The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-23
February % Craven In
Minds Of Harry Sweeney's S
Family Through Many
Occurrences of Import To
Them -"Dead- Head" Not
Z Werner AS At First Sup
posed.

Positive Identification of the body
Elm street, Stamford, formerly en-
ployed in the Yale & Towne fac
tory, but until yesterday morning
working as an electrician at the
Stamford roundhouse was made at
the Nettleton morgue, Milford by
Mrs. Sweeney this morning.
In the Identification made by a
ring bearing the initials "H. s." the
mystery of the third man in the
engine cab of train No. 5 was cleared
up and the fact that the body first
believed by railroad men to be that
of, McGuinness. fireman on No.. 5,
was really that of Sweeney was es-
tab1ished.
Sweeney died instantly from a
compound fracture on the crown of
on the engine of Curtis who has been
a companion and bosom friend of
Sweeney for a number of years. It
was through the efforts of Curtis
that Sweeney asS7A been employed by.
the railroad company until yesterday
morning.
A most unusual series OF circum-
stances and a prophesy OF fatality
yesterday was disclosed by Mrs.
Sweeney, a, pretty woman or FL
month old baby, having been married
April 29. 1915.
In detailing the incidents of the
day before Mrs. Sweeney told a
Farmer reporter after her Identified
ton of the body:
My husband was born in Dan
bury. 21 years ago. His father was
Thomas Sweeney who now lives with
US in Stamford. For while my. hus-
band worked in the Yale & Towne
shops earning $3.50 day. He
wanted to be a moving picture oper-
ator and a short while ago went to
Hartford to get a license. He was
always a great friend of Engineer
Curtis and it was through his persua-
sion that my husband consented to
work in the Stamford roundhouses in
order that he might be promoted to-
be fireman on one of the engines.
HE went to work at the Stamford
roundhouse yesterday morning. He
came back to the house at 6:15- a. m.
Throwing up both hands as he
came into the room with me, he
said:sI I've chucked up the, job in
the round house
st pleaded with him to keep it and
he said:
Don't worry, Tn going to get a
good job today and our baby Ruth
terday. An odd coincidence is that
his mother was only buried a year ago
yesterday. We were planning to dec
crate her grave on Sunday.
'.At midnight. last night his father
came home. 1 thought that it was
Harry coming in. is Harry Home? p
his father said. I answered NO
His father said, Well, you will
probably never see, him again as L
have been told he was in the wreck
Harry was very nervous yesterday
morning. He seemed to fear some
ching indefnable. AS if something
was going to happen.
wanted Harry to work for him as a
painter. Harry could not see that
for he wanted to be in the moving
picture business.
Yesterday was also the 22nd an
niversary of his parents marriage and
the 43rd anniversary of the marriage
of his grandmother We were talk
ing about that in the morning. My
young brother, Alfred, was killed on
the railroad just east of the South
NorwaM railroad station when he
was struck by train, December 4,
1911. He was going to the store for
his mother. AnotheS~ <coincide is |
that the day was the tenth annivers- |
ary of his sister Annals birthday. His
uncle Benjamin Parson is also author-'I
ity for the statement that one of his
sisters died just year ago yester- |
day.
''It is peculiar that ali day yester-
day I had a fear that a vision of his |
dead mother would appear before |
me-. This thing haunted me all day.
We had made all arrangements to
decorate her grave in Danbury next
Sunday
Mrs. Sweeney, who came here from
RoWayton, Conn, is pretty girl. She
was dressed in a blue serge suit with
fur collar.
They were married at Rowayton af- |
ter they had met a year ago. July 4, in
Stamford, although they had known
each other from infancy. Sweeney's
life was insured.
Mrs. George L. Lilley, Mr.. and Mrs |
Richard Forester and son of Water
x.,e,-< +I,a Of Mr. apd Mrs