The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-04
Two Are Injured Fatally in
IndianapoIis-Many
Are Injured.
SEEK HIT-RUN DRIVER
Heavy Toll Is Taken Outside
of City.

Eight persons We're dead To-Day,
the result of Sunday traffic tragedies
in Indiana. Two were killed in In
dianapolis and vicinity.
Local police were without clews to-
day. TO the identity of the "hit and
run" motorist whose automobile sped
on after it had hurled the lifeless
body of Mrs. Katherine Schmidt, As,
of Elwood, Ind, to the curb. Mrs.
Schmidt was struck while crossing
the street at 1900 w. Washington
st. Her husband, Otto J. Schmidt,
stood by, unable to rescue Mrs.
Schmidt from the path of the Ford
coupe.
Schmidt had warned his wife not
to attempt to cross the street,
Russell Lloyd, 1857 w. Twenty
Ninth ST., an eyewitness to the
tragedy, told Police Lieutenant
Leonard Forsythe. Witnesses failed
to obtain the license numbers or a
description of the driver.
George Leap, go, 1914 Sugar Grove
Ave, was fatally injured Sunday
when the borrowed automobile in
which he was riding with three COM
panions struck a bridge near Plain
field, turned over and caught fire.
Driver Held
Richard Wishmire, an Indianapolis
man, driver of the auto, was held in
the Danville, Ind, county Jail on an
involuntary mansliughter charge.
According to Sheriff Harry Rodney
of Danville, Wishmire. said he lives
on S. Sheffield Ave, but a different
address is given in the city directory.
Wishmire, the sheriff said, admitted
he had been drinking.
Miss Charlotte Saline, 90, of 121
E. Vermont ST., also in the auto, was
seriously injured Miss Bertha An.
derson, 20 OF the Vermont st. ad-
dress, suffered only minor hurts.
The automobile had been loaned by
Frank Scampmorte, Anderson, Ind,
for a Sunday trip to Terre Haute,
Ind.
CycIist Killed
Michael Doktor, So, a factory
worker, was killed at South Bend,
when his bicycle was struck by an
automobile driven by Edwin Steph-
ems, 10. Police exonerated the youth.
James w. Golf, "a, a Civil War
veteran, was killed at ingalls, Sun
day when he stepped into the path
of a train.
Levi Imam, 60, was fatally in
jured at Cloverland, near Terre
Haute when his auto was struck by
a L. H, 1. G E. traction car.
Two at Chicago
Arthur Strauck, 81, and Thomas
Mowry, 6S, We're dead as a result OF
an auto-traction crash at East Chi
cago.
Injuries received several days ago
when struck by a train at Sunman
proved fatal to Edgar Schuck, 40,
oil truck driver.
Many Injured
Many persons were injured in
motor mishaps.
Mrs. Don Phillips, f. F. D. No. 1,
Indianapolis, suffered serious in
juries, and her 10.month-old daugh.
ter was slightly hurt in an auto col.
lision.
Charles Winders, so, of 64S Jeffer-
son Ave, is near death in Indiana
Christian Hospital and his wife is
suffering from serious injuries. Their
truck was struck by a Terre Haute,
Indianapolis and Eastern interurban
car near Mooresville Sunday night.
Winders skull was fractured.
Driver Flees
Willie Wilson, 80, Negro, of S04
Minerva ST., is critically injured at
city hospital. Wilson was struck
by an auto as he walked in Tenth
st. near Miley Ave. Police expect
to arrest the driver, who fed.
Others Hurt
Others injured over the weekend: |
Mrs. Bertha Slade and Mrs. Flor
ence Slade, both Of Forty.Sixth st.
and Shadeland Dr.; Grant Mullen
dore, IL N. La Sale St.; Thomas
Perry. rs, Of 1921 Ewing St.; John
Gray, SO, OF $3.50 N. Pennsylvania
St; John Taylor, Cleveland, Ohio;
Lafayette Keaton, -213S Madison
Ave; Mrs. Marlin Below, 1924
Central Ave. and son, Louis, 2; Mrs.
Slavia Gray Of Middletown, Ind;
William Maxwell, 126 w. South ST.;
Dorothy Marshall, 8, of 231 Spring |
St.; Fred Ruth, 81. Of 1926 Newton |
st. and Mrs. Anna Ryan, A, Of |