Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1936, Page 3

WILL BE PROBED Inquests Scheduled Today. Fatalities for 1936 Mount to 93. BULLETIN. Samuel B. Farnum and Vernon L. Derrickson, drivers of the two automobiles that struck and killed Wilmot W. Trew, were exonerated this afternoon by a coroner's jury. The jury deliberated only five min- utes before deciding the death was *accidental.” Two inquests are scheduled for to- day and thitd probably will be held tomorrow into week end traffic fatali- ties which brought the District's 1936 total to 93. The cases to be investigated today nvolve the deaths of Wilmot W. Trew, 56-year-old real estate dealer, who was struck by two automobiles in front of his home at 5900 Six- teenth street, and Charles F. Meyers, 72, of 509 Sixth street, who died of injuries received December 3. ‘Trew, vice president and treasurer ~ of the William H. Saunders Real Etate Co., was killed Saturday night, an hour before he was to drive to Baltimore to spend the evening with his two young grandchildren. The real estate man was struck by the car of Samuel B. Farnum of Paterson, N. J., knocked down and then run over by a taxicab operated by Vernon L. Derrickson, 1808 Kal- mia road. ‘The offices of the Saunders Co. will be closed all day tomorrow out of respect for Trew. Funeral services| will be held tomorrow at the residence, at an hour yet to be decided. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Trew was a member of the Wash- ington Real Estate Board, the Board of Trade and the Kiwanis Club, and was a 32nd Degree Scottish Rite Mason. ) Dies in Gallinger. Meyers died in Gallinger Hospital early Saturday of injuries suffered when he was struck at Sixth and G streets by a truck police said was | driven by George W. McDonald, 18, of | $20 Stewart square southeast. The other inquest will be into the | death of Mrs. Anne L. MacAythur, 51, | of 1109 D street southeast, who died | « in En ergency Hospital Saturday night ; & short time after having been struck by an automobile at Seventh street | and Pennsylvania avenue. Two other persons died in Wash- | ngton hospitals during the last 48 hours as the result of accidents in | nearby Maryland and Virginia. These victims were Harold Cook, 18, of Woodstock, Va, who died in | Georgetown Hospital of brain con- | eussion and back injuries suffered in v a crash on the Lee Highway at Halls Hill. Va., and Marcellus Pickrell, 65, of Waldorf, Md., who died in Sibley Hoepital after being struck by a car pear his home. | Charles Cook, 42, father of Harold, | suffered cuts, bruises and a head in- | jury in the accident in which his son was killed. He was reported im- | proved today at Georgetown. Several Injured. A number of other persorfs were v hurt, one seriously, in accidents yes- terday. Five of the victims were riding in a faxieab that crashed into a parked ear at Pirst and B streets south- aast. William Steadman, 22, of 3545 Fleventh street, a passenger in the cab, ‘was taken to Providence Hospital with | ® fractured skull and severe cuts. | The other occupants of the cab were | eut and bruised. They were William Pischer, 24, of 3207 Mount Pleasant street, the driver; Mabel Herbert, 19, | and her sister, Harriett, 21, both of 717 Kentucky avenue southeast, and Daniel McDuffy, 25, of 1364 Spring | #road. Doris Strange, 21, of 1701 Oregon | avenue, suffered brain concussion when | the car in which she was riding ran into an excavation on Alabama avenue | southeast. She was taken to Casualty. | Police said the automobile was driven | by Prancis M. Goodwin, jr., 26, of 2126 | Connecticut avenue. i Thaddeus L. Richards, 32, of 1526 U street southeast, received severe head injuries in a crash near Reds Corner, | Md. He was taken to Casualty, ONE DIES IN CRASH. Another Injured as Car Overturns in Maryland. One man was killed, another was serjously injured and a third escaped when a car in which they were riding overturned on River Road in Mont- | gomery County shortly before noon to- | day. ‘The dead man was Earle Joyce, eolored, who lived on Fifteenth street, and the injured man is James Gibson, colored, 1400 block of Thirteenth | street. The other man was Edwin Bimms, colored, 24, 1315 Twenty-sec- and street. N Simms told county police he and his_companions were on their way to — e :ocxrra’oox on 7th p.m. Phone Columbi LOST. SAMERA BOX Brownle. lost ard. _Clevel Saturday, about 5665-R. on_Sunday. Rew: OND RING—Lost in TANEYTOWN. .. on Sunday. Very liberal reward fof turn to owner. Phone Columbia 8841, t. 514, 16th w. TFox-terrier_puopy. 2 months old. white. 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Congressional Country Club, where | they are employed as waiters, when | the car overturned. Joyce, who Simms sald was driving the machine, was instantly killed. Members of the Bethesda Fire Rescue Squad took Gibson to Georgetown University Hospital. Matlilews bullet coursed through his shoulder and came out through his chest after plercing the lung. Either could have caused his death, doctors said. There was a cut on the side of his scalp, pos- sibly made by & razor, according to police. The Boy Scouts rushed to & nearby filling station and told the proprietor of their discovery. He telephoned Montgomery County police at Silver Spring. State’s Attorney James H. Pugh of Rockville and several officers | rushed to the scene, and the body was | brought here after an inspection at | the creek. Meanwhile, police combed | the wooded section nearby for addi- | tional clues. Apparently Thrown Into Water. Matthews’ body apparently had been thrown into the branch above the dam of the Robert B. Morse filtra- tion plant and had been washed over | the dam and then under the bridge | Friday night when heavy rains had | raised water 20 feet above the dam. | Police said the water no doubt was of | sufficient force at the time to throw the body up on the rock where it was | discovered. Matthews was clad in a sheepskin coat, tan shoes and grey overalls, “There is no doubt about it being | murder—premeditated murder,” Pugh