Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-26
DR.. KEENE FORSTON
KILLED BY MACHINE
Prominent District Physician
Is Victim of Hit-kun
Auto Driver.

! Victim of hit-and-run machine, DR..
Keene r. Forston, so years old, of 1881
street, died early last night at Emer-
gency Hospital with fractured skull
and internal injuries an hour after be-
ing run down as he was walking from
the north to the south side of Dupont
Circle at Nineteenth street.
! DR.. j. Ramsay hewitt, District coroner,
said an inquest will be held at the
morgue tomorrow morning. Funeral ar
rangements will be completed after the
| inquiry.
Police investigating the case today
! said they were unable to locate the
| driver of the car, which, according to
| witnesses, halted momentarily after
| striking DIR. Forston and then sped from
the scene. Witnesses described the au-
sobile as being small coupe.
| Detective Sergt. John Flaherty learned
today that two women who saw the mis-
hap obtained the license number of the
car which struck DR.. Forston, but so far
| police have been unable to locate these
| important witnesses. They are asked to
communicate with the Detective Bureau
! Immediately.
! n pdoSlIlS HlOJOElSL DlCk6Q uU LII.
! Forston and carried him to Emergency
Hospital, where he died without regain
ing consciousness.
Wife and BrOthT Survive.
| DR.. Forston, a general practitioner
and well known in medical circles here,
was a native of Lexington, KY, and was
a graduate of Georgetown, Johns Hop
| kins and Northwestern Universities. A
! Vii I've nd O
| brother, George ForSton of Lexington,
KY, survive.
Raymond Lester, years old, of 1912
Ridge place southeast was reported hurt
when he fell beneath the rear wheel OF
an automobile driven by Miss Catherine
| Radford, II, who was driving the ma
chine through an alley in the rear of
| the 1900 block of Ridge place on her
! way to garage.
| He was taken to Casualty. Hospital
with head injuries, possible internal in
| iurieS, shock and abraSions about the
/ face. Hospital officials said today the
boy would recover.
Bus Passenger Hurt.
Fifteen passengers, riding on a
| Woodbridge bus, received minor hurts
as the machine crashed into the load
| ing platform of the John H. wilkins
Coffee Co.'S warehouse, at 523 Rhode
Island avenue, late yesterday, after 1t
is said to have struck truck of the
Loose Wiles Biscuit Co., driven by Will
lard e. Foss, %, of the 1900 block OF
Belmont street.
The bus operator, Louis E. Young, 81.
of Fort Myer, Va, was knocked from
| the wheel by the impact and his bus
ran wild for about 60 feet before 1t
struck the platform.
Young was treated at Sibley Hospital
| for minor injuries Passengers are re-
ported to have refused hospital treat
ment.
Miss Margaret Myers of 1918 Eight
zenith street northeast and Mrs Mary
Harris of 1909 Twenty-second street
northeast and Mrs. w. Amann of 1427
Monroe street northeast were among
those reported injured.
, Two Hurt in Crash.
Two men were slightly hurt in a tri-
pie collision at Fifteenth and N streets
shortly before noon today.
Arthur Rykert, % years old, OF Silver
Spring, Md, driver of one of the cars,
was treated for cut ear at the Epis-
copal, Ear, Eye and Throat Hospital.
His mother, Mrs. Martha Rykert, riding
with him, was unhurt.
Stephen j. Demas, 500 Princeton
place, driver of a laundry truck which
overturned in the crash, received slight
cuts to his hands. A. Ruben, driver OF
the third car. was unhurt.
According to police, the laundry truck
was proceeding south on Fifteenth when
the other cars appeared simultaneously
from the east and west on N street
The cars were not badly damaged.