| Show RUN DOWN BY TRUCK man who claims descent from royal ty meets ignoble death new york oct 5 john howard a descendant of one ot the earliest american colonists and who claimed to trace his lineage back to the early english kings Is dead from injuries received in being run down by a truck on upper broadway his body lay in the hospital morgue for several hours without being identified search by persons with whom he had engagements led to identification howard studied surgery in his youth and later took up music awen ty five years ago his attainments in the latter made him famous he was born sixty years ago in connecticut served in the civil war ana later was graduated from yale his knowledge of anatomy he brought lo 10 bear on the cultivation of the voice and his studies on the subject attracted wide not ico only the day before his death he bad completed the manuscript 0 what he said would be his last work the concluding pages were in his pocket when be met with the fatal accident howard enjoyed a large income from the southworth estabi in massachi berts which h is said to have given away almost as fast as it was received |
