Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-21
BURIAL IS DELAYED
TO AWAIT INQUEST
Fatal Traffic Accident Not
Reported Until Body Was
Ready for Grave.

Failure Of the principals to notify
the police Of q traffic death until after
the body had been prepared for buria'
q day later was the subject Of an ia
VeStgation today by eleventh precinct
police. In order to give them plenty !;
opportunity TO look into the matter
Coroner J. Ramsey hewitt has delayed
the inquest until tomorrow.
The dead man was George Saunders
colored. IS years old. 45o6 Sheriff road
northeast. He Succumbed Sunday al
his home 10 injuries suffered Angus;
6. when he was struck in front Of his
home by an automobile driven by Will
liam Francis Stokes colored 4322
Sheriff road northeast He was treated
by DR. J. NJ Brady 1912 Kanilwor,h
avenue northeast for a fractured hip
He died Sunday and preparations were
well under way for the funeral before
police learned Of the case. they say.
Another Fatality Listed.
Saunders death was the second
traffic fatality reported 10 police yes
terday The first was that of Catherine
PAYNE. colored SIS years old, l24 Ken
dali avenue northeast. She died at 5
o'clock yesterday afternoon in Freed
mems Hospital from injuries received
20 minutes before that when she was
struck by an automobile operated by
Resale B. Thomas. Colored, 524 /
street northeast, at Morse street and
West Virginia avenue northeast. Police
say the Payne woman was walking or
the sidewalk when the aufomoblle
mounted the curb and struck her An
inquest will be held today.
Frank {. Williams. 55 years old. OF
Vienna. Va, was seriously injured last
night when his automobile was III a
collision at Nineteenth and n streets
with an automobile operated by James
n. Titcomb. 1877 New Hampshire ave
nue.. Williams was taken to Emergency
Hospital and found to be suffering
from fractures of the right leg and left
arm and a liberation Of the left leg.
Charged With Intoxication.
After he was treated at Freedmen s
Hospital last night for injuries received
when he was knocked down on Georgia
avenue near Z street by a street car,
James RYE. AZ years old. i047 Quebec
street, was charged with intoxicatlon
and sent to Gallinger Hospital for
observation.
Nick Fazzeno, 40 years old, go Ninth
street southeast. suffered severe in
jury TO the hand and wrist yesterday
afternoon in a collision at Connecticut
avenue and Military road. He was
treated at Emergency Hospital. VIII
liam Perry. 9 years OLD, 2007 Klingle
road, was treated at the same hospital
for a laceration to the knee, received
when he was knocked down by an
automobile at Seventh and F streets.
Neither was seriously hurt.
Ten Added to Accident Record.
Ten other accidents in which no
personal injury resulted were mentioned
in police records for the % hours ended
at s o'clock this morning. An auto
mobile owned and driven by David B.
Fawcett, 1913 Crittenden street, was
damaged 10 the amount of $500 as q
result Of collision at Twenty second
and Monroe streets northeast about
$50 o'clock yesterday afternoon, with
q motor truck driven by Truen1an
Faulkner. Hume Springs. Va.
Three motor vehicles were involved
In an accident at Virginia avenue and
Eighth street southeast late in the
afternoon. A taxicab driven by Logan
Fields. colored, $40 Rhode Island ave-
nue., and q truck driven by Richard
Hume. colored. q Pierce street. collided
with force enough TO hurl the taxicab
against the parked machine Of Harry
Chenowith, 705 North Carolina avenue
southeast
John Weir. Carmody Hills. Md. and
william w Turner, colored, 2l3 Sixty
second street northeast, were drivers Of
cars that collided at Sixty-first and Dix
streets northeast about AIS O'Clock in
the afternoon. slight damage to both
cars resulting
collision on Benning road north
east near the plant Of Potomac Electric
Power Co. Benning Bridge. occurred