The Indianapolis times., 1928-08-06
AUTO ACCIDENT
Total SLUMPS
over weekend
No Fatalities Reported in
City; MiShapS Are
Minor.

Despite the rain and resulting
slippery pavements, less than the
usual number Of automobile acci-
dents occurred in the city over the
weekend and none of those re-
ported to police were serious.
Mrs. Mary Renner, 931 Lexington
Ave, is suffering from body bruises
as the result of being knocked down
by the automobile of Abe Watts,
Negro, 1877 Harlan ST., at Prospect
and Shelby SITS, Sunday night.
Watts was not held. Mrs. Renner
was taken home.
A touring car, said to contain two
men and girl, crashed into a
safety zone post, skidded across the
sidewalk and into the front of Del
mar Walkers restaurant, 902 E.
Washington ST., breaking the plate
glass window and causing about
500 damage early today. Those in
the machine ran, leaped into an
other car and escaped, according
to police.
Captured After Chase
The car, left at the scene of the
accident, belonged to William
Richey, 1887 Fletcher Ave, foreman
of the Williamson Transfer Com
pany. 324 w. Georgia st. He told
police that he believed one of the
thirteen drivers employed by his
company was using the machine but
he didn't know which one.
Mrs. Fern Vaught, who lives at
the home of Joseph Pittman, R. r.
s, is in st. Francis Hospital with
cut face and bruises as the re-
suit of collision between the Pitt
man car and one driven by Miss
Katherine Phelps, Ontario CanaGa.
The crash occurred at Bethel Ave
and Raymond ST., Sunday.
Phillip Undovic, 757 Haugh St,
faces charges of assault and battery
and reckless driving today as the
result of a collision Sunday be-
tween his automobile and one driven
by Charles Hoover, 3615 Crescent
Ave.
Hoover Was Bruised
When Theodore King, Negro, 1922
Martindale Ave, drove his machine
into that of Floyd Stine, % S. Sum
mitt ST., at Twentieth st. and
Broadway Sunday and then failed
to stop, Stine started in pursuit. He
captured King after a several
blocks chase. Today the Negro
faces charges of failure to stop after
an accident and driving an auto
mobile while intoxicated.
Girl Knocked Down
When he tried to cross the rail-
road tracks without regard to a
crossing, Harry Fowler. London,
Ind, was arrested by police Sunday
and charged with driving an auto
mobile while intoxicated.
Miss Eline Wisehart, 18, of 1923
Brookside Ave, was slightly in
jured when struck by an automobile
driven by Miss Loretta Healy, 1913
E. Tenth St, at Belville Ave. and
Tenth St., Sunday. Miss Healy eX-
planned that her brakes failed to
hold and she was unable to stop
when Miss Wisehart stepped from
behind a parked car into the path
of her machine.
Herbert Galley, 21, of 1112 Mad
ison Ave, and Clifford Bryant,
Negro, 1918 E. Twenty Third St.,
told police that they drove their
cars into a collision at North and
Meridian Sts., Sunday night to
avoid hitting the machine of James
Petty, q N. Gale S.. No one was
injured.
Police today are looking for the
driver Of a roadster which crashed
into the sedan Of William Moriarity,
a. Of 8l9 Woodlawn Ave. The car
was parked in front of his home at
the time and Moriarity gave police
the number of the machine which
struck it.
Rims Into pafrOI