Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-10
Leonard Bean and Ebert Gill,
is, Were Students at
Eastern High.
FOUR OTHERS INJURED
AS TRUCK is WRECKED
One Youth Gives Name to Driver
Just Before He Dies, But Man
ForgetS it in Confusion.

Leonard Bean and Ebert Gin, Is
year-old Eastern High School students,
we're killed yesterday afternoon when a
truck on which they were riding over
turned on the Southern Maryland
boulevard near Dunkirk, Md.
-Four other WaShingtonianS. occupants
OF the same vehicle, the property Of the
Shawnee Sign Co., TIL Third street.
were injured and received treatment at
Prince Frederick. Md. hospital
The Bean boy was the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. w. Bean OF 2l7 Tenth street
northeast and Gill the son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Levi c. Gill OF 1924 Charming
street.
Drivers Leg Broken.
Those injured in the wreck were
Ford Orndorff. 80 years old, 2l24
Fourth street northeast, a broken leg;
Alexander Hodkinson, so years old. who
said he resided on the Blandensburg
road, head and neck injured S. j. Hines
of S2l Eleventh street, and Howard
Smith Of 419 Upshur street northwest
Orndorff, driver of the truck, and
Hodkinson were admitted to the Cal
vert County Hospital. while Hines and
Smith were dismissed after treatment
for slight arm injuries.
Bean and Gill had made plans for
q hitch-hiking trip to Chesapeake Beach.
while at school Friday, and yesterday
morning they started out on their first
hike this year. Their parents said last
night the boys took many week end
hikes last year to the Maryland resort.
The boys passed through the village
of Dunkirk shortly after noon yester-
day and set out on the new Southern
Maryland boulevard. recently opened
to trafic. The sign truck came into
sight, also bound south. According
to Orndorfi. the schoolboys boarded
the truck without permission as he
slowed up to round steep curve.
Sat on Rear Of Truck.
They took their seats on the rear end
of the truck, while the other occupants
occupied the drivers cab. Twenty min
utes later. Orndorff said, his machine
was bowling along over the highway
at fair speed when something under
the truck snapped The machine
crashed into q culvert and overturned.
The two boys were thrown into The
air and they landed on their heads.
Gill was killed instantly. but OrndorfT
said the Bean youngster was still alive
when he dragged himself to his side.
Orndorh said he questioned the youth
and was able TO obtain his full name
and his address. but he said before aid
reached them the Bean boy died. In
his excitement over seeing the young
ster breathe his last, together with his
own injuries, he forgot the name and
all he could remember was that the
boy had told him he resided on Tenth
street northeast In washington.
Passing motorists carried the dead
and injured into Prince Frederick,
where examination of the youths cloth
ing failed tn aid their Identification.
1t was not until shortly before mid
night. when the the Bean boys brothers.
James and Albert Bean, arrived on the
scene that the boys we're identified posi-
lively.
Orndorff, after becoming quiet at the
hospital, had said he believed the boy
told him his name was Joseph Powers"
Residences Are Checked.
The residences of all persons here
listed under the name of Powers
then were checked without results. Po-
liceman Charles Cummings. jr., Of the
ninth precinct. was assigned to canvass
the 200 block of Tenth street north
east. After knocking on five doors, he
came to the Bean residence. A. w.
Bean, jr., answered the officers
summons.
Bean told the officer his brother and
young Gill were on hike to Southern
Maryland. Before going To Prince
Frederick, Mr. Bean, aided by The Star.
was able to make partial Identification
of his brother by long distance tele-
phone with Prince Frederick authorities,
Shortly afterwsrd members of the GIL
and Bean families left for the Southern
Maryland city to complete the identi-
hcations.