Evening star., 1936-08-12
TRAFF|CFATAL|T|ES
REACH e AS BOY
DIES UNDER TRUCK
Almond KnoWIton, 5, Falls
Beneath Water Sprinkler
Near His Home.
C0L0RED MAN KILLED
IN QUANTICO ACCIDENT
Automobile Runs Wild" at Sixth
and E Streets, Injuring Young
Woman Pedestrian.

Washington's traffic fatalities for
this year had reached 50 today after
5-year-old Almond Douglas Knowlton,
212 Fourteenth street northeast, was
killed as he slipped and fell against
the wheel of moving District water
truck in front of his home late yes
terday.
Up to this time year ago 65 per-
sons had lost their lives in automobiN
mishaps here.
Several other persons were injured,
none believed critically, in accidents
during the past "a hours, while at
Quantico, Va, one of three men in
jured when lumber truck overturned
Monday night was reported dead.
The Knowlton boy was killed when
he dashed into the street to get into
the cooling spray Of the water truck
as it was cleaning the thoroughfare.
He was pronounced dead at Casualty
Hospital.
Driver Must Appear.
The truck driver, James Windham,
50, was ordered to appear at an in
quest at 1870 am. tomorrow.
The boy lived with his grandmother.
Mrs. Corinna Knowlton, who had
adopted him when he was IL months
old. His mother, Mrs. May Byron.
lives in ASheville, NJ c. His father
died three months before the childs
birth, when he fell downstairs.
The man killed at Quantico was
Jacob Washington, 48, colored, Penola,
Va. He was partially pinned beneath
the truck when it turned over on the
Richmond Highway.
An automobile in which two women
we're riding ran wild" at Sixth and
E streets late yesterday, collided with
two other cars. jumped onto the side
walk and smashed into an iron fence
after injuring young woman pedes-
trian.
The victim, Mrs Kathleen Eady,
%, Norman tOklaD College student,
was treated at Casualty for a broken
leg and other injuries.
Women Are Captured.
Mrs. Irene Whitfield. "a. of the 1900
block of Harvard street. said by police
to have been driving the machine, was
captured by George B. Fowler. employe
of the permit division of the Traffic
Bureau, after she allegedly started to
run from the scene. Police said she
did not have drivers permit.
Do ~k1
%, also of the Harvard street address,
tried to leave the scene CT the mishap,
too. police said. but was overtaken.
They were taken to police headquarters
for investigation.
In Traffic Court today Judge Walter
J. Casey sentenced Mrs. Whitfield to
s100 fine or 80 days in Jail on a charge
of leaving after colliding and $50 fine
or 80 days in jail on charge of driv-
ing without permit. She did not pay
the fines and was committed to Jail for
60 days, the sentences not running
concurrently.
John A Long 81, of 469 street. suf-
fered cuts about the head and perhaps
internal injuries. and Stewart McGill,
%. of 427 Massachusetts, avenue was
cut about the knees when their ma
chine figured in a collision on tha
Marlboro pike near Upper Marlboro.
Both were taken to Casualty.
George Mockebee, IA. of 1926 Fourth
street southeast. was slightly injured
when his bicycle struck an automobile
in Anacostia Park. The boy went
home after being treated at Casualty,
Held in Baltimore.
Charged with drunken driving,
Elmer w. Russell 38. of the 800 block
of I street. brought additional trouble
on himself last night by hitting
Baltimore police turnkey in the face
and breaking his glasses, according to
the Associated Press.
Russell was arrested after his auto-
mobile struck and badly damaged
parked car. In Baltimore Traffic
Court he was ordered locked up.
When Turnkey Walter Costin began
the routine search of the prisoner.
Russell, according to police, struck
him. breaking his glasses and cutting
his eye Additional charges of ASSAULT
ing and striking Costin were preferred
against the motorist.