Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-13
TWO WOMEN HURT
|. IN TRAFFIC, ONES
CONDITION GRAVE
Nine. Van Royen, Wife of
Holland Minister, Escapes
Serious Injury by Auto.
MRS. MARY BARBEE
HAS SKULL FRACTURE
Treasury Employe, in Second Acct
dent, Occurs on Way to
Hospital.

automobiles in the last "a hours on the
city streets. Nine. j. j. Van Royen, wife
of the Minister from the Netherlands,
who was not seriously injured, and Mrs.
Mary Bar5ee, wife Of W. j. Barbee, for
mer detective of the police force, who
is in Garfield Hospital "in very crit
ical condition"
Nine. Royen was injured when
knocked down yesterday by an automo-
bile while crossing the street in front
of the legation building, Fifteenth and
Euclid streets.
She was treated by a private physi-
clan for injuries to both legs and shock.
The automobile was driven by Miss
Ethel Mayhem, 10, of 832 Eleventh
street northeast. Miss Mayhem was not
arrested.
Mrs. Barbee, 81, of 1000 Sixteenth
street. figured in two strange accidents
this morning within a short time. She
was struck and seriously injured by
passing automobile into which she ac-
cidentally ran near Sixteenth and u
streets, and a few minutes later the
automobile in which she was being
rushed to the hospital struck car a
Fifteenth and U streets while trying to
cross the intersection on a red light.
Suffers Skull Fracture.
Mrs. Barbee is suffering a fractured
skull, deep decorations of the head and
face, compound fracture of the left
arm and extensive mutilation of the
left side Of her body.
She had left her residence, in the
Balfour Apartment, nearby, shortly aft
er $50 and, according to witnesses,
Tod b = A1I-
waiting street car, whep she ran into
the side of an automobile moving west
ward on U street, which sideswiped
her. The automobile was driven by
William F. Robinson, %, colored, of
2724 Eleventh street, chauffeur for AL
fred P. Thorn, general counsel of the
Association of Railway Executives. The
car was occupied also by Mary Tucker,
colored, who is also employed by the
Thorn family. Robinson, the driver,
is held at No. 8 precinct station pending
outcome of Mrs. Barbees injuries.
Mrs. Barbee struck the side Of the
automobile near the handle to the coach
door. This handle hurled her to the
street.
Picked up and placed in another au-
tomobile, driven by Charles Henry BOYD,
colored, of 1880 Fourteenth street, the
unconscious woman figured in the sec
the speeding car in which she was being
rushed to Garfield Hospital struck the
rear of large car at Fifteenth and U
streets. This latter car, driven by Zach
ariah r. Lloyd, 40 years old, 2618 Uni
versity place, and occupied also by his
wife, was almost turned over in the col
lision. Mrs Lloyd suffered a sprained
back and was treated by the family ply
stefan.
The car in which Mrs Barbee was
being taken to the hospital attempted
to cross the intersection against a red
light, with the driver claiming he was
blowing his horn continually. Lloyd
claimed he did not hear the horn and
had the green light himself.
EmpIOye Of Treasury.
Reaching the hospital, Mrs. Barbee
was treated by DR.. w. N. McFawl. At
noon she was still pronounced to be in
very critical condition"
Mrs. Barbee was on her way to work
in the Treasury Department, where she
is employed, when the accident hap
I pened. The place where she started to
cross the street was about 100 feet
west of the intersection and she was
leaving the north curb.
Witnesses said Mrs. Barbee came out
between two automobiles parked along
side the U-Street curb. Mrs. George M.
Grier, house manager of the Balfour,
said she saw the accident and esti-
| mated that the driver of the passing
car was moving at moderate rate of
speed.
Robinson, the driver of the car, said
he was going westward on U street and
had just crossed the intersection on a
green light when suddenly he saw Mrs.
Barbee run out between two cars on his
right and strike his car. He stopped
Immediately and waited until he was
taken to No. precinct station by
Policemen E. l.. Taylor and o. L. Green
in a police radio car from No. 10, the
first to respond to call.
Robinson estimated he was driving
not to exceed 20 miles an hour when
the accident occurred. The side of his
car, parked at No. precinct station.
bore evidence of where Mrs Barbee had
struck
Mr.. Barbee. who is now house de-
tective for the Hecht Co., and Miss
Olive Barbee, their daughter, who is
employed in the Fairgrounds depart
ment of the District of Columbia, were
at home when the accident happened.