Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-31
FOUR MEN KILLED
IN AUTO ACCIDENTS;
MANY ARE INJURED
Phillip MuIIin, 20, Dies When
Car Leaves Highway
on Sharp Curve.
JAMES T. FLANAGAN, TWO
C0LORED MEN VICTIMS
Quartet of Fatalities All Happen
on Maryland High
ways.

Phillip Mullin, % years old, brother
and business associate of George B
Mullin, jr., prominent local contractor
was killed, and Charles Ellis, COL Ritten-
house street, was reported seriously in
jured, when their automobile went of
curve on the road to Chesapeake
Beach, near Owings Station early this
morning.
Young Mullin was the fourth person
killed in as many accidents in nearby
Maryland yesterday afternoon and this
morning.
The other dead are: James T. Elan
igan, 626 Twenty-third street; Robert
Curry, colored, 24OO block of Bennlng
road, and AlonZo Barnes, colored, OF
Sixth street northeast.
Witnesses said the high-powered car
in which Mullin was riding went off the
road at a sharp curve, and Mullin S
throat was cut by flying glass when the
machine struck telegraph pole, cutting
it in two.
Relatives of Ellis were having diff
Guilty locating him this morning. 1t was
reported he had been taken lack to
the physicians who were said to be
attending him could not be located by
telephone. He was not at the Annapolis
hospital.
Away for Week End.
Young Mullin had been spending the
week end at his mothers cottage at
Chesapeake Beach.
He was graduate of the Georgetown
Preparatory School and had worked for
the George B. Mullins Co., Inc, con-
tractors, who built the overhead bridge
at Hyattsville and are now widening
the Baltimore Boulevard south of
Laurel.
The young man was the son of Mrs.
Mary A. Mullin and lived with her at
1874 Webster street.
Flanagan, a clerk. was instantly
killed when a car in which he was
riding alone crashed into a culvert on
the Marlboro pike near District Heights,
Md, about 6:45 am. The car over
turned several times and came to rest
against tree. Flanigans skull was
crushed and his body badly mangled.
A coroner'S jury, under Justice of
Peace Thomas D. Griffith, was impan-
eled on the scene and declared Flanagan
came to his death by his own l1egli-
Igence. State Policeman W. T. Booker
investigated the accident. DR.. James /.
Boyd of Forestville pronounced the man
dead and served as coroners physician.
Car Strikes Pole.
Curry, manager of lunch room in
the 600 block of North Capitol street.
was killed when thrown from an auto
mobile which struck telegraph pole on
the Southern Maryland pike near Silver
Hill, Md.
Police reported Bedford Williams, So.
first block of Massachusetts, avenue, was
the driver of the car. He escaped in
jury, but Berry Simmons, 900 block of
North Capitol street, another passenger,
was hurt in the crash and taken to
Casualty Hospital.
The men said another car, which
failed to stop, forced them into the pole.
A jury summoned by Magistrate Grif-
nth returned verdict of unavoidable
accident. State Patrolman Booker also
investigated the accident.
Barnes was killed when the automo-
bile which he was driving overturned
when he applied the brakes suddenly
on the Gaithersburg pike near Rock
vile. He was pinned beneath the car
ana pronounced dead by DR.. Gilbert ".
Hartley of Rockville.
Passenger Badly Hurt.
Foster Ritchie, colored, % years old,
a passenger in Barnes car, suffered a
fractured skull and internal injuries in
the accident and was in serious con-
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