The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-29

Joseph Carney, waterbury police
department; Oficer Patrick J.
Grimm, Waterbury police depart
ment; Tuey Keczkowski, 2SS
Prospect street, Union City, Conn.,;
James O'Lambert, a. Golden Hill
street, Union City, Conn; Thorn.
as Lompert, Union City, Conn;
Ofiiccr Joseph Mccarthy, Water
bury police department; Officer
Charles J. McWeeney, Waterbury
police department; Joseph Patti
nicco. 851 Harpers Ferry road,
Waterbury, Conn; Mrs. Eva M.
Rigney, so Springdale avenue, Wa
terbury, Conn.,; Joseph L. Rigney,
SO Springdale avenue, Waterbury,
Conn.,, Charles Sirica, IS May
street, Naugatuck, Conn. Kenneth
Tuckey, rs Orchard terrace, Union
City, Conn; Alex Wasdo, 10 Cot
ton Hollow, Naugatuck, Conn;
Mrs. Sophie zombrowski, los
School street, Union City, Conn:
Zigmund J. Zurensky, So Spring
street, Union City, Conn.
Coroner's finding follows:
Having considered all of the tes-
timony taken at the inquest to-
gether with the report Of the au-
topsy, /, on the 9th day Of July,
A. D. 1895, made the following
finding concerning said death:
At about 10 o'clock on the eve.
ming OF September 18th, 1894,
Croce was driving his car north
erly on South Main street near
Pearl Lake road intersection. He
had as a passenger in the car
had been raining, but at that time
the rain had stopped. Near the
garage and body works Of Chesnas
on South Main street Croce had a
front wheel tire blow-oupt. Just
at the time this occurred q car
driven by Louis Dajnerivicz was
passing and the two cars collided.
AS a result offthis collision Croce's
car crossed the highway to the
other side and stopped on the
trolley track. Corcoran experience
ed no personal injury as q result
Of this accident. South Main street
at that point is a very busy thor
oughfare and q great many cars
were stopped near the scene OF the
accident through the curiosity of
their occupants, and within q very
short time the street became very
much congested. An officer from
Naugatuck undertook to direct
traffic before Waterbury police ar
rived, and had stopped q line Of
traffic coming from the north when
a car, driven by Zigmund Zuren-
sky approached from the direction
of Waterbury. Zurensky saw the
line of cars, did not realize that
the traffic was under any con.
troll and attempted to pass
through the area. AS he did so,
Corcoran with Joseph L. Rigney,
who had also stopped to see the
accident, were travelling southerly
either on he highway or very close
to 1t on the westerly side. AS
Zurensky passed through this par
ticlar area, there was considerable
confusion and his car struck Cor
coran and Rigney, throwing one to
the pavement and the other on to
the trolley track. Corcoran had
severe internal injuries and Mr..
Rigney was also severely bruised
and his leg broken. Both were re-
moved at once to st. Mary's hos
pital where Corcoran died of the
injuries he received at 11:15 o.
clock on the morning Of the follow
ing day. September 18th, 1894.
In this case I have probably run
into more confusion and contradic-
ton in the way of testimony than
in any case I have investigated in
long time. The condition of the
driver Zurensky, as to whether he
was intoxicated, was very decided
ly in issue and most contradictory
statements were made by disinter-
ested witnesses who are competent
to judge such a condition. Under
such circumstances I have to find
of said Zigmund J. Zurensky.
f1uence Of liquor. 1t was also stat
ed that Zurensky disappeared af-
ter the accident, but find now
definitely tina the did not, that he
| drove his car off the easterly side
of the highway near the Chesnas
Body Works and was in the crowd,
| and as soon as he was sought by
an officer and realized it, imme-
| diately Identified himself as the
| driver. Names of witnesses have
been given to me as being
definitely at the scene of the acci-
dent who, after a very careful ex-
animation, find were many miles
from the vicinity. just how the ac-
cident occurred by those who were
present and viewed 1t Is told II
about as many different ways as
there are witnesses. Under the cir
cumstarces l can not find that any
criminal negligence attaches to the
driver Zurensky, and / therefore
find that the death of said Albert
j. Corcoran occurred as a result
of multiple fractures and internal
injuries received when he was
struck by the car driven by Zig
mund j. Zurensky, but that said
death was not caused by an GRIM
inal act, omission or carelessness
Of said Edmund J. Zurensky.
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