The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-12-25
THREE DEAD AND
SEVEN HURT IN
HOLIDAY CRASHES
Unidentified Man, So, Found
Unconscious on Road
side, Dies.

Three persons were killed and sew
eral injured in the Christmas eve
accident toll in and near Indianapo-
lis Friday night.
The dead are:
Sergt. Ollie Crowley, 90. of Ft
Benjamin Harrison.
Robert Sanders, Negro, 81, Of 1854
Lewis st. -
An unidentified man, about SIS
years old.
The injured are:
Corporal Michael Berry, "a, of Ft.
Benjamin Harrison.
Cororal Harvey C. Knight, 25, OF
TT. Bnejamin Harrison.
Joe Dawson, of $40 w. Abbott st.
Harley Byers, of 1927 w. Walnut
st.
Private Marion Compton, 20, Of FIT.
BENJAMIN Harrison.
Girder Skillern, 20, of 1140 S. Sen
ate Ave.
Carl Bowden, 43, Of 1874 Bowman
Ave.
Sergeant Crowley and Corporals
Berry and Knight were injured
when a Government automobile in
which they were riding to Indian
apolis struck a Pure Oil Company
gasoline truck driven by Guy Miller
on the Pendleton Pike at Shadeland
Rd. at s p. m. The car which Ser
geant Crowley was driving swerved
after the impact and overturned,
pinning the occupants beneath the
wreckage. The two corporals were
taken to the post hospital. All three
men are single.
Crowley is from near Atlanta,
Ga; Corporal Berry from Philadel-
phia and Corporal knight from
Louisville. The men are members
of Company f, 18th Infantry. Wit
nesses told police Crowley was driv-
ing fast at the time of the accident,
Miller having turned out of the road
to avoid a head-on collision.
Sanders died at the city hospital
shortly after he was found lying
unconscious beside the Monon rail-
road tracks at Twentieth st. George
Rosebrough, a Nickel Plate railroad
switchman, who found the body, said
he believed Sanders had started to
cross the tracks to the rear of his
home when he was struck by a
switch engine.
Had Badge
The unidentified man died at the
Robert Long hospital after he was
found unconscious on the Rockville
Rd., four miles west of the city, about
8 D. m. His skull was fractured
and he had suffered a broken right
leg, internal injuries, and cuts an<
bruises. The only mark of identifl.
cation was a small badge with the
inscription, &C. & T. Company,
Badge 412." The man had apparent
ly been struck by a hit-and-run
driver.
Dawson was taken to the city hos
pital after the automobile he was
driving collided with a truck driven
by A. G. Demaree, Of $50 Warren
Ave. Byers, who was riding with
Dawson, was cut about the face. Po-
lice slated Dawson on a charge of
reckless driving.
Compton, who is member of
Company f, 18th Field Artillery,
was injured about the head and body
when he was struck by an automo-
bile driven by John Wheeler of Ben
Davis, near there. Thompson was
walking to his home in Terre Haute
to visit his parents on a weekend
furlough. Wheeler said he did not
see Compton, who was taken to the
hospital at the fort.
Skillern was struck by hit-and-
run woman motorist at Senate Ave.
and Morris St., receiving bad cuts on
his forehead. A woman called Mrs.
Eula Gallagher, landlady at Skill
lern's home, shortly after the ac-
cident and inquired about the man.
Police are looking for her.
Bowden received cuts and bruises
when his motorcycle collided with
the automobile driven by DIR. G. w.
Roller, of 2311 e. Garfield Dr., at
Madison Ave. and Raymnod st. Dr.