Evening star., 1938-08-04
DRIVER HUNTED
AFTER FATALITY
Motorist Hurts Two Others
and Crashes Twice More
on Wild Ride.

A vild-driving motorist. believed to
be a 1s-year-old colored youth, was
being hunted by police today after he
fatally injured one pedestrian, hurt
: two others and then crashed his car
twice more.
Following the final collision, which
occurred after he had taken two of
the victims to hospital and left with
out revealing his identity or what had
happened. the motorist fled on foot
The person killed-the ty-seventh
10 die in traffic accidents this year
was George E. Slaughter. A, colored,
1630h2 Tenth street NV He was
dead on arrival at Emergency Hospital.
Driver is Absolved.
At an inquest into another traffic
fatality today-that Of John Linder,
7s-year-old cripple-a coroner's jury
absolved the driver Of the machine
that struck him. The operator was
Hyman Melman, a grocer, OF 1103
Queens street NV Mr.. Linder, who
Tuesday night in Emergency Hospital
He was knocked down by the auto
mobile July % at Fourteenth street and
Maine avenue S.W.
Mr. Melman said he did not see Mr..
Iinder until he felt" a bump from
the right rear fender of his automobile
and turned to see Mr. Linder's body
lying in the street. He said he took
the injured man to the hospital i'm
mediately.
In the same accident that killed
George E. Slaughter at North Capitol
and o streets last night, Ira Slaughter,
3s, colored, 926 Twenty-sixth street
NV, and James White, 81, colored.
20l3 Ninth street NV, were injured
Abandons Car and Runs.
After leaving the injured men at
Freedmen's Hospital, the motorist
drove wildly across vacant lot and
ran into the parked machine of a
physician. Strengthening out. he
careened into another automobile in
making turn. He then abandoned
the car and ran.
Ira Slaughter was said to be in a
critical condition from severe head
injuries perhaps skull fracture Mr..
White is suffering from multiple cuts
and shock.
Several others were hurt in mishaps
here overnight. and highway crashes
IN nearby areas sent nine more to hos
pitfalls.
Others hurt here included Mary Col
koski, Is. of "a Todd place NE, who
fell from the running board of NOV
Ing machine in the Soldiers Home
grounds and received a broken shoul-
Ger blade and other injuries. She was
taken to Emergency.
Andrew T. Rolen, %. of 2632 Gar
field street NV, was treated at
Casualty Hospital for rib fractures and
fractured collarbone received in an
accident at Ninth and Ingraham
streets NV, and Dollie Meyers. 81, of
1919 Franklin street NE, was taken
to Garfield Hospital with brain con-
oussion and lesser hurts suffered when
she was struck by street car at
Seventh street and Rhode Island ave-
nue. NV.
Crash Injuries Three Women.
Three Washington women were in
jured in head-on crash near Halifax
Va. They were Mrs Elizabeth Grogan,
Miss Louise Walker and Miss Kath-
crime Thornton. They were taken to
the South Boston, Va. Hospital, where
their condition was reported as gen.
orally serious" Four other persons,
none from this section, were hurt in
the same accident.
Louis Kengla, 18, Kensington. Md,
and Floyd Bowman. 20, Rockville, were
injured when their machine rolled
over several times on the Seminary
road between Montgomery Hills and
Forest Hills, Md. At the Washington
sanitarium the Kengla youth was said
to have bad head injuries and the
Bowman youth a crushed foot,