Evening star., 1929-01-04
THREE ARE INJURED
AS BUS HITS TREE
Two Policemen Injured When
Motor Cycles and Auto
mobiles Collide.

Three persons were slightly injured
last night when a Washington Railway
Electric Co. bus bound for Burleith
crashed into tree at Seventeenth anc
K streets after a collision with an auto.
mobile operated by Lieut.. Col Henry c
Merriam. Coast Artillery. United States
Army. Col Merriam is stationed at the
War Colleg' and lives at the Army and
Navy Club.
The most seriously injured was the
driver. Wilson Jones. 35 years old, OF
So Otis place, who was said at Emer-
gency Hospital. where he and the others
were taken IN passing automobiles to be
suffering from internal injuries as re-
suit of being thrown against the steering
wheel
Second Crash at Corner.
Besides Jones the injured were Mrs
Bess M Hatner. SO years old of l70s
Surrey lane, treated for lacerationS tC
her chin and shock. and Henry P. Bles-
ser, 80 years old. of BIAS Mount Pleas
ant street. a bruised back. Miss Mar
garet Stanton, 35 years old. of 202s
rhirty-flfth street. also sustained minor
bruises but refused hospital treatment
Only four or five persons were in the
bus at the time of the accident.
The mishap last night was the second
collision at the corner of Seventeenth
and K streets within II hours and also
the second IN which q washington Rail-
way &. Electric Co. bus figured. At the
same corner early yesterday morning
H. r. smiley. said by police to have been
The driver ot a small closed car. was
thrown out of his machine when it was
struck by another automobile driven by
Murray OMalley of Elkridge, Md.
Neither man was injured.
The other bus accident occurred yes
terday afternoon when the machine
oocrated by Emora D. Leatherman of
1885 Fourteenth street was struck by
an automobile as it was making a left
turn into r street from Thirty-SiXth
street.
Policemen Injured.
Mrs. Olga M. Berezoski of 1925 Sew
enteenth street, the driver of the auto
mobile was taken to Georgetown HoSpi-
tai in a passing caT and treated for
brlise to her nose, eye and both knees.
Two motor cycle policemen were in
jured late last night and early this
morning when their machines were in
collision with automobiles. The driver
of one of the cars was arrested.
While chasing a speeder along Four
teenth street at Euclid street. the motor
cycle ridden by Policeman Earl Baker
of the second precinct and an auto
mobile operated by Stanley G. Ben
jamin of 1927 First street northeast
collided. Baker was taken to Emergency
Hospital in the second precinct patrol
and treated for possible fracture of
his left elbow and bruises.
Policeman Jesse D. Martin, 81 years
old, of the thirteenth precinct, sustain
ed bruises and decorations to his right
leg. when a car driven by Henry s.,
Stine of 4731 Georgia avenue collided
with his motor cycle a few minutes
before last midnight at Georgia avenue
and Gallatin street. Martin placed
Stine under arrest for failure to give
right of way. then summoned the police
car, which took him to Walter Reed
Hospital. Stine was later released
under $40 collateral.
Benjamin Abrams, 40 years old. stop
ping at the Lee House, was struck and
knocked down by an automobile driven
by Eli Milton Mitchell, jr, II years
old, of 2422 Third street northeast, yes
terday evening as he was crossing
Vermont avenue at K street.. Abrams
was taken 20 Emergency Hospital by
Mitchell. There he was said to be
suffering from a sprained left thigh.