Evening star., 1935-10-29
MYSTERY M|SHAPS
BRING HURTS TO Z
Woman Apparently Lies by
Road All Night After Being
Hit by Auto.

MysteIiously injured last night, ap-
parently when struck by hit-and-run
automobiles in different sections Of
the city, 48-year-old woman and
an 16-year-old youth were being
treated today in Casualty Hospital
while police conducted Investigations.
The woman-Mrs. Evelyn Middle
kauff, 3l04 E street southeast-was
taken to the hospital about am. to-
day by motorist, who found her on
Anacostia road southeast, near her
home. She told police she was struck
early last night by an automobile
and knocked into the bushes beside
the road.
Unable to walk. Mrs. Middlekauff
said, she remained in the bushes
overnight until she was able to crawl
to the road.
She was treated for skinned knees
and kept under observation to see
whether she has a serious back
injury.
Police TO See Husband.
Police were planning to talk to the
husband. William Middlekauff, an
electrician, to see what light he might
be able to shed on the probable time
Mrs. Middlekauff was hurt They
expected to locate him on a job where
he works for a contractor. Police in
dicated they planned to investigate
several other angles of the accident.
The injured boy, Joseph Stone, of
1919 Pennsylvania. avenue southeast.
was taken by a taxicab driver from
Seventh and Massachusetts, avenue
northeast to Casualty Hospital. where
he was reported suffering from a COL
lar-bone fracture and temporary loss
Of memory
The youths father. William Stone,
engineer at the Greenleaf School. on
Fourth street southwest between M
and N streets, said today the youth
had told him he was struck by an
automobile which did not stop.
Apparently dazed, the boy then had
wandered about the street until found
by the cab driver.
Mother Recently in Hospital.
Young Stones injuries added to a
long list of hard-luck incidents in the
Stone family. Last Tuesday the
youths mother, Mrs. Eva Stone. un-
derwent serious operations in Provi-
dence Hospital. A little more than a
month ago the father was laid up with
a dislocation of the shoulder until
October Is, when he returned to work.
Meanwhile, Stone said he was trying
to catch up in rent payments.
About year ago, the son under
went an operation for appendicitis
and had been unable to work since.
Police reports showed IS other per-
sons injured in 20 accidents in the
24-hour period, ending at 8 am. to-
day. The injuries of the others, how
ever, consisted mostly of minor cuts
and bruises, none of which was ex-
pected to prove serious.
Two Deaths Held Accidents.
A coroner's jury yesterday after
noon declared accidental the Dis
trict,s ninety-first and ninety-second
traffic deaths, after inquests at the
District morgue.
One of the verdicts exonerated Frank
Litzenburg, 36. of Sill c street north
east, in the death Saturday night Of
Gilbert Atwater, 40, colored, of the
900 block of Maryland avenue south
west. Atwater was injured, police said,
on October 21, when he walked into
the side of the automobile being driven
by Litzenburg at Maryland avenue and
Fourth street southwest.
The other verdict exonerated Mason
Billiard, 80, colored, of the 800 block
of New Hampshire avenue, truck driv-
er, in the death earlier Saturday Of
Isaac Price, 20, colored, said to have
no fixed address. Price was injured
last Friday when struck by steel beam
protruding from the rear of q truck
being driven by Billiard while at the
Flood Gate Bridge at the Tidal Basin.