Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-28
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Fred. YuengIing, a Prisoner,
Succumbs to Alcoholism.
JAILED FOR PETTY SUM
Red Tape Kills His One Chance for
Life, Declare Doctors.
MIGHT HAVE LIVED, THEY SAY
Keepers Prevented Removal to Hos
pital in Time to Do Him
Any Good.
JAILED FOR PETTY SUM
MIGHT HAVE LIVED, THEY SAY

NEW YORK. September 2S.-Frederick
| D Yuenging's career ended in the
morgue last night.
Fred yuensling, who once shone as one
! of the most dissipated of New York S
| e;lded yo,1th. died of chronic alcoholism
in the nrison ward of Bellevue Hospital.
Diving. he was taken to the hospital from
the prison of the West Side police court.
The man. whose eXtravagances were no
torious. had been jailed for passing a
worthless draft for paltry $loo
Yuengling was forty-two years old. son
of the late David G. YuenglinS. once a
wealthy brewer here, whose fortune he
helped to wreck.
In his early manhood handsome. tall.
muscular fellow. Yuengling was a physi-
cal indeed almost a mental. wreck at his
death Yet It seems he still had fight
ing chance for life.
Blames Jail Keepers.
DR.. Bradley. a Bellevue ambulance sur
geon, answered a call from the west SIDE
| court at l o'clock yesterday afternoon.
He found Yuengling critically Ill and told
the prison keeper the sufferer must De
taken to the hospital at once.
There were four keepers, Chlet H. n
Ryan and three others. DR.. Bradley says
they would not let him take YuenSllnS
away because he had been committed by
| Magistrate Barlow and a keeper could
not be spared to accompany him to the
hospital.
| DR.. Bradley gave him restoratives and
| left him.
Three hours later came a hurry call to
Bellevue from the court TAIL. DR.. Wyck-
| off answered it.
| Yuengling was in coma: his tempera-
| ture was JOG degrees temperature that
| literally burns up an adult.
DR. Wyckon says the prison keepers
| were reluctant to let Iuengling go TO the
| hospital, but even they saw that his death
| was imminent. So they carried him to
the ambulance Keeper Michael Lyons
went along.
Close to Death.
| So close was Yuenging to death then
that on the way to the hospital Dr..
Wyckoff gave him heart stimulants and
administered artificial respiration. He
reached the hospital at $50 o'clock.
DR.. lie Roy Smith, DIR. Lowthian and
other physicians exhausted their skill
Yuengling died an hour and half later
of Chronic alcoholism the doctors say.
Then the body of the man who had
spent a fortune on the Baroness Blanc
was taken to the mOrgue. An autopsy will
be made today.
w men 1uenSllnS OleU tIlc heepeiS Will
whom the ambulance surgeons dealt had
left the court prison.
Said Night Keeper James w. Dwyer
with emphasis
Il don't know why the doctors are talk
ing that way. We always had keeper
here to take a man to a hospital if it 8
necessary.
Besides it may be that alcoholism was
not the only cause of YuenglingS death.
While he was walking In the prison today
hsa fell fba hack of his head wit In
an awful smack.
Cause of Arrest.
"Yuenglng was arrested fortnight
ago on complaint Of the Thomas Flyer
renting agency. charged with hiring an
automobile and being unable to pay for
it. He also had given a worthless draft
before that for Sl3O for hire of another
automobile. At the time he was held in
$500 bail for examination, but failed to
appear.
The case was adjourned by Magistrate
Barlow In order TO allow the bondsman.
Henry Bolter. liveryman, 30 West 10th
street, to produce Yuengling in court to-
day. Bolter. however. was afraid that
Yuengling would not appear and yester-
day surrendered the bond and turned him
over to the police.
when Yuengling was here two weeks
ago( he himself thought he was going
to die. He wrote letter in his cell and
gave 1t to me-
Dwyer showed the letter:
"Mrs. F. D. Yuengling. 62 Hawthorn
avenue, Yonkers. n. Y.
Dear Girl-Take care of the bearer, Mr..
Dwyer. Dr. Walker will tell you the rest
He received $60OOO in connection with the
rest. FRED"
Mrs. Yuengling was Miss Myrtle Nc
Bann. He met her while he was man
aging a brewery in British Columbia
She sued him for non-support some time
ago.