Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-06
TWO DEAD, 70 HURT
IN AUTO M|SHAPS
DURING WEEK END
Man Visiting City Succumbs
to Hurts When Taxicab
SidesWipes Car.
BROTHER ALSO VICTIM
AND is DRAGGED 80 FEET
Policeman Frank Mason Suffers
Broken Knee in Chase Of
Liquor Suspect.

| Two persons. one a girl were killed
| and score injured in traffic accidents
over the week end.
The girl. Mildred Taylor, IT. COL
( ored, OF Ill L street southeast, died Of
fractured skull at Freedman's Hos
pital after being struck by an automo-
bile last night at New Jersey avenue
and M street southeast. Carl Henry
Ramey, 10, who lives on Ninth street
southwest near E street, was arrested
and held for grand jury action in con-
nection with the accident.
Two brothers, James Suddarth, 80,
and Thomas Suddarth, %, who were
visiting the city over the holiday, were
injured, one fatally, when struck by
taxicab which sideswiped their auto
mobile as they were preparing to de-
part for their home, in Erie, Pa James
Suddarth, who died this morning at
Emergency Hospital suffered severe in
ternal injuries and several fractured
ribs when he was dragged about 80 feet
by the careening taxi. Thomas Sud-
oarth received a fractured ankle in the
collision
Leonard Gray, "a. colored. driver Of
| the cab, was arrested by second pre-
clnct police pending outcome of the
brothers injuries
Policeman Is Injured.
Colliding with another automobile
near Twenty-ninth and NJ streets while
chasing a suspected liquor runner,
Policeman Frank Mason received a
fractured knee cap. Mason and Police
man K. @. Mccormick, seventh pre-
cinct, began chasing the suspected rum
runner at Wisconsin avenue and NJ
street AS they sped out NJ street, their
police scout car crashed into a machine
operated by Frank Shore, 1907 W place,
when it pulled out from the curb near
Twenty-ninth street
3-year-old child. Andrew Camp
bell. 4402 Elm street, Chevy Chase, Nd,
was bruised about the head when he
ran in front of an automobile operated
by Charles D. Hagen, KenSington, Md,
yesterday. No charges were filed
against Hagen, as witnesses said the boy
had run directly in front of the ma
chine too suddenly for the driver to
avoid hitting the youngster
| Mrs. William Marley, Mclean, Va,
was cut by flying glass in an accident
| yesterday on the new East-West High
way, near Connecticut avenue. in
! Chevy Chase, Md. The car driven by
Mrs. Marley collided with one operated
i by L. M. Bartlett, 4123 Geranium
| street.
Striking a telephone pole while driv-
ing south on the Washington Balti-
more Boulevard, near Silver Spring.
Nd. Mrs. Elsie Williams, IS. Of Thir-
| tenth street and Spring road, suffered
Commissions of the chest and abdomen.
Her condition was said to be not
serious.
New Yorker Injured.
DR.. Zerhan Abrahams, 40 years old,
New York City, suffered decorations of
the head and left elbow yesterday when
machine in which he was riding col
lided on upper Thirteenth street with
a car operated by Percival A Knox,
4410 Kansas avenue.
DR.. Abrahams, who was riding in an
automobile driven by his chauffeur,
Dewey Green, colored, was taken to
Garfield Hospital Neither Green nor
Knox was injured.
Others injured over the week end
were Dorothy L. Thomson, 8, Of AIS
Elm avenue, Takoma Park, and Mrs.
nue., slightly hurt when their car
struck another at Thirteenth and Ken
nedy streets; Mr.. and Mrs Henry S.
Covington. Greensboro, N. c., bruised
| when their automobile hit parked car
in front of 1904 Fourth Street; Mrs.
Nellie Langley, so, of 225 H street,
| wrenched shoulder and back, when
| thrown against a fare box in Wash
ington Railway & Electric Co. bus which
was forced to stop suddenly; Edward G.
Mcdonald, 81, Of 3414 Reservoir road.
hurt in an accident three. miles north
of Rockville Md, on the Frederick pike;
Fred Minton, 7, injured when an auto
! mobile driven by his father. M. F. Min
| ton, IA Third street southeast, struck
street car at Third and East Capitol
| streets.
Edmund Smithville, colored, IS. Of
! o25 o street, was brought to George
town Hospital late Yesterday after he
had been struck by car near Bull Run,
Va He was treated for decorations and
other injuries and later removed to
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