Evening star., 1939-02-04
Police Continue Hunt
For Driver Who Hit
Mi||ard Caldwell
Detectives Busy Checking
Clues as Coils Pour in
To Police Headquarters

Police of the District and nearby
Maryland and Virginia today con-
tinued the intensive search for the
motorist who ran down and killed
Millard F. Caldwell, Sd, 12-year-old
son of the Florida Representative,
on foggy Connecticut avenue early
yesterday.
AS telephone calls from persons
interested in aiding in the appre-
hension of the hit-and-run driver
continued to pour in at police head
quarters by the scores, homicide
squad detectives we're busy running
down clues in an unprecedented
manhunt in a traffic death investi-
cation.
1t. George Darnell, squad chief,
said more than a dozen drivers of
automobiles with bent front Tenders
and radiator grills were taken into
custody overnight, but were released
after questioning.
Eleventh precinct police early to-
day arrested colored motorist in
Anacostia and were holding him for
questioning in the boys death. In
vestigators expressed doubt, how
ever, that the man, charged with
drunken driving after he struck a
fire plug and several parked cars
along Nichols avenue Sc, was re-
sponsible for yesterdays tragedy.
Rewards of 500 each for the arrest
and conviction of the hit-and-run
driver have been offered by Police
Chief Ernest w. Brown and Arthur
Godfrey, radio announcer.
At the same time Representative
James Seccombe of Ohio, a member
of the District Committee, an
nounced he would call on the COM
mittee Wednesday morning to post
an additional reward of $1,000 for
the driver.
He declared that Chairman Jen-
nings Randolph of West Virginia
had told him he would support the
proposal.
IF we are to curb fatal accidents
and wholesale murders on the
streets of Washington" Mr.. Sec
combe said, the only way to do it
is to bring those responsible to
justice!'
The death of the youth was the
ninth in Washington thus far in
1889.
Died of Skull Fracture.
An autopsy performed at the
morgue yesterday showed the boy
died of fractured skull. Officials
said a large triangular piece of ma
terial missing from the sleeve of
Millards leather jacket indicated
the grill work of the cars radiator
or bumper. Police believe the tat
tered sleeve fragment was still hang
ing to the front of the speeding car
when it left the Woodley road inter-
section, as it was not found at the
scene.
The autopsy also disclosed the
boys body was dragged consider
able distance, indicating he was
struck near the center of the auto
mobile front. Absence of glass on
the boys clothing or in the street
showed that in all probability neither
of the headlights were smashed by
the impact.
Police continued to keep a sharp
lookout at all garages and repair
shops here and in nearby States,
hoping to apprehend the fugitive
driver when he attempts to have his
machine repaired.
An attendant at an apartment
house at 27Ol Connecticut avenue
NV. saw the boys hudded figure
in the middle of the street just at
daybreak. He said he turned away
thinking the boy was tying his shoe
but on glancing out the door a few
minutes later observed the figure
had crumpled to the pavement.
Millard was dead before an am
bulance arrived. He had left his
home, at 2706 Woodley place NV,
in the drizzling rain at dawn to
attend school at the Capitol where
he was House page.
He was crossing to bus stop
when he was struck in the middle
of the street, unusually dark be-
cause the street lights were turned
off before dawn broke through the
fog and mist rising from nearby
Rock Greek Park.
Pages Escort Body.
Millard's body was escorted to
Union Station last night by group
of fellow pages at the Capitol.
Funeral services are to be held to-
morrow afternoon at the Caldwell
home in Milton, Fla.
Meanwhile, 9-year-old Roger
Mills, Lafayette School student, who
, was run down by truck at Thirty
second and Oliver streets NV. yes
terday, was improving in George
town Hospital. He suffered a leg
fracture, severe head cuts and pos
sible internal injuries.
In an accident near Silver Hill,
Md. early today, Eugene Hardy, 20,
of 2239 Prout street Sc, suffered
possible conclusion and multiple
cuts and bruises, and Berchman j.
Collins, q, of 23O5 Pennsylvania
avenue Sc, a severe cut on his left
ear. Both we're treated at Providence
Hospital where Mr.. Hardy was ad-
mitted in an undetermined condi-
ton.
Charles w. Thompson, 10, of 1876
Seventh street NV, received a
shoulder fracture and severe head
lacerations when he was struck by
an automobile at Seventh and S
streets NV. late yesterday. He was
treated at Freedman's Hospital.
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