Evening star., 1932-05-11
SOLDIER IS KILLED
IN CRASH CAUSING
THREE ACCIDENTS
Ambulance, Responding to
Call for Blood Donor,
Strikes Taxicab.
POLICEMAN, REPORTING
MlSHAP, ALSO INJURED
Motorist Dies of Injuries Sus-
tanned in Another Ac-
cident.

A fatal automobile accident at Four
teenth and V streets early today, the
second here in less than "a hours, had
an aftermath in the critical injury of a
motor cycle policeman and the crash of
a Walter Reed Hospital ambulance.
The victim Of the Fourteenth street
collision was Pvt. Donald Mclean, SO
years old. attached to an Army Motor
Transport company with headquarters
at 1900 c street. An inquest in the
death probably will be held tomorrow.
Pvt. Jesse D. Martin of the Traffic
Bureau suffered fractured pelvis and
internal injuries when hurled from his
motor cycle at Tenth and U streets,
after colliding with taxicab while en-
route to the precinct to report the Nc
Lean accident.
Driver AbandOns Auto.
The machine in which Mclean rode,
according to police. was operated by
another soldier. Pvt. Columbus Nc
Cauley, who drove south on Four
teenth street after the crash, turned
into U street and abandoned the
machine in the 14O0 block after help
ing the injured man into a passing
taxicab.
The taxicab driver took Mclean to
Emergency Hospital, where it was
found he had been thrown through the
windshield. severing the jugular vein.
Doctors put in an emergency call to
Walter Reed Hospital for blood donor
in a TRANSMISSION operation, but Mclean
died before this assistance could reach
him.
Ambulance Hits Taxicab.
The Walter Reed ambulance. return
ing from the search fer the blood donor,
collided at Sixteenth and T streets with
taxicab. Beth machines were badly
damaged. The hacker abandoned his
cab at the scene. The ambulance was
operated by Thomas J. Rounsley of
Walter Reed, who escaped injury.
McCauley was arrested at the bar
racks early today by Headquarters De-
tective H. M. Jett and held for investi-
CATION pending further inquiry into the
accident.
John Wesley Ferry, 40, of the 1900
block of D street, driver of a cab al
legged to have disregarded a stop sign
before colliding with Policeman Mar
tins motor cycle, was charged with
reckless driving.
The second automobile which figured
in the Fourteenth street collision was
driven by John Baldwin, 35 years old,
of the HOO block of Nineteenth street.
This car was going west on V street
when the accident occurred, shortly
after midnight.
Baldwin was taken to Freedmen's
Hospital in a passing automobile and
treated for bruises.
Another Driver Dies.
Henry A. Marsden, SO, of the 1400
block of Parkwood place, died in Gar
field Hospital late yesterday from in
juries received when the automobile he
was driving struck lamp-post in an
alley in the rear of the 1900 block Of
Monroe street, after he had lost control
of the machine when he is believed to
have been seized with fainting spell.
Marsden was taken to Garfield Hos
pital. where he died several hours later.
after being treated for a fractured
skull. An autopsy was to be held at the
District Morgue today to determine the
cause of death.
Alfred A Clark of the 1900 block of
New York avenue, passenger in the
automobile, was treated for cuts about
the head
Ruth Sweeney, 5, of the 100 block Of
Potomac avenue southeast received q
severe head injury and cuts on the legs
when, police say, she ran into the rear
wheel of an automobile operated by
John w. Caplinger of the 1900 block
of Eleventh street southeast while In
the 100 block of Potomac avenue
southeast The girl was taken to Cas-
ualty Hospital.