Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-06
BLOW ON HEAD IS
FATAL TO YOUNG.
MEDICAL STUDENT
Nicholas FernicOla, of Ir0n-
bound Section, Dies in ST.
Micfael's Hospital.
ABSCESS OF THE BRAIN
RESULTS FROM INJURY
Hurt at Hahnemann College, in
Philadelphia, After Thanks
giving Day.

Nicholas Fernicola, twenty-six years
student at the Hahnemann Medical
College, in Philadelphia, and for
mer Barringer High School student,
died last night in st. Michael.s Hos
pital. He had been confined in the
hospital since January II suffering
from an abscess on the brain. His
mother, sixty-two years old, was at
O'Clock last night.
The circumstances surrounding the
cause of the abscess are puzzling his
relatives. The abscess was the result
of an injury to the students head.
Different stories are told as to how
the injury was received. Rumor has
1t that Fernicola was struck on the
head with a baseball during a game
in Philadelphia some time ago: an
other story is that he was struck dur
ing fight with several of his fellow
students, and still another explana-
ton Is that he was struck on the
left side Of the head with a book
student while Fernicola was indulg-
ing in horse-play.
Samuel Gesumaria, a son of the
brother-in-law of the dead student,
said today that Fernicola had come
home from college the day before
Christmas and had gone directly to
bed Gesumaria said Fernicola told
him he had been confined in the in
firmary of the college for ten days
previous to the time he came home.
He complained of pains in his head
a. hat he n
account for them was from the time
he had been struck in the head with
a book while fooling with fellow stu
dents four days after Thanksgiving
Day.
On January 8, Fernicola lost his
power of speech and was stricken
with paralysis on his right side, the
opposite side from which he said he
was struck with the book. He was
removed to st. Michael,s Hospital on
January II and operated on the next
day. A week ago yesterday he re-
gained his speech and the use OF his
right side. Two days after he suf-
fered a relapse. His condition gradtf4
ally grew worse until the end came
last night,
Fernicola. was born in this city and
attended Lafayette Street Public
| School. from which he was graduated.
lie was a student at BarT1n8er High
School for three years and finished
his course at New York School, after
which he entered the Hahnenann
Medical College. He was well-known
In the Ironbound section of the city,
having served as an election officer at
the polls for the past few years.
He Is survived by his mother and
sister. who is Mrs. Conchetta Gesu-
maria.
The PROCESS Aerie No. 1887, of the
Fraternal Order of Eagles, will con-
duct the funeral services, which will
take place Monday morning at 8
o'clock from his home to the Church
of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, in Nc
Whorter street, where solemn high
mass of requiem will be offered In
terment will be in the Cemetery of
the Holy Sepulchre.
The report that Fernicola had been
struck on the head by a fellow stu
dent was investigated by the authori-
ties of Hahnemann Medical School
today, and later it was announced
that the young man had not been in
jured while here and that his illness
was due to natural causes.
Fernicola, who was a first year stu
dent, became i'll before Christmas and
was treated at the Hahnemann Hos
pital. After he recovered he went to
his home In Newark, according to the
college physicians, and developed an
abscess on the brain.