The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-21
Double Funeral Will Take Place Tomorrow After
 noon at 2::3O Bodies to Lie in White Cas- kets, Which Will Be Placed in White Hearses Drawn
 By White Horses Boy Playmates of Little Fellows to Be Pail Bear CTS, and Four Will Come
 from Barnum School

c. c. Godfrey M. D.. acting in the absence of Medical Examiner Downs, in the cases of Frederick Chambers, aged 6, son of Fireman Arthur Cham bers, of 13 William street. and Joseph McMahon, Jr., aged G. son of MT. and Mrs. Joseph McMahon, 90 William street. The bodies of the boys were found at the foot of Barnum avenue extension yesterday afternoon at 4:30. They had been in the water. in the opinion of Dr. Godfrey. since Sunday night.
 Late last night word was conveyed to Fireman Chambers that at 3 o'clock yesterday morning residents in the vii cinity of the discovery of the boys had heard team back down to the dock. He notified Coroner Clifford B. Wilson been slain. and their bodies thrown overheard to avert suspicion The coroner( though inclined to discredit the story as one of the hundreds of wild theories advanced since the dis appearance of the lads Sunday night, immediately took steps to satisfy the father
 He instructed Dr. Godfrey to act in the absence of Dr. Downs, and his in- structions were to hold an inquest in the event of the discovery of anything about the bodies that would give rise to suspicion. When Dr. Godfrey had made an examination of the bodies at 9 o'clock this morning. at the funeral parlors of Cullinan & Mullins, he said he could find nothing to warrant hold ing an autopsy. The condition of the bodies was such as to indicate they had been in the water under the sur face for several days. Yet the fea- lures were well preserved. and when the undertakers had completed prepar- ing them for the funeral services the little fellows looked as if they were sleeping peacefully. Late last night Joseph McMahon. father of the little victim, returned from Marblehead, Mass, to arrange for the funeral
 This afternoon the bodies were taken to the bereaved homes. The boys were dressed alike, in white suits and the bodies were placed in trunk caskets of white embossed plush. This even ing the caskets will be placed in the parlors of their parents home to give the friends of the family an opportun- ity to view them.
 Arrangements for the double funeral of the children have been completed white horses, will be ranged side by side in William street at 2:30 tomor- row afternoon to receive the white caSkets. The procession will make it's way to St. Charles church, East Main and Ogden streets of which both the little fellows were members, and at : o'clock Rev. William H. Lynch, the pastor, will officiate at the commit tai services.
 The Chambers boy went to the Bar mum school, pupil in Room. l. The 1 McMahon boy had not yet begun his school attendance here, on account of the unsettled plans of the family ] the father being in Marblehead, Mass. | temporarily, pending the beginning o. other bridge construction work. The | pail bearers have not yet been se 1 1ected, but they will be four little | playmates for each of the drowned | boys. It is expected that the pal
 bearers for little Fred will be Barnun school boys
 Joseph McMahon is one of eigh
 children of MT. <and Mrs. Joseph Nc | Mahon, the father is superintendent for Snare & Triest, and the famil! came here from 944 Kent avenue Brooklyn, last August when after hi
 concern began work on the new Con | gress street bridge construction. Jo' was born in Portsmouth, N. H., Hi fathers home is in Pittsburg, but ow ing to his employment for severa years he has moved from city to city l Joseph was six on March 8.
 1 Frederick Chambers is one of fou | children of Fireman Arthur Chambers He was six years old, May 3. Hi tenant in the Connecticut Nationa Guard and he is one of the bes
 known members of No. Engine Go | Fred's mother was Loretta McGovern
 before her marriage.
 Just how the two boys met thei
 death will probably never be known | The theory has been advanced tha l they wandered up towards Eas | Washington avenue bridge, followin, No. Engine Co.,, of Madison avenue
 from the Middle street fire, wher'
 they were believed to have gone iron
 the fire until well towards g o'clock No. 4 apparatus returned througl Congress street to Main street.
 Today the Farmer investigated
 anew the reports that the childrel
 had been seen at the fire. The state
 they were at the fire have been based are those of Viola Chambers, an eide
 sister of the dead boy, and a littl German boy, who lives next door t, the McMahon home. A fireman wh'
 was reported to have seen them a the scene, said today that he knev
 the boys only through their pictures The belief is entertained in many quart
 CTS that the children did not go t, the fire at all, and that the othe children, who are very young, hav l been mistaken.
 It is not improbable that one o the children tumbled down the earth en embankment into the water, ant that the other hurried to his rescu | and fell in after him. The bank i
 very steep at this point and even t. | have climbed up the bank, especial,
 in the dark is a task that would ta, a full grown man.
 Yesterday afternoon, a short tim before the discovery of the corpse af1oat in the enclosure, at the foot o Rarnum avenue extension, the tug
 boat Isis of the Bridgeport Towini Line passed through the channel an, stirred up the water considerably. I
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