Evening star., 1936-09-21
WOMAN, Il, KILLED
CROSSING STREET
WHEN HIT BY TAXI
Colored Cab Driver Is Held
by Police for Action by
. Coroner
HIT-AND-RUN MOTORIST
HUNTED AFTER MISHAP
Victim, go, Has Fractured Skull
Driver Said to Have Gone
Through Red Light.

Mrs. Elizabeth Gordon Bailey, II, Of
1904 @ street, was killed today when
struck by taxicab while crossing
Eighteenth street at California street.
Mrs. Bailey was dead on arrival at
Emergency Hosital She was iden-
titled at the Morgue a while later by
a daughter, Miss Marguerite G. Bailey,
1880 r street, an employe in the Dis
bursting ONCE of the Treasury Depart
ment.
Oscar Turner, 33, colored, 1890 S
street. said by police to be the driver
of the taxicab, was ordered held for
action Of the coroner Turner took
the woman to Emergency Hospital in
another cab. She was pronounced
dead on arrival
Hit Run Driver Hunted.
A hit-and-run motorist who, police
said. critically injured 60-year-old
woman last night after driving through
q red light at First street and Louisi-
ana avenue. was being sought. Police
said the automobile bore Maryland
license plates.
1ured, two seriously, in traffic acci-
dents yesterday in the District and
In nearby Maryland and Virginia.
The hit-and-run victim-Mrs.
Josephine Muswick Of Little Rock,
Ark-is in Emergency Hospital suf-
fering from a fractured skull. She
was taken there in a taxicab after
being struck while crossing Louisiana
avenue.
Two-year old Barbara Fenton, 220
E street, also is in serious condition
from head injuries received last night
when hit in front of her home by an
automobile driven by Bernice E. Cobb,
81, colored. 149 w street. The child
Is in Casualty Hospital
Hurt Near Gaithersburg.
Seven persons were injured, one
critically, in head-on collision on
the Frederick road at Middlebrook
Hill, north of Gaithersburg, Md, early
yesterday. Harry West. jr., Seneca.
Md, driver of one of the cars, was
charged with operating an automobile
while under the influence of liquor
bIU Will IcChICoo OIiNnl6s 11C Wdo AC~
leased on 81 900 bond.
Jesse Higgins, 81, Rockville. driver
OF the other auto, and his wife were
taken to Georgetown Hospital. Mrs.
Higgins suffered fractures Of the jaw
and right arm. and cuts, while her
husband was cut on the head and
legs. Two other passengers in the
Higgins car - Pershing Thompson,
Clarksburg, brother of Mrs. Higgins,
and Miss Doris Beacht, 18, Rockville,
suffered cuts and bruises.
Altee Downs, "a, and Margaret
Bornman, 18, both of Seneca and
occupants of the West car, were treat
ed at Montgomery County Hospital
for cuts. Mrs. Higgins was said to be
the most seriously injured.
Harvey E. Knott, Al, Of 5516 Caro-
lima place, and five companions in
the car he was driving were injured
when the machine collided at Twelfth
street and Constitution avenue with
car driven by John w. Parrish, At,
Brentwood, Md
Reckless Driving Charged.
Knott suffered cuts and bruises, the
others, all of the same address, were
Andrew G. Smith, SO, head cuts; John
Norman Knott, 5, fractured right leg,
cuts to forehead; Marie Smith, So,
head cuts; Marie Knott, sprained
ankle. cuts, shock, and Claude Knott,
o. cuts.
Both drivers were charged with
reckless driving at the first precinct.
An accident in which an automo-
bile hit a tree, a telephone and
lamp post in the 1900 block of Good
Hope road southeast sent two persons
to Casualty Hospital. The driver,
jamie Jones, "a, suffered a pelvis in
jury and a cut nose, and a passenger,
Catherine Price. 26, a sprained back
Two other passengers escaped with
minor cuts and bruises.
Clemons Rollins, 38, colored, l704
Tenth street, and Rufus Hunter, 80,
also colored, 1927 Eleventh street,
were treated at Mount Alto Hospital
for injuries they said they received
in an accident near Orange, Va
Neither was seriously hurt.