Evening star., 1933-05-30
CAR KILLS CHILD
F. DART|NG IN FRONT
Oxon Hill Tragedy Declared
Accident-Nine Hurt in
Other Crashes.

Forgetting traffic in her excitement
| upon finding letter in the family
mail box. Doris Shegogue, years old,
! of Oxon Hill, Md, was almost instantly
killed yesterday afternoon when she
darted in front of an automobile.
Other traffic accidents on nearby
Maryland and Virginia roads injured
nine persons.
Doris, the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Shegogue was returning to her
home from the Oxon Hill School with
several classmates when, after opening
the mail box and finding a letter. she
suddenly started running home.
Declared Accidental.
According to police. she darted in
front of a car driven by Miss Carol
Joire of Racine, Wis, who had been
visiting relatives at Indian Head, Md.
Following an investigation by State
Policeman J. E. Taylor, the authorities
held the accident to be unavoidable
and deemed an inquest unnecessary.
Miss Joire was arrested, however, on a
charge of having no Maryland opera
tors permit.
E. w. Cowan of Oxon Hill and H. L.
Antics of Washington, rushed Doris to
the office of DR.. r. H. Hollingsworth,
2015 Nichols avenue southeast, where
she died within few minutes Death
was attributed to a fractured skull and
internal injuries.
An automobile accident near GUAM
tico last night sent five persons to
Emergency Hospital here and resulted
in a search for the driver of an auto
mobile said to have struck the machine
in which the five people were riding.
The most seriously injured was Mrs.
Freda Umhau, 33, 1927 jefferson street.
She suffered a possible fracture OF the
skull. jaw and right arm. Her two
children, Marjorie Ellen, 8, and John
Barnard, 6, suffered numerous cuts and
bruises, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nc
Lain. 3706 Thirty-f1fth street north
east, also passengers in the car, were
cut about the head and body. Their
injuries were not considered serious.
Relatives of the Umhau family were
informed this morning that sentry
number of what he believes to be the
car that struck the Umhau machine
and that an early arrest is expected.
Hurt in Takoma Park.
Mrs. Keorge c. Wilmeth of 3547
Eleventh street, Washington, D. c., and
Billy Guiffre, 6 years old, were injured
yesterday d1VcL LOOll WI1Cii OIL aueoaiAobAAS
in which they were riding with Mrs.
Wilmeth's husband was in collision
with another machine on Philadelphia
avenue in Takoma Park, Md
Mrs Wilneth was treated at the
Office of a nearby physician for cuts
about the head and bruises of the right
arm, while the boy suffered lacerations
of the left knee and was given first-aid
treatment also.
Wilmeth and Earl Boone, colored, 26.
of 1868 New Jersey avenue, Washington,
who police say was the driver of the
second car, were arrested for reckless
driving and will be tried in County
Police Court at Rockville June 8. VIII
meth was released on his personal
bond, while bond of 5000 was posted
for Boone.
Two youths, one student at George
Mason High School in Alexandria, were
motor cycle and sidecar left Mount YER
non avenue on Arlington Ridge in Ar
lington County and overturned.
Samuel Butler. Is, of 319 East Belle
fonte avenue, who was riding in the
sidecar, sustained a complex fracture
of the right knee. broken finger and
face lacerations. He attends the school.
Kenneth Spiller, 19, of 122 Uhler ave-
nue., driver of the machine, received
wrenched back and bruises. Both were
removed to the Alexandria Hospital for
treatment.
State Policeman L. H. Lester, who in
vestigated the accident, said the youths
told him that their machine struck a
rock in the road.