The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-25

the pipe, he said, was in the form of crack which took up almost the entire circumference of the siX-inch pipe. The gas then leaked along lateral connections into nearby buildings.
 Mahaney We'll Connected
 Mahaney, a well-known athlete in his younger days was the brother of Representative Daniel Mahaney and Mrs. Nora Mahaney Harris, Demo- cratic womens leader.
 Witnesses examined by the cor oner were Patrolmen Lynch and Mecca, Sergeant Edward Aston, Theodore Bretihaupt of 109 High land avenue; Captain Joseph Kelley and Privates Frank Moore and John F. O'Leary of the fire department; and David Price, of 102 Prospect street. WatertoWn.
 Finding of Coror;er
 The finding states:
 Deceased, who resided in room at TIA Bank street, in the premises owned by his own family, had been in apparently good health up to the 4th day of March, 1888. Early in the morning of March 4, 1888, a pro- nounced smell of Illuminating was was noticed on North Riverside street, just adjacent to the intersec- ton of Bank street. The Police De- partment was notified, as was the Gas Company, and policemen and employees of the Gas Company im- mediately went into the buildings adjoining the intersection for the purpose of arousing occupants and discovering, if possible, anybody who might have been effected by the gas and removing them from the prem ises. Police officers went to the room occupied by deceased and found, upon forcing an entrance to the room, MT. Mahaney not having responded to knocking, that he was lying on the floor after having ap- parently attempted to arise from his bed and was unconscious, if not dead.
 The Fire Department was sum- moned and artificial means were used, with the pulmotor, to attempt to revive him, but to no effect. The Medical Examiner was summoned and found that he had died as re- suit of Illuminating gas poisoning. The building in which he was living, and the room which he occupied, were filled with gas at the time police officers forced an entrance.
 Tests were made by the Gas com- pany and the probable location of a leak was found about fifteen feet into North Riverside street from Bank street. The street was opened and a section of six-inch pipe, which was a part of the feed main from Waterbury to Naugatuck, uncovered and crack was found in the pipe which practically took up its entire circumference. The supply was shut off and the section removed and a new section inserted in its place so that the supply could be maintained in Naugatuck. The pipe which was broken was surrounded by a good gravel packing, there were no stones or other substances to damage the pipe and 1t was set three feet below the street surface, which is not definitely below the frost line. The engineers of the Gas company which maintains the gas service, were sat- isfed that the break, which was a new one, was caused by frost pres- sure in the earth and that the gas escaped through lateral connections of other services into the various buildings adjacent to North River side street, one of which was the Mahaney property in which MT Mahaney was living at the time the break occurred.
 I find that said death was caused by Illuminating gas poisoning which deceased suffered as a result of gas