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GIRL DEAD, MAN HELD IN SIDECAR CRASH Rockville Police Charge Man- slaughter to Donald Walters. Miss Adamson, 16, Victim. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., June 11.—Miss Helen Adamson, sixteen years old, farmer’s daughter and Rockville high school student, died at 8 o'clock last night at a Washington hospital of a fractured skull. She was hurled from a motoreycle sidecar on the Rockville-Darnestown pike, a mile and a half from here, late yesterday, when the machine of Donald Walters, twenty-six years, son of Mrs. Frank Walters of Chevy Chase, left the road and was wrecked. Walters is under arrest charged with manslaughter. His license to operate a motorcycle had been re- voked following his arrest recently on charges of drunkenness and spees ing. At that time he forfeited collateral, the police say. . Walters was released on $5,000 bail at 1 o'clock this morning and will be Ziven a hearing June 21. The m; in which the accident occurrcd not been explained Passing motorists picked up Miss Adamson, and Walters and the girl was taken to the Washington hospital after receiving first aid at the home of Dr. Linthicum. Walters was but slightly hurt. Her father is Herbert Adamson and lives about three miies from Rockville. SHERIFF SLAYS MAN WHO TERRIFIED HOME Corners Intruder, Who Shot Head of Family and Forced Women to Feed Him. as By the Associated Press. LIVE OAK. Fla, June 11.—An un- | known man was shot and instantly | killed here yesterday by Sheriff | Lyle in a man hunt following the | wounding of H. C. Matthews, a citi- | zen of the Rossburg community, about ten miles south of here. The man, according to members of the | Matthews family,- had knocked and | asked admittance du a rain- | Storm, and shot Matthews down when he opened the door. s Following the shooting, wife and daughter said, the man com 1 to build a fire and cook | 1, refusing to allow them | tthews’ aid. Matthews he fell for several left the ere hours, the intruder place Sherift Lyle was notified and organ- | een | . the sheriff his_revolver in hand. | Sheriff Lyle said the man walked to | a stump and took aim over the top | at the posse. He shot the man | through the head with a rifle. A coroner's jury returned a ver- dict vesterday afternoon to the effect | that the man died from gunshot wounds | at the hands of Sheriff Lyle in the discharge of his du Matthews is | In a critical condition, DIES AT AGE OF 102. Granddaughter of John Quincy| Adams Succumbs in Colorado. | June 11.—Mrs. Re- | " granddaughter of John | sixth President of the , died at Petersbu S- Bean was 102 years of The inventor, Rebecca Shinn was born in 1822 at Shinnston, in what was then Virginia and now is West Vir- While still a young girl sh four trips across the Atlani cith her father. who i id to h designed the first locomotive ever run on a track in the United States. ST Real Estate daughter of an engineer and 1t requires many years of petent in handling REAL ESTATE EXCHANGES. This office has two' men who have been handling exchanges for a period of about twenty years. arrange deals which will be satisfactory and advan- tageous to all parties concerned. There are many properties which cannot be sold, but which may be exchanged advantageously. owners of this class of proper: please GET IN TOUCH WITH MENT. It may mean a big day for GARDINER & DENT, Inc. Member of Washington Real Estate Board Main 4884 (iR I i i T T Sudden Death Takes Maryland Brothers Only One Day Apart Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md, June 11.— Charles S. Bruner, supervising agent for the Pennsylvania rail- road, Mied suddenly yesterday at the home of his brother, Frank W. Bruner, telegrapher In the employ of the Baltimore and Ohio _ra.llra-d at Johnstown, Pa., who died sud- denly at his office on the previous ay. Charles. was forty-two years old and Frank was forty-five. Charles was called to his brother's homo by the latter's death, and while there collapsed. He ' suffered a stroke of paralysis last July. The body of Frank was taken to Hyndman, fourteen miles north- west of here, where his mother, Mrs. Laura Virginia_Bruner, re- sides. Charles was buried today at Curwensville, Pa. —e SEEKS RELEASE ON WRIT. Habeas Corpus Suit Filed by Charles Burkley in Raid Shooting. Special Dispatch to The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md. June 11. Attorney Robert W. Wells has ap- plicd to the Prince Georges county cuit court here for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of Charles H. Burk- ley of Tuxedo, Prince Georges county, held in the county jail here on a charge of murder in connection with the shooting of special policeman Allan M. Chase of Hyattsville May 22. Hearing on the application has 10:30 am. fired the ase’s death during a raid on a still in the woods near Tuxedo. 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The aviators were stationed at the Marine flying fleld, and were dolng stunts at a low altitude, when their plane seemed to get beyond control and plunged to the ground, exploding the gasoline tfank. Garrisonville is ten miles from Quantico. According to farmers who were watching the flight the plane was about 2,000 feet above the ground when it started the plunge. Lient. Hail was graduated from the Naval Academy in the 1921-B class. Under the tutelage of Mary Roberts Rinehart, it is sald, Hail wrote a series of articles on “Life in the Naval Academy.” In Cuba he was to have married Miss Vera Poole, daughter of a sugar plantation owner. STEIN-BLOCH CLOTHES AR, WASHINGTO! CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BOARD RESTRAINED Petitioners Obtain Injunction to Enjoin Directors From Meet- ing Today. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, June 11.—A temporary injunction. was granted by Judge Lowell in United States district court yesterday against the Christian Sclence board of directors, enjoining the board from holding a meeting set for today regarding complaints that would affect the standing of Willlam H. Taylor gnd Nellie H. Tay- lor, both of New York, as members of 'the First Church of Christ, Sci- entist, of Boston, known as the “Mother Church.” The injunction or- der is returnabie on Friday. The petitioners alleged that they believed that the board of directors purposed tomorrow, “unlawfully, un- reasonably and in violation of the provisions of the church manual,” to take summary action at a hearing to affect their memberships In the church. England will have another actress M. P, if Miss Olga Nethersole suc- ceeds in her ambition to be elected to_the House of Commons. Genuine balloon tires—standard equipment on passenger cars. THE TREW MOTOR CO. 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