Evening star., 1932-12-26
Thomas CroyIe, 18, Injured
Fatally When Struck
by Policeman.
INQUESTS ARE CALLED
TOMORROW AT MORGUE
Deaths of Woman, 21, and Man, So,
Also to Be Probed-Seven Others,
Including Child, Hurt.

With the death yesterday at Emer-
gency Hospital of Thomas Croyle. ID,
fatalities for Christmas eve traffic were
brought to three, and inquests into all
three were ordered for tomorrow at the
District Morgue.
Croyle was injured when he and his
father, both Of 23l Massachusetts ave
nue., were struck by an automobile
driven by Policeman J. j. Culllnane OF
the first precinct, at First and Mlchlgan
avenue northeast. His father Chailes
Croyle, ST. is at the hospital su11eElllg
from a lacerated scalp. Culllnane was
ordered to appear at tomorrow inquest.
The two other holiday traffic VIC
tins were Mrs. Anna Theresa Fergu-
son, 81, of 2416 Thirty-second street
southeast, and Eugene Greenstreet, o.
of 127 Atlantic street southeast.
Collide With Street Car.
Greenstreet and Don L. Clarke. 40, OF
45o5 livingston road so9theast tn1eat aEsee Wsre
with a IruCklOad Of Christmas trees
when they were in collision win a
washington Railway d Electrlc w.
street car, operated by Jesse DUNCAN
in the 5000 block of Nichols avenue emu
southeast. Clarke is In serious coiioi-
ton at Casualty Hospital.
Mrs. Ferguson was en- route to chuIcii
with her husband. James Ferguson, "a,
after having planned celebration 1or
their two small children, when tnelr
car skidded and crashed at l"elitS-
eiohth and Pennsylvania avenue SOUTH
cast Her husband was released unoer
bond of $500, pending the Inquest.
washington Railway and Electlle
Co motorman, Herbert Grant, was ~.
yolved in two accidents along the saine
street in the last two nights ponce
reported. ,7ao irving
street northeast, was seriously i1Iui u';tt
when his automobile cclloeo VIZ, VI,
Grants street car Saturday night IN
The fog at lexington place ana eu1h"y 10y
street northeast. Alexander Peters, oo,
Of Fifth and K streets, was knockeu
Sou-n hv the car operated by Grant at
Ecrinot0n place and Florida avenue
northeast last night. Grant SAID Peters
walked into the side of the car. LIE
motcrman is not being held.
In one of the holidays numerous
minor crashes 3-year-old Helen Ntel aG a.;
350o New Hampshire avenue, Sulle!ea
cuts and bruises when a coo coo op street
Southwest. crashed into parked "a
in which she was waiting for her par
tr ents, after Cahgiuri's car ar; had aalon Dsen en
struck by third automobile drlven . W
Fulton r. Moore, colored, OF lolL iS
street northeast. Moore is being hela ns
bv m tenth precinct police on charge u
reckless driving. +.o,,+,,
Struck by a taXicab at SeVenteel.it ~.
street and Massachusetts. avenue !aso AZ
NIGHT Mrs. Helen McHugh, 90. Oh tlie
800 block of Seventeenth street, was
I,einp taken to Emergency Hosplial u II
another car when it was IN a coa.isioit !
at Connecticut avenue and M SIlee'' -.
the tn hospital today her condition was
said to be not serious; ~ ...,,o,
Police said the cab which struck
Mrs. McHugh was operated py Lame lanes
Pevercond, 900 block OF Ninth street M
and the car in the subsequent consioh1' !n1
Which Viii was carrying her to the hospltaio; sa l.
was driven by William Holmes S0io
Beecher street. ~ n,,.r. ,s,ert
of Agriculture watchman, is in E:ner-
gency Hospital suffering from INJURIES
he received when knocked down at at
fourteenth and B streets southwest oy
an automobile driven by Sergt. Johh
W. O'Connally. Fort Myer'