Arizona republican., 1910-05-14
.E|eCtrocudon of E. g. Gran,
 da| Head Engineer WHILE CUTTING | WIRE
Cause of Break Under In vestigation With the Fin ger of Suspicion Directed At Consolidated Telep- hone Company

l.. =. Crandall. head engineer of the Mesa Dairy and Ice company. was in stantly killed yesterday morning be- tween eight and nine o'clock. in the l-cnsine room at the plant while at
 tempting to cut the wires of the Con solidated Telephone company's line ; which had come in contact with a live wire on the Consolidated Canal com
 pauys transmission line leading from
 the power plant to the Chandler ranches.
 From the evidence introduced at the
 coroncr's inquest it appears that Fred Tripp. a brother-in-law of the deccas- cd. who is night engineer at the
 plant. was the only witness to thc5ac-
 cident- MT. Tripp testified that he
 walked into the boiler room and not
 iced the wires, were apparently crack ling and throwing off sparks and that
 the telephone kept up constant ring
 ing. At the same instant as he enter
 cd tho room or probably little be-
 fore he saw the deceased pick pair
 oC tin shears lying before table near ly under the phone box and start to
 cut the wire. Previous to doing this li' Sdlu ttldt tue JON was SDlphllle anu that it appeared to him to be on fire. As the deceased started to cut the wire he intimated in some manner. the
 exact words the witness could not re-
 ,.all. that he would attend to the mat
 ter and he waved Mir. Tripp aside. The witness further testified that he say, the deceased place the shears on the wire and cut it in two but at the
 instant it was done the man gripping
 the shears let his hand fall on the
 table and in so doing the shears fell
 from his grip which by this time had
 begun to relax. As the hand fell to the table the man turned and faced the witness squarely and reeled to the floor without speaking. MT. Tripp then said that he raised the man to a partial sitting posture and then lay ing him down again ran for assist ancc. He came back with Fred
 Weeks. manager of the plant and they
 tried artificial respiratory methods and in the meantime a physician was
 summoned.
 Mir. Weekes testified that the phone l in the office on the Consolidated line where he was sitting began ringing when Miss Gladicux. the bookkeeper reached over for the receiver when she received slight shock. The lady immediately called his attention to the ! fact and he placed his hand in a posi- | ton not touching the box but near
 enough to 1t to feel a sudden shock in
 the arm. He immediately suspected ! that there was Nsomething wrong and went into the factory and turned off
 the switch which connects the lights
 This. he stated. did not stop the ring ing of the telephone bell and he i'm mediatcly started to the engine room 1 to ask; the assistance of the engineer in locating the trouble. However as
 he reached the platform he met Mir Tripp running toward him and calling for help. He followed. Tripp into tic engine room and they worked over. the
 unconscious man. It was but short time until Dr. Nelson. answering the summons sent for physician.s arrived
 on the scene and testified on the stand that life was extinct when he reached the plant. He further testified that the man had come 10 his death by an
 electric shock.
 Upon the, announcement of death by the physician Justice Irwin was i'm mediately notified and began the i'm paHnelling of jury for a coroner's inquest, including the following: k. L. Mumford. ". ]. Trahey. l.. W. Stilwell. ". J. Clark. NJ. L. Gibbons
 and Charles F. Jones. Immediately
 after the body had been viewed the
 remains were taken in charge by Cn- dcrtaken w. A. Burton and prepara-
 tions begun for burial which will take
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