Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-07
TWO BOYS DROWN
|NEASTERN BRANCH
E. S. Richards Believed to
Have Lost His Life in Effort
to Save Adeeb Fahoory.

In what is believed to have been
an effort to save his companion, Adeeb
Fahoory. sixteen years old. from
drowning. E. Stanley Richards, four
teen years old. of Mount Rainier, Nd.
Red Banks. about q mile from the re-
form school late yesterday afternoon.
The bodies were recovered shortly be-
fore noon today.
Stanley Richards asked his father,
Stewart Richards, real estate dealer
with an Office in this city, permission
10 go fishing. The father told him he
must not go. Mr.. Richards left home
yesterday morning and went TO attend
to some business in Maryland. Stanley
ate his dinner and shortly after de-
Come on go fishing with me- said
Stanley to his twelve-year old brother.
Stewart Richards, jr. His brother re-
fused.
line. Stanley started for Red Banks
alone On his way there he met john
Mulholland. Henry REYNOLDS and Arthur
Spencer, playmates Of Mount Rainier.
They, too. were going to Red Banks.
Decided He Would Fish.
When the boys reached the swimming
and fishing place at Red Banks all Of
them undrcsscd with the exception OF
STANLEY He decided he would fish. The
other boys went swimming. After he had
caught two fish Stanley decided he would
also take q, swim. He went into the
some time. About 5 o'clock yesterday
afternoon the three other boys started
for home. Stanley, however, said he
was going to continue fishing.
When he did not return TO his home for
dinner, or later in the night, his parents
beanie alarmed. Search was Instituted at
the home of his companions but no trace
of him could be found.
Stewart Richards. the father. went 70
tine home Of Frank Crown, chief OF the
volunteer fire department of Mount Rat
nier, about midnight, and appealed to
him for aid TO sea.ch for the boy. Chief
Crown rang the fire bell. Within shOrtt
time W. ii. Nannenan, mayor Of Mount
Rainier and a score Of citizens had gath
cred at Chief Crowns home. The party
started for Red Banks to search for
Richards The fact that Fahoory was
also missing had not been learned at that
time.
Chief Crown led the party TO Red
Banks where he discovered the clothing
of the two boys lying on the bank. Search
was made along the river bank. but tho
bodies of the boys could not be seen. The
pol.cc OF the ninth precinct were notified
of the disappearance of the boys about :
o'clock this morning.
Waded Into Deep Water.
Ii j. believed tina. after the three boys
left Richards at Red Bank, Fahoory aT-
peared at the place and that Richards
decided he would take a swim with IA
hoory The latter boy, who resides with
his widowed mother and an uncle at
Mount Rainier, was unable to swim. 1t
1t thought that nc waded out into the
water and stepped into one or the deep
holes. Richards. who was regarded as
AN expert swimmer, Is thought to have
tried to save him, and they both lost
their lives.
Mr. Richards went to the scene of the
drowning last night ana remained
throughout the night a numoer OF @ 20"
boats were taken To the scene from Bia-
6eusbrrR and the occupants USED long
poles in an effort to raise the bodies
from the water.
Sergt. Mccormick and PoIicemen breNl
and Trumbo this morning procured q beat
az the Bepning bridge and roVed TO Rei
Bank. They arrived there about W:3J
o'clock Drags with heavy hooks were
used by the officers
AT exactly IL o'clock the body of
Fahoory was pulled 10 the surface of the
water 1t was taken 10 the shore and e
| dragging for Richards was cont-nued.
| Ten minutes after the first body was
pulled up the other one . was also puitea tea
II
bodies indicated that both boys had
struggled against death.
Jury for Inquest Tomorrow.
The bodies were laid on the grass and
Judge 4. H. Dahler OF Mount Rainier,
who was present at the time, sum-
| rnoned a jury ~ serve at an inquest to
! be held tomorrow night. The members
I Of the jury are Edward Gasche, fore
man; John Klein, Z. Gasche, W. con
stantine. Charles Newman. L. ID. Robin
son. Andrew Baldwin. William Dublin,
| j. Hayden. X T.. Moon. j. Huntington
and Williams Keys.
| Stanley Richards attended school and
was the oldest in a family Of seven
children. Fahoory was bundle
wrapper at the Palais Royal. His
mother is Mrs Mary FahoOry. Syrian.
/ He was born in Warsaw. n. y. The
\ family had resided In Mount Rainier
| about one year. Young Fahoory had
studied wireless biography and had a
small plant at his home \ companion
In Washington also has plant and
the boys often communicated with each
other through their instruments.
When Fahoory did not appear at his
+ home last night his mother believed he
! had come 10 Washington TO his friend
with each other yesterday, through theil
wireless apparatus. II Was not until his
/ clothes were found beside those of Rich
ards that II was own he had met a
| similar fate.
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