Evening star., 1939-02-11
Traffic Hurts
Keep Victims
In Hospital
New Tactics Used
In Search for
Hit-Run Driver

Hit-Run Driver
Injuries received in trafic mishaps
kept more than half dozen pedes-
trians in hospitals today as homicide
squad detectives turned to different
tactics in their efforts to capture
the hit-run driver who killed r.
year-old Millard Caldwell more than
week ago.
News photographers were called
to police headquarters late yester-
day to make pictures of the leather
jacket worn by the Florida Repre-
sentative's son when he was run
down at Connecticut avenue and
Woodley road NV. The cuff and
a triangular piece of leather, ripped
completely from one sleeve of the
garment, could not be found at the
scene of the tragedy.
Detectives hope that some one
who has seen the missing material
will recognize the picture and re-
port circumstances to police who
believe the cuff was left clinging
to the battered front of the hit-run
car.
Until now, police have spent most
OF the investigation running down
reports OF automobiles with smashed
fronts and canvassing garages in
Washington and nearby MARYLAND
and Virginia. A description of the
jacket and the missing piece was
broadcast to officers in nearby
States last night.
Meanwhile, minor hit-run acci-
dent was reported in Arlington
County. Mrs. j. r. j. Shepard of
Columbus, Ga, passenger in a taxi
cab driven by Harold Strickland of
the 2700 block of Thirteenth street
NV, received head injuries when
an automobile crashed into the rear
of the taxicab near the entrance
of Arlington Hall School for Girls
where Mrs. Shepard was going to
visit her daughter.
The other car sped away from the
scene. Police later found a dam
aged machine abandoned about
mile away on Lee boulevard. Mrs.
Shepard refused hospital treat
ment, as did the driver who suf-
fered minor cuts and bruises.
Boy Struck by Truck.
Edward Green, S, of 481 E street
S.W., was in Providence Hospital
today, suffering from brain con-
cussion and internal injuries re-
ceived when he was struck by a
truck in front of his home late
yesterday. Physicians described the
boys condition as fair
Henry Ferguson, 20, colored, of
the 1900 block of P street NV,
said by police to have been the
| driver of the truck, said the child
darted into the street from between
two parked cars.
Struck by milk truck at M
street and Pennsylvania avenue
NV early today, Edward Beech,
So, of 1921 M street NV, was re-
moved to Georgetown Hospital in
an undetermined condition with
severe head injuries.
| A brain conclusion and possibly
fractured skull were suffered by
Ernest Oakley, IA. of Maryland
Park, Md, in an accident near his
home. He is in fair" condition
at Providence Hospital.
Man Hit by Car.
Edward LongchampS, Al, OF OF the
first block of Fourth street Sc, was
taken to Casualty Hospital in an
undetermined condition after he
was struck by an automobile In the
300 block of Pennsylvania avenue
Sc. He suffered a brain conclusion
and other injuries.
After she fell while getting of a
street car at Fourth and D streets
NV, Florence Wilburn, 43, OF 3l9
Seventeenth street NE. was treated
at Casualty for a fractured arm.
| William Murdock, "a, colored, 933
N street NV, was in an undeter-
mined condition at Emergency Hos
piltal after he was struck by a
|
street car at New York avenue and
Eleventh street NV. early today.
Drivers of automobiles respon-
sible for the deaths of Mrs. Emily
C. Dixon, 49, of the 2400 block OF
Twentieth street NV, and Lewis
Mckay. SO. colored, of the first
block of Johnsons court NV, were
exonerated by a coroner's jury yes
terday afternoon.
Funeral services for Mrs. Dixon
were held yesterday, with burial in
Fort Lincoln Cemetery. She was
the mother -in-law of John T. Doyle,
retired secretary of the Civil Service
Commission, and E. Roger Boyle OF
the Boyle Robertson Construction
Co.