Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-12
THREE IN HOSPITAL
FOLLOWING CRASH
One Dying, Two Less Sc
riousIy Hurt After Taxi
HoId-up.
BY a stan Correspondent Of Tn. star.


BERWYN, Md, May 12.-As one man
lay dying today in Casualty Hospital,
Washington, and his two companions
were reported recovering in the same
institution from injuries received when
a stolen car in which they were riding
crashed into q bus near here yesterday,
washington police entered formal
charges Of grand larceny against the
trio, while in Montgomery County war
rants were issued against them charging
robbery Of q taxicab driver.
The most seriously injured is Law
renee Minnix, 20 years old, of Alex
andria, Va, who has q crushed skull,
severe decorations about the left Shout
der and right arm and internal injuries.
His companions, who escaped with lesser
hurts, are Kenneth Poole, 20 years old,
also of Alexandria, who suffered severe
decorations of the head, and William
Gator, 10 years old, TOO block Of D street
northeast, who was bruised about the
head and body.
All Unconscious.
All were unconscious when taken to
the hospital early yesterday morning by
after crashing into Washington bound
intercity bus, operated by Edgar Trot-
man, near Berwyn.
According to H. l.. Leonard, chief of
the rescue squad, the car in which the
three men were riding tried to pass two
other machines. The bus driver, at
tempting to avert collision, drove en-
tirely of the road and had come to q
stop when the other car crashed head
on into the big vehicle. The passenger
car Immediately caught fire, and Trot-
man extinguished the blaze, Leonard
says. The bus was crippled by the i'm
pact, but neither Trotman nor the two
passengers who occupied the bus were
injured.
As the rescue squad rushed the three
injured men to the hospital, one was
found to be carrying a loaded .32-cali-
Der revolver while another had guam
tity of cartridges in his pockets.
The car in which they were riding
belonged to Frank L. Ferrone, an In
surance agent, who lives at 1924 Euclid
street. 1t was demolished. Ferrone told
police he parked his machine about
8:15 o'clock Saturday night on Eighth
street between + and ] streets. He did
nc see 1t again until yesterday morn
ing, when he identified all that was
left of 1t at the garage Of Justice OF
the Peace George Phillips here. At that
time it bore tags which, police say, had
block of Grant road. Ferrone's tags
were missing. The grand larceny
charges against the men are the result
Of the theft Of Ferrone's machine.
Identified by Taxi Driver.
The robbery charges were preferred
after two Of the men had been tdentt-
fed by James j. Hill, 81 years old, OF
Cherrydale, Va, driver for q taxicab
company, as the men who took SIS
away from him and stole his car on
lonely Maryland road Saturday night:
Montgomery County police said they
were not sure just which two Hill
claimed robbed him, so obtained the
three warrants from Justice of the
Peace Caddington for extradition pur-
poses. One warrant will be nolle
pressed, they said.
night he was hired by two men at
Ninth street and Pennsylvania avenue
and drove to Alexandria. Upon arriv-
ing In that city his fares ordered him
back to washington, and at Nineteenth
and @ streets one of the men knocked
him on the head with a revolver and
took the wheel away from him.
The cab was then driven out the
Colesyille pike to the Micamine road,
little used county road, between Glen
mount and ColeSville. Hill SAID ne was
f, tied to a tree about 300 yards from the
road and robbed at the point OF gun
| The men took his cap and told him
they wanted his cab to pull job" ac-
| cording to police.
About l am Hill succeeded In freeing
himself, walked miles to Wheaton and
called police. Patrolman Joseph Nolte
who responded, broadcast lookout Tor
the hold-up men. Hills cab has not
been recovered.
Detectives Jet, Wolf and Davis OF
the headquarters automobile squad In
vestigated the activities OF Minnlx
Gator and Poole in conjunction with
Detective Sergts. Kuehlin and Finley
Police say the trio's movements during
the past few months will be checked IN
connection with a series of hold-ups in
and around Washington perpetrated re-
Gently by three men.