The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-03

i. is automatically reported that McNally a few minutes before his death informed the attending nurses that he was passing the place (Dows $ house) when he saw two men trying to break in. He went up to try ana stop them, he said. when they both attacked him.
 An autopsy was performed yester day afternoon in the presence or Medical Examiner GarMck when sew eraJ fragments of a bullet were found in McNaIly's body lending color to the belief that two buplets struck nm pieces of steel were found in ms i lower abdomen and even in hls thigh while other pieces scattered upward, breaking his twelfth rib ana iacerating his internal organs.
 Both the left and right knee of McNally showed severe abrasions that penetrated clear through the man'st rouSers.
 The police have found no bayonet. although other burglar tools and fire arms on display in the Coroner's court made the place resemble an arsenal Neither has another rifle been found. that could have been the property or the burglars, or to which a bayonet might have been attached, and the robbers said to have been three in number, evidently fled in such haste when the burglar alarm was sounded that they left all their tools behind,
  have a revolver in his pocket
 Dow denies having had bayonet In his possession. He has admitted to the police firing the shot that knowledge of the stabbing. He qualities his statement with the fact that after the burglar alarm was sounded he heard the men arguing among themselves in the cellar, and than when he reached his station on n rear lower veranda, the men ran around from the cellar door ana through the bacfe1Szard together.
 No evidence has yet been gathered bv the coroner or information fur nished Inv the police to show where Dow obtained the army rifle Numer- bus ex-servioe men have been quer1d and none were able to bring home as much as a pewter fork, much less rifle Whether or not regulation army rifles of the late type have been offered for sale has not yet been d1- rulged in the hearings, or whether bayonet would be part of the equip ment dn the event of the sale.
 At tho conclusion of the coroners seccnd hearing this morning no ar rests were made. or had been made hy the police in connection with the killing At the first hearing yester- Hay afternoon evidence offered swas similar to that given out yesterday morning by the police. Dow made pne statement, saying that he had no intention to kill the man. no matter
  been. According to this stat he meant only to frighten the maura- hers, and the bullet that proved bulls eve was a chance shot.
 It was also learned today. that yes terday mornings affair was the third attempt at a burglary at the Dow residence. Twice before mauraders broke into the house. and are said to have stolen a uantity of whiskey on one occasion.
 That some sort of a raid was fear ed by the Dows. was indicated by the report that the aid of an outsider was enlisted last week, and this man with the two Dows, laid in wait fully armed for the appearance of the ex- pected thieves The third man Is said 10 have been carrying a navy rife. The police know nuothtng of these happenings. and have no re- ports on the two robberies said to have been made at 6S Yale street prior to the shooting.
 While the investigation at present renters about the manner in which McNauy received his death wounds, and the i'd entity of the person or per sons by whom they were inflicted he police are bending every effort to bring about the apprehension of the lead mans two companions. They are known to have made their escape in a Ford automobile. and although every possible clue has been closely followed, detectives have been una- ole to secure a trace of the missing pair of their machine. The arres. ef these men, who were the only wit aesses to the affair besides Dow him. pel1. would so z ions way toward