Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-13
MESSENGER BOY,15,
DIES AT TER CRASH
Score of Others Injured in
Series of Accidents Over
Week End.

George P. O'Bannon, 15-year-old
messenger boy of 325 E street north
east. died at Sibley Hospital last
night of injuries received Saturday
mornin., in the grounds at Catholic
University when his motor cycle
was in collision with IN automobile
driven by Louis L. Armelin, 24-year-
old student at the university. Arme-
lin was not held.
An inquest was scheduled this after
noon.
A score Of injuries, some of the vic
tins being in serious condition, was
the toll ta,-cn by traffic accidents over
the week end.
Two motor cycle policemen, Willard
F. Collins and John ID. Yoder, mem
bers of No. 3 command, were IN
iured in collisions yesterday after
noon. Yoder was hurt severely when
his motor cycle and an automobile col
lided near Washington Circle. He
was treated at Emergency Hospital
Collins received a slight injury to his
knee when his motor cycle colllded
with an automobile at Thirty-tifth
and T streets.
woman l1OSeS
Miss Mary Louise Bishop. 10 years
old, tf 154 Eleventh street southeast
suffered the loss of three fingers when
the automobile in which she was rid
ing crashed into a cement porch, then
uprooted a +~-e on Connecticut ave-
nue. near Chevy Chase Lake early yes
terday morning.
Montgomery County police were no.
titled by local authorities that Will
liam o. Jackson of 512 Alabama ave-
nue. southeast drove the car.
Helen Myers, 10 years old, 1925
Rock Creek Church road, was serious
ly injured late yesterday afternoon
when the automobile of Oscar Zook
Takoma Park, in which she was pas
senger, collided with the automobile
of Alfred Nillson, Cherrydale, Va, at
Blair road and Longfellow street.
She was given first aid at Walter
Reed Hospital for possible internal in
juries and removed to Emergency
Hospital. Gertrude Lloyd, % years
old, Capitol Heights, Nd, another &C.
cupant of the car, less seriously in
jured, also received first aid at Walter
Reed
William A. Smith, 81 years old, Of
1112 Tenth street, was badly injured
last night about 10 o'clock when his
automobile and street car were in
collision at New York and Florida
avenues northeast. He was treated
at Emergency Hospital for possible
fracture of the skull.
Four Hurt i'm Crash.
Raymond F. Cleeh, 80 years old, of
1451 Pennsylvania avenue; Raymond
Cleeh, 10; Virginia Cleeh, 5, and Nellie
F. Cornell, a 7-year-old visitor of
Rochester, N. Y, were injured yester-
day afternoon when the Cleeh car
was in collision with another at Bla-
densburg road and Thirtieth street.
Ali were treated at Casualty Hospital.
Others injured in traffic accidents
yesterday were Rev. Edward Young,
colored, 60 years old, 1856 Union street
southwest; E. r. Martin, 63 years old,
1910 N street: Edgar D. Glassford, %
years old, 1911 North Capitol street:
Grace Ashton, 20 years old, 1649 CO.
lumbia road; Mary E. Edwards, q
years old, $50 Kenyon street; George
j. Blundell, SO years old, Brentwood;
James Meredith, IS years old, 2209 M
street; Miss Annie c. Plumley, So, of
1925 Fifteenth street, who was struck
by taxi driven by Nathaniel F. Co.
mer Of 2141 T street, at Fifteenth and
K streets, and Albert c. Hall, 80, col
ored, Of 80 Twelfth street southeast.