Evening star., 1938-09-03
EIGHT ARE HURT
IN CRASH ENDING
D.C.L|QUORC CHASE
Fleeing Car Bangs Into One
Backing Out of Parking
Spot-4 Children in 1t.
TREASURY AGENTS
SEIZE 2 SUSPECTS
Two Are Critically Injured.
Occupants Hurled Out Of Auto
by Terrific Collision.

A terrific crash between a fleeing
bootlegger's car and a machine loaded
with children and adults injured eight
persons in Southeast Washington last
night. two Of them critically.
The impact, heard for blocks around,
caused the automobile containing the
youngsters to burst into flames and
hurled the occupants to the street
one of them through the top and an
other through the windshield
Occurring at Nichols avenue and
Sheridan road S. E., as the pleasure
car was backing from parking place.
the collision ended a wild chase by
Treasury agents and resulted in the
capture of the alleged Illicit liquor
runners, both of whom were hurt.
Those critically injured were Muriel
J. Lanham, 2. of 526 Ninth street
Sc. and Marion Woods, 10, of $40
Tenth street Sc. At Casualty Hos
pital it was said shey both have severe
head injuries, perhaps fractures. They
were riding in a machine police said
was operated by Alfred T. Les Callett,
%, also of 526 Ninth street Sc
Three Other Children Hurt.
M. Les Callett was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital with multiple lacer-
ations. and these other occupants of
his automobile also were hurt: Will
liam Les Callett, his l4-month-old
son, cuts: Dolores Lanham, 6, sister
of Muriel, injured collarbone, and her
brother John r. Lanham, 8, frac-
tured collarbone.
The occupants of the other car, in
which police said IS five-gallon cans
of liquor were found. were Charles F.
Lee, 36, colored, TIT Willard street
NV, and Worster Dorsey, 33, colored
1869 Willard street NV They were
taken to Gallinger Hospital, hand
cuffed. for treatment for cuts and
bruises.
Theoiquor car. police said. was try
ing to escape from Treasury Agents
T j. M. Sweeney and J. T. Fischer
when the crash occurred.
Mr.. LesCallett had just backed from
. parking place on Nichols avenue
when the speeding machine hit his
automobile in the rear. Young Woods.
sitting in front, was thrown through
the top and one of the children went
through the windshield The crash
threw open the doors of the cars, and
the other passengers fell out. Mr..
LesCallett rolled under his own ma
chine, which caught fire Immediately,
and had to be extricated by passer-
by. All the injured were rushed to
hospitals by passing motorists.
62d Fatality Recorded.
Fred LesCallett, brother of the driver
OF the struck car. had left the ma
chine few minutes before to 20 to
a store across the street. He emerged
from the store just as the accident took
place.
Details Of the chase that proceeded
the crash were not revealed by the
Treasury agents
Meanwhile, another traffic fatality
the 62d of the year-was entered on
police records.
1t was the death of Mrs. Julie E.
Jones. so, who succumbed in ST. Eliza
beth's Hospital yesterday to injuries
received in an accident August 20. An
autopsy showed her injuries, although
believed slight, resulted in death. An
inquest probably will be held Tuesday
Mrs. Jones was hurt when the car in
which she was riding, driven by her
son, stopped suddenly, throwing her
forward.
Others injured in accidents during
the last "a hours included Dorothy E.
Meyer, Is, of 810 Fourteenth street
NE, who sugered a shoulder injury
when struck by machine, and Ray
mond M. Carvana, 38, of 9l9 K street
NE. cut and bruised when his ma
chine struck post beneath the under
pass at First and H streets NE