Evening star., 1941-09-06
Man Hit by Taxicab
Dies, Sending Toll
To 81 for Year
Mrs. Harriet V. Riedon,
District D. A. R. Leader,
Killed in Canada

The Districts 57th traffic fatality
of the year, sending the total nine
ahead of the same date of 1910, was
recorded last night in the death Of
Edwin A Walker, 81, of 808 Nine
teenth street NV, struck by taxi
cab in the 1900 block of F street
NV. Tuesday.
Mr.. Walker died in Emergency
Hospital at pm. of a fractured
skull. Police listed Alvin D. Stovall,
%, of Alexandria, as the driver OF
the cab.
Mrs. Harriet Vaughan Rigdon, "a,
resident of the Kennedy Warren
Apartments and prominent in patri-
otic circles, died yesterday Of in
iuries received when she was struck
by an automobile at Chicoutimt,
Quebec.
Mrs. Rigdon, former national
treasurer general of the Daughters
of the American Revolution and re-
Gently appointed chairman OF legis-
lation of the newly organized Gen.
eral Society of Mayf1ower Descen-
dants, was on a sightseeing tour at
the time of her injury. A son and
daughter were with her when she
died in a Canadian hospital.
Mrs. Rigdon also was a past presi-
dent of the Danes of the Loyal
Legion, past chairman of the Wom-
ems Patriotic Conference on Ma
tioal Defense, member of the Execu-
tive Committee of the American
Coalition of Patriotic Organizations
and the Sulgrave Club.
Motorcyclist Injured.
Wendell Fagans, 25, colored, so
Fifty-third place Sc, was IN an
undetermined condition at Casualty
Hospital as a result of collision be-
tween a motorcycle he was riding
and truck. at Forty-ninth and
Grant streets NE. He was treated
for fracture of the left wrist, null
tiple abrasions, lacerations OF the
jaw, concussion and shock.
A taxi driver was held for Police
Court action under the Negligent
Homicide Act and two other motor
lists were exonerated yesterday in
two inquests into fatal traffic ac-
cidents.
Held responsible by a coroner's
Jury in one of the deaths was Louis
Voron, 26. Of 1407 Sixteenth street
NE, driver of a taxicab that struck
another in which Mrs. Myrtle Jor-
dan, So, of Huntington, w. Va, was
a passenger on August 20. Suffer
ing a fractured pelviS, Mrs. Jordan
died Monday.
Julius Bernstein, 80, of 2542 Thir-
teenth street NV, driver of the
taxicab in which Mrs. Jordan was
riding, was exonerated by the jury.
Conflicting Testimony.
Conflicting testimony was given
on the speed of Mr.. Voron's auto
mobile. Margaret Holmead, Silver
Spring, Md, a passenger in the
latter vehicle, testified the speed
was not in excess of Is miles per
hour, but Frank Jordan, husband
of Mrs. Jordan, who was riding
with her, said in statement read
by police that the other taxi was
going very fast"
In the second inquest, the jury
exonerated Richard E. Robey, 81, OF
500 Third street NE, whose car
fatally injured Walter w. Hook,
49, of Route 4, Anacostia, in nearby
Maryland, about am. Thursday.
Mr.. Hook died a few minutes after
the accident, which occurred at
Benning road and Minnesota ave-
nue. NE. The jury declared the
| death was accidental.
DR.. C. J. Murphy, deputy coroner,
testified that an autopsy showed Mr.
Hooks blood to have OBS per cent
| alcoholic content He was intoxi-
Gated at the time he was struck
DR.. Murphy said. Mr.. Robey was
quoted by 1t. William j. Liverman
of the Accident Prevention Unit
as saying Mr.. Hook had staggered
into the path of his automobile.