The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-04-12
Autos Continue To
Take Toll
Death And Injury In Wake
OF Numerous Accidents

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About $3.50 Sunday evening, a
three-car and truck collision occur
red on Route 1, near.Porters Bridge,
in which several persons were in
jured, a Chrysler car almost COM
pletely demolished and the truck and
other cars more or less damaged.
The approaching headlights of the
long string of cars returning from
the Cherry Blossom excursion to
Washington, plus parked car in
front of Lafayette Inn, confused
Leon Jaffess, the truck driven from
New York and he sideswiped north
bound cars driven by Ernest ]. Hay
field, of Flushing, N. Y. The truck
then crashed into che following car,
operated by w. F. Potter, of Phila-
delphia. This car was then ram
med from behind by a car operated
by r. P. Bailey of Philadelphia.
Those most seriously injured were
the occupants of the car caught be-
tween the truck and car in The rear
and a hitch-hiker named Bryan, who
had been picked up by the driver of
the truck. Bryan received frac-
tured skull and other injuries and
was taken to Havre de Grace hos
pital. Mrs. F. S. Shumaker, of
Philadelphia, received a cerebral con-
cussion and badly lacerated scalp.
A. l.. Ochstein, of Philadelphia, sus-
tanned badly lacerated head and
hand. Other occupants of the cars
were more or less bruised, shaken up
and slightly cut. Dr.. R. c. Dodson
rendered first aid to all the victims.
Leon Jaffess, the truck driver, es-
capped with few slight cuts about
the head. He was fined $6.45 for
reckless dFiying and is being held
pending the results if those most
serious injured.
John H. Porter, 35. 1907 Eigh-
teenth street, Northeast, Washington,
d. c., was killed and Thomas Teach
ley and Miss Mary E. Graham, also
of Washington, were hurt in an
automobile accident near Porter's
Bridge late Saturday night.
The two men and woman were en-
route to spend Sunday with friends
at Lansdowne, Pa. The machine,
owned by Porter, engineer ON road
construction work, was being driven
by Teachley, who was evidently I'M
familiar with the road and driving
100 fast, as he failed to make the
turn in the road at that point, and
crashed into a telephone pole with
such force that Porter was almost
instantly killed.
DR.. r. G. Dodson, of Rising Sun,
was summoned and attended to the
injuries Of the driver and Miss
Graham.
The State police at Conowingo sub
station technically placed Teachley
under arrest and detained Miss Ora
ham as a material witness, pending
the outcome of an investigation being
conducted by Coroner F. Rodney
Frazer, of Elkton.
Alfred E. James, As, who conducts
a garage at Charlestown, was struck
and fatally injured Sunday night by
car driven by John w. Ingram, of
Jersey City, N. j. James, a war
veteran, had answered a call for as
sistance for a disabled car owner on
the North East road and was in the
act of towing it to his garage for re-
pairs when he stepped into the path
Of an approaching car.
The driver stopped and took the
injured man to Elkton Hospital,
where he was pronounced dead.
Coroner F. Rodney Frazer, sum-
montd a jury and after hearing sew
eral witnesses exonerated Ingram.
James is survived by a widow and
four small children.
Robert Mckee, Kenneth Square,
Pa, was killed in head-on crash
on U. S. Route No. 1 near his home
Sunday. The other driver, Joseph
Deilly, Jr., %. his wife, Edna. FL,
Paul Cassel, 81, and his wife, Irene,
II, all of Quakertown, were injured.