Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-13
DA|RYMAN KILLED
BETWEEN Z TRUCKS
R. A. Cady Crushed to Death
When Machine Backs.
AL. Brown Dies.

Caught between two milk trucks when
one accidentally lurched backward. in
an alley on Eleventh street, between
Irving and Kenyon streets, Richard A
Cady, IL years old, proprietor of the
Hilltop Dairy, 3118 Eleventh street. was
crushed to death this morning. "
The lifeless form of the man was
pulled from between the tailgates of the
trucks, where 1t was tightly wedged, ano
taken to the Office in the rear of his
| dairy, where life was pronounced ex.
tinct by DR.. E. l.. Cornish of 1867 Ir.
| wing street. and an ambulance surgeon
| from Emergency Hospital.
| Francis Valdenar. milk dealer of Sill
| yer Spring. Md. driver of the trucl
| which backed into Cady. was held b,
police at the tenth precinct to avail
action by the coroner. An inquest viii
be held at the District morgue tomor
row morning.
| The dead man, who was unmarried
lived with his mother, Mrs. Frances
Cady. and married sister, Mrs. Bessie
Owen, In an apartment, at 1919 Park
road. He was former Navy YARD
worker, and had only entered the dairy
business recently with Thomas F. Mudd
6l3 Fifth street northeast.
fnne0 beLWeM MaCnfneS.
According to Mudd, Cady was stand
ing in the alley near his dairy talking
with Valdenar. who had just unloadeo
his milk truck. when another truck
operated by James Anderson of Silver
Spring. and owned by Charles A. Hobbs
OF Colesville, Md. backed into the alley
Valdenar was asked to move his truck
so Hobbs could unload.
Cady, Mudd said, remained where he
had been standing while Vladenar
jumped into his truck and started for
ward, the other truck remaining station
airy. Cady was trying to close the tail
gate of Valdenar's truck when without
warning 1t jerked backward. He was
pinned so tightly between the two trucks
tnat physicians said death must have
been almost instantaneous.
Rev. Joseph A. Moran, assistant rec
tor of the Shrine of the Sacred Heart.
Sixteenth and Park road, was called to
administer the last rites of the Catholic
Church.
Capt. Ira Sheetz OF the tenth pre-
cinct. who took Valdemar into custody,
said he probably would be permitted to
return home in the custody Of Mudd
pending the inquest.
DlcS Oh Auto injuries.
Cady's was the second traffic death
here today, the first being Arthur L..
Brown. 25 years old. of l147 New Hamn-
shire avenue. who died earlier this
morning of injuries received when he
was struck by an automobile, March G..
At that time it was thought his hurts
were only slight.
Police reported that Brown stepped
in front OF an automobile, driven BY
Paul N. Tuck of 17l8 Twenty-second
street, at Twentieth street and Massa-
chusetts avenue. He was treated for
decorations to his forehead and chin be-
fore the serious nature of his hurts was
ascertained.
Police have taken steps to notify his
mother, Mrs. Ella Brown of Louisville.
Kans
Juanita Ross, colored, Z years old, OF
1l49 Sixteenth street northeast. was
treated at Casualty Hospital by Of.
Louis Jimal last evening for minor
bruises. after she was struck on Blad-
ensburg road northeast. near Lewis
street. by an automobile operated by
Charles c. Foote of Berwyn. Md She
later was transferred to the Children's
Hospital and then home.