night.
Two Women Hurt.
Mrs. Ebie Mabe, "a. of $40 Maine
avenue southwest, and Carrie Neal,
s, of 1900 Seventeenth street, were
hurt in a collision last night at
Connecticut avenue and @ street be-
tween an automobile operated by
Thomas II. Collins, 340s Fourteenth
street, and another operated by Mrs
Joseph Mean. Mrs. Mabe, riding in
Collins car. was cut on the right
hand, and the child. a passenger in
Mrs. Means car, was injured in the
chest
{. H. Henderson. As. of 11S C street
northeast, received a laceration over
| the right eye early today when he
was struck by a taxicab operated by
| John C. Walsh, 1922 Thirty-fifth
street, at Sixth street and Pennsyl-
wanna avenue
Mrs. NJ. Carpenter. "a. of Arlington,
Va, was treated at Emergency Hos
pital last night for a concussion over
the eve received when the automo-
bile in which she was sitting while
ner husband endeavored to park it
on street, near Sixth, was struck
by car operated by Daniel Nelson,
1901 Seventh street, police were told.