Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-02
Victim Succumbs at Hospital
Without Regaining Con-
seriousness.
MRS. JULIA E. CLARKE,
ALSO 70, is NEAR DEATH
Witnesses Tell Police She Was Hit
by Street Car, Though Motor.
man Is Uncertain.

Injuries sustained Monday evening
when she was knocked down by an
automobile, proved fatal early this
morning for Mrs. Emma Bonar, 10 years
old, Of 552l Chevy Chase parkway. An
other 70-year-old woman is in Emer-
gency Hospital today unconscious and
near death after being struck by
street car last night. while five other
persons were injured less seriously in
traffic accidents late yesterday.
Mrs. Bonar died in Emergency Hos
2ital at o'clock this morning. She was
injured about 6 o'clock Monday eve
ming, when struck by an automobile
driven by Ernest Bagley, colored, "a
years old. of Bethesda, Md
The driver was arrested by fourteenth
precinct police and charged with reck-
less driving. He was later released I'M
der $500 bond.
For more than IS hours after her in
Jury, Mrs. Bonar was unidentified. Only
a card in her purse indicated who she
was. Finally, relatives located her at
the hospital and definitely established
her identity. She died without regain
ing consciousness. Hospital physicians
said that her skull was fractured and
she was injured internally
The most seriously injured of those in
volved in accidents last night was Mrs.
Julia E. Clarke, 20 years old, of 1890
Twentieth street. According to police,
she was hit at Connecticut avenue and
M street by Washington Railway Il
Electric Co. street car operated by
Motorman H. L. Heisman of l13 West
Virginia avenue. Woodmont. Md.
At Emergency Hospital, where she
was taken in taXicab, her condition
was said to be critical. She has not
recovered consciousness. Physicians
nose and skull also may be broken and
she may have been injured internally.
For several hours. the woman was un-
Identified. but her correct name was
established through cards found on her
person and by her husband, James e.
Clarke, and Miss Bertha Carroll. a
niece, living at the Twentieth street
address.
Heisman told police he did not see
car struck her. Two witnesses, how
ever, maintained that it was the street
car that hit her.
Woodward w. Brook, 10 years old, of
1920 Prospect avenue, was knocked from
his bicycle last evening at Connecticut
avenue and California street by an auto
mobile driven by Irving Albert, 19 years
old, Of 11l9 Sixth street. Brook was
taken to Emergency Hospital in a
passing automobile and treated for
bruises and decorations to his head. His
skull was first thought to be fractured,
but this morning at the hospital his
condition was said not to be serious.
Two colored women and a colored
child were struck and slightly injured
last night by taxicab driven by Ash
ton D. Nixon. The injured are Ethel
Langley, 20 years old: Bertha Brandon,
80 years old, and Reginald S. Brandon,
jr., z years old, all of 1925 T street.
They were treated at Freedmen's Hos
pital The accident occurred in front
of their home.
Lillian Thompson, colored, So years
old, of 1852 Twentieth, was knocked
down by an automobile last night on
the south side of Dupont Circle. Will
liam Hawkins of 1923 Cambridge place,
the driver of the car, sent her to Emer-
gency Hospital in taxicab. She was
treated for a lacerated scalp.