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Show DEATH OF YOUNG. MAN IS TO BE INVESTIGATED New .York. March 1. Investigation will be made, it Is said, into the death of Frederick Kopp, Jr., a young Brooklyn machinist, who died of pneumonia pneu-monia after having been taken from a sick bed to attend the annual inspection inspec-tion of Company B. Forty-seventh regiment regi-ment of the New York National Guard. The boy's parents are indignant and assert that their son's death was the result of exposure and exertion. Ho died on February 13, and the inspection in-spection was held on the tenth. A physician who accompanied tho company com-pany is inclined to Tiew the matter , as do the parents, but Captain J. M. Clamer, who. is alleged to have sent a detail of guardsmen to the young man's house the night he was taken from bed, say that the facts of the case have been greatly exaggerated. He refutes the statement of the parent par-ent that Kopp was not dressed at the time and that he was wrapped in blankets and thus carried to the armory in an automobile. He said fur- I ther that no force was used, but Mr, I and Mrs. Kopp declare that the guardsmen guards-men practically forced their way into the house and commanded the bov to get up and come to the inspection. They charge further that he was im-1 necessarily exposed on the return trip, when the automobile in which he was being carried made several stops. |