Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-05-28
Three Were Victims of Mis-.
haps Yesterday-Three In
jured Several Days Ago.
INQUESTS SCHEDULED
TODAY IN TWO CASES
Retired U. S. Employe, SO Years
Old, and Colored Man, SO, In
cluded in List of Dead.

Traffic accidents claimed toll of six
deaths during the last "a hours. Three
men, one colored. were killed in acct
dents yesterday, while an elderly wom-
an, colored man and colored youth
died III hospitals from injuries received
In accidents during the past week.
The dead:
Stephen F. Hamilton SO, retired Gov
eminent employe and Civil War vet
eran, of the 1900 block of Jackson street
northeast; Theodore Boyer, 70, Of the
West, IS, colored, of OXon Hill, Md.
Catherine M. Straub, 81 years old,
who died this morning at Gallinger
Hospital from injuries received in an
accident on the Mount Vernon High
way last Sunday.
Theodore Berry, 90, colored. of the
200 block of @ street, died in Casualty
Hospital from injuries received May Is.
and Raymond Taylor, 10, co.ored. OF
the 1900 block of Fifteenth street north
east, who died from injuries received
May 81.
Inquests Scheduled.
Inquests were to be held at the Dis
trict morgue today into the deaths Of
Mr.. Hamilton and the colored man
killed yesterday.
The former was fatally injured when
struck by an automobile operated by
w. F. Scanlon, 50, of the 1000 block of
Twenty-second street northeast. Scan
Ion was realeased under $1,000 bond
for appearance at the inquest. The
elderly man was struck at Rhode Is
land avenue and Mills street northeast
Mr.. Boyer was hit by a Falls Church
bus while on Pennsylvania avenue at
Twenty-fiftn street early last night and
died shortly after of a fractured skull
Cary D. Hall, 81, of BalSton, Va, the
driver of the bus. was arrested and
charged with reckless driving. Later
he was released under $500 bond for
appearance at the coroner's inquest.
West was killed yesterday when the
automobile in which he was riding
crashed with another machine at First
and N streets southwest, injuring five
other colored men. several seriously.
Raymond E. Tarlton, 25, of Oxon
Hill, Md. and Raymond Dorsey of the
HOO block of New Jersey avenue, the
drivers of the automobiles, were slight
ly injured. Both were held pending the
inquest. Others injured in the crash
were Louis Thompson. 81, of the 900
block of Third street southeast; Edward
Simms. 10. of OXon Hill, and William
Tanner, IS. of the 1900 block of Half
street southeast. They were all treated
at Emergency Hospital.
Police to Seek Sailor.
Berry was struck on Bladensburg
road at Neal street northeast by an
automobile listed to sailor attached
to the U. S. S. Idaho. Police will seek
the sailor, it was stated.
Taylor was struck by an automobile
said to have been operated by Isaac
Hodge, 90 colored. of the 800 block
Of Forty-eighth street northeast. He
was crossing the street at Fortyninth
street and Dean avenue northeast at
the time. He and the 93-year-old col
ored man died within a few minutes
OF each other in Casualty Hospital.
Mrs Mae Watts, 1865 Columbia road,
was slightly injured when two taxi cabs
colided at Seventh and N streets this
morning. She was taken to Sibley Hos
pital in the cab of E. H. Reid. 1889
Newton street, in which she was riding
at the time of the accident. and treated
for a laceration of the head. Reid
and Virginious Williams. colored, the
other driver, were unhurt.