Evening star., 1928-10-13
BOY CyCL|ST DIES
! AFTER POLE CRASH
Companion on Same Wheel
Badly Hurt-Man, II,
Knocked Down by Car.

Franklin Wetherell, -, of 80 Wood
land avenue, Takoma Park, Md, was
fatally injured and his companion,
Charles McLendon of the same age and
residing at 426 Oglethorpe street, re-
ceived serious injuries yesterday after
noon when the bicycle which they were
--:ains down Rittenhouse street crashed
.:.ts3 a telephone pole at the intersec-
tion of Eighth street. The boys were
rushed to Walter Reed Hospital, where
Franklin died two hours later The
other youth was transferred to Emer-
pency Hospital and is in a serious con-
dition The skulls of the boys were
fractured.
Young wetherell is son of Frank
lin G. Wetherell, chief pharmacist in
the Navy.
Policeman Claude o. Rupe of the
sixth precinct, was seriously injured
shortly after o'clock this morning
when his motor cycle skidded while
making turn at Maryland avenue ana
Third street southwest, throwing him TO
the street. At Emergency Hospital 1t
was found he had fractured skull ana
fractured collar bone.
MO0erate Spee0.
Although Rupe has not regained con-
gciouSnesS, a witness told fourth pre-
cinct police that the policeman was
making the turn at a moderate rate o1
speed when the accident occurred. Rupe
is 81 and lives at 1912 Minnesota ave-
nue. southeast.
Millard F. Hobson. u, 1411 Perry
place, suffered a broken left leg ana
lacerations to the head and body when
he was knocked down at Fourteenth
street and Spring road by an automo-
bile operated by George G. Otte, !4Oi
Columbia road. At Garfield Hospital,
where Hobson was treated, it was SAID
that his condition is not serious.
A broken leg was received by Lester
Goldberg, z, 1903 Thirty-t1rst street,
when he was knocked down at Thirtletn
and M streets by a truck operated by
Archie Williams, colored, SS years olo,
17l8 v street The injured boy was
taken to Georgetown Hospital.
Mrs. Marie Zulo, A. 1881 Georgia
avenue. suffered brushes and shock
when she was struck last night at
Georgia avenue and Fairmont street
by an automobile driven by Morris M.
Fox, 1903 Georgia avenue. She re-
ceived home treatment.
Truck and Street Car Crash.
Minor injuries were received by Will
liam Carl, As, TIC Seventh street, and
Samuel Evans, AZ, 9o5 Seventh street
northeast, when the truck on Whicn
they were riding, operated by Carl, was
in a collision at North Capitol and M
streets with a street car. Evans was
treated at Sibley Hospital and Carl at
Providence Hospital.
After he is claimed to have struck
and injured a pedestrian at Rhode Is
land avenue and Fifth street and then
to have fed the scene, Harold H.
Mark, 81 Bryant street, was arrested
by second precinct police on hit
and-run" charge. The victim, Jasper
II. Wallace, colored, SO years old, 1882
Eighth street, was treated at Freed
mems Hospital for possible fracture
of the left leg.
An Army ambulance that was con-
Feying a patient from Fort Myer, Va,
to Walter Reed Hospital was in a col
liSion shortly after midnight at Twenty
eighth and M streets with an automo-
bile operated by John Kelliner, "a years
old, 800 Mclean avenue southwest. The
patient and driver of the ambulance, as
well as Kelliner, escaped injury. Ed
ward M. Povence, Army Medical Corps,
operated the ambulance.
Others injured in traffic, none seri-
ously, were Joseph Mulhall, 2135 H
street; Daniel w. HaZen, 8 years old,
14l1 North Carolina avenue northeast;
Rodney Ricketts,, 35 years old, 14l9
Clifton street; Harry j. Teel, SO years
old, 613 c street, and Julia Brown, col
ored, years old, 2l27 L street.