The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-28
SUSPECTS FIGHT IN BARN LED TO
 CALVIN'S DEATH
Coroner Phelan Seeks Itin- erant Tinker Who Was
 With Burning Victim.
OVERTURNEDLANTERN SET STRAW BED AFIRE
Employer Found Teamster Lying in Blazing Pile on
 Floor of Stable.

Coroner John J. PheIan, after a
 hearing today, asked the police to search for one Jack Lynch, who may have been criminal1y responsible for the death of Daniel Calvin. The lat i ter, teamster, was found early Easter Sunday morning by his employer, Thomas Broderick, of Center street, 1 lying in the barn on a bed of burning hay Tn his left hand he grasped a blazing wisp and seemed unable to let go of it.
 Broderfck stamped out the fire Gal win had a room in the loft of the barn where he often slept and his employer assisted him there- It was not thought he was severely burned at the time, but, in the morning it developed he was greatly in need of medical atten- ton. He was taken to St. Vincent1s hospital, where he died next day.
 At first it was thought Calvin had accidentally set fire to the hay. Later, suspicious circumstances led the cor oner to begin an investigation. Today, Joseph Petite of 4587 Center street, told the coroner that he was going home about 1 o'clock Easter Sunday morning when he was attracted by a. blaze in the Girecticn of the Broderick barn. He ran there and approaching the barn found a bundle of burning hay directly in front of it. as if it had been thrown out.
 
 flew open and a man without coat or hat was hurled violently out This man proved to be JACK Lynch, an itin- erant tinker and umbrella mender who has been hanging about the vicinity for some time. IPegt1tea told the cor oner that earlier in the evening he saw the two men go into a saloon Tn North avenue.
 He said as soon as Lynch was thrown out of the barn the door was closed and barred by someone inside. Lynch tried to get back in the barn. and Petite tried to help him force the door, giving as his reason that the man was without coat or hat and there was smoke issuing from the cracks in the door and from under the caves. They finally got the door open but were driven back by a vol tune of thick black smoke that poured out.
 Lynch then ran to Broderick's house and arcused him, telling him he had discovered the fire and extingu1shed It, saving the barn and Broder1ck,s horses. Broderick, who was before the conorer today, said he had repeatedly found Lynch lettering about the barn and has as repeatedly driven him away and warned him to stay away. He then described finding Calvin in guished the fire. While sBroderick was helping Calvin upstairs. Lynch disap- peared.
 Calvin had a mattress, bedstead and bedclothing in the room in the barn and frequently slept there when he wanted to be at his work. there early in the morning or when he did not ant to go home. Petite told, the cor oner that as he approached the barn he heard sounds and voices that 1ndt- cated that a. fight was in progress within. A lantern that MT. Broderick had used early in the evening and had left, half filled with oil, was found broken and tipped over on the hay.
 The coroner had also asked the po- Ace to locate several residents of the vicinity who are reported to have said they saw Calvin and Lynch in, that neighborhood early Saturday evening.