Evening star., 1946-08-05
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY
MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1916.

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Victim Identified
As Harry Medley,
A Plosterer
A man identified as Harry Med
ley. about IS, Of the 400 block Of
Young street Sc, was fatally in
1ured last night when struck by q
streetcar as he attempted to cross
Pennsylvania avenue at Thirteenth
street Sc, police reported.
The dead man, 3sth person killed
In District trafi1c this year. Law un-
identified In the District morgue for
more than 10 hours after his death
before police located M r. Stevens,
business agent for the Plasterer's
Union, who made the identification
early today. Mr.. Stevens said Mr..
Medley was a plasterer but was un-
able. to give any information about
the victims's relatives.
Residents of the neighborhood
told police they knew the man only
as ''Knocky." He was pronounced
dead at Casualty Hospital shortly
after the accident occurred. Police
released the operator Of the street.
car, Paul j. Carnell, 80, of AIT Third
street NV, in custody OF the Capt.
tai Transit Co.
Hurt In Other Accidents.
Seven other Washingtonians were
injured in four. accidents yesterday,
two Of which involved drivers, who
police said fell asleep at the wheel.
Bernice Green, colored, 70, OF 100
block of Howard road Sc. pas
senger In the taxicah Of Joseph C..
Henderson, colored, 26, of 1917
Eleventh street NV, was injured.
police reported. when the cab col
lided with parked bus at Sheriff
road and Division avenue NE. The
woman was admitted to Casualty
Hospital for observation with hip
and back injuries.
Police said the cab driver fell
asleep while driving and charged
him with failing to give full tins
and attention to driving.
Similar charges were filed againsA
another taxicab driver, Calvin But
ler, colored, 80, OF the HOO block Of
Twenty Second street NV, police
said, after he dozed of at the wheel,
swerved to the wrong side of tho
road and collided with a truck in
the first block Of M street S.W. He
was admitted to Casualty Hospital
with possible broken ribs, police said.
The truck driver, Joseph D. Miles
colored, %, Of the 1900 block Emer-
son street NE, was not injured.
A 16-year-old boy who rode a BIZ
cycle through red light. pedaled'
down the wrong side of the street
and finally collided with an auto
mobile at Eighth street and Mt.
Vernon place NV. will be charged
with reckless driving, police said. He
was treated for sprained wrist and
contasions at Freedmerf'ss Hospital,
and will be turned over to the Juv-
emile Bureau for further investiga-
tion. t8SS
Three Hurt in Collision A
Two women and man were in
jured slightly In collision involving
taxicab and an automobile at
Thirteenth and Harvard streets
NV, police said, in which the auto
mobile was overturned. The injured
are: Bob Hart, II, of the 1900 block
Of Decatur street N. W.; Jacquelina
Terry, IS, of the $500 block of Cham
plain street NV, both passengers
in the cab, and Francis Wilson, 20
Of the 1900 block, Of Irving street
NV, a passenger In the automobile.
Police said the cab driver, Hilton
M. Coleman, colored, 20, of the 600
block of T street NV, and the other
driver, Marcy J. Worthington, 80, Of
the 1700 block Of West Virginia ave-
nue NE. were charged with colliding.
Meanwhile. the Coroners Office
scheduled two inquests into earlier
trafhc deaths for today. The first
inquest will be on the death OF
William M. Day. 66, of $500 Four
teenth street NV, Congressional
reporter, who died Thursday at
Emergency Hospital of injuries suf-
fered July n when he was struck
by an automobile at the intersection
of Fourteenth and Ogden streets
NV.
Police said the driver of the strik-
ing vehicle was Curnel r. Thomp-
son, 40. of 1900 Seventeenth street
NV.
Virginia Boy Injured.
"A second inquest is slated into
the death Of Mrs. Hannah L.
Lemelman, As, OF 600 Roxboro place
NV, who police said was killed
when an automobile driven by her
son, Mark, 18, collided with truck
at Fourth and Oglethorpe streets
NV. Saturday. Robert L. Banks,
80, Of 1912 Forty eighth street NV,
was listed as driver of the truck.
Robert Speaks. 13, Woodbridge,
Va, was treated for serious head
injuries at Alexandria Hospital
yesterday after being struckaby an
automobile as he rode q bicycle
near his home. His condition waR
reported by the hospital to be i1n-
proved today. State police at the
Alexandria substantion said thu
trooper who handled the case had
not made report Of the name OF
the driver this morning.
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