Evening star., 1939-06-03
Man Is Found
Near Death on
Lee Highway
Believed Victim of
Hit-Runner; II
Others Injured

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q hit-and-run driver, an unidenti-
fled white man, about SIS years old,
was near death in Emergency
Hospital from multiple injuries to-
day.
The man was found unconscious
on the Lee highway at Veitch
street, Arlington, Va, by A. w. Cane
of Arlington. He was taken to the
hospital by Mr.. Cane and doctors
said he was suffering a cerebral
conclusion. a possible skull frac-
ture. hand fracture and multiple
abrasions.
He is feet inches tall. weighs
about las pounds, has round face
and mustache He was wearing a
dark blue suit, dark cap and work
shirt.
He was one of IL persons in
jured, four seriously, in accidents
in the Washington area during the
last "a hours. Two of the injured
were children.
William Nathan Powers. 68, of 639
E street NE. was admitted to Provi-
dence Hospital with injuries to left
shoulder and hip, cuts and bruises
received when he was struck by a
street car in the 500 block of Eighth
street Sc. According to police, Mr..
Powers was crossing the street and
stepped from BEND one street car
into the path of another.
Miss Katherine Farrell, IS, of 1870
M street NV. was struck and
knocked down by bicychst as she
was crossing from the sidewalk to
loading platform in the HOO block
of r street NV. Refusing hospital
treatment, according to police, Miss
Farrell was removed to her home
in a taxicab.
Boy Is Injured.
Bessie NJ. Bailey, So, of 1928 Sec
ond street NV, struck yesterday
afternoon by an automobile in the
400 block of Rhode Island avenue
NV, was removed to her home and
treated by private physician for
bruises and abrasions.
William Joseph Kiechner, 40, no
fixed address, according to police,
received a skull injury in an acci-
dent yesterday afternoon on G street
between Fourth and Fifth streets
NV. Police said Mr. Kiechner
walked into the side of truck. At
Emergency Hospital his condition
today was still undetermined.
Walter Lewis, 9, of 1913 L street
Sc was admitted to Providence
Hospital with jaw injuries received,
police reported. when he ran into
the side of an automobile passing
in front of his home.
Child, 3, Hurt.
Rosser Howard, 3, of 1884 D street
NE, knocked down last night by a
taxicab in the 400 block of Thir-
teenth street NV. was treated at
Casualty Hospital for abrasions and
released.
Injured last night when his auto
mobile overturned after striking a
concrete platform at Connecticut
avenue and l. streets NV. Leslie
Gender. 80, of 804 Seventeenth street
NV, was in Mount Alto Hospital
today with a fracture of the skull.
John W. Redmon, Is, of Fort Bel
voir, Va, was slightly injured, police
reported, when his motor cycle COL
lided with an automobile last night
at Eighteenth street and Columbia
road NV. He was treated at Gar
field Hospital and later removed to
Walter Reed Hospital
Three colored men, Ray Graham,
20, and Robert Graham. Brandy
wine, Md, and Arthur Simms. 26,
Bryantown, Md, were treated at
Providence Hospital for injuries re-
ceived early today in an accident
between Bryantown and Brandy
wine Robert Graham was admitted
for treatment for skull injury and
face decorations.
Mrs. Dorothy A. Gates of 25O4
North Fourth street, Arlington, was
treated at Georgetown Hospital for
injuries received in a collision yes
terday afternoon at Sixth and North
Lincoln streets. Arlington. Arthur
E. Ault, 18, of 4O24 North Washing
ton Boulevard. driver of the second
car, was uninjured.