The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-11-18
ONE FATALITY
TWENTY HURT,
TRAFFIC TOLL
Victim Was Carrying Liquor
When Hit by Street
Car, Cops Say.
SEEK HIT-RUN DRIVER
GrinS, Speeds Away After
Wrecking Auto Near
GIens Valley.

An unidentified man was dead and
more than twenty others injured
today as the result of traffic acct
dents in and near Indianapolis over
the weekend.
Another man succumbed Sunday
night to injuries received in an auto
crash more than a week ago.
When his sedan collided with an
QUITO driven by Charles Church, So,
Greenwood, at Troy and Brill
streets this morning, Chester Ridout,
Rushville, Pettis Dry Company
agent, sustained a skull fracture
that is expected to result fatally.
Both cars were overturned and
wrecked. Church escaped with only
minor injuries.
The unidentified man, who city
hospital physicians say is about IS,
died less than an hour after he was
struck by Northwestern street car
at Tenth and Illinois streets early
today.
Philip Bird, 80, of 1910 West
Thirty first street, motorman, told
police the man was standing in the
street and stepped in front of the
car. A bottle partly filled with
liquor was found in his pocket, po-
lice say.
Hit Elevation
Othello Power, 60, of 1927 Fletcher
avenue, bailiff of Marion county
coroner's court, injured internally
when his automobile struck an ele-
walton abutment on South street,
near Delaware street, nine days ago,
died at his home Sunday night.
He is survived by the widow and
two daughters.
Three persons, one a child, were
injured today when an automobile
driven by Willie Williams, "a, of
Wichita Falls, Tex, crashed head
on into a car driven by Roy Nichols,
80, of Clayton, Ind, on the National
road, one-half mile west of Ben
Davis.
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Mrs. Minnie Nichols, 40, and Mrs
Edna Nichols, %, occupants of I've
other car, were injured. They were
taken to the city hospital.
A hit-and-run driver Sunday
night struck Paul Jones and Albert
Stanfeld, French Lick, on State
Road No. 81, near Glens Valley.
Both are in Robert Long hospital,
with cuts and bruises.
Edward Conner, Exchange, Ind,
hitch-hiker, to whom the driver
had given a lift" shortly before
the accident, leaped from the speed
ing hit-and-run car and returned
to the injured men. The driver and
his companion grinned and drove on
after striking Jones, and Stanfleld,
Conner said.
Failure to Stop Alleged
Claude Hayes, 9O2 West Twenty
eighth street, was charged with fall
ure to stop after an accident, after
his autmobile is alleged to have
struck Mrs. Oscar Ray, 1850 West
Thirtieth street, at Thirtieth and
Clifton streets Sunday night. She
was not injured seriously.
Others injured were:
Dennis Long, "A, Louisville, KY.
cut and bruised; Mrs. Cora Klus-
man, 40, Greenwood, broken leg;
Miss Laverne Klusman, 90, probably
skull fracture and internal injuries:
Eugene Klusman, IT, and Wilbur
Klusman, 10, cut and bruised; Mrs
John Peterson, Los Angeles, Cal,
broken shoulder; John Peterson,
Los Angeles, cut above eye; Mrs
Cornelius Johnson, 102 East
Twenty-first street, cut on head and
chest; Hope Nelson, Sc, of 1881 West
Washington street. bruised; John
Ronkin, As, Salvation Army hotel,
bruised; Clyde Jewell, 2131 Barrett
street, internal injuries; Mrs. Dora
Stone, 81, wrenched back, and Win
ford Clark, IA, of 427 North Key
stone avenue, cut on head and face.