Evening star., 1934-11-08
Mrs. NJ. A. Cooper's Body at
Laurel, Leo Fitzgerald
in Hospital.
BOTH EMPLOYEES
OF D. C. GOVERNMENT
Witness Says Car Struck Culvert
at Terrific Speed-Crank Frac-
lures Mans Arm-Boy Injured.

"A young washington WIDOW was H.
Stantly killed and Capital man was
critically injured when their auto
mobile hurtled head-on into culvert
on the Washington Boulevard near
Laurel, Md, early today.
The dead woman, whose body lay
unidentified for nearly 10 hours in
a Laurel undertaking establishment.
is Mrs. Myrtle A. Cooper, about 80,
of 2809 Fourteenth street.
Leo Fitzgerald. 1911 Tenth street,
driver of the car in which she was a
passenger, received fractured skull
and had both jaws broken. Fitz-
gerald, a clerk in the gasoline tax
audit section of District tax assessors
Office, was taken TO a Baltimore hos
pital where his condition was said
TO be critical.
Mrs. Cooper was identified by q
member of her family and an en-
ploye from the public welfare Office
at the District Building, where she
was file clerk.
Accident at AM.
According to State police, the &C
cident occurred about 3 am, when the
car crashed into the culvert after
Fitzgerald is believed to have lost con-
troll of it about 800 yards south of
the Laurel police substation.
Corpl. C. w. Cubbage, on duty at
the station, heard the crash and ran
to the scene where he found the
woman some distance from the wreck.
Fitzgerald also was thrown clear and
was cut and bleeding.
The officer summoned Howard Cos
nell, magistrate and coroner at Saw
age, Md, and DR.. Frank E. Shipley,
who pronounced the woman dead and
had her body removed to the under
taking establishment.
Gosnell said he notified Fitzgerald's
wife of the accident. Fitzgerald had
been employed by the District gov
ernment about Is years.
Mrs. Cooper has an 8-year -old son,
friends said.
A single witness to the accident,
John Henderson, colored, told police
that he was walking along the boule-
ward when the car, coming at terrific
speed, almost struck him. He said
he climbed the hill at the side Of the
road to escape being hit.
Arm Fractured by Crank.
Another employe of the District
government, John Kidd, so, of 507
Twelfth street southeast, received a
possible compound fracture of the left
arm today when the crank shaft of a
roller he was cranking caught his
sleeve.
Three other persons were injured
in traffic miShapS in the District
yesterday, while another died from
injuries received in an accident Tues
day. There was another fatality on
the Richmond Washington Highway.
The death in Gallinger Hospital
of Richard J. Stretch. So. of 9O5 H
street, who was struck by taxicab
! on K street between Eighth and
Ninth, brought the traffic fatalities
for the month up to four. Andrew
j. Robertson, 81, of 1918 Eleventh
street, said by police to have been
the driver of the cab, was to appear
| at an inquest into Stretch's death
today.
boy StTuCk Dy AUTO.
Three-year -old Larry Spellbring,
! 2141 Thirty-second street southeast,
| received severe head injuries when
knocked down near his home by an
automobile said by police to have been
driven by Mrs. Edna Laws, Al,
neighbor. The child was treated at
Providence Hospital.
The others hurt were John r. Nc
Kenna. 70, of 410 Sixth street south
west, who received several fractured
ribs and probable internal injuries
when the car he was driving crashed
! into a tree on Sixth street, near Con-
stitution avenue, and Theodore Nor
gal, 4, of 764 Sixth street southeast,
who was cut about the face when
struck near his home by truck said
to have been operated by Milton E.
Virgins, 10, colored, 334 F street
southwest.
The Richmond highway victim was
Owen l.. Carter, 73, of 2426 North
Capitol street, retired Government
Printing Office employe, who was
killed late yesterday when struck by a
truck near Arlington pike. He was
the fifth person killed in that vicinity
by motor vehicles in the last two or
three months.
Claude Rogers, colored, 400 block OF
Maine avenue southwest, operator OF
the truck. is being held by Arlington
County authorities under bond OF
$4,000.