The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-22
DeForest B. Young Sue cunbed to Injuries at
 Bridgeport Hospital
UNCONSCIOUS FROM TIME HE MET INJURY
The Deceased Was a Clever Young Business Man with
 Promising Future in Store

Promising Future in Store
 DeForest B. Young died at the Bridgeport Hospital at 1:15 D. m. to- day from a fractured skull sustained by tripping and falling while jumping from James H. Kelly's automobile in Milford, Wednesday night, after the automobile had side-swiped a tele- graph pole and caught fire.
 Mr. Young, who resided at 390 State street, was one of the best known young men in the city and his death is sure to be the cause of widespread sorrow
 All that medical science could do failed to bring any relief to him, such was the nature of his injury, sustain ed in a fall of only a couple of feet. The accident was all the sadder and more remarkable from the fact that Mr. Young was a natural-bOrn athlete and the last man in the world who wAuld be considered likely to get hurt in such a trivial mishap.
 When the grave nature of the in jury was first discovered, Dr. D. M. Trecartin and Dr. c. c. Godfrey of this city were called into the case. They found MT Young in a dying condition and performed an operation to relieve the pressure on the brain. This operation effected marked re- lief for about six hours, but the sur geons saw that his brain was too bad ly injured to permit of any but the slimmest ray of hope.
 Friends of Mr. Young urged that no resource of medical science be spared in the fight to have his life. Drs. Godfrey and Trecartin yesterday call- ed into consul ltation pr. Robert T. Morris of New York, one of the worlds most famous Specialists. I Dr. Morris declared that everything possible had been done for the relief of the patient, and that the case was practically hopeless one from the start ss
 Mr. Young was in a coma from the time of the accident and sank grad- ually until the end came today.
 The accident will go down in his- tory as one of the most remarkable on record in this vicinity.
 On Wednesday night, James H. Kelly, the tobacconist of 141 Fairfield avenue started to take Gilbert W. Goodridge to his cottage at the shore, in Mr. Kelly's eight-cylinder Steven Duryea machine. Those in the party had been spending the evening at Polls theatre and when the time came to depart, about II o'clock, Henry M. Oviatt and DeForest Young were in- with Mr. Kelly and MT. Goodridge.
 Mr. Young at first declined, having no overcoat and fearing the cold. The others pressed him to come along and procured an oyercoat for him which he donned, and which afterward was the cause of his death.
 At Milford the car skidded in avoid ing another car, and sideswiped a telegraph pole the gasoline feed pipe ing up about the car.
 Mir. Young was the last to jump from the car the others having safe ly gotten out. In doing so his foot caught in the long auto-coat and he tripped and fell heavily, striking his head against the ground in such a manner as to fatally fracture his skull.
 A passing automobile was pressed into service and he was rushed to the Bridgeport hospital where everything possible was done for him but with out result.
 Funeral services over the remains of MT. Young will be held tonight at Bishops undertaking parlors on Fair
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 "He was simply the king of them aH," declared A. H. Bul1ard, to a Farmer reporter, in speaking of MT. Young; five do not know how to ex- press our grief sufficiently. His death is an irreparab1e loss.''
 DeForest B. Young, was 2S years of age, and a native of Cobleskill, N. Y. He came here nine years ago and during his residence in this city made a host of friends Personally he was a man of fine appearance and athletic disposition and the ability to win and keep warm friendships and was pop ular wherever he was known.
 He first came to Bridgeport as pri- vate secretary to the purchasing agent of the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Go. He was an expert steno- grapher and com bined with this the for the making of a splendid secre- tary.
 Four years ago he went into the employ of the Bullard Machine Tool Company as confidential secretary to the members of the firm. The acci- dent to him was a great shock to members and employees of that firm, among WuOIu IOluIIy as u0 was called, was universally popular.
 He was a member of the Masonic fraternity here, a member of Bridge port lodge of Elks and was treasurer of the Algonquin club. In all of these organizations he was marked by the ability to win friends which charac- terized him in every field and the hospital telephone has been kept busy ever since the accident with inquiries regarding his condition and the pos sible chances for his recovery.
 Mir Young was unmarried. The 1iv- ing members of his family include his father, DeForest B. Young, Sr, a brother and two sisters, all of Cob1e- skill, N. Y. His brother, Percy Young, came on to Bridgeport today. 4 Torring guilty of wife beating, Michael Kovalcek was given 30 days in jail and fined ST. He threatened to kill his wife and wield- ed loaded gun and a knife. She will have one less to support she said