Evening star., 1936-01-24
DRIVER Of TRUCK
7. IS HELD IN DEATH:
18TH VICTIM DIES
Negligent Homicide Law In.
voked in Death of Mary
land Man.
MISS GRAHAM succUMBs
TO STREET CAR INJURY
Two Others Critically Hurt by
Auto-Toll More Than Double
Same Period Last Year.

A colored driver whose truck crushed
a pedestrian to death under lamp
post when it ran wild after being
cranked, was held for Police Court
trial, under the negligent homicide
law, at an inquest today. The coroner's
jury exonerated another motorist in
connection with traffic fatality.
In the meantime the 1886 traffic toll
for the District stood at 13 fatalities
following the death last night of Miss
Nettie H. Graham, go, of 1903 Nine
teenth street. The total for the same
period last year was only 5.
The truck driver ordered held. Lean
Bryant, "a, first block of Seventeenth
street northeast, appeared at the in
quest in connection with the death Of
Horace H. Stowe, 26, of Suitland, Md.
Stowe died in Casualty Hospital We'd
nesday from fractured skull and
other injuries.
Tells of Effort to Stop.
Bryant, it was testified, had Just
cranked his 5-ton truck loaded with
dirt when it started rolling. He at
tempted to leap on the running board.
he said, but mud on his shoes caused
him to slip off He succeeded in
setting the Brakes Of the truck just
after it str ck the lamppost. Stove
was crossing the street with his
mother when the lamppost, erected
only the day before. fell on him.
The truck driver told the jury he
had put on his hand brake when ne
alighted from the truck, near an ex-
cavation in the center of Pennsylvania
avenue near Eleventh street southeast.
The truck had been loaded with dirt
from a parkway on the Avenue.
Another Driver Cleared.
In the other investigation, the COR
oner's jury cleared Samuel NJ Her,
dirk, 35, of 2l0 Ninth street south
east. of blame in the death of John
Campbell. 81, captain of the guard
at the District Jail. Campbell, who
lived at 224 Eleventh street southeast.
was running at the intersection Of
Eleventh and c streets southeast when
he collided with Hendrixs automo-
bile. the jury was told. The accident
occurred Monday. Campbell died in
Casualty Hospital Wednesday from a
skull fracture.
Miss Graham died in Emergency
Hospital from injuries suffered
several hours earlier, when she was
struck by street car at Eleventh and
G streets. She was believed to have
fallen from loading platform into
the path of the car, which was oper-
ated by Daniel l. Hartnett, 715la
Eighth street southwest.
Hartnett also was the motorman of
the car which killed Charles Jackson.
colored, at the same corner on Janu-
airy 6. The motorman later was exon
Grated.
Seven other persons were hurt, two
seriously, in other mishaps on Dis
trict streets yesterday.
Boy Hit by Taxi.
The most seriously injured was
Joseph Pima, IA, colored, Alb Oakdale
street, victim of a hit-and-run taxicab
driver at Sixth street and Rhode Island
avenue. He is in Freedmen's Hospital
with a possible fractured skull.
Augustus E. Francis, Al, colored,
3007 Sherman avenue, was badly hurt
when his truck collided with an auto
mobile on Park road near the entrance
to Rock Creek Park. Physicians at
Garfield Hospital said he may have
fractured skull. Alfred Norman,
38, Takoma Park. Md, the other
driver. received a fractured hip He
was treated at Emergency Hospital.
Richard Daunaj, %, of 309 Elev-
enth street southwest, was slightly
injured when struck at Twelfth street
and Constitution avenue by ma
chine driven by William Henson, 81,
colored, 1112 New Jersey avenue
southwest. J. Franklin Beall, %, of
1911 D street northeast, was treated
at Garfield Hospital for cuts received
in an accident at North Capitol street
and Rhode Island avenue.