Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-22
Speed and Slippery Highway
Blamed by Investigator for
Tragedy.
FAMILY OF FIVE UNHURT
AS MACHINE ROLLS OVER
Other District Motorists Injured
in Week End Traffic
Accidents.

One man was killed instantly and
another injured so badly that he died
within few hours after a speeding
roadster which both occupied struck a
telegraph pole, rolled into the ditch.
then crashed into a culvert on the
Washington Baltimore Boulevard near
Laurel early today.
A dog riding in the car escaped with
a broken leg.
Robert Brown Of 1928 Seventeenth
street, was the man killed instantly.
MS companion. John Wilson OF the
sam same address. died at Casualty Hospital,
without regaining consciousness. Walter
Ferrara. driver Of Pittsburgh Wash
ington bus. took Wilson to the hospital.
Brown was about 80 years old, and
Wilson about 28
Wilson was married. his wife resid-
ing at the Seventeenth street address.
Browns family Is thought to live In
Memphis, Tenn.
There were no witnesses to the
accioent. Browns head was crushed
In the crash. and Wilson sustained in
ternal injuries and had both legs broken.
He was pinned under the car. Browns
BODY was taken to the Kaiser under
taking establishment in Laurel.
The car in which the men were
riding belongs to William c. Jones Of
East Lansdale street, Baltimore. Jones
told police he loaned the machine to
wilson to take Brown to Washington
last night: He also is said to Rave
permitted the men to take his German
police dog along for companionship.
The dog was thrown 25 feet from the
car.
Pole Cut in Two.
Sergt. c. E. Duckworth OF the Mary
land State Police Force. who investi-
gated the accident, reported the car
was seen to have gone through Laurel
at high speed about 2:30 this morn
ing. Speed and a slippery roadway
are believed to have caused the acct
oent, Duckworth said. It was raining
when the crash occurred. The tele.
graph pole which the car struck was
severed as II by great knife.
The accident today was one of sew.
eral in nearby Maryland over the week
end In which District residents figured.
;, a FAMILY OF five, small boy who was
their guest. two cats and a dog all
escaped injury this morning when the
automobile IN which they were return
ing from Colonial Beach. Va, rolled
over twice near Wayside. Va, two hours
after they had left the resort.
Frank Newman. attached to the Dis
Srict OF Columbia Fire Department,
Truck No. 4; Mrs. Newman and their
three children, Helen, Elizabeth and
FRANK Newman, jr., and Eddie Fink, q
neighbors child, who had been vaca.
tioiling with them, we're in the car.
According to Mr.. Newman, who was
drlvlng the car. they left Colonial
at O'Clock, when they were passing
through Wayside. another automobile
passed them. Almost instantly, New.
man said, his car swerved and turned
turtle, rolling over twice before coming
to stop on its side. It was raining
at the time and the fireman said he
could not tell whether his machine had
oeen side-swiped by the passing car, or
whether its wheels had slipped of the
road shoulder.
I'VE weren't going much over 10
miles an hour when it happened and
then 1t was all SO quick none of us
knew just how 1t did occur" Newman
said today. I'VE were all in the car
when it stopped rolling-my wife. our
three children and little Eddie Fink,
and the two cats and the dog-and not
one OF us was hurt"
The only damage to the car was a
slightly bent fender. The Newman
party returned to Washington In the
car under its own power.
Other Car Did Not Stop.
In the confusion following the acci-
dent. Newman said he did not know
whether the car which passed them at
the moment they turned over stopped.
Due to the semi-darkness and the rain
he believes the other machines occu-
pants never knew of the accident.
The Newmans live at AIS Randolph
boro pike near Meadows yesterday sent
three Washingtonians to Casualty Hos
pital here and resulted in the arrest of
another on charges of driving while un-
der the influence of liquor and reckless
driving.
The injured are John A. Breen, IS. of
the 1900 block of e street southeast,
who has possible fracture Of the skull:
Mrs; Annie Fitzwater, 81, of the 500
w. Ball, 26, of the 400 block of Ken
tlcky avenue southwest. The latter two
were treated for lacerations.
Prince Georges County Policeman
Frank Prince arrested Charles Francis
Schwab, %, of the 400 block of Six
teenth street southeast. He was re-
leased under $1,000 bond following an
arraignment before Justice of the Peace
Harry Anderson.
= AVA o N0AluCA odIBcIs 1ZUU DlOCk OF
Delaware avenue southwest, was treated
at Casualty Hospital for bruises and
shock sustained in an automobile acci-
dent on the Washington Baltimore pike
near Contee yesterday. She did not re-
main at the hospital.
Maryland State police say the car in
which Mrs. Barger was riding with her
husband, Samuel Barger, collided with
a machine driven by Ridgeley Norris,
colored, 1900 block Of Seventh street,
Washington.
Five Others Hurt.
Five other motorists suffered minor
cuts and bruises last night when the
automobile in which they were riding
was In collision near Annapolis. Md,
Mrs James M. Krieter of 5806 Eighth
street, and her two-year-old son, James,
jr., were treated at Emergency Hospital
in Annapolis for lacerations, severe
bruises and shock.
James M. Krieter and Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Minter, 1473 Irving street, the
other occupants Of the automobile, es-
capped with few bruises and shock.
The other machine was operated, no
lice say, by Louis A. Walker, colored.
,lol4 Forty-fourth street northeast
washington, who declared he was
blinded by the lights Of the Krieter
machine.
A hearing viii be held tonight in An
napolis.