Grand Jury Indicts On Manslaughter Charges In Crashes
Washington District Supreme Court heard grand jury indictments charging five individuals with manslaughter in traffic crashes. A separate case awarded Mrs. Aline Swank $600 after her son James Swank was killed by a truck. Bernard Garvey seeks $10,000 for injuries from a March crash. Police court noted 79 violators and $424 collateral posted, with fines totaling $335.
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Washington
District Supreme Court
Grand
Sve
Joseph M. Power
New Journey Avenue
5 Street
Russell Anderson
Bernard Ransom
Charles C. Merryman
C. Campbell Merriman
Catherine C. Kimball
Third Street
Maine Avenues
Kimball
Theodore R. Hagans
John Ott, Jr
Thirteenth Street
Florida Avenue Northwest
Ott
William E. Bell
Leonard Main
Sixth Street
Virginia Avenue
Aline Swank
James L. Swank
Thirteenth and
H Streets
Universal Coal Company Yeaterday
Justice Bailey
Newhyer and King
Mrs. Swank
Bernard F. Garvey, Jr
Hugh J
Frank X. McKenna
Doyle and
Gibba
Hugh
Frank McKenna
Thirteenth
Mon- Toe Streets
Gus A. Schuldt
Police Court
Schuldt
New York Traffic Expert Invited for Washington Visit
Representative Sol Bloom of New York invited Dr. John A. Harris deputy police commissioner and traffic expert of New York City to Washington as a holiday guest to examine the District of Columbia traffic conditions. Harris is set to testify before the Senate and House District committee on traffic matters on January 5.
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Sol Bloom
New York
John A. Harris
New York City
Washington
Bloom
Dr. Harris
District of Columbia
Mr. Bloom
Harris
Senate
House District Committee
City Briefs. Arrests and Auto Accidents Reported
Donovan faces charges with 66 days jail in default. Police arrested James Donovan after a Wednesday afternoon incident. Henry Simms, 40, had a fractured leg when struck by a car driven by Logan Ramsey of the naval air station in Hampton Roads. Five year old Velds Chester was run over at Fifteenth and North Capitol but escaped injury after slipping under a car driven by Gally Brown.
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David A. Rawley
Eighth Street
Gus A. Schuldt
Rawley
Payne and Gore
Alfred Helmar
Schuldt
James Clem
Charles Lt. Carson
Donovan
Po- Neeman Settle
Seventh Precinct
Henry Simms
Benning Road
Logan C. Ramsey
Naval Air Station
Hampton Roads
Simms
New Jersey Avenue
F Street
Velds Chester
North Capitol
K Streets
Gally Brown
N Street Northwest
Sibley Hospital
Two Men Arrested in Liquor Pursuit
Lewis Stewart and Nelson Smith were captured after a chase crossing intoMaryland for rum running. Police chased their car from the District line, ditched it near a barbed wire fence, then caught them under a woodshed. Stewart was fined 250 dollars or 12 months, Smith 169 dollars or three months.
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Lewis Stewart
Virginia Avenue
Nelson Smith
K Street
Maryland
Justice Moffat
Hyattsville
Stewart
Smith
Smoke Screen Lets Two Autos Escape
A pair of rum-running automobiles eluded Motorcycle Officer Schotter yesterday afternoon after a chase from Ninth and P streets northwest. The larger car, believed to be heavily laden, used a smoke screen and sped through streets from town circle, then over 50 miles an hour. Police expect to capture the drivers, as both are known to authorities. Richard Emerson of eighteenth and Pennsylvania avenue northwest hired a limousine chauffeur without obtaining the driver's name or address. the car and chauffeur are reported missing.
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Schotter
Ninth
Twelfth
P. Schotter
Towa Circle
Richard Emerson
Pennsylvania Avenue
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ACE Institute
Ntancy
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Wilmington
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Union Station
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Todd
Resuke
Todds
Ad Todd
Peoples Prag
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K Sts
T G. White
All Peoples Drug
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Vi and
Key Bridge 5 Co
SE Fulton
Ome
W. Mala
Bell
James Donovan
Bulldog
Vin
Okee
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Seaboard Florida Limited
Pullman
Circara
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Jacksonville
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G. W. Vierbuchen
Seaboard Air Line Railway
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Washington Boys
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Arthur Wormley
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