said, after having launched an exten- | sive investigation and begun examina- tion of witnesses in the case. “Who- ever committed the crime shot Mat- thews through the head with a gun and then sliced him with a razor. Rob- bery is one motive. The other I will not disclose at this time, as we are| checkings it now. He was said to have | carried a lot of cash.” Pugh refused to name the suspects. Sum Unknown. Originally it was believed Matthews had $500 or $600 on his person when | he was reported missing. He had ! withdrawn $500 in cash from the Sil- | ver Spring Bank on October 26, but | investigation showed he had loaned | out this sum on the same day. “The loan looks allright,” Pugh said. | Other evidence indicated Matthews might not have had as much money | as his slayer believed. Matthews had | sold some property to a Washington school teacher who is constructing & home on it. The teacher was be- lieved to have made a payment to Matthews shortly before the latter was missed from his farm home. How- | ever, a check-up showed the money | had been paid to the bank for Mat- | thews' account after he had disap- | peared. | Pugh said evidence also indicated | Matthews often carried $100 or more | on his person and often flashed a roll | of bills. * Matthews lived with his brother Charles, 71. The brother and many | other residents of the neighborhood | already have been examined by the | district attorney. Brother Tells of Disappearance. With an arm that shook slightly with emotion, Charles Matthews stood in the kitchen of the farm home on the Colesville pike today and pointed to an empty chair near the coal rang } “That's where Elwood was sitting, he said. [ There were two chairs near the | range. - The brothers often sat in| them and enjoyed the warmth of the fire. They were sitting there on the afternoon of November 21, just before 4 o'clock. i Charles agreed that “somebody who | knew” his brother committed the | crime. “I couldn't sieep all last| night,” the brother said. “I went to | bed at 12 and got up at 3.” On the night Elwood disappeared, Charles left the home on the 4:14 p.m. bus for Washington, he said, and vis- ited & drug store in the 1000 block of H street, ate dinner in a restaurant and then visited a friend of his broth- er's at the O Street Market. He missed one bus and returned home ESTABLISHED 1839 ABE OFFICIAL PIANOD METROPOLITAN OPERA NEW SMALL cranp $505 ivatens - EASY TERMS Bench. Delivery, Service Bstra. KITT’S 1330 @ Se. shortly after 10 p.m. to find his broth- er absent. “I didn't think anything of it at first. He often went out late Satur- day night and didn't come home until 1 or 2 o'clock in the morn- ing. I never thought there was any- thing wrong until Monday evening,” CHarles continued. A friend and neighbor drove to Prince Georges County Monday night, but could find no trace of Elwood Matthews. The brother'’s suspicions were aroused when a neighbor told of hav- ing seen an automobile without lights | come from a road between the | Matthews home and the Colesville pike the night of Monday, Novem- ber 23, Chai said. “I believe, and several others also believe, that who- ever the car carried did the work— committed the crime. This is all the information I have and all that I can give in my name,” Charles con- cluded. He said the same story will be told | in detail when he is called to testify. He had lived with Elwood in the old farm house for the past three years. Officer Charles Barnes of the Sil- ver Spring police station definitely identified Matthews' body. County Police Chief J. W. Garrett, Sergts. Guy Jones and Leroy Rodgers of Sil- ver Spring and Sergt. T. F. Vollten of Rockville worked on the case, while Pugh assembled evidence. Drs. W S. Murphy and Gilbert B. Hartley of | Rockville performed the autopsy. | Matthews was separated frem his wife, who, Pugh said, was understood to have been living for many years | with a daughter, Mrs. Lois Gibson, at Vienna, Va. Matthews. His brother Charles is | married, and his wife and children live in Washington. The brother reported Elwood —A. P. Photo. China (Continued From First Page.) feverishly fortifying the Tungkwan district, where he is rushing two di- visione, ‘The Japanese government, faced with the Chinese crisis, moved toward intervention and was said to be ready to conduct a strict investigation of communistic activity they asserted was behind the seizure of Gen. Chiang. Conflicting reports on whether Gen. Chiang were alive or dead flooded Tokio. CHINA FACES CIVIL WAR. Chiang Is Definitely Reported Alive at Sian-Fu. NANKING, December 14 P).— China faced disastrous civil war to- day as the Central government massed its forces on the border of Shensi LAWYERS' BRIEFS RUSH PRINTING BYRON §. ADAMS ‘The wife’'s name is Ella |} Matthews missing on November 23, | |f two days after he disappeared. Mat- thews failed to return home the night | of the 2lst, after having left a gaso- | i line station at Four Corners at 8:12 | p.m., when he started home. His hogs and cattle were not fed that night. Matthews, a well-to-do truck farmer, ' | pouitryman and land owner, was be- | | lieved worth more than $30,000, and was said to have refused an offer re- cently of $37,000 for his farm. Foul play had been suspected ever | I since his disappearance. The area near his home had been completely searched by police since November 23. | Funeral services for Matthews will | be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the | Warner Pumphrey funeral home in | Silver Spring, with interment in Rock- ville Union Cemetery. Gioe a Man Fit for Or just a “Pla Make some ore this Christmos by gwing them @ poir of ETZ glasses. ETZ Optometrists 608 13th N.W. Belween ¥ and G N.W. the world brighter for a King in Gentleman” Richard Prince Custom Type Evening Garments Single Breasted Tux--$32.50 Double Breasted Tux...$35 Full Dress..-.--_.--$38'50 or 12-Pay Pla: D. C, Province to force the release of Gen- eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. 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