The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-28
6 FATALITIES
IS WEEKEND
TRAFFIC TOLL
Intensive Hunt Starts for
Hit-Skip Driver of
Death Car.
INJURIES REACH SCORE
Two Die Beneath Flaming
WreCkage After Dash
Into Ditch.
INJURIES REACH SCORE

Six indianapolis persons were
dead today as the result of week
end traffic accidents in this city and
central Indiana. More than a score
we're injured in Indianapolis.
The dead:
Mrs. Bessie Hamilton, 34OO block
West Washington street.
George Burker, SO, Of 1109 East
Washington street.
Fred Jackson, II, of 1725 North
Alton street.
John Beekman, 20, of 21O5 Lin
wood avenue.
Verna Bertram, 4, of 8O1 South
Pershing street.
Clarence FoXworthy, 46, of 1914
West New York street.
Statewide search, if necessary,
was urged today by Police Chief
Claude M Worley to arrest the hit
and-run motorist who struck Mrs.
Hamilton and Burker, at Wash
ingtOn street near Highland avenue
Sunday night. Mrs. Hamilton was
killed instantly, and Burker died
early today in city hospital.
Eludes Pursuit
The death car swung around one
machine, hit the pair, and sped on,
eluding pursuit of Mrs. Homer Pc
ters, 500 North Beville avenue, a
witness, police were told. The car
was a green Oldsmobile sedan.
Mr.. Burker, an uncle of Mrs.
Hamilton, is survived by a daugh-
ter Mrs. Katherine Salisbury.
Shelbyville. Funeral arrangements
have not been made.
The Jackson and Beekman youths
died Sunday morning when an auto
in which they were passengers
plunged into a ditch and overturned
ten miles north of Shelbyville on
state Road 20. The car burned after
the crash.
Charles Sumwalt, 10, of 317 North
Wallace street, driver. told police the
trio took three girls to their homes
in Shelbyville. and were returning
to this city. Either Jackson or Beck
man grasped the wheel, he said, and
tire car careened into the ditch. A.
E Dake, near whose home the ac-
cident occurred, pulled the boys
from the flaming wreckage. Sum-
walt was held for coroner'S in
quest.
Funeral Tuesday
Beekman is the son of Fred Beck
man. The body was brought to the
home of his grandparents. Mr.. and
Mrs. John Beekman, 4412 East
Twenty-frst street, where funeral
services will be held Tuesday.
Burial will be in Anderson ceme-
terry. Surviving are three sisters,
two brothers, and widow, from
whom he was separated some time
ago.
jackson lived with his mother and
gtepfather, Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
McAfee. Three sisters and a step
sister survive. Funeral services will
be held at the home at p. m. Tues
day. Burial will be in Memorial
park cemetery.
The Bertram girl was injured IA
tally in her fathers auto when it
was struck by an another car near
Anderson Saturday. Estle Perkins,
%. Anderson, driver of the second
machine, is held under $1,000 bond
pending investigation. The girl is
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Bertram.
Foxworthy was struck by an auto
driven by Mrs. Marie Combs, 102
Reichwine street, at Washington
street and White river boulevard
Sunday night. At city hospital,
7ere physicians said his skull was
,ctured. Mrs. FoXworthy signed a
release and demanded her husband
be taken home. He is said to have
died in the Offices of physician.
Mrs. Combs was arrested on
assault and battery charges, and re-
leased on her own recognizance-
She said she did not see Fox
worthy as he stepped into the
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