Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-23
Two Boys Meet Death I'M
Motor Cycle Collision
With Automobile.
MOTORIST TELLS POLICE
HE DID NOT FLEE SCENE
Miss Mary Herman Is Victim and
Male Companion May Die.
Two Others Injured.

Four persons we're killed and two in
jured seriously in series OF trafnc &C
cidents last night and early this morn
ing in the District and nearby Virginia.
Two of those killed were 15-year-old
boys-Howard Kidwell of Fairfax, Va,
and Wilbur Mcdonald of Oakton, Va.
A third victim was an unidentified col
ored woman, who was struck by an
automobile in Arlington County, Va.
A hit-and-run driver was responsible
for the other accident, which resulted
in the death of Miss Mary Herman, 43
years old, of 1921 Seventh street, and
the serious injury of her companion,
Harry Heigberger, As years old, Of 20
w street.
Were Crossing Street.
Heigberger and Miss Herman were
crossing Rhode Island avenue north
east at v street about 80 O'Clock this
morning, when they we're struck by a
machine which failed to STOP Both
were tossed about 10 feet. Miss Kier-
nan died instantly of a fractured skull
and Heigberger was taken to Emergency
Hospital in dying condition.
At 3 o'clock this morning George
Warren Graham, 30, of SO Rhode Island
avenue, called police and reported he
believed ne had been in an accident on
Rhode Island avenue. He was arrested
and taken to No. IL precinct station,
where police said he admitted hitting
the man and woman, but that he did
not flee from the scene. He said he
stopped and helped bystanders place
them into cab. No charge had been
preferred against him.
Another hit-and-run driver was re-
SponSible for the second serious injury,
the victim being Louis Honesty, colored,
20 years old, of Vienna. Va. He was
struck while crossing Key Bridge, and
taken to Georgetown University Hospital
with compound fractures Of the legs and
other injuries.
The two boys, Kidwell and McDon-
aid, were killed instantly about 8 o'clock
last night, when a motor cycle on which
they were riding collided on the Chain
Bridge road near Oakton with an auto
mobile driven by George w. johnson
of Glen Echo, Md.
The impact of the collision tore on
one side Of Johnson's car and the
shattered glass severely cut his wife
and Raymond Cook who were In the
machine with him. Three young chill
dren of Mr.. and Mrs. johnson, who also
were in the car, escaped injury.
Mrs. johnson and Cook were taken
to Georgetown University Hospital for
treatment. Their injuries are not con-
sidered serious.
Collide at Turn in Road.
The accident occurred at o sharp
turn in the road johnson told Fairfax
County police that when he saw the
motor cycle approaching on the curve
he did not have time to Swerve his car
to avoid the collision.
Kidwell and Mcdonald were riding
a motor cycle owned by John Bell Of
Oakton, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh
Bell. The boys had borrowed it for a
trip to Vienna and collided with john
sons car about five minutes after leaV-
ing Bells home.
Earlier in the evening Bell had driven
the motor cycle to Fairfax to visit Kid
well, who lived there with his widowed
mother and his sister and brother-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. George King Davis.
Kidwell later returned to Oakton with
Bell and loaned the two boys his motor
cycle when he went to visit a girl,
taking the Bell family car.
The bodies of Kidwell and Mcdonald
were removed to Moneys undertaking
establishment in Vienna, where an in
quest was conducted by Coroner C. A
Ransom.
McDonald's father is employed In the
press room of the Fairfax Herald.