Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-03
TRAFFIC CRASHES
FATAL TO THREE
DURING WEEK END
Liquor Found in Car After
Woman Expires From
Loss of Blood.
SIX OTHERS INJURED,
ONE IS GRAvELY ILL
One Auto Hits Fence, Another
Parked Car on Road, and
Third Smashes Tree.

| suffered in an automobile crash yes
terday at Clarksburg, Md. Gloyds
death was the third fatality which re-
suited from week end traffic in WASH
| tngton, nearby Maryland and Virginia.
Six other persons were injured, olAe
| seriously.
While Maryland authorities concluded
their investigation of the accident in
| which Gloyd was killed, justice of the
peace at Fairfax, Va, was preparing
Tor hearing today on charges of vio-
| lating the prohibition law against two
young men. following an accident on
the Lee Highway yesterday in when @
Washington woman lost her life while
| passenger in their car.
The woman, Mrs. Gladys Starr, IS
years old, Of No. 40 D street southwest,
bled to death about o'clock yesterday
morning. A branch from one of the
| trees along the highway about a mile
| above Fairfax pierced her jugular vein
when the automobile ran Off the road
| and crashed through a rail fence.
Her companions, Thomas J. Van Pelt,
! II years old, steam filter of Cheverly,
| Md. and James H. Colbert, % years old.
clerk Of Cottage City, Md, were taken
to Fairfax Jail by Sheriff Kirby, who
said he found pint bottle half full
| OF liquor in pocket of the car.
1T was further testified at an inquest
in Kirby,s Office yesterday that two
| other bottles were thrown out of the
car before police arrived.
Authorities are also investigating the
story OF the young men to learn If they
had violated any Federal laws.
Skull Injuries Fatal.
The third fatality occurred in WASH
ington last midnight, when William r.
Jarboe, % years old, of 3714 Twelfth
street northeast, died at Sibley of a
fractured skull and two broken legs
received Friday night. Jarboe was
| driving when he lost control of his car
In front of Trinity College and the ma
chine hit tree at Michigan avenue and
| North Capitol street.
Jarboe was removed from his wrecked
| machine by H. H. Byrne, Washington
| attorney, who happened to drive BY a
| lew minutes after the accident. Byrne
took Jarooe to the hospital, where doc
tors ct fl. st were hopeful they could
pull him through after a successful
| operation to remove splinters of bone
| from the skull.
Coroner j. Ramsay hewitt issued n
certl1cate OF accidental death today in
| the Jarboe case, while a similar certifi-
cate was issued after the inquest at
FalrfaX yesterday in the death Of Mrs,
Starr.
Woman Hurt Seriously.
The seriously injured victim Of yes
terday's traffic miShapS were Mrs. Mary
Halter. % years old. of 500 G Street
southeast, who was riding with Gloyd
when his machine crashed into a parked
Car. She received broken law and
possible internal injuries. Doctors said
ner condltlon was grave today, but that
she probably would recover.
Inc accident occurred early SUNDAY
morning as Gloyd'S car rounded a curve
ana came suddenly on the parked car,
occupied by Willis H Mulher and
francis Conroy, Georgetown University
students, who had run out of gasoline.
Gloyd and Mrs. Halter had been
visiting the latter's parents in Frederick
ana were returning to Washington.
mrs. Haller also was taken to Frederick
City Hospital. Gloyd was well known
as a soccer player in Gaithersburg, Md
where he was employed by the General
Electric Co.
Auto Turns Over
The accident near Fairfax resulted
IN a fractured rib for Colbert although
Van Pelt escaped with minor cuts and
bruises. Marks on the highway showed
the car f1rst struck the fence on the
right, then swung back and somer-
saulted through the fence OH the left.
Ihe machine was wrecked completely.
Mrs. Starr soon lost consciousness
from the wound in her throat and died
before she could be moved from the
scene. The body was removed to e. w.
Groh'S funeral parlors, In Fairfax. She
could be identified at first only as
GLADYS" by her companions. Authori-
ties learned who she was by commune
eating with Washington detective head
quarters. who telephoned several men
whose names had been found in a note
book which the dead woman had on her
person.
Questioned regarding the liquor, the
young men denied that they had been
drinking. The girl, they said had
placed several bottles in the machine
when the party left home.
Check Mems Stories.
Authorities are checking on the
stories of the pair. Colbert, they said,
at first gave his name as James Mills
and was known In Cottage City by that
name. He testified at the inquest he
was on probation from the Maryland
House of Correction on q sentence for
assault and battery.
Mrs. Starr was said to have been
separated from her husband. She was
the daughter Of Mrs. George Crist of
Baltimore.
Colbert said he and Mrs. Starr in
vited Van Pelt last Saturday midnight
to go with them to Leesburg to visit
Colberts relatives, and that they left
DIN Van Pelt's car shortly later.
Mrs. Florence Sherlock, 48 years old,
of 1912 Twelfth street, suffered a DOS
sible fracture of the skull last night
when knocked down by an automobile
as she was crossing the intersection
Of Tenth street and New York avenue
Witnesses told police Mrs. Sherlock
walked into the side Of a machine
operated by Arthur B. White, 80, of
2848 Myrtle avenue northeast White
declared he did not know the woman
had been struck by his machine. Mrs.
Sherlock is under the care of physicians
at the Emergency Hospital.
Minor bruises were received by Mrs.
Jessie M. Loving, As, of $40 Aspen
street, yesterday afternoon when an
automobile driven by Chester M. An
derson, IS Carroll Manor, Takoma
Park. struck her. A nearby physician
treated her.
George Gillespie, colored, 23, Of Balti-
more. was charged with driving while
drunk after an accident at Fifth and
P streets in which he received q frac-
tured collar bone last night. He was
taken to Freedmer's Hospital for treat
ment
Gillespie's motor cycle crashed into
q car operated by Raymond Banks.
colored, 10, Of the 2l00 block Of second