Show ALKER DENIES UNIE lAMI fOR V V Naval Officer er S Says ys Other V Auto in Fatal Clash lash Was Was' Speeding and As Asserts erts He Drove at Moderate Rate I RING that when h hI he heJL I JL- JL r reached ached th the i intersection of Fifth So South th and State streets streets- where th the collision occurred he was DS driving at about twenty miles an hour and that the car with which he ho co collided lId d passed In front of ot othis his car cat going west on on Fifth South street at about forty miles an hour Lieutenant William J J. J Walker Valker of the the navy tObi th the the stand stank in the preliminary nar nary hear hearing ng of the case cise case charging him with involuntary manslaughter before City Judge Henr Henry C. C Lund today t V BASIS OF OF CASE The Th charge against Lieutenant Walker Valker grew out of the d death th of Mrs Melvina Clark Clarl on February 8 in an automobile collision a at Fifth South and Sata streets street in in which the de defendant defendant defendant de- de vas was driving the automobile that struck the one one carrying Mrs Clark ClarI and driven by bv James Warden Jr Lieutenant Walker Valler was was driving south on State street when his machine machine machine ma- ma chine struck the the rear end of the automobile driven by Warden west weston on Fifth South street the intersection Of dc the streets AT CROSSING V The defendant testified that he was driving at about twenty five miles an hour hour just before approaching g Fifth South street bu but as he drew near to the street crossing he slowed his machine to twenty miles an hour He further testified that he saw the car driven by b- Warden Varden more than a half block away approaching State street on Fifth South when his own machine vv was sas as some fifty or r sixty paces from the sidewalk line and that thereafter un until til the collision on occurred his attention attention attention at- at was occupied with the intersection intersection intersection inter inter- section thinking that the car approaching approaching approaching ap ap- ap- ap from the east was too far faraway faraway away to give him him trouble at the crossing V h |