Evening star., 1934-04-16
ILEAV|NG ACCIDENT
WHICH INJURED Z
IDEN|ED BY CANNON
Wisconsin Representative
Presumed Police Had
| His Name.
DECLARES BRAKE TEST
WAS NOT MENTIONED
One Stock Exchange Member at
Hospital-0ther Dis
charged.

Representative Raymond J. Cannon
of Wisconsin today fatty denied the
statements of two policemen that he
left the scene Of an accident in
which two members Of the New York
Stock Exchange were injured early
Sunday after he had been ordered
TO pull to the curb for a brake test.
"The officers did not even mention
a brake test" Cannon declared, nor
did they ask my name. I talked to
them for 80 minutes at the scene,
showed them how the accident oc-
CURED and presumed they had my
name before I drove away"
The police report signed by Po-
Eceman Alexander S. Douglas. how
ever, states that a Pierce-Arrow sedan
owned by Representative Cannon,
driven by an unknown person, left
the scene of the accident without
the driver making known his iden-
tity."
Ordered Brake Test.
Policeman Douglas and his part
ner, Pvt. w. ]. Matthews. told their
superiors that they ordered the driver
of the Pierce Arrow to wait until a
brake test could be made, but that
he drove away while they were tele-
phoning to the Traffic Bureau for an
officer to come and make the test.
Police then broadcast a lookout for
representative Cannons automobile,
but Cancelled the lookout when the
car was located in a garage at ThSd
street and Constitution avenue. The
lookout follows:
April IA, 1934-Wanted: Pierce
Arrow sedan, Wisconsin No. 7I6-799,
has Congressional tags. numbers un-
known. Wanted by Pvts w. j. Mat
theWs and A. S. Douglas, No. l, for
failing to make identity known after
collision at Thirteenth and Pennsyl-
vania avenue this am Two persons
injured. Van Meter at one at
2:35 am"
Two Hurt in Crash.
Those injured in the crash. which
occurred at Thirteenth street and
PENNSYLVANIA avenue. we're Herbert A
Wellington and E. H. H. Simmons,
who we're on their way to Union Sta
ton in taxicab after attending the
Gridiron dinner at the Willard Hotel.
Allen L. Lindley, vice president Of the
Stock Exchange, another passenger
in the cab was uninjured
Simmons is still at the hospital
with q fracture of the shoulder. while
Wellington was discharged yesterday
after spending night at the hospital
for treatment of lacerations to his
forehead. upper lip and left arm. Lind
ley told friends after the accident the
other car was operated at an eXces-
sive speed.
Richard Whitney. president Of the
New York Stock Exchange, who was
stopping at the Willard Hotel at the
time of the accident. went to No.
precinct and asked police to make
every effort to establish the identity
of the missing driver" Douglas said.
Th9 driver of the cab, Raymond C.
Myers. 90. Of 1908 Davenport street,
said he was going east on Pennsyl-
vania avenue and was making a left
turn into Thirteenth street when his
cab was struck and turned end for
end by machine going in the same
direction and travelling on the left
side of the street car loading platform.
The platform is marked with a drive
to the right" sign.
Describes Accident.
Representative Cannon, however
declared he was on the right side
of the platform and the cab attempted
U turn while only Is feet in front
of him without any warning.
Representative Cannon said he had
no idea the police did not know his
identity until late yesterday after
noon. II had been at work at my
office all day" Cannon said, when
my wife telephoned me she had read
of the accident in The Star and that
the police were looking for the driver
of my automobile. I then went to
No. l precinct to furnish what in
formation the police required"
Representative Cannon said he
was returning from Baltimore with
two friends when the accident oc-
CURED. He added that a fender was
dented and a headlight broken and
that he took the car to a garage for
repairs after he had satisfied him
self the police had all the informa-
ton they wanted at the scene.
Douglas and Matthews arrived in a
scout car shortly after the accident.
Capt. William E. Holmes of No. /
precinct said it was his understand
ing the two officers talked with the
driver of the Pierce-Arrow and he
felt they were a little slow in TAX
ing the mans name" Representative
Cannon reported yesterday to Lieut..
j. H. Lee. in charge of No. precinct
at the time. No charges were placed
against him.
Represented Shoemaker.
Representative Cannon, serving his
first term in the House, has been in
court recently as attorney for Repre-
sentative Shoemaker, who was charged
with assaulting a taxicab driver.
Cannon also defended a policeman be-
fore the Police Trial Board recently
who was charged with unnecessarily
shooting at a motorist.
Representative Robert L. Bacon of
New York, who had met the stock
exchange members at the Gridiron
dinner and went to the hospital after
the accident to offer his assistance,
told newspaper men that traffic con-
ditions in Washington were dangerous
to every one on the streets and he
expected to do something about it,"
He said today. however, that it
would be futile to attempt to remedy
the situation"