Evening star., 1933-04-17
TWO PERSONS DIE,
OVER SCORE HURT
IN EASTER M|SHAPS
Woman Is EIectroCuted After
Escaping Injury in Auto
Crash.
MAN OF HUGHESVILLE
KILLED ON HIGHWAY
Collision of Two Machines Near
Beltsville Sends Seven to Wash
ington Hospitals.

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Escaping serious injury when the
automobile in which she and another
Washington woman were riding crashed
into an electric pole near Baltimore
last midnight Miss Louise Grubb, 20,
of 1451 Park road, was electrocuted
when she touched the car, across which
a high-tenSion wire had fallen few
minutes after the accident.
Unusually heavy Easter tratflc, COM
bined with slippery, rain-soaked streets
and highways. claimed one other life
and resulted in injuries to more than
score of persons in or near the Capital
The other death was that of Horace
Buckley. 35, of Hughesville, Md, who
was struck by a machine while walking
along the road near Bryantown, Nd.
He died in Casualty Hospital a short
time after the mishap.
Driver Is Arrested.
Hamilton r. Burch, %, of Bryantown,
driver of the car that hit Buckley was
arrested by Maryland State police,
pending an inquest this afternoon. He
had no operators permit. according to
the police, who also charged him with
reckless driving.
Miss Grub, an employe of the Chesa-
peake g. Potomac Telephone Co, was
riding in an automobile driven by Mrs.
Estelle Glyco, 81, with whom she made
her home.
The machine, according to dispatches
from Baltimore, Skidded into the pole
and then overturned Following the
crash, which occurred on the Wash
ington- Baltimore Boulevard, about a
mile from Baltimore. Miss Grubb and
Mrs. Glyco crawled from the wreckage
and sarted walking along the highway,
in quest of aid.
They had gone only a short distance,
however, when Miss Grubb discovered
she had left her pocketbook in the au-
tomobile. Returning to the car to re-
trieve the purse, she reached through
one of the windows.
Mrs. Glyco, standing nearby. saw her
stiffen, then drop to the ground. Pass
ing motorists, hailed by Mrs. Glyco, dis
covered the wire, which had been
knocked loose when the car crashed
into the pole.
Pronounced Dead at Hospital.
Miss Grubb was taken to st. Agnes
Hospital, on the outskirts of Baltimore,
where she was pronounced dead. Mrs.
Glyco, wife of DR.. Ellis Glyco, vice
president of the Earle Drug Co., was
treated there for a cut on her head.
The women, according to informa-
ton given Baltimore police, were re-
turning to Washington from an Easter
trip to New York.
Several years ago, one of Miss Grubb's
two sisters, Mrs. Maude Butler, bride
of 10 weeks, was killed in an automo-
bile accident at Seventeenth and K
streets. She was the wife of DR.. Homer
K. Butler, 1241 Pennsylvania avenue
southeast.
Miss Grubb is survived by her par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Grubb,
and a sister, Mrs. Aline Pierce, all of
whom live at $50 Thirteenth street
southeast.
Another accident on tho Washing
ton-Baltimore Boulevard, near Belts
vile, Md, sent seven persons to Cas-
ualty and Sibley Hospitals.
Tie two cars involved, Maryland
State police reported, were operated
by Norman Harrison, %. of the 300
block of, Tenth street northeast. and
DR.. Kenneth Crothers, %, of Chester,
Pa. Harrison, after receiving treat
ment for minor hurts, was arrested on
a reckless driving charge.
Mrs. Margaret Harrison, 81, Of the
37O0 block of Twelfth street northeast
was the most seriously injured, suffer-
ing a fractured skull and cuts about
the body. The others hurt were her
husband, Frank. 50; their son, Edward,
S, and daughter, Helen, 8; DR.. Crot;l-
ers and Miss Dorothy Hawkins, 26, of
Philadelphia, who was riding with the
physician.
Woman, 73, Hurt in Crash.
Miss D. L. Patterson, 70, of 80 West
Kirk Street, Chevy Chase, Md, was
critically injured when the machine in
which she was riding with Lay
Bryan, SO, of the 1900 block of Otis
place collided with another automobile
her age, physicians at Walter Reed
Hospital, where she was taken imme-
diately after the crash, said she had
only slight chance to recover.
Mrs. Emma Bryan and Miss M. j.
Bryan, who also were passengers in
the Bryan car, escaped with minor
hurts.
The two colored occupants of the
other machine fed, but one of them
was captured by J. F. Patton, sixth
precinct policeman, who was driving
along behind their automobile at the
time of the mishap. The prisoner,
SldItllCt ASIl, / iUU DlOCk VI OedCOIl
street, was turned over to Silver Spring.
Md, police after smoke-screen equip
ment was found on his car. He was
charged with possession of a smoke
screen
Other Easter accident victims in
cluded:
Miss Mary Rudisall, 10, of Capitol
Heights, Md. seriously injured when a
machine parked near Benning road and
Central avenue northeast, in which she
was sitting. was struck by an automo-
bile driven by John Hiley, 1000 block
of Gault place northeast.
Traffic Policeman Roger Randall, Sc
riously injured when knocked from his
motor cycle by a taxicab at Twenty
fifth street and Pennsylvania avenue.
Raymond Garner. colored, driver of the
cab, was arrested.
Three Hurt in Crash.
Misses Edna Rogan, Dorothy Knoot
and Ember Otto, all II and residents
of Baltimore, hurt when the car In
which they. were riding collided with
one operated by Herbert Matthews OF
Muirkirk. Md, who also was hurt. Miss
Knoot was the most seriously injured
in the crash, which occurred at Holly
wood, Md.
MRS. Sally Magnus, so. of the 600
black of Fifth street, serious injured
when hit, at Third and D streets
northeast by a machine operated py
Raymond woodward, 400 block of D
street northeast
Mrs. Abbey Turner, 80, and her
daughter, Thelma, IA, knocked down
by a hit-and-run automobile near
their home in Takoma Park, Md. Not
serious.