The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-28
Lafayette Street
 Youth Murdered
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cording to most witnesses questioned by Chief of Detectives Joseph P. Stevens, by Deputy Coroner Smyth, and most of the detective staff, all now seeking the murderer.
 Mahoney, so the story goes, appar- ently was on platform about three feet from the ground, which fronts the small grocery store of the Coopers. Evidence reconstructed by police was that he had 8 sack or flour in his arms when the shot, or shots, struck him.
 Where Shots Struck
 One shot entered the abdomen, penetrated the liver, the diaphragm and the right lung, emerged from the body behind the left shoulder blade. Another shot penetrated the left knee from the front and emerg- ed, after passing along the joint.
 Mahoney, it is believed, jumped down from the platform and ran, (limping, according to Dr. Edward H. Kirschbaum, medical examiner, who completed the autopsy at mid forenoon) The youth was heard run ming down an alley which separates Nos. Is and 20 Lafayette street. He clambered up the embankment, half- way up, apparently when he suc- cumbed to the shot in the abdomen and, presumably, died there within about one-half hour from internal hemorrhages.
 Answer First Call
 Answering the first call to the scene. made by Motor Patrolman John Mcdonald at about l o'clock, daylight time, were Patrolmen John Walsh, Ernest Packet and Patrick Hobart. They investigated the break complaint and found sack of flour split open on the store platform. There was no blood and household CTS attributed the break to a gang, the members of which had fled.
 It was not until call was made at 6:1O o'clock by Patrolman Alfred Overton, that the body of a man had been found on the railroad em- bankment, that the evidence ot a murder reached the detective bur- eau.
 Then Detective Lieutenant Cor nelius Shanahan, William B. Pollard, William F. Foley, and others, went to the scene. They brought back for questioning number of persons, all of whom were released later this morning after they had testified at the inquest as to what they knew of the matter.
 Those Questioned
 Among these were Benjamin Zellg- man. 28, of 101 South Leonard street; William Koslowsky, 2l, of "A Lafayette street; Francis Mahoney, a brother of the dead youth, 20, Samuel Cooper, the storekeeper; Mrs. Mary Mahoney, the mother; and Peter (California Pete) Kra- kauskas, 29, of 294 Washington ave- nuc.
 Among others questioned by the deputy coroner and police were Ed ward Jenkins, colored, resident of the second floor at IA Lafayette street, and Wilson Montgomery, col orsd, resident of the third floor. A man identified only as Louie is supposed to have found the body, but police have not obtained his full name.
 Reconstruct Crime
 Reconstructing the shooting, de- tectives were of the opinion that Mahoney was fired upon by some one on the ground, in front of the store. The passage of the bullet which was found down the street about 20 feet beyond, was apparent ly on an upward slant, from the autopsy finding.
 Both shots were fired from some distance, according to Deputy Cor orner Smyth, who remarked that the autopsy showed no powder marks. The clothing of the youth was covered with flour, however and some dust from the railroad embankment, but there was no sign