The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-06-05

schools. Coroner HenneSSy states that death was due to fractured skull and intracranial injuries, but was not due to the criminal act or omission of Thomas Deliniks or any other person or persons"
 Witnesses Quizzed
 Witnesses examined at an inquest held by Coroner Hennessy include: MT. and Mrs. Thomas Deliniks of IT Congress avenue and Detective Lieut.. Connie Shanahan.
 The complete text of Coroner Hennessy's finding is as follows:
 Having considered all of the tes- timony taken at the inquest, to- gether with the report of the as- sistant medical examiner, I, on the 5th day of June, A. D. 1889, made the following finding concerning said death:
 On May 19, 1889, at about $40 a. m., deceased fell to the street from third floor window at 17-19 Con- gress avenue. He was found in the roadway in front of the said prem ises at about 400 a. m., by three men on their way to work, lying with head some three or four feet from the westerly curb, and feet extend ing towards the middle of the road. His left shoe was off and lay in the street about twelve feet from the deceased's feet and in an approxi- mate line with the long axis of his body which lay obliquely on the pavