Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-17
Capital Resident Is Killed
in st. Marys and Second
Seriously Hurt.
FALLS CHURCH MAN
SUCCUMBS TO INJURY
Child, Hit by Car, Still in Critical
Condition as Driver Is Freed
on Bond.

pital, the DlStrlctS IraIHC 1dId4lIy
list mounted to rs for this year.
Meanwhile, George A. Riggs, 80, IDOL
Fourteenth street, was killed in an
accident near New Market Md.
The dead colored man is Arthur
Harris, SO, of Falls Church, Va, who
was injured Thursday morning when
his automobile crashed into another
automobile and a street car at Sew
enth street and Constitution avenue.
Riggs, who with his wife, Mrs.
Mae Riggs, is co-manager of the Re
liable Travel Bureau here, was fatally
injured when the automobile he was
driving, belonging to H. M. Nichol-
son of Del Rio. Tex, got out OF con-
troll. ran off the road and crashed
into a telephone pole. Nicholson,
who was riding with him, was serl-
ously injured in the crash and re-
moved to st. Mary's Hospital at
Leonardtown, Md.
Came From Oklahoma.
Mr.. and Mrs. Riggs came here from
Tulsa, Okla, about seven weeks ago.
The body is to be taken to Tulsa for
burial The death was declared to
he the result of an accident at an
inquest last night.
Nicholson was acquainted with the
Rlggses at Tulsa and has been visit
ing them here. He and Mr.. Riggs
had gone on fishing trip into South
ern Maryland.
Robert Thompson, 7, of 1914 Upshur
street. was still in critical conol-
ton today in Emergency Hospital
from injuries received yesterday when
struck by an automobile at Sixteenth
and Upshur streets while en- route TO
the Sacred Heart School on Park road.
The boy has fractures of both legs
and hospital authorities were awaiting
X-ray reports to see whether his Skull
Is fractured.
Barney Robins of 1443 Kennedy
street. who was arrested on charge
of leaving the scene OF an accldent
some several hours after the boy nao
been struck. was released from NO. III
precinct under $500 bond. -~--1.-
Reported As Witness.
About an hour after the accident,
notice saw, Robins went to the station
house and gave his name as witness.
Police said he had driven to the sta
ton house in a different automobile
from the one which struck the boy.
Robins. according to officers investl-
eating, later told police he had taken
another automobile to a garage, out
was not aware that the machine had
struck the boy. He accounted Tor the
broken headlight, it was said, through
the belief it probably had been hit by
a stone. Robins was arrested after
police had found the automobile with
the smashed headlight in garage.
Another boy, Mickey Nicholson, TO-
of 1l12 Spring road. was in serious
condition today in Garfield Hospital,
believed suffering from internal in
juries received yesterday when struck
bv truck while on roller skates at
Sixteenth and Fuller streets. Irving
I. Garner, 931 New York avenue, driver
of the truck, was charged with driving
with a defective hand brake and re-
leased under SIS collateral.
Two young children escaped serious
injury later yesterday when struck by
automobiles near their homes. They
are:
Eugene Albreech, 5, of 1929 Shan
non place southeast, treated at Provl-
dence Hospital for cuts about the head,
and Peter v. Mulligan, 7, of 218 Eighth
street southwest, who police say SUI
fered a chin fracture. He was treated
by a private physician.
Car Overturns.
Norman H. Reeves, SO, OF 1924
Morse street northeast escaped today
with a nose injury when his automo-
bile overturned on the pavement after
colliding with another automobile at
Eleventh street and Maryland avenue
northeast.
Four Washingtonians suffered cuts
and bruises when their automobile ran
off the road and crashed into tree
near Clarksburg, Md. Two OF them,
Miss Eleanor Koleneman. IS, and
Robert Fisher, 20, both of 1920 M
street, were treated at Georgetown
Hospital. The other two, Kenneth AL
len. 1850 Connecticut avenue, and Earl
Holl, 1920 M street, were given first
aid at the Silver Spring, Md, police
station.
A colored man was held for the
grand jury and a beer truck driver
exonerated at inquests into two recent
traffic deaths yesterday at the Dis
trict morgue.
Ohio w. Sims, %, colored, HOO
block of Howard road southeast, was
ordered held as the driver of the au-
tomobile which overturned Saturday
night in the 300 block of Stanton
road southeast, fatally injuring Ben
ME Stewart. IS. colored, 800 block of
Second street southwest.
The driver exonerated was Elder
Halohan, IS, 110s M street, who was
operating the truck when it struck
and fatally injured Norman Dickens,
% months old of 7424 Georgia avenue
last Friday in the $500 block of War
der street.
Today's local traffic death was the
thirteenth since the police drive on
traffic law violators was launched
July 20.
Police Supt. Ernest w. Brown yes
terday told his inspectors and captains
that there is to be no let up in the
campaign.
Licensed to Marry.
Z ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va,