Evening star., 1940-11-28
vh1ginidn, 8,
Killed by Auto
Near Alexandra
Driver Identifies Self
Half Hour After
FotuI Accident
BULLETIN.
BULLETIN,

- William H. Bacon, jr., of
Wellington Estates was charged
with reckless driving, failing to
stop to render aid to dying man
and leaving the scene of an acci-
dent at hearing before United
States commissioner today follow
ing the traffic death this morning
of John Clapdore, 83, of River
view, Va. United States Commits
sioner John P. Strauss set bond
at $4,000 until a hearing which
was scheduled for this afternoon.
John Clapdore, 83-year-old retired
farmer, was almost instantly killed
when struck by an automobile today
on the Mount Vernon Memorial
highway near his home, 703 Tenth
street, Riverview, New Alexandria,
Va.
!, The driver failed to stop and was
vainly pursued by witnesses, police
declared Half an hour later, how
ever William Henry Bacon, jr., 38,
of 3408 South Seventeenth street,
Arlington, Va, appeared at AleXan-
to Park Policeman c. P. Apelbeck,
and identified himself as the driver
of the car.
He was held under $1,000 bond on
an open charge for an inquest by
DR.. Llewellyn Powell, coroner, police
said.
- Second Death in Area.
The farmers death was the second
reported today as a result of high
way accidents near Washington.
Hurled from a truck which over
turned in a collision on the Leesburg
pike, Robert Harlow, %, of Herndon,
Va, died in Leesburg Hospital of a
fractured skull, Fairfax County
police reported.
Another traffic death-of an Alex
andria man, Carlisle Hall, 500 South
Patrick street-was reported last
night from Charlottesville by the
Associated Press. Mr. Hall had suf-
fered fractured skull, brain con-
cussion, broken jaw and arm and
cuts in an accident north of the
city on Route % 10 days previously.
He died in the hospital of the Uni
versity of Virginia. Two others were
killed in this collision. .'...
Driver Escapes Injury.
The Leesburg pike accident oc-
CURED at 10 o'clock last night in
'front.' Of the Dranesville Church
when. an automobile collided with
the truck. Police said the driver of
the passenger vehicle was Oney C.
Triplett. SO, of Ashburn, Va.
- The accident victim, employed by
Roy Fox of Herndon, was originally
from Charlottesville, police said.
Neither the Ashburn man nor the
truck driver, R. M. Gingell of Hern-
don. was injured.
Three persons were rushed to
Montgomery County MdJ General
Hospital last night from an accident
on the Colesville Pike, miles
north of Colesville.
They were Calvert M. johnson, rs,
OF Silver Spring, and his wife, Irene,
R1, who were riding in a northbound
truck, and James Tufts, 81, of 1702
@ street NV, driver of a south
bound automobile, hospital au-
thorities said.
Baby Is Injured.
Mr.. Tufts, a foreman on farm
near Ednor, received a brain con-
cussion and possible skull fracture.
physicians said, while the Johnsons
each suffered a fractured nose. Mrs.
johnson was also operated on for
badly fractured kneecap.
A 10-month-old baby was under
treatment at Children's Hospital to-
day for injuries received in an auto
mobile accident in the District last
night.
The infant is Katherine Cadle,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Horace
IS. Cadle, 1104 Thirteenth street
NV. She received fractured arm
when the car in which she was
riding, driven by her father, was
IN collision with another car at
Sixth and East Capitol streets.