Evening star., 1936-07-22
ONE DIES, 8 HURT
IN CAR ACCIDENTS
Carl Owens Killed in Crash
Near AIdie-Woman Hit
Run Victim.

A young filling station attendant was
killed and eight other persons we're
injured, three seriously, in trafic mis-
haps in Washington and Virginia dur
ing the last "a hours.
The dead youth, Carl w. owen, %.
Of Roanoke. Va. a roomer at 327
Bryant street northeast, was killed
when his car crashed into the rear Of
a parked truck on the Lee Highway
near Aldie. Va, early today
Although the car was demolished,
Robert Jackson, 22l H street, who was
riding with Owens, escaped with minor
cuts and bruises.
Virginia authorities said the accident
occurred when Owens machine COL
lided with truck that had been stop
ped by tire trouble. The truck driver,
Earl Hendricks, Glosbury, N. j., was
unhurt.
Owen was employed at a filling
station at Eighteenth street and Rhode
Island avenue northeast.
Virginia Woman Injured.
Mrs. Helen Souaillard, Is. of West
Falls Church, Va. is in a serious con-
dition in Georgetown Hospital with
injuries received last night when she
was struck by a hit-and-run car near
her home. She suffered a dislocated
shoulder and may be injured internally,
physicians said
Fairfax County police early todrv
q fnl zlI
listed as Connie Weaver Of Vienna.
on a hit-and-run charge as the driver
/ of the machine that, struck Mrs.
Souaillard.
Sheriff E P. Kirby said Weavers
license numbers conceded with those
obtained by a bystander after the ac-
cident. He is being held in the Far.
fax Jail pending the outcome Of the
woman's injuries.
Man Injured Here.
( Henry J. Hallman, 49, OF 1880 Locust
street, suffered injuries that may prove
serious when he was knocked down on
Thirteenth street between K and l.
streets by a machine police said was
operated by John D. Mckinney, 1907
Trinidad avenue northeast. At George
Washington Hospital, it was said Hall
mans skull may be fractured.
Three sisters we're hurt, one Seri-
ously, when the car in which they
were riding overturned after colliding
at Seventeenth street and Constitution
avenue with one driven by Mrs. Annie
c. Wood, 81, of $50 Sixteenth street.
Mrs. Wood was charged with reckless
driving by park police end was re-
leased on $1,000 bond
Those hurt we're Mrs. Margaret
Patzer, 80, of Cabin John. Md. wife
of William Patzer. driver of the car
that overturned, and her sisters, Miss
Emily White and Miss Rita White
both of New Haven. Conn. Miss Emily
White may be injured internally, 1t
was said at Emergency Hospital, where
she and her sisters were taken. The
others we're cut and bruised.
Struck by Street Car.
Two other women-Mrs. Ann S.
Seitz. so, of 25l4 Fourteenth street,
and Mrs. Julia z. Campbell, So, Of
2503 Fourteenth street - narrowly
escaped serious injury when they were
struck by the rear end of street car
as it turned at Fifteenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue. Both were
taken to Emergency Hospital. Mrs.
Seitz suffered from shock and cuts.
Mrs. Campbell refused treatment
police said.
Robert Dulin. 81. of 1902 NJ street
northeast, received severe chest in
juries when his car crashed into a
lamp-post in the 5000 block of Cleve-
land avenue. He was taken TO Emer-
gency.
Meanwhile. an inquest was scheduled
today in the case of Walker Shrode,
IL, of 1926 Forty-Seventh street, who
was fatally injured Monday night when
struck by an automobile at Forty
second and Fessenden streets. When
| the accident occurred the youth was
riding his bicycle on his way home
after trying to recruit new member
for the Elks Boys Band. in which he
was trombonist The driver of the
machine was C. Holden Ourand, 80, of
1929 Oliver street
An investigation by Coroner A. Ma
gruder Macdonald disclosed that Con-
we'll Long. l6, colored, 2424 Seven
teenth street, who was injured when
he fell from his bicycle against a
parked car, died of an infection. The
accident occurred Monday night and
the youth died few hours afterward.