Evening star., 1939-03-13
Pedestrian
Killed !, Others
Are Injured
North CuroIiniun
Is Fatally Hurt
Near EIkridge

A young North Carolinian was
killed instantly near Elkridge, Md,
and two other pedestrians were run
down and seriously injured by a To-
year-old driver at Seventh street
and North Carolina avenue Sc. in
principal traffic accidents in the
Washington area late yesterday and
today.
Charles Hathcock, IS, of Oakboro,
N. c., was killed by an automobile
as he attempted to walk across heav-
lily traffcked Washington boulevard.
Justice of the Peace Louis Thomp-
son said the driver of the car,
James Norman Burgess, of Laurel,
will be charged with reckless driving
and ordered to appear at an inquest
at Elkridge tonight.
Mr.. Hathcock was identified
through a social security card and
letters found in his pockets. His
wife in High Point, N. c., was noti-
fled by Maryland State Police.
Reckless Driving Charged.
Richard H. Probst, 121 Ninth
street NE, was charged with reck-
less driving at the fifth precinct
station after his automobile struck
George A. Minnick, 40, of 10 Browns
court Sc, and Ronnie A. Crowley,
Al, of 80l A street Sc, at the
North Carolina avenue intersection.
Taken to Casualty Hospital in
the youths car, Mr.. Minnick was
treated for conclusion of the brain,
severe decorations on his face and
multiple abrasions, and Mr.. Crowley,
conclusion of the brain and skull
injuries. Both were in a serious
condition today.
Suffering a broken back and alb
dominal injuries in an accident at
Cottage City, Md, Thomas Lee, q,
of Cottage City also was in serious
condition at Casualty, where he was
taken by the Bladensburg rescue
squad.
Meanwhile, James Chapman, 26,
colored, of Upper Marlboro, Md,
injured in an accident Saturday
night in which James Smith, 81,
also of Marlboro, was fatally in
jured, remained in serious condi-
tion at Casualty with back injuries
and several fractured ribs.
TWelve-year-old Adelaide Crabbe,
1912 Tenth street NV, was i'm
proving today in Emergency Hos
pital, where she was taken Satur-
day night after she was run down
by an automobile at Eleventh and
N streets NV. She suffered Sc
we're head injury. At the time of
the acciednt she was treated for
shock and released, but was read
mitted several hours later and a
A collision at Western avenue
and Rittenhouse street NV. resulted
in sprained ankle and two cracked
ribs for Helen Dorrity, 1904 Nc
kinley street NV, and face cuts
for Louis Streeter, 10, of POT Rock
Greek Church road NV. They were
treated by private physicians.
After their automobile collided
with a streetcar at Eighth and F
streets NV, Roscoe West, 40, of
1916 L street NV, and Josephine
Howard, 80, of 1924 New Hampshire
avenue NV, both colored, were
treated at Emergency for cuts and
bruises.
Truck Overturns.
A truck driver was injured when
his machine overturned following a
collision with light coupe at Sixth
street and North Carolina avenue
Sc. The coupe careened through a
fence and crashed into a house at
the intersection, but the driver, Mrs.
Matilda Hartman, al, of 2025
street NV, escaped injury.
James Burrell, %, colored, of
Alexandria, Va, was treated at
Providence for fractured ribs and
later charged with colliding at the
9th precinct station.
When his motor cycle skidded into
the curb in the 800 block of Second
street NE, William E. Roach, %,
colored, of the 1700 block of Four
teenth street NV, suffered a frac-
tured left leg. He was treated at
Providence.