Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-16
Name maggie 0'Brien" on
Watch Furnishes Only Clue
to Identity.
MRS. IDA ADAMS DIES
AFTER TROLLEY CRASH
Motorman and Truck Driver Placed
Under Bonds; Accidents Occur
in Same Area of City.

Two elderly women were killed In
trafic accidents last night which oc-
Cured almost simultaneously within
two blocks of each other.
The first, who died instantly when
q delivery truck knocked her down ct
Tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue
still lay unidentified at Emergency Hos
pital early today; the second, Mrs. Ida
Adams, 65 years old, died shortly after
midnight at the same hospital, where
she was taken after she had been
crushed under q street car at Ninth
and Z streets.
Mrs Adams lay at the hospital for
several hours before she was identified
by a cousin, Mrs. Hannah Martin, 322
Fourth street northeast, after Mrs. Mar
tin had heard her description broadcast
over the radio. Mrs. Adams resided at
905 Longfellow street.
The fire rescue squad had to be called
to extricate Mrs. Adams from beneath
the street car which felled her.
Watch Furnishes Clue.
A name, Maggie O'Brien," inscribed
on a watch found on the first woman
Is the only clue to her identity. The
police last night broadcast her descrip-
ton as about IS years Of age, feet 8
inches in height, weight ITS pounds.
She wore q dark dress. dark Spring
coat black hat and gray gloves. She
wore glasses. The watch, gold hunt
ing case Waltham, was attached to q
mkn1a
bore the movement numbers 0714234
and case number 073O3
The death Of the unidentified woman
was due to skull fracture and internal
injuries. An inquest win be held to-
morrow morning at IL o'clock at the
Morgue.
Police Immediately arrested Nelson j.
Carroll, colored, % years old, of 1881
Sixth street northeast, driver of the
truck, charged him with having defec-
tive brakes and held him pending the
verdict of the coroner's jury. The po-
lice tested the brakes and reported
them defective.
Mrs. Adams was hit by washington
Railway g. Electric Co. street car when
she walked in front Of the car as It was
bound south on Ninth street at Z street.
Her skull was fractured and she suf-
fered internal injuries and numerous
cuts and bruises to her face and body.
Smith A. wilkins, 46 years old, of
1902 Park Road, operating the street
car which struck the woman, was ar
rested and later released in the custody
of his attorney by police of the first
precinct.
Three Men in Hospital.
James w. Kennedy, So years old Of
10l4 X street, was at Emergency Hos
pital last night after being struck by a
truck operated by Benjamin e. Harris,
rs years old, of 801 L street, while he
was crossing the street in the 900 block
of New York avenue.
Kennedy suffered broken right leg.
possible fracture of the right arm and
shock, physicians reported.
Lacerations of the scalp, a possible
skull fracture and q broken left arm
were received by Robert Brown, colored,
so, Of 1418 @ street, in an accident at
Seventeenth street and Rhode Island
avenue. Brown was felled, police say.
by taxi cab driven by Charles Nelson,
20 years old, who is being held pending
the outcome of Browns injuries.
A 77-year-old pedestrian, William
Andrews of $40 X street northeast, es-
capped with slight shock when struck by
an automobile at Eighth and I streets
northeast.