Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-23
AUTO ACCIDENTS
ARE FATAL TO TWO
Father of Seven Killed in Col
Iision; Student Dies of
Skull Fracture.

Fatally injured when the Auth
Provision Co. truck, which he was
driving, was struck and overturned
by Yellow taxicab, driven by James
Henry Cheek, So, of $685. I street,
at Maryland avenue and Third street
southwest at $50 o'clock this morning.
Lewis Leapley, 40, of 708 G street
southeast, extricated from the truck
by Cheek, walked half block to the
Sharon Dairy at 324 B street south
west, where he told G.. w. Speakes,
route foreman, of 31CS Monroe street
northeast, TO tell his wife to pay his
life insurance at once.
Speakes said Leapley then told him
to telephone the Auth Co. and the
fourth precinct, after which Leapley
went out the door and walked over to
the truck, where he sat down and
died a few minutes later.
Car Is Overturned.
Scarcely seven hours previous to
this fatality, shortly before midnight.
another traffic accident at Connect
cut avenue and S street, resulted in
the death at noon of Thomas
H. Seibert, 81 years old, son of DR..
Edward G.. Seibert, 1917 Seventeenth
street. Johannes Grinstad Bryn,
24-year-old son of the Norwegian
minister, of 2137 r street, at the
wheel of his machine. going west
on S street, had failed to negotiate
the curve at the foot of Connecticut
avenue hill, and the automobile ran
over the curb and across the triangu-
lar parking at that intersection, over
turning and crashing into the auto
mobile of William Mum. % years old,
of 2935 Upton street, with the result
that Seibert and David NJ. Bark
ley, "a years old. son of Repre-
sentative Alben w. Barkley of Ken
lucky, of 1901 Cleveland avenue, pas
sengers in young >Bryn's machine.
sustained severe head injuries. Young
Seibert died at Emergency Hospital.
Barkiey sustained a laceration of
the ear bruises and concussion of the
BRAIN and was taken to Emergency
Hospital, while Bryn was injured
about the read and wrist and severely
shocked. He and Barkley are expected
to recover. Mum was not injured.
Regarding the fatal accident at
Third street and Maryland avenue
southwest, Speakes. the dairy fore
man, said:
''Leapley walked steadily when he
came in the door. but staggered and
reeled when he left. He walked over
to the truck, sat down and died.
called the Emergency Hospital for an
ambulance, but when one came it
was from Casualty Hospital. Being
busy here, could not leave, so / sent
J. A. Jones, 708 Ninth street south
east, driver, to tell Mrs. Leapley to
pay her husbands life insurance at
once.
Leaves Seven Children.
Upon hearing of the death of her
husband, Mrs. Leapley went to the
Casualty Hospital in company with
Mrs. G.. Relucio a neighbor, of 106 G
street southeast There she became
hysterical. according to the nurse at
the hospital, and was taken home
about o'clock by DR.. w. G.. Cantrell.
Mrs. Leapley is left with seven chill
dren to care for. Capt. Walter Need
ham of the Salvation Army said that
everything possible would be done to
help the family. Mrs. Leapley said
that she paid the insurance at once.
The children's names are: Edna, 18,
who is working temporarily: Helen,
IA; Leona, IL; Buddy, 10; Lewis, s; Ma
bel, 5, and Alberta, 2.
Rev. J. z. Slick, pastor of the Meth
odist Church at 407 H street northeast,
said that he would help the family all
he could and that as yet no plans
have been made. The family were in
desperation at the little house this
morning.
Cheek, driver of the taxi, said when
interviewed by g. Star reporter: "I
was coming west on Maryland avenue
and did not see the truck, which was
coming south on Third street south
west. The truck did not have it's
lights on.
"I pulled Leapley out from under
the wheel of the truck where he was
pinned down by heavy boxes of meat,
and he went Immediately to the Sha-
ron Dairy"
Police Are Investigating.
Policeman L. G. Scripture, fourth
precinct, was at Four-and-a-Half and
C streets at the time of the accident,
according to Capt. A. J. Headley, and
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