Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-11
H|T-AND-RUN CAR
KILLS D. C. WOMAN
Police of Three Jurisdictions
Search for Slayer of
Mrs. Weiss.

By q Stan Correspondent of The Star.
VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS, Va, No
vember II The police Of three jurisdic-
tions are today searching for the driver
of an automobile that last night struck
and killed Mrs. Hernie B. Weiss, 1907
Nichols avenue, Anacostia, d. c., as she
stood with her husband, Conrad H,
Weiss, waiting for q bus at Frazier ave-
nue. and the Washington Alexandria
Pike. Mrs. Weiss was pronounced dead
upon arrival at Emergency Hospital
Washington.
Mrs. Weiss and her husband had been
to see their daughter, Mrs. Louise Burke,
Frazier avenue, Virginia Highlands, who
Is Ill, and had walked to the intersection
for transportation home. Weiss says
that they were suddenly startled by the
binding lights of an automobile that
was travelling toward Washington at a
high rate OF speed and that he at
tempted to pull his wife further back
from the road, but was too late to save
her.
Speeding 10 Miles an Hour.
The husband estimated the speed of
the car ut 20 miles an hour, an esti-
mate that was upheld by police when
they learned that Mrs. Weiss had been
dragged for a distance Of 100 feet before
her body was loosed from the front OF
the machine.
Hearing Mr.. Weiss cries of distress,
Frank Mccoy, John G. Williams and
Walter Sweikard, who were In the build
ing of the jefferson District Volunteer
Fire Department short distance away,
rushed to the scene, picked Mrs Weiss
up and, with her husband, rushed her
to the hospital
An investigation OF the scene Of the
accident revealed that one of Mrs
Weiss shoes was lying on an elevated
railroad track more than so feet away
and that combs from her hair and other
personal belongings were scattered for
a radius of so feet.
A short time after Mrs. Weiss was
taken to the hospital Albert Hurshman
600 King street, Alexandria, Va, re-
ported to the first precinct police in
Washington that a machine had passed
him at q high rate of speed short
distance down the road Just before the
accident and that he had been SO
aroused over the speed of the car that
he attempted to get the license mum
Der. The machine bore Virginia license
plates and furnished police with what
he believes were the first three num-
bers. Hurshman said that he was travel
ing in the same direction and that
when he reached the place where Mrs
Weiss was struck the other machine
was already out of sight.
Find Broken Glass.
Police are OF the opinion that the
right front fender on the machine Il
bent, and the headlight broken, for they
fourd glass from q broken headlight
on the road at the point Of the impact
All Of these facts have been given u
Arlington County, Alexandria and
Warrington authorities, all Of whom
are cooperating today in search FOL
the machine.
Mrs. Weiss, who was 81 years old
was a native Of Harpers Ferry, w
Va. but had lived for the past 35 years
in Anacostia, where her husband was
a pharmacist until his retirement q
short time ago. She Is survived only
by her husband and the one daughter
Lord North. "a years Of age, is selling
his hounds at Wroxton, Oxfordshire, due
to excessive taxation.