Evening star., 1935-04-22
'H|T-RUN M0T0R|ST
SOUGHT IN DEATH
District and Nearby Area
Count 80 Injured Over
Week End.
Police today were still seeking the

Police today were still seeking the
hit-and-run driver whose automobile
Saturday struck and fatally injured
Edgar Burke Smith. 81, Of $50 Pea
body street, a retired telegrapher, at
Eleventh street and New York avenue.
Meanwhile, plans were being made by
the District coroner for inquests into
the Smith death and another trafic
fatality here Saturday.
In all, about 80 persons we're in
jured in traffic accidents over the
week end in the District. nearby
Maryland and Virginia, the list in
cluding approximately a score hurt
yesterday and early today.
Philip Bohannon, IS, q taxicab
driver, of 720 North Carolina avenue.
southeast suffered a shoulder fracture,
cuts and bruises today when his taxi
overturned after q collision with an
automobile at Delaware avenue and D
street northeast. He was treated at
Casualty Hospital. Frank Blackwell,
81, colored, of Baltimore, driver Of the
automobile, was detained by police
pending the outcome Of Bohannon's
injuries.
Police released Mickey M. Harrison.
29, taxicab driver. Of the 5000 block OF
Thirteenth street. after questioning
him in connection with the Smith
death. Harrison walked into the
Traffic Bureau when he learned police
we're seeking him. Although they
learned the cab driven by Harrison
was at the scene, officers said 1t was
another machine which struck Smith.
Girls Death to Be Probed.
Earlier. officers had questioned q
night taxi driver who operated the
cab after Harrison. but released him
on learning the night driver took out
the cab some time after the accident.
Coroner Macdonald said an inquest
into the death Saturday night Of Miss
Pauline j. Haddle, 18, of 523 F street
northeast, will be scheduled when
witnesses injured in the crash in
which she was killed are sufficiently
recovered to testify. Miss Haddle was
fatally hurt when the automobile
crashed into a telegraph pole at Forty
ninth street and Central avenue
northeast. Six companions received
minor injuries.
Five persons were under observa-
tion today in Casualty Hospital for
possible serious injuries received yes
terGay on the Grain Highway near
Marlboro, Md. when the automobile
in which they were riding overturned.
A sixth person was treated for minor
injuries. All are. from New York.
Those more seriously hurt were:
Three Hurt in Collision.
John OLeary, 26, treated for cuts
and possible skull fracture: Betty Tay-
lor, 18, possible internal injuries: Mrs.
Edna Taylor, 48, believed to have a
fractured pelvis; Edith M. Taylor, 20,
head and body injuries, and Wolforth
A. Taylor, IA, possible internal in
juries. Frederick Benson, Is, of Long
Beach, N. Y, was treated for cuts and
bruises.
Three persons were slightly hurt
yesterday in collisions involving two
automobiles and a taxicab at Fourth
and E streets. They were Mrs. Mar
tin L. Connolly, Sc, of Rutland, VT;
Mrs. D. j. Ramp, 56, of Rutland, and
Annabel Faiie, 16,. of Cleveland, all
treated at Emergency Hospital for cuts
and bruises. Wolf Weisburd, 81. of
New York. was charged with reckless
driving. Police say his car ran into
the taxicab and knocked 1t into the
third machine. :.
Seven persons received cuts and
bruises early today when their auto
mobile ran into curbing on highway
route No, /, in Virginia, near Four
Mile Run, and overturned. =.
Three Couples in Crash.
They were: L. A. Myers, %, and his
wife, "a, Of $50 Emerson street; JOS
eph Ghillani, ~, and his wife, 70. OF
1882 Kalorama road; Luigi Ghillani.
81, and his wife, 20, 213l D street,
and Boris Delmonte, is, OF 2124 P
street. All were treated at Emergency
Hospital and released.
Angelo Glico, 40, 706 Virginia ave-
nue. southeast, was believed to have
escaped serious injury last night when
a street car hit his automobile, on
Eleventh street southeast near Po-
tomac avenue. He was under obSer.
vation today at Providence Hospital.
Mary Eaton, 16, Of 1910 Staples
street northeast, received injuries to
the back late yesterday when struck
by an automobile as she stepped from
behind q parked car in front Of her
home. She was treated at Casualty
Hospital.
Several others, including two col
ored persons, received minor cuts and
bruises in accidents hare yesterday.