The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-04
WOMAN BURNED
IN AUTO CRASH
IS NEAR DEATH
Ride Before Picnic Ends in
Tragedy; Youth Also Is
Seriously Hurt.

Holiday joy of two Indianapolis
families was checked by tragedy
Monday morning.
Mrs. Beulah Pedigo, %, of 93a
Park Ave, was burned, probably
fatally, Methodist Hospital attaches
said, when the auto in which she
was taking three brothers and a
little sister out for ride before
starting on a family picnic caught
fire.
James Himan, 10, of 933 w.
Thirtieth, was injured critically
when the auto in which he and five
other youths were returning from
zionsville, where they had gone for
an early morning breakfast, turned
over on the county line road half
mile west of the Michigan Rd.
Goes for Short Ride
While her mother, Mrs. Leila Lee,
1920 Sangster, was preparing for
the family picnic, Mrs. Pedigo start
ed for a ride around the block with
Hanley Lee, 10, Louis Lee, 8, and
Jack Lee, 6, brothers, and Cora
Jane Lee, II, a sister.
AS she was driving west on Thir-
tieth ST., at Temple Ave-, an auto
coming east shot around another
car coming east. She applied the
brakes and as the car skidded her
elder brother, Hanley. grabbed the
steering wheel.
The car ran over the right side
walk, struck a stump, bounced back
into the street. turned around three
times and burst into flames.
Children Are Burned
Hanley pulled the smaller children
from the auto. His sister fell from
the drivers seat. The other children
were painfully, but not seriously.
burned. They were taken to the
Methodist Hospital.
Hanley was burned when his
trousers and shirt caught fire as
he beat out the flames on Mrs. Pedi-
COS clothing. Clothing of George
w. Soller, passerby, who aided, also
was burned.
Eller Lee, father of the critically
burned woman, was killed a year
ago last May, when an auto struck
him and his son Jack at Ashland
and Massachusetts AYES.
Human, critically injured in the
county line road crash, is the son
OF the Rev. John r. Human, pas
tor OF Hillcrest Baptist Church.
Others Are Injured
vernon Hulet, Is, of 3041 North
western Ave-, driver of the car. ac-
cording to Sheriff Omer Hawkins
was badly cut and suffered crushed
limbs. The others, less seriously in
Jured, were Virgil P. Hartman, IT.
OF 1886 Clifton ST.; Manley Marks
Is, of 842 w. Twenty-Eigh ST., and
Adram Lafley, 10, of $50 w. Twenty
Ninth st.
More then twenty persons were in
Jured here in accidents over the
weekend.
Jerry Crawford, 1926 Washington
Blvd, was pinned beneath his auto
when it overturned after coIlidine
with an auto driven by Arthur Reid,
10, of Detroit, Mich, at Thirty
Fourth So and Washington Blvd.
Crawford was taken home and
Reid charged with assault and bat
terry.
Held on Several Charges
Louis Fink, $3.50 N. Meridian ST..
is held at the city prison on charges
of assault and battery, reckless driv-
ing and failure to have proper head
lights and license plates on his auto
Police charge his auto struck John
Foster, %, Negro, of $40 Indiana
Ave-, and Miss Susie Curry, "a, Ne
gro, of 1921 Massachusetts, Ave-, at
North and Alabama SITS. They were
crossing the street Both were sent
to the city hospital in a serious
condition.