Evening star., 1933-09-11
Driver Falls Asleep While Re-
turning From Fishing Trip
in Maryland.
DEBUTANTE'S MACHINE
KILLS UNIDENTIFIED MAN
Virginian Dies in Another Smash
Up on the Sperryville
Pike.


are in hospitals as result of week end
accidents.
The dead:
Dale Cropp. 20, Of the 200 block OF
Charming street.
Timothy J. Mccarthy, so, Of Phila-
delphia.
Norman Culver. 7. of Baltimore
An unidentified white man about 25
or 80 years old.
Cropp, a barber. is believed to have
fallen asleep at the wheel early today
as he returned from a fishing trip In
Southern Maryland He was killed
instantly when his car left the Southern
Maryland Pike near the Waldorf State
police station and struck telegraph
pole. His skull was crushed by the
impact. A coroner's jury was impaneled
on the scene and an inquest will be
held later.
Two others in Crops car were hurt
Edward Collins 300 block F street
northeast, suffered severe lacerations,
while Tony Garufi. %, of the 300 block
1 street northeast, escaped with minor
bruises.
Dies at Hospital Here.
Mccarthy was fatally injured when
a car hit a culvert on Baltimore Boule-
ward at Muirkirk early today. He was
brought to Casualty Hospital by a
passing motorist, John Basset OF Baltl-
more, but died within an hour OF
fractured skull John Fay, Newark, N.
j., a companion of Mccarthy, is suf-
fering from severe lacerations, dis
located shoulder and shock.
The Culver boy was killed almost
IL lrty Nty
Mrs. Dorothy E. Whittle, also OF Bal
timore. got out Of control and over
turned, late yesterday. on the Baltimore
Boulevard. near Elkridge. Md. accord
ing to State police. Mrs. Whittle and
her daughter Betty, 6, escaped with
slight bruises.
The unidentified man was killed when
he stepped in front Of an automobile
driven by Washington debutante on
Riverside Drive, near Titanic Memorial,
West Potomac Park. last evening. The
driver. Miss Elise Gardner Hume, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Alan Phillips Hume
of Hume Station, Va, said she was
driving at a moderate rate when the
men lurched in front Of the car. She
was unable to stop before the car
struck him.
Miss Hume was accompanied by John
Rodman Walsh. jr. to whom she is to
be married Saturday, and her sister,
Miss Marian Hume.
The body Of the man was taken to
the District morgue and Miss Hume
was released by Acting Coroner A.
Magruder Macdonald in custody Of
her father. An inquest has been set for
1870 am. tomorrow.
Witnesses said the man was stag
gering, as If under influence of liquor.
Three Washington women were in
jured, one seriously, in collision be-
tween their machine and the trailer
of large truck on the outskirts OF
Baltimore.
Mrs. H. S. Bishop. 62. of the 4100
block of Wisconsin avenue, Washing
ton, suffered two fractured ribs and
cuts and bruises. At st. Agnes Hos
pital, Baltimore, her condition was re-
ported as serious.
Her daughter, Miss Marie Bishop,
IS, sustained lacerations of the face
and body and broken arm. Her son,
Richard A. Bishop, said to have been
the driver of the car. escaped with
minor cuts, while his wife, Helen, Suf-
fered a fractured rib. Policemen said
Martin H. Roe Of Baltimore drove the
truck.
Victims Leg Amputated.
Wilmuth D. Evans, "a. Of Edgewood
Arsenal, Md, was seriously injured
when his automobile struck viaduct
near Millersville on the Grain High
way lone leg was fractured and the
other so badly mangled it had to be
to1
Another Grain Highway crash sent
two persons to hospitals. Everett Reid,
500 block of B street southeast, driver
of one of the cars, was rushed to the
Casualty Hospital, suffering from severe
shock while his brother, Rufus, was
taken to Emergency Hospital, Annapolis.
where his condition was reported as
undetermined. F. E. Hodge, $500 block
of Ninth street, Washington, said to
have been the driver of the other car,
together with his wife, Mary, and their
daughter, were treated by a private
physician for minor injuries.
In collision last night on the Lees
burg Pike, at Andrew Chapel, Louise
Brown, 2100 F street. was badly shocked
and bruised when her car. driven by
H. w. Robbins, Stratford Hotel, over
turned and she was pinned underneath.
Robbins was unhurt.
The driver Of the other car, S. H.
Grimes. Leesburg, was ordered by
Sheriff Eppa Kirby to appear in Fairfax
County Court this morning to answer a
charge of reckless driving. Neither he
nor his companion, r. l.. Galleher, a
brother Of Loudoun County Common
wealth's Attorney John Galleher, was
hurt.
Struck by Hit-Run Driver.
Harry F. Powers, 81, of 1927 Spring
place, is in Walter Reed Hospital with
a wrenched back and other injuries
received when struck by hit-and-run
driver in the 100 block Of Rittenhouse
street early today The automobile, a
heavy black coupe, did not stop. No
description or numbers were obtained
Archie Carter, colored, 8, first block
Of De Frees street, was critically in
jured when struck by a car near his
home yesterday. He is in Childrens
Hospital with fractured skull and in
ternal injuries. The car was driven
by William A. Davis. colored. first
block Of Virginia avenue southwest.
Another child, John Henry Cook, 8.
TOO block Sixteenth street northeast, re-
ceived fractured left arm and probable
skull fracture when struck at Fifteenth
and Gale streets northeast by an au-
tomobile driven by George Fish, 1000
block of H street northeast. He was
said to be somewhat improved at
Casualty Hospital this morning.
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