Evening star., 1937-10-04

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$s8 street northeast
Jc n.nn.,, last night as he
was walking to
his home at 1901 Benning road north
east. Frank l.. Hagerman. 81. of Is
= street, listed by police as driver of
she car, took Bennett to Gallinger
Hospital. where he was pronounced
dead on arrival.
A head-on crash of an automobile
and street car in the $500 block of
Wisconsin avenue early yesterday
killed two colored passengers in the
automobile and injured the driver
critically.
The dead were Coy Brit, 544
Twenty-third street northeast, and
Willie j. Morgan, 33, of 1920 Sixth
street. Thomas j. Evans, 81. also
colored, who lived at the same ad-
dress as Morgan. received a fractured
skull and other injuries. He was in
serious condition at Emergency Hos
pital.
Street Car Held Standing Still.
John G. Durham. 4S04 Forty first
street, operator of the street car, said it
was standing still when struck by the
automobile.
More than 20 other persons we're
injured, two of them by hit-run
drivers, as rain and slippery streets
increased traffic dangers. Similar
conditions contributed to numerous
accidents in nearby States, resulting in
six deaths in Virginia and three in
Maryland during the week end. &C.
cording to the Associated Press.
-Four Washington persons were hurt
IN collision near New Market, Va.
m which Mrs B. D. English, 40, of
Roanoke, was killed The car in
which Mrs. English was riding was
said to have been struck by machine
which police said was driven by
Joseph K. Waicikauskas, 1900 block
OF Newton street, Washington. Miss
Theodosia Ambrozy, 25. of Washing
ton, passenger in his car, received
. fractured skull Miss Antoinette
Grodecki and Frank Lewland, both of
Washington, escaped with cuts and
bruises.
Drunken Driving Charged.
Ernest Scott, HOO block of Euclid
street. was charged with drunk driving
and leaving the scene of an accident
1t Culpeper. Va. near where car, al
legedly his, struck and injured Ernest
Clatterbuck, so, and Burrow Wood
frey. IS.
The victims of hit-run drivers in
Washington were Peter George, so. of
20212 Seventh street southwest, and
George F. Horner, 81, of 113l Morse
street southeast. George, struck near
his home, was taken to Emergency
where he was treated for severe head
injuries. Horner Aceived head and
chest injuries when struck at Twelfth
street and Florida avenue. He was
taken to Casualty Hospital.
James Lyons, Is, of 1148 Owen place
northeast, watchman at the Memo
nal Bridge, was struck by an automo-
bile which police said was driven by
Norman Ross. colored, Alexandria.
while attempting to halt traffic before
raising the draw in the bridge. His
leg was broken. He was taken to
Georgetown Hospital. Ross was held
under $500 bond at the third precinct
on reckless driving charge.
Struck by Car Door Handle.
Charles Hensell, IS, who lives at
the Soldiers Home, received cuts on
the abdomen when struck by the door
handle of an automobile which, police
said, was driven by Harry Goldman,
26, of 234 Fifteenth street northeast,
as he was crossing the street in the
$500 block of Georgia avenue.
Louis Jenkins, A, of 654 B street
southeast, was struck at Eighth and
East Capitol streets by an automobile
which, police said, was driven by
George L. Beach, 3d. of 23OI Third
street northeast. He was treated for
severe head injuries at Casualty.
Three persons we're injured pain
flilly IN a collision of automobiles
which, police said, were operated by
Harold G. Skelly, 18. of 1922 Second
street, and Herbert o. Lee, 81, of Ar
cola, Md, at Seventeenth and Evarts
streets. The injured, all passengers in
Skelys car, were Jessie Costello. 20.
OF 1924 Window place, and Eleanor
6kelly. 56. and Bernard Costello. S.
Car Plunges From Bridge.
Leon Reid. 2o34 G street. and Miss
Georgia Bundy, 715 Lawrence street
northeast, were injured when their
automobile plunged of a bridge and
down a 30-foot embankment near
Luray. Va, yesterday. They we're
treated by private physician at
Luray for severe cuts and bruises.
Mrs. Charles Arlington, 80, of Wood
briage. Va, was in Alexandria Hospi-
tai with broken neck after the car
IN which she was riding overturned
near Woodbridge. Her 2-year-old son
Glenwood was cut In the accident.
Virginia State police broadcast. a
lookout for l1it-and-run driver who
struck and seriously. injured Harold
Frye. "A. of Luray, while he was
cSAnking his car on q highway near
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