The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-30
ALL THREE BOYS WERE DEAD
THE BODIES OF THE GUISAS cHIL-
 DREN HAZE BEEN FOUND.

The Little Bodies, Naked and Preyed Upon
 by yermin, Discovered by Policemen in
 the Clothes Press of "A Freight Caboose a | Short Distance Prom Home.
 | Hartford, July 29.-The three Guinan children, who strayed away from their home on Broad street. this city. Thurs day afternoon, have besn found. and all three are dead.
 The whole affair Is so sad one. and for n while il was so mysterious. that the whole city became interested in the search for the missing little ones.
 Chief-of- Police Bill gave orders this morning that all the cars about the de- pot and the freight yards be thorough ly searched A few minutes after 10 o'clock Policemen Grady and Manti. who | had been searching cars in the yard of | the New York and New Haven road | for about two hours, came to a caboose from which sickening odor came. | They burst in the locked door of the car | and the stench which had been strong,
 
 at their work of investigation the ofi- cers traced the smell to the closet, which the trainmen use as n close press. and breaking open the door they found the three little bodies, naked and preyed upon by vermin Freddie, the four-year- old boy, lay at the bottom. On him was Raymond, nine years old, and on top of both was Leroy, aged seven. Under the three bodies Were the few garments the boys wore when they left home. It was sickenng sight, and sad se- quel 10 the story of their disappear ance.
 There are no suspicious of murder or foul play. At the autopsy, which was performed this afternoon by Dr. H. S. Fuller, the medical examiner, assisted by Dr. c. c. Beach, nothing was found to indicate violence. The condition of the lungs indicated death by suffoca- tion, and the absence of effusion and other marks about the neck precluded the suspicion of strangulation.
 The theory is that the little fellows ran into the car to hide from passing policeman Thursday afternoon, and that the door of the closet swung to and caught them in with the spring lock. The closet is five feet high, and its floor space Is 2S by 15 inches It is impossible that the little boys could have lived long in such a confined space and the doctors think that they became unconscious in fifteen or twenty minutes, and that they did not hon ,,ot, door was locked on them
 The day they left home an older brother had just started for the public bath house to go in swimming. Ray mond, the oldest of the three boys who disappeared, asked his mother if he could go along. She gave him permis- sion, and told him to run along and overtake his older brother. Instead of doing this he took his two younger brothers, unknown to his mother, and left the house. The older brother saw nothing of them, and did not know Raymond had been given permission to go with him. It is supposed the three boys had taken off their clothes to play going in swimming, as that idea was in their minds when they left home. The car in which they were found stood near the banks of the Park river, but as it's banks are walled it is not thought the boys intended to go in the water there. They were found within a stones throw of the house of their parents. James Guinan, father of the boys, is conductor on the New York, New Haven and Hartford road.