Evening star., 1935-09-16
IMAM AND WOMAN
Of D. c. AMONG 3
DEAD IN TRAFFIC
Local and Nearby Toll Over
e Week End and Today In
cIudes Score Hurt.
TAXI CRASH KILLS
COUPLE IN MARYLAND
Woman in Same Accident Hurt.
Clinton Man Dies of
Injuries.

Three persons, two of them Wash
ingtonianS, were killed yesterday in
traffic accidents in nearby Maryland
and more than a score injured in
the District and nearby over the
week. end and today.
The two Washingtonians. Frank
Russell, As, of 81 I street, and Mrs.
Fannie Lee Arnold, 80, of 422 H
street, were killed when a taxicab
in which they were riding crashed
into a tree on Grain Highway.
near Millersville, Md, after striking
an automobile. Another woman and
a taxicab driver were injured in the
crash.
The other person killed was Charles
Stewart, so, colored, Of Clinton, Md,
struck by an automobile around mid
night Saturday near his home. He
died yesterday in Providence Hospital
Mrs. Irma Recla, %, 704 Third
street, the other woman in the taxi
cab which struck the tree, was in
a serious condition today in Emer-
gency Hospital, Annapolis, suffering
from fractures OF the left arm and
thigh. internal injuries and possibly
skull fracture. Ernest Dodd, IS,
1926 Twelfth street, the taxi driver,
received foot fracture, cuts and
bruises around one leg and mouth
The accident. occurred, Maryland
police said, when the taxicab side
swiped an automobile operated by
Laurence s Merrill of Annapolis.
Merrill and two women riding m the
car with him were uninjured, police
said. An inquest into the deaths
has been set for next Saturday.
Frank Ward, %. of Clinton, Md,
was the driver of the automobile
which fatally injured the colored man
at Clinton. He was exonerated at an
inquest last night.
Hit and run drivers figured In two
local accidents In which three persons
were injured. Francis j. Scheeley, %,
551 Fourteenth street southeast, the
more seriously hurt, suffered crushed
chest when the truck he was driving
was overturned In a collision with q
hit and run automobile at Third and
K streets. He was reported slightly
improved today at Emergency Hos
pital.
John Boyd, SO, 22s First street
southwest, and bucius Hawkins. A,
colored, Of the 300 block of Clarks
court southwest, suffered minor in
juries when struck by hit and run
machine at First street and Inde-
pendence avenue southwest The au-
tonobile which struck them was re-
ported stolen some IS minutes after
the accident occurred, police said
Two men have been detained for
questioning in connection with the
mishap, but neither had been identi-
fed as the driver Of the automobile,
it was said.
Brig. Gen. William II. Arthur, 7e
retired, of 2l22 California street, was
treated at Walter Reed Hospital yes
terday for leg cuts when the auto
mobile he was driving was in collision
with another machine at Sixteenth
and Upshur streets. James Brown, SO,
colored, of the 1400 block of Columbia
road, driver of the other car, was
arrested on a charge Of reckless driv-
ing Two young colored boys riding
with Brown were slightly hurt in the
collision.
Sybil Jenkins, rs, Of 19 H street
northeast. and Polly Barbour, 81. of
1916 H street northeast, were treated
at Casualty Hospital for severe cuts
in a collision on the Benning Viaduct
in which one of the machines over
turned.
Bruce G. Davenport, 40, Of 206
Fifth street southeast, driver of the
overturned car, escaped injury, police
said. The other automobile was driven
by Arthur Marconi, AZ, of 1900 Po-
tomac avenue southeast.
John c. White, %, of 728 Fifth
street, suffered cuts about the face
and bruises when thrown from an au-
tomobile which overturned on Central
avenue northeast. The accident oc-
CURED, police said, when George
Niedomansky, 20. of TIT East Capitol
street, was forced of the road by
another machine.
Peggy Carter, 2, Of 2O6 Indiana
avenue, is in Casualty Hospital suffer-
ing from injuries to the head and hip
received late yesterday when struck
by an automobile in the 200 block Of
First street. X-rays were to be taken
today to determine whether she has
any fractures. Walter r. Bean, %, of
217 Tenth street northeast, was driver
of the car which struck her, police
said.
A pedestrian, a driver and passenger
on a motorcycle were hurt yesterday
in an accident on the Colesville Pike
III Montgomery County. Daniel Har-
den, SO, Of Colesville, the pedestrian,
suffered a broken leg. Sterling Tur-
ner, II, driver of the motorcycle, and
Herbert Beach, 18, the passenger, both
of Colesville, suffered minor injuries
when the motorcycle overturned.
In another Washington accident
Mrs. Beatrice Briscoe, "a, colored, of
the 1900 block of Marine place north
east, was arrested by police of No. II
precinct on charges of driving while
drunk and without a permit after her
automobile had struck a fire plug at
Kenilworth and Deane avenue north
east, slightly injuring tive young chill
dren who were riding with her.
Arrest Follows Crash.
George Boyd, 80, colored, of the 400
block of Eighth street southwest, was
arrested today on a charge of driving
while drunk and with bad brakes
after a truck he was operating struck
another truck in the 5000 block of M
street and knocked it into a taxicab.
Percival Bradshaw, 48, of 1112
Sixth street southeast, driver of the
second truck, was taken to Georgetown
Hospital suffering from injuries to
the back and possibly was hurt inter-
nally, it Is said. Frank M. Jefries,
a. of s29 G street southwest, the taxi
cab driver, escaped injury, police said
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