Evening star., 1939-01-16
I Parked Autos
Hit in Chase
On Icy Streets
Policeman Injured
In Heud-On Crash:
CoIored Man jailed

A policeman was in Casualty Hos
pital and a colored man in Jail to-
day as a result of wild chase of
hit-and-run driver over downtown
icy streets yesterday Seven parked
cars were smashed before the pur-
suit was halted by broadside crash.
Dozens of other traffic accidents
in the District and nearby Mary
land and Virginia resulted in the
death of colored driver and sent
number of pedestrians and drivers
to hospitals over the week end. A
Baltimore man, injured in Brent
wood, Md, Friday, died in Casualty
Hospital.
Policeman Homer o. Tut of the
ninth precinct. with his 3-year-old
twin sons, Homer, jr., and Joseph,
was parking at Sixth and D streets
NV, when his automobile was
struck by another machine. which
sped away without halting after the
collision.
Officer Tutt took up the chase
and at North Capitol street and
Massachusetts, avenue picked up
Patrolman Hans j. Steinmeyer, who
rode on the running board of the
car.
Seven Parked Cars Hit.
For blocks the hit-and-run car
careened around corners. striking
seven parked cars during the chase,
with the officers in hot pursuit.
At New York and Florida avenues
NE. a car driven, police said, by
Fred c. Finley, 81. of 1924 Sixth
street NV. attempted to turn in
front of the officers car, and a
broadside crash resulted.
Officer Steinmeyer was thrown to
the pavement, sustaining a brain
conclusion, fractured collarbone,
deep scalp cuts and multiple cuts
and bruises on his legs. At Casualty
his condition was described today
as fair. Officer Tut and his sons
were uninjured, though the boys,
who had been crying and clinging
to each other during the chase, be-
gan to cry more loudly.
Headquarters, meanwhile, had
been informed of the license num-
bers on the hit-and-run car and
About 30 minutes after the crash,
Traffic Officers A. j. Kaskeski and
A. D. Clarke arrested colored
driver at New York avenue and Fen
wick street NV. The man was held
at the ninth precinct for investiga-
ton.
Injured Man Dies.
John Kemp, "a, of Baltimore,
found early Friday in an uncon-
Scious condition on a Brentwood,
Md, street, died yesterday at Cas-
ualty. He suffered compound frac-
lures of both legs, skull fracture and
multiple internal injuries. Police
said they believed him victim OF
a hit-and-run driver.
Among those injured in other
traffic mishaps was 5-year-old David
Wigransky, who was struck when he
chased his dog into the street near
his home at 1405 Manchester lane
NV. Police said the boy was hit by
a car operated by 1t. Lamont Saxton,
an Army flyer, of Shreveport, La.
Investigators said 1t. Saxton stopped
his car on the icy pavement, but was
hit from behind and forced forward
into the boy.
Police said the second car was
driven by Robert B. Herman, 16.
David was treated at Walter Reed
for minor injuries.
Ashby Washington, 38, colored,
of Merrifield. Va, was killed in
stantly when his automobile skidded
sn the Leesburg pike, near Falls
Church, careened onto an embank-
ment and crashed into a tree. He
was alone in the car.
Others injured include Anthony
T. Howard, 20, of Sis Fulton street
NV; Russell Thorne, %, of
Friendly. Md; George R. Litz, 43,
of 1916 I street NE; Bessie Hum
phries, 30, of 1118 Sixteenth street
NV; N. K. Magers, q, of TOT Rit-
tenhouse street NV, and Harry
F.. Wells, 36, of Cheverly, Md.