Evening star., 1935-08-26
DEATH TOLL IS Z
IN NEARBY STATES;
"A ARE HURT HERE
Three. Year-0Id Girl One of
Injured-D C. Man Is
Killed in Virginia.
MARYLAND ACCIDENTS
CLAIM LIVES OF EIGHT
Local Resident One of Two
Pinned Beneath Auto Near
Langley, Va.

Seven persons, one of them s.
year-old girl, are in local hospitals
suffering from multiple injuries, sew
eral of which may prove serious, re-
ceived late yesterday when the auto
mobile in which they were riding over
turned a number of times on Riggs
road northeast, near the District line,
after colliding with another car. Week
end traffic accidents also accounted
for eight deaths in Maryland and at
least four others in Virginia, three of
the latter near Richmond.
One Of the dead is William H. Allen,
50, colored, of the 1900 block of Third
street, an employe of the Post Oflce
Department.
Rose Mary Freeman, 3, believed the
most seriously injured in the Riggs
road accident, is being treated in
Emergency Hospital for fractures of
the skull and ribs and numerous cuts
and bruises. The child's parents, of
Terra Gotta, D. c., were among those
badly hurt.
Mother Hurt.
The mother, Mrs. Hilda Freeman, 80,
Is in Emergency Hospital, suffering
from shoulder fracture, cuts and
bruises, while the father, Leonard
Freeman, 80, is under treatment in
Gallinger Hospital for a leg fracture,
cuts and bruises.
The others injured in the accident,
all of whom are in Gallinger Hospital,
are:
Clyde Bonifant, 80, of Takoma Park,
Md, driver of the automobile, suffer-
ing from shoulder fracture, cuts and
bruises; Ruth Bonifant, %, Of Takoma
Park, being treated for a collarbone
fracture, cuts and bruises; John Git
tings, SO, Takoma Park, who has
broken ribs. cuts and bruises, and
William Immich, 81, of College Park,
Md, who has collarbone fracture, cuts
and bruises.
Bonifant, the driver, was being held
under a technical charge Of investi-
cation, pending the outcome OF the
injuries to the others in the accident.
Others Escape.
Bonifant was driving west along
Riggs road at the time OF the acci-
dent, police said. The other car in
the collision, operated by Mrs. Martha
E. Griffin, SO, of 5000 Thirty-ninth
street, was travelling east. Mrs. Grif-
I'm and her husband, S. H. Griffin, an
employe Of the Bureau Of Yards and
Docks, Navy Department, who was
with her, escaped injuries Of any con-
sequence, it was said.
Besides those hurt on Riggs road
six others sustained minor injuries IN
a total of 18 traffic accidents for the
24-hour period ending at 8 am. today.
Police arrested total of 95 mo-
torists during the period and an ad-
ditional 231 for the previous "a hours
for a variety of traffic offenses. OF
these a total of 81 were arrested for
speeding during the two days, six for
driving while drunk, two for reckless
driving and IL for passing red lights.
In an accident today Joseph Goetz
%, Of 1910 R street southeast, suffered
serious injuries when his motor cycle
and the automobile of Morton H.
Selzman, 16, of 731 Seventh street
southeast, collided shortly after 9
O'Clock this morning at Eleventh and
c streets northeast. Goetz is under
going treatment at Casualty Hospital
for compound fractures of the left leg
and arm and numerous cuts and body
bruises.
Two men, one Washingtonian,
were injured late yesterday when they
were pinned beneath their machine
on the old Georgetown Pike, near
Langley. Va. They we're extricated
from the wreckage by the Mclean,
Va, Fire Department and taken to
Emergency Hospital.
One of them, Charles Tschiffely, "a,
Of 3033 o street, was under observa-
tion to see whether he has a skull
fracture. He also is under treatment
for q broken nose and cuts about the
face, scalp and arms. Thomas Mont
gomery, Al, Of Mclean, Va, said to
have been the driver, suffered cuts
about the head, body and legs. Po-
liceman Carl H. Mcintosh Of the Fair
fax County police. who aided in the
rescue, said the accident occurred
when Montgomery tried to pass an
other automobile on the road.
Killed Near Winchester.
Allen, the dead colored man, was
killed when pinned beneath an auto
mobile which overturned near Win
chester, Va. Two others riding in
the car escaped with cuts and bruises.
Police were told Allen became nervous
when the driver of the machine at
tempted to pass another car and
grabbed the steering wheel.
Others killed in Virginia, all at
distant points were: Mrs. Julia
Goldizer, Bayonne, N. j.; Herbert A.
Sprouse, "a, Richmond, and Lottie
Harper, IS, colored, of Petersburg.
The eight Maryland dead, killed at
points far from Washington, are:
George E. Nash, As, of Baltimore;
Rudolph George, %, Of Cordova;
G. L. CroweIl, SO, of Brunswick; Ham,
bleton Cockey, SO, Of My Ladys Manor,
Baltimore County; George Hardesty,
56, Camp Holabird transient camp;
Mrs. Laura F. Marvel, 73, of Secre-
tary; D. e. Gossard, 72, Of Williams
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