The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-27

tor nearSe escorted by three s Sheridan's body will rest in state at the West Point chapel until Wednesday, when it will be given a military funeral by the cadet corps.
 Major Philip B. Fleming, grad uate manager of West Point ath- letics. Major Ralph I. Sasse, Army football coach, and Captain W. F. De Witt, West Point medical off, cer, rode in an automobile ahead of the hearse.
 Mayor Thomas A. Fully of New Haven had ordered the flag on New Haven green flown at half staff until the body had left New Haven.
 The Final Tribute
 West Point, N. Y, Oct 27-(UPD Cadet Richard B. Sheridan. whose death followed an Army Yale battle on the football field, will be buried with all the honors of a soldier fallen in war.
 The military funeral on the windswept bluffs overlooking the Hudson will be Wednesday at 4 D.. m. accompanied by the martial splendor of Dick Sheridan's fel- low cadets in their army blue.
 Mrs Sheridan, who won a dram atic race with death to her injured sons bedside yesterday afternoon, consented to the plans for a mili- tary funeral when urged by West Point officials.
 There will be short service in the chapel as she requested. Then the cadet corps will bury their comrades body in the academy burial ground where 1t will rest near that of General George Gus ter, Richard c. Anderson of Fort Sumter, General George Goethals, and General Winfield Scott with whom Grant served in Mexico.
 Military escort was provided at once for her sons body enroute this morning from New Haven to West Point.
 Made His Score
 Cadet Sheridan died as result of a broken neck received Saturday when Army fought Yale to a gruelling to 6 tie in Yale Bowl, but not until after he had fulfilled one ambition-a touchdown for Army.
 The touchdown Sheridan wanted came the week previous in the Harvard game. Members of his family described his ambition, and part of a letter he wrote last fall when he was a substitute.
 Just think: l got into play with the Army team in the Yale Bowl" he wrote them.
 Sheridan got into play again Saturday. He broke up a flying wedge of Yale men clearing way for Lassiter, carrying the ball. He brought Lassiter down, but lay limp on the field.
 His neck was dislocated. One vertebra was fractured.
 Some of Americas most skillful specialists In New Haven for a convention treated the Army end whom summoned. Relatives were notified the boy was injured.
 Mrs Sheridan, at Asheville. N. C., started homeward to Augusta, Ga. Hurried messages caught her at Greenville, S. c. and told her of the seriousness of the injuries.
 With another son, Gerald, 16, at her side, Mrs Sheridan began the race northward to the elder sons bedside, a sorrowful, anxious and dramatic race with death.
 Not Much Help
 For Richard lay dying, death delayed only by the skill of hu- man science that had perfected a ''respirator' or artificial lung to perform the task paralyzed lung muscles no longer did.
 The mother and brother reached New York about 1 o'clock. Police escort and motor car were wait ing.
 Towns enroute to New Haven had been asked to clear the streets of traffic.
 Sirens sounded. The motor car speeded on its way, arriving in New Haven 80 miles distant in little more than an hour.
 Mrs Sheridan went to the bed side of her son. She spoke. He did unconscious from the time of in- jury. :, not respond. He had remained
 The mother, distraught and ex- hausted with no sleep since Satur- day, went to bed, when advised by physicians. Gerald, the admiring younger brother. remained at the dying cadets side.
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 At 5:10 D. m., a brother by his side, his mother asleep near by, Richard B. Sheridan Jr, the boy who won his way into West Point from the ranks, breathed his last.
 saThe boys great heart was all that kept him going" murmured Major Philing B. Fleming, gradu- ate manager of athletics at West Point, who remained at Sheridan's bedside from Saturday until the boys death.
 The mother and Gerald left the hospital to spend the night at West Point with Captain and Mrs l.. c. Warner, in whose car she had made the dash from New York.
 The father. in failing health back in Augusta, Ga, was resigned to the tragedy. He indicated ms
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