Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-06-18
Young Edmund J. G 0'G001illOH GG001illOH, IF IF
keasbey, Received Injuries in
Auto Tragedy That Result in
Almost Instant Death.
HIS SKULL WAS FRACTURED

Edmund j. O'Gormon, eighteen
years old, of Keasbey, was fatally
injured when he was thrown on his
| head from the automobile he was
driving at Fords along New Bruns-
wick avenue shortly after 8 o'clock
TINS morning. The young mans
skull was fractured and he lived but
few minutes after the accident. He
expired before physician could be
procured.
The accident is puzzling to auto
mobile experts who cannot under
stand how It occurred. No one la
reported to have seen the machine
when 1t sweryed from the trolley
tracks, turned turtle and landed up
side down across the road, throwing
OGormon, the only occupant of the
car, on the macadam of the road.
The young man was removed to the
home of his aunt, Mrs. Michael
Joyce, at Fords, where he died with
in five minutes after the accident.
DR.. j. G. Cottrell, Of Perth Amboy,
who was summoned, found the man
dead. DR.. Cottrell notified Coroner
James j. Flynn, who view the body.
The first the residents of Fords
knew of the fatality was when they
heard the crash of the car as it over
turned, Patrolman Robert Eagan
and Michael Joyce, uncle-in-law OF
O'Gormon, were attracted to the
scene and found the machine driver
sprawled across the road; baaa baaa ding
from his nostri1s and mouth. He
was carried to the home OF Mr.. Joyce
where the injured man underwent
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fore he died. The rear of his skull
was fractured. DR.. M. Rosenow, su-
perintendent of the Didier- March
take to the works in the fated auto,
happened by, and 1t was in his pri-
vate machine that the chauffeur was
removed to his aunt Is home.
An automobile, 1t was said, had
passed O'Gormon just before the ac-
cident, and the marks left by the
| wrecked machine showed that O'Gor-
mon had steered to the right and on
the car tracks to allow another car
to pass. The tracks of the tires
showed that the chauffeur, after al
| lowing the car to pass, turned back
into the road, it is believed, at q
rather acute angle. 1t is thought the
machine rose up on the left wheels
in being suddenly turned, and tipped
over &here was no gulley or en-
| bankmeR nearby that the car could
have struck to cause 1t to turn
somersaults, and the position of the
machine in the road following the
accident disproved this. The car lay
facing the direction IL which 1t had
been turned, which strengthens the
theory that it upset by being forced
over on its left wheels when it be-
came overbalanced. Whether any
mechanism of the car was out of or
der has not been ascertained. The
machine was still lying across the
road at late hour today, partially
blocking the thoroughfare.
The dead was has no immediate
relatives in this country, his par
ents, sisters and brothers living in
| Fortuna, Galway county, Ireland,
where he was born. He had been in
this country for two years, and DUR
| ing that time had been employed at
the Didier-March plant. He had q
drivers license but about two
months, and had been employed
since then by the company as chauf-
feur. Every morning he would take
the car from the plant and go to
! Metuchen to drive superintendent
Rosenow and other officials to the
works. Most of the time he was in
! this country he had been living with
his aunt, Mrs. Joyce, at Fords, but
during the last few days he made his
home at Keasbey. 1t was said the
man was free from any bad habits.
| The machine was a new twenty-five
horse power Jeffrey car. The chauf-
! feur was a member of the Holy
Name Society of this city and popu-
| lar about Fords. The accident oc-
Cured near the juncture of Wood
bridge avenue and New Brunswick
avenue. About a year ago a ma
chine driven by Jens N Wester
| turned completely over at the same
place. No one was seriously hurt.