Going Down A Steep Hill

HOW THE ACCIDENT TO PROF. HENCH OCCURRED.

HIS COMPANION FOUND HIM UNCONSCIOUS BY THE ROADSIDE.

The Associate Press dispatches give the following details of the death of the late Prof. Hench.:

"Boston, Aug.16-- Prof. Geo. A. Hench, of Ann Arbor, Mich., who was injured by a fall from a bicycle at Francona, N. H., Saturday, and who was brought to the Boston city hospital yesterday suffering from a fractured skull, died at that institution just before noon today. Prof. Hench was professor in the University of Michigan and was passing his vacation in the White mountain region.

"The accident to Prof. Hench occurred while he was going down a steep hill. A companion who was riding with him missed the professor and, returning, found him lying in the road with his face and body badly cut and bruised, and unconscious. He was taken to the hotel, where the local physicians found a fracture of the skull. They advised his removal to Boston, where he could receive expert treatment and the patient was brought here yesterday afternoon.

"After examination, the hospital physicians decided to perform an operation for the fracture of the skull. This was done with apparently successful results. The condition of the patient was reported as comfortable both immediately after the operation and this morning. Unfavorable symptoms developed during the fore-noon, and death resulted. Prof. Hench did not recover sufficiently to tell how the accident happened.

"Prof. Hench was unmarried and 32 years old. He was a native of Pennsylvania and his remains will be shipped to Carlisle, Pa,, tomorrow."