Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-29
Man Held on Charge of Leav-
ing Accident and Hitting
Youth on Bicycle.
WOMAN IS ARRESTED
ON RECKLESS COUNT
Seven Members of One Family
Treated for Hurts Sus-
tanned in Wreck

Fifteen persons were treated at Dis
trict hospitals late yesterday and last
night for injuries received in trafic
accidents in Washington and nearby
Maryland, including a 9-year-old boy
who was knocked from his bicycle by an
alleged hit-and-run machine leaving the
scene of another crash.
The car collided with parked and
unoccupied car on Bladensburg road
near FleiSchmann's yeast plant, ripping
on one OF its own doors. and then
knocked the youngster, Willard Bab-
cock, 1905 Rhode Island avenue, Mount
Rainier, Md, from his bicycle short
distance away from the first miShap.
The automobile continued on its way
without hating, it is said, but a passing
motorist stopped and removed the boy
to Casualty Hospital, where he was
given first aid treatment for possible
fracture of collar bone and ankle and
decorations of the knee and then dis
charged.
william Hammett, Is years old. of
Sl05 Flower street, Silver Spring, Nd,
said to be the driver of the hit-and-
run machine, surrendered to detectives
at police headquarters a short time
later and was transferred to the twelfth
precinct station, where he was charged
with failing to make known his identity
after an accident.
Woman Driver Arrested.
Fourth precinct police arrested Mrs.
Betty O'Neal, 80 years old, who lives
near Benning, Md, on charges of reck-
less driving and failing to stop after a
collision following crash between her
car and another driven by Raymond l..
nuy{a al If
southwest
Witnesses told police she attempted to
run away after the accident, which oc-
CURED at Sixth and l. streets south
west. Mrs. O'Neal was released under
81 900 bond for appearance in court on
the two trafic charges.
Falling from his bicycle at Fifteenth
and d streets southeast, Edward Reeves,
16 years old, of 1884 Massachusetts,
avenue southeast, suffered broken coll
lar bone and was rushed to Casualty
Hospital for surgical attention. His
condition is not considered serious.
An attache at the Mexican embassy,
Lewis Gonzales, 80 years old, of the
Cavendish Apartments, Fifteenth street
and Columbia road, sustained minor
decorations of the head and left leg
when his automobile struck q cement
abutment He was treated at Emer-
gency Hospital
The young diplomat told police he
was descending the Fifteenth street hill
between v and Euclid streets when the
brakes Of the machine failed to hold
and he turned the car into an abut-
ment in front Of a building formerly
occupied by the Egyptian legation to
halt its wild rush.
Automobile Turns Over.
Maurice @. williams, 40 years old, of
BallSton, Va, suffered severe lacera-
tons of the head when his machine
slipped OF an embankment at Suitland,
Nd. overturned and knocked him un-
conscious.
Motorists who witnessed the accident
removed Williams from the car and
brought him to Casualty Hospital.
where 81 stitches were taken In his
scalp to close the wounds.
Harrison Copeland, colored, of Suit
land, Nd, and six members of his fam
lily were treated at Georgetown Hos
pital yesterday afternoon for injuries
sustained in nearby Maryland when
their car collided with a tree and was
demolished after tire blew out and
threw the machine out Of control,
Private John Spiller of the Prince
Georges County Rescue Squad, had q
narrow escape from serious INJURY Wnen
his automobile skidded on the road and
overturned while he was driving to the
scene Of the accident. Spiller was I'M
hurt and continued on to the crash in
q passing machine.
Copeland was treated at Georgetown
for probable internal injuries and lace
rations Of the face and body while his
wife was cut and bruised. A daughter,
Louise, sustained q broken leg, while
four other children, Rose, Thelma, Will
liam and Harrison, jr., escaped with
cuts and bruises.
Four Others Injured.
Four other colored people were taken
to Emergency and Children's Hospitals
when two automobiles collided at
Twelfth and T streets last night. One
of those hurt, Efie Nickens, 19, of
South Washington, Va, is reported in a
serious condition at Emergency Hospital
with a possible fracture of the skull.
Eleanora Gales, 10, of Fort Myer, Va:
Edward Nickens, 8 months old, and
Robert H. Holley of 1851 Fifteenth
street, driver Of one Of the cars, were
given first aid treatment at Children's
Hospital. Police reported that Rozier
Nickens Of South Washington, Va, was
driving the second machine in the COL
lision.