Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-20
EIGHT MEET DEATH
DURING WEEK END
Merchant Falls Off Train in
MaryIand-Virginia Driver
Is Killed.

Violent and accidental deaths took
the lives of eight persons in nearby
Maryland and Virginia over the week
end. The body of a ninth person
who died last week was found in the
Potomac
Most of the accidents were in West
ern Maryland, where a merchant who
mysteriously fell of fast train from
Washington died in a Frederick hos
pital; a fisherman. believed to have
rolled into the river while sleeping,
was found at Hancock: a miner COM
mitted suicide, after being twice dis
armed, and a HagerStown man sue
cumbed to the fumes from the exhaust
of his automobile.
In Virginia the fatalities included q
woman who burned to death following
an automobile accident near Richmond,
and an Arlington County man. who
was accidentally asphyxiated in his
home.
Soldier Fatally Hurt.
Charles Oliver Miller 21-year- old
soldier stationed at Boiling Field, was
fatally injured on the Southern Mary
land pike yesterday, when an automo-
bile in which he was riding overturned
after being struck by another car.
Miller was pinned beneath the car
and sustained a fractured skull. He
was pronounced dead upon arrived at
Casualty Hospital. where he was taken
in passing machine.
Russell A. Boggs, another Boiling
Field soldier and two girls who were
riding in the machine with Miller, es-
capped injury.
The car which struck the machine in
which Martin was riding failed to stop,
police were told.
Stabbed in the back during a
"grudge fight" and left bleeding on the
sidewalk Saturday night at the square
at Emrnitsburg Morris Fitz, 80, En-
mitSburg, is at the Gettysburg Hospital
in serious condition. Elmer Wetzel,
Blue Ridge Summit, and John Wetzel,
Waynesboro, Pa, brothers, accused as
his aSsailantS, are at the Frederick
County Jail. being held without bond.
County officers say the Wetzel brothers
met Fitz at EmmitSburg Saturday night
and fight ensued. They also charge
that the Ill feeling between the in
1ured man and the brothers has been
Of long standing.
Man Found on Tracks.
Harry NJ. Rich, 26-year-old manager
OF chain store in McKeeSport, Pa,
who was found unconscious on the rail-
road tracks near Catoctin SWith, clad
only in his trousers, died in Frederick
County MD Hospital last night
Rich was returning to his home from
Washington with a party of business
men who missed him when they arrived
in McKeesport. As Rich was travelling
on fast train, all the doors and win
dows Of which are kept closed, his pres
ence on the tracks has myStified rail-
road officials who are investigating.
The body of Chester Hiles, As, who
has been missing from Berkeley Springs,
w. Va, since April IL, was found float
ing in the Potomac River at Hancock,
Md. yesterday.
Hiles had been on a fishing trip with
a group of men, all Of whom went to
sleep on the banks of the river. 1t is
believed he rolled into the water while
sleeping.
Gas Takes Life.
An open gas Jet in his room resulted
in the asphyxiation yesterday of John
D. McDevitt, AZ years old, l06 Main
street, Ballston, Va. He was discovered
by his wife, Mrs. Loula McDevitt, who
summoned DR.. w. c. Welburn and the
Fire Department Rescue Squad OF
Washington, both being too late to save
the mans life. Coroner B. H. swain
issued certificate Of accidental death.
McDevitt was native of frederick,
Md. and a house painter by trade. He
is survived by his wife, one daughter,
Mae McDevitt, IL years old; his mother.
Mrs. Martha McDevitt of Washington;
four brothers and two sisters.
Funeral services will be held at the
home at o'clock tomorrow afternoon,
conducted by the Rev. S. T. Nicholas,
pastor of Keller Memorial Lutheran
Church of Washington. Burial will be
In Columbia Gardens Cemetery.
Charles z. Kinsell, 40, Hagerstown
silversmith, was found dead beneath his
automobile, the engine of which was
running. in his garage this morning.
Boys passing through the alley near
the garage heard the engine and noti-
fed the police. Kinsell's police dog was
dead on the rear seat Of the machine.
Kinsell came here from Philadelphia
and leaves no near relatives.
WOMAN BURNS TO DEATH.