The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-18
FEARING SHOCK, HORSE BALkS AT
 RAIl. ROAD TRACK
Stamford Trotter, Shocked Twice Though Leak In Cur
 rent, Now Plays Safe
Electrical Experts Trying to Find Where the Deadly
 Juice" Is Escaping

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 Whether the powerful current which Is used to operate trains along the New Haven system between hero and New r ork will leak sulncaen14y fo cause death to persons who come in contact with 1t is a matter with which electrical engineers of the road are ibusinly trying to solve today he death of Frank LiogoT1, a Stamford barber, who received shock and died almost instantly last ThExsday as he was about to board train for The nSew Canaan branch of the road, has started the fnyestigation- Cor oiae< Rhelan Is watching closely the experiments Of the railrDad engin- aers who are trying to Ind out how IAoeoE. came tQ his death aoR the deadly current in the vicinity ae the ra1iroad station at Stamford A derrepit old horse that has been in tho delivery service of a. butcher and mxucsx thare discovered the leak long a59ora any human being.
 Reanag Sarkman acrosa the tracks dur- al,e s. rainy day recently the old horse av1deut1y received a shock and much surprise Of the boy who was dTiv- 5nw took the bit in It's teeth and for the nextkfeNgesecond made better time tz.aa dafE Dan Fetchs when he wen the sr1dss xscord4on the uotti1lg course
 
 to understand what had htsppened sslsSTx a few days lnter when crossing the fz2cks he was esgein surprised to
 Che animal make a. 5unp and tear over fhe crossing like mad.
 g4zan che horse was driven to the cRoaHaaagr for che tl1lPa time 1t T.efgsed to Rsnegst1ae ra1lg ana turned directly around an It's tracks desp1ts the ef- Hexts oG the driver to send lt over. Three times the horse turned 1rs a cir cIe rseuazz1g the crossing each tiIne.
 laak goaded by the whip Of the d1zvex the horse crussed the tracks 1n 1car jumps. clearing one set Of rails zn khe 8nur track aysteEnfat each jump
 Ehe boy driver of the horse report ed the anln1azss stTanZe eEtlon to it's owner and both were much puzzled until word came of the death of Iio- eoff Subsequent ir1xestis sati on by the eleckE1ca1 engineers of the railr oad de- ve1oped the fact that there is a leak in the current from the electrical sys- tern at Sta11EorSd- How bhisa leak occurs engineers of the ey stem are unable to determine despifs nuner- ous tests made Saturday, Sunday and today Coroner Phe1an witnessed the tests that were made on urday
 The engineers established the fact that rails leading into the Stamford q station are carrying about e5 volts of electricity which should not be there. fLA9E AtS0 GSEA1113n60 tLz9 9s4 L1GLf &kzt4l th1s voltage was increased on rainy days. In an effort to find where the leak comes from. electricians Of the road are going over every Inch of Ea1lss wires and overhead ayatexn in that vicinity today.
 has been practically established that Liogori when he took hold of the handles Of car on ths New Ga- naan branch Of tho road. received a shock which caused his death Whefh- CT the electric current itself was s11f- fcieutIy powerful to kill or whether Izfogor1 receiving the shock was atrfcAeu w1kh fright of an attack of heart trouble that proyed fatal, Cor oner FhsIan has not yet dscided
 number of other persons are said 10 have reported the presence Of the electric current in that vicinity on rainy days It is the first leak report ad since the identification of the sys- te1Ezs and fz1es engineers in charge are at their wits send to account for zt
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