The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-11
Rene LeUesque Is Held Responsible
 For Mar, s Death
Chance Finding of Key Witness Enables Coroner to
 Complete Official Finding

The chance return of an impor- tant witness and his statements in connection with the death on March 9th of oscar Anderson, 4T, employe of the Waldorf Lunch room has enabled Coroner John T. Monzani to complete his official official verdict recorded to-day he who was fatally crushed in an au- tomobile accident on the Cheshire highway, was due to the gross and careless negligence of Rene Le- vesQue, 70 Linden street. As Q matter of coincidence 1t was Le- vesque who found the missing witness, James Phillips of New Haven, and brought him to the coroner's office.
 Tho finding reads as follows:
 Deceased, who was employed in the Waldorf Lunch at Water- bury, on Saturday evening, March 4th, went to the moving pictures at the Strand theater with Will liam Eddy, another empioye of the Waldorf. They left the theater at about ten minutes of eleven o'clock and proceeded to the Wal. dorf Lunch, where they worked, and went into the mems room, which is located in the basement. Before going down into the mems room they invited Rene Levesque, whom they called Ray Levesque, to go down to the mems room and have drink with them.
 Anderson whose homa was in ,Hamden, near New Haven, had planned originally to go home on the New Haven trolley, leaving Waterbury at eleven o'clock, but after they got to the Waldorf Lunch he decided not to go on that car, but asked Levesque to drive him home in his automobile, which Levesque agreed to do.
 Andersen had the bottle of liq- uor with him when he went into the lunch room and he and Eddy had several drinks from 1t while there. LevesQue had two drinks from the bottle, although he claim ed later not to have swallowed tho second drink. After that they went to 50 Linden street, where Leves- quo kept his car, and then started towards New Haven. Before leav- ing the city, however, they went to a place on Maple street, which Levesque knew, and there they had another round of drinks and purchased pint of liquor. From there they went to Lockhart ave- nue where they proceeded to drink some of the liquor with friends of Levesque's. In each instance Le- vesque claims not to have swallow ed any liquor after the first drink. After that, Anderson, Eddy and Levesque got into Levesque's car and they started for New Haven.
 The road was dry and free from ice and snow, and although the night was cloudy, there was no spow falling. Eddy sat in the back of the automobile and Anderson sat in the front seat beside Levea- que, who was driving. They pro- ceeded out East Main street, Wa terbury, and on to the state high way to Cheshire. and when they reached the point where the state highway from Prospect center in- tersects the Waterbury-C Cheshire state highway at the Notch, so. called, Levesque drove off tho highway and onto the trolley tracks, which are on the southerl, side of the highway at that point and the car turned over on to its right side. tho top of the door on the right side resting on Andcr- sons neck where he had apparent ly thrust his head, or 1t had been thrust through tho door as the car was turning over. At the time