Evening star., 1935-10-14
TRAFFIC HORRORS
CONTINUE WITH Z
DEAD, SCORE HURT
Week End Toll of D. c. and
Vicinity includes c. c. c.
Worker, 18.
BONES AND BLOOD LEFT
BY HIT.AND-RUN DRIVER
Top of Midland, Va, Woman's
Head Sheared Off in Accident
Near Bealeton.

ana at least q score III ilOSpltdlS lIolu
accidents in the District and nearby,
week end traffic today had painted
its usual picture of horror-a picture
of crushed bones, spattered blood and
human agony.
His head crushed like shell and
pieces of bone and blood scattered
over the road, the body OF Francis
M. Hall. 18. c. c. c. worker attached
to the camp at Joplin, Va, was picked
up on the Washington Richmond
Highway about four miles below Alex
andria. Va. He was the victim OF a
hit-and-run driver. police said.
So badly torn and crushed was the
body, Fairfax authorities believed sew
eral automobiles must have run over
the mangled form after the youth
had been rendered helpless and pos
sibly killed by the first machine.
Halls home was at Willard, Md, it is
said.
The other death was that Of Mrs.
Ernest Messick, Al, of Midland, Va.
The top of her head was sheared of
when the automobile IN which her
husband was taking the family to
church turned over near Bealeton,
Va, yesterday morning.
Her head was taken off just above
the eyes as it was caught in the
partly-opened window of the machine.
Breath had left her blocd-soaked body
when DIR. George H. Davis, Fauquier
County coroner, arrived. Mrs. MeSSlck
was the mother of seven children.
Two Children Suffer.
Two Of the children, who were In
the car, were wearing bandages to-
day, but the sharp pains from their
injuries were forgotten in the shock
Of realization that their mother was
dead. The children are David, 10.
and his sister Hilda, 16. The boys
worst injury was said to be deeply
gashed finger, while the girl suffered
several cuts about the face.
Police said the Messick machine
got out of control while rounding a
curve.
Permanent Disagreement looms for
9-year-old Marvin Hayes OF Seat
Pleasant because his father crashed
into q parked car while driving, &C
cording to Prince Georges County po-
lice, under the influence of liquor.
The boy, Marvin Hayes, was pro-
1ected through the windshield like
shot, his face gashed and slashed as
1t passed over the knifelike edges OF
broken glass. Frightened into scream
ing hysteria the boy was picked up
his face and features hidden behind
rivulets Of blood-and sped to Cas-
ualty Hospital. He was permitted to
60 home after treatment.
Meanwhile, his father, Richard
Hayes, was arrested by Officer r. A.
Naylor on charges of reckless driv-
ing and driving while intoxicated.
He was released for a hearing later
this week. The crash occurred on
Crystal Springs avenue in Seat
Pleasant.
Printer, "A, q Victim.
Lying on a cot in Casualty Hos
pital is 74-year-old Chris Hutchin-
son, printer at the Washington
Post, who was the victim of hit
and-run taxi driver, Prince Georges
County police report.
Hutchinson was knocked to the
ground with q sickening thud, his
head and shoulder striking the pave
ment with tremendous force. He was
left in the gutter, unconscious, police
say, as the cab roared away in flight.
A quick -witted spectator jotted down
the license number of the fleeing taxi
and police arrested Raymond P. Are
son of Capitol Heights for questioning.
The printers condition is regarded
as grave, preliminary examination
showing a brain conclusion and a
fractured shoulder.
Four Charles County colored per-
sons were hurt, three Of them badly,
when a Sunday afternoon motor ride
came to an abrupt end near Thornp-
kinsville. Their car careened into the
trunk Of tree, hurting the four oc-
cupants to the ground.
At Casualty Hospital it was re-
ported that Harold Proctor, %, suf-
fered q fractured pelvis; Maggie Hill.
81, q fractured leg, and Francis Hill,
%, a broken arm. Spencer Brown, %.
was treated for minor injuries and
discharged.
Five Marines Hurt.
Bleeding wounds and broken bones
were received by five Marines sta
toned at Quantico when an automo-
bile in which they were riding was
said to have crashed into the rear Of
q truck parked on the Richmond High
way south Of Alexandria early today.
One Of the group, Jerome Maisel,
~. was admitted to the Alexandria
Hospital for treatment Of internal in
juries. Two others, w. D. McNutt and
Edward Raysinger, were cut above the
eyes by flying glass. Another, Bruce
Parker, sustained a fractured leg, and
the NTH, Harold johnson, was treated
for q deep laceration Of the right nip.
with q shattered right arm, pos
sible fracture of the right knee cap
and multiple cuts about the face and
head, Miss Eva Heffner, 80, Of 502
street southwest, is confined at George
town University Hospital. Miss Heff-
ner was injured in an accident at
Buck Lodge, Md, but Montgomery
County police said they have received
no report of the wreck.
A list, compiled by the Associated
Press, today showed $50 dead in an
incomplete count in 81 States.
The District experienced COM
paratively safe Sunday, with only nine
persons injured in % accidents. None
was said to be hurt seriously, although
several Of them suffered bruises and
minor cuts with which they are apt
to suffer for several days.
Scalp Slash Stitched.
Four stitches were required at Gal.
1inger Hospital late yesterday to close
. two-inch scalp wound in the head
Of Frank Pesseno, Is, of 77z Eleventh
street southeast.
Pesseno was struck at Twenty