Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-12
STREET CAR HITS
SKATER CROSSING
AVENUE At NIGHT.
PoIiceman's Son, Battered
by Impact, Fails to Re-
gain Senses.
DEATH CLAIMS 18TH
TRAFFIC VICTIM HERE
Man Torn by Auto Crash Suffers
Three Days in Intense
Pain.

old Robert c. Montgomery, 818
Eleventh street northeast, rested in a
bed in Providence Hospital today as
doctors struggled to save his hfe-a
life which he nearly forfeited under
the wheels of a Capital Transit Co.
street car.
Montgomery, son of Policeman Rob-
ert S. Montgomery of the tenth pre-
cinct, was struck about 10:45 o'clock
last night as he attempted to cross
Electromagnetic Pennsylvania avenue
southeast on roller skates.
Blood flowed freely from the mouth
and ears Of the boy when his limp and
unconscious form was picked up on
the car tracks. He was rushed to the
hospital, only few blocks away. A
hasty examination revealed skull in
juries, which may include a fracture,
and torn organs in the abdomen-in-
ternal injuries that mean long months
of suffering if medical science saves
his life.
Physicians Work FeverishIy.
Throughout the night. Providence
physicians worked feverishly to aid
the injured boy, but he failed to re-
gain consciousness. Until he comes
out of the coma, the full extent of
his injuries will not be known.
Montgomery was skating from the
southeast to the northeast curb when
the car struck him. The motorman
in charge was j. Maxim, %, of 1926
Thirty-fourth street.
Shortly before Montgomery was in
jured, death claimed its eighty
traffic victim of the year-Harry
Chant. A, of A street. whose life
hung by a thread for nearly three
days in Casualty Hospital. Chant was
struck by car as he crossed at
North Capitol and H streets with
such force that his internal organs
were ruptured, filling his abdomen
with blood. Severe pain racked his
body until death.
An unidentified taxicab driver-a
driver who hit and drove away-put
George Francis, 81, of $40 New Jersey
avenue in Casualty Hospital to face,
probably, weeks of intense pain and
suffering. Bones protruded from one
Of his legs, the result of compound
fracture. His condition is yet unde-
termined.
Francis was crossing First street
just north of F when the taxicab
moved him down and sped away
PaSSers-by found him groaning in
the street and took him to the hos
pital.
Boy, 3, Hit by Cab.
Another taxicab sent 3-year-old
Sidney Neal, colored, 1885 Tenth
street, to Children's Hospital crying
in agony. The cab, driven, police said,
by James A. Morgan, colored, GOT o
street, struck the child about 6:15
o'clock last night at Rhode Island
avenue and Tenth street. Doctors be-
lieve he has possible fracture Of the
skull.
Bones stuck through the flesh in
the elbow of Patrick j. Dougherty,
SIS, Of 1859 Mills avenue northeast
when he was taken to Casualty Hos
pital last night after a crash at
Bladensburg road and Yost street
northeast. Doctors diagnosed the in
juries as both a dislocation and COM
pound fracture of the elbow.
Dougherty was driving a car which
collided with a truck operated by
Wilson Sutler of Staunton, Va, who
was booked at No. IL police station
on charge of reckless driving.
Girls Leg Shattered.
With a shattered left leg, three
broken teeth and cuts about the
head, June Louise Slaughter, IS, of
1000 Bradley boulevard, Bethesda,
Md, lies in Montgomery County Gen.
eral HospitalEthe victim of a wreck
last night on the Rockville Norbeck
pike.
Her youthful companion, John F.
Dickinson, 16, of z Charles street, Alta
Vista, Md, is confined in the same
institution with three broken teeth,
cuts about the head and shock.
Dickinson, son of John A. Dickinson.
prominent Montgomery County civic
leader and an engineer at the Bureau
of Standards, and Miss Slaughter were
driving east along the pike en- route to
a picnic of the Bethesda Presbyterian
Churchs Christian Endeavor Society
when the accident occurred.
Their car left the road, crashed into
tree and was wrecked, according to
police. A passing motorist, Ralph Holt
of Norbeck, carried them to the hos
pital at Sandy Spring.
Miss Slaughter Is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Slaughter. Her
father is connected with the supply
4 division at the State Department.
Boys Face Mangled.
| Another boy, Albert Carter, II, COL
ored, 1900 block of s street, is in
Children's Hospital with q mangled
face after being hit while in the
1900 block of v street. He is said to
have run into the path of an auto
mobile. Physicians say he may have
fractures of the skull, jaw and nose.
He also suffered severe brain con-
cussion. The machine which struck
him was being driven by Joseph Miles,
10, colored, 1900 block of Walter
street southeast, police said.
Several other children suffered
minor injuries in other accidents.
In Sibley Hospital Richard Hamp-
ton, 81, colored, who lives at the Home
for the Aged and Inflrm, at Blue
Plains. is suffering from leg injury
received when hit by an automobile
operated by Donald L. Liddle, 81, of
IS Rhode Island avenue. x-rays were
to be taken to see whether the leg is
fractured. The accident happened at
Eighth street and Rhode Island ave-
nue..
Baltimorean Injured.
Joseph Driscoll, 80, Of Seamen's
Home, Baltimore, received numerous
bruises and a cut finger when hit by
an automobile on Thirteenth street
near New York avenue. The automo-
bile which hit him was being driven
by Frederick Kitchener, 48, of 204-A