Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-14
Third Death Reported in
Crash That Killed GunSton
Hall Teacher in New York.
VICTIM WAS JOCKEY
ON NEARBY TRACKS
Taxicab Turns Over Three Times
in Potomac Park, Sending
Two Men to Hospital.

Edward H. Kennedy, 21-year-old
Baltimore pockey,. who was driving the
automobile in which Miss Sina Reuthe
and Charles H. De Thierry of Wash
ington were killed Sunday at Buffalo,
N. Y, died today of injuries received
In the collision.
Word of his death at Buffalo was re-
ceived here as the body of De Thierry,
who lived at 316 Fifth street southeast,
reached here from the New York city.
He will be buried tomorrow in Mount
Olivet Cemetery after funeral services
at his late residence and mass at st.
Peters Catholic Church.
Funeral services for Miss Reuthe,
French teacher at Z the fashionable
Gunston Hall School for Girls here,
we're held in Buffalo yesterday.
fourth passenger in kennedyS car,
Charles B. Harris, 80, of Baltimore, is
confined to the hospital with broken
leg and suffering from severe cuts and
bruises.
Returning From Races.
The accident occurred when Ken
nedy, returning from the Fort Erie
races, drove past red traffic light, &C
cording to police, and crashed into a
machine driven by Edward Farchman.
De Thierry and Miss Reuthe died al
most instantly when both machines
were overturned by the impact. Farch-
man escaped injury.
In four local accidents last night and
early today, six. persons were injured.
while charges of intoxication were
placed against drivers of two other
machines following collisions.
AS the result Of freak accident IN
Potomac Park early today, two men
we're in Emergency Hospital, taxi
driver lodged at No. 3 police precinct
station and a taxicab, which turned
over three times. knocked parked
truck almost into Georgetown Channel:
Leo Sherwood 80. of the First block
of r street. and John Cunningham, %,
of the 1000 block Of Nineteenth street,
were treated for cuts and bruises. The
latter also received treatment for an
injury to the right knee. Later, the
pair was taken to No. and charged
with intoxication.
Charge Cab Ran Amuck.
Police said Sherwood and Cunning
ham were occupants Of cab, driven
by James r. Harrison, Of the 500 block
of TWenty-first street, that ran amuck.
Harrison was treated at the hospital
for a possible fracture of the right leg
and decorations of the head and then
arrested on charges of colliding and
reckless driving.
A witness, Randall Rowles, Of the
1900 block of Irving street, told United
States park police that at about, 2
| o'clock this morning taXicab, running
between SO and so miles per hour,
crashed into a truck parked on the
Georgetown Channel side Of The Speed
way, near the golf course The taxi
the witness told police, turned over
three times and totally demolished the
cab.
The impact was so great that the
parked truck was catapulted from the
| roadway, across the flower bed and
over the cement promenade and was
saved from topping into Georgetown
Channel only by the iron railing that
! fringes the park
| Officers at No. said today that Sher
| wood and Cunningham were being
taken to court Immediately and park
police said Harrison's case would come
up tomorrow.
| The operator Of the truck that was
nearly crashed into the Potomac River
could not be found. Police said the
| truck was listed to Mrs. A. C. Helm
baugh, of the 900 block of New York
| avenue.
Two Pedestrians Hurt.
Two pedestrians, Miss Winifred Tin
sley, 80, 1445 Park road, and William
J 1S4tLSl, COlOLCd, EOO A4OAAoAlA
| received cuts and bruises when run
down by Capital Traction %. street
cars in downtown Washington late yes
! terday. Miss Tinsley was struck while
| crossing Pennsylvania avenue at
| Twelfth street, while Fighter was hit
on Seventh street between F and G
streets. Both were treated at Emer-
gency Hospital and later returned to
| their homes.
Four-year-old Patricia de Argo, 1919
1 street, received fractured leg, when
she was hit by an automobile as she
ran from behind a parked car. She was
treated at Emergency Hospital.
| Traffic accidents led two motorists
into the hands of police last night on
charges of operating automobiles while
under the influence Of liquor. William
P. Cherry, IS, of 739 Third street.
was arrested for driving while drunk
when his sedan collided on H street
with a taxi operated by Ashton B.
Nixon A of $50 C street northeast
Ernest Evans, GIT Twelfth street, who
police said was with Cherry, also was
taken into custody on intoxication
charges.
| A charge of operating an automobile
while drunk also was placed against
James Miles O'Connor, 81, of BIS Con-
necticut avenue, when his machine
struck a parked car belonging to
| Charles Brook of Wilmington, Del, in
| the 1900 block of M street.