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Patrolman Marshall R. Foster, 28, an emergency squad patrolman, was fatally injured on the night of July 4, 1947, when he was struck by a car as he was directing traffic during an apartment house fire at Michigan and Alabama Streets.
The driver of the car was William E. Keller, 22, of Albany, who witnesses said passed a truck making a left turn into Michigan Street from Alabama Street. Witnesses also said Keller was going at a high speed when he struck Foster who was standing a few feet north of the intersection. Keller was held on a vagrancy charge. He admitted passing the truck, but said he did not see the officer.
Fellow policemen immediately applied the police inhalator until a City doctor arrived. Use of the inhalator was continued until arrival at the hospital where Foster died about 15 minutes later. | 
