Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-20
YOUTH FACES -FOUR
TRAFFIC CHARGES
AFTER WILD RIDE
Crashes Into Three Cars, In
iuring Four Persons, With
Stolen Taxi.
WOMAN SERIOUSLY HURT
AS CAB RUNS INTO AUTO
Arthur Johnston Held on Charge of
Joy-Riding, Hit-Run and
Drunken Driving.

Smashing three machines and in
juring four persons in a wild ride in
q stolen taXicab last night landed
Arthur Johnston, 10, Of 422 Fifteenth
street southeast in a cell at the first
precinct police station on charges of
joy-riding, hit-and-run, driving while
drunk and going the wrong way on
a one-way street.
Mrs. Ella Strasburger, 38, of 2805
Ontario road is the most seriously hurt
of Johnston's four victims. Her con-
dition was reported as undetermined
today at the George Washington Uni
versity Hospital, where she is suffering
from a possible fracture of the skull
and decorations of the scalp.
Taxi Strikes Automobile.
Mrs. Strasburger was riding in car
driven by her husband, Milton Stras-
burger, when the careening cab struck
their automobile at New York avenue
and H street and continued on. Her
husband received minor decorations.
Johnston's mad ride started in front
of the Hay-Adams House, at Sixteenth
and H streets, where, police say, he
entered a cab of the Wardman Taxi
cab Co. and drove of. He first struck
Morton Foster, II, Of 436 M street.
the youth sustaining decorations and
commissions of the legs. He refused hos
pital treatment.
The cab continued downtown until
the StraSburger automobile was struck
The taxi swayed into another car oper-
ated by william Price, colored, OF 1888
I street, few blocks away and john
son abandoned the cab and started on
q run from the scene.
A. w. Blake, night Waterman, en-
81 hal Lob
felled with a blow in the face. Fred G.
Williams, a taxicab driver, subdueo
johnson, however, and held him until
Policemen M. N. Stottlemyer and v. M
Gale of the first precinct arrived ano
placed him under arrest.
johnson will be arraigned In Police
Court tomorrow, police said.
Girl Injured in Collision.
Miss Ruth Royce, IS, of 1910 x street
injured in a triple collision between 9
taxicab and two automobiles last nlgh,
In the 1900 block Of K street, Is al
Emergency Hospital.
Miss Rovce was a passenger In q taxi
cab driven by Frank T. Feifer OF 3O2
Massachusetts avenue northeast. The
cab collided, spolice say, with an auto
mobile operated by Mary E. Chapman
of silver Spring, Md, and, In turn, was
struck by a machine driven by Charles
]. Southworth of 1851 Fairmont street
Mrs. Fannie Hoover, 10, Of 9l5 New
York avenue, escaped injury when
knocked down by taXicab driven py
Carl Eidhammer, 50, of Alexandra. Sne
refused hospital treatment ana walked
from the scene of the accident.
Two colored people were seriously M
iured in traffic accidents last night, po-
lice reported. They are Minnie Echols
rs. of 41O Fifteenth street nortneast
and Lawrence Brooks, Is, OF 2540 sixth
street. The former was knocked down
on Thirteenth street near M by an AL.
tomobile driven by August Crabs OF
2478 Eighteenth street and was taken
to Emergency Hospital:
A ride on the rear bumper OF car
operated by Albert F. Taylor OF Land
over, Md, sent the Brooks youth 10 the
Children's Hospital with broken collar
bone and possible internal injuries. He
lost his grip on the machine and fell
to the street as the vehicle crossed
Fourteenth street at U.
Five-year-old John GallonzSo, OF S3S
MARYLAND avenue southwest, Was
knocked down and seriously injured %
an automobile driven by Lewis j. Bent
lev of Alexandria, Va, this morning
while the youngster was playing in the
900 block of G street southwest.
The boy was removed to Emergency
Hospital. Bentley Is held at No. pre-
cinct pending the outcome OF his IN
iuries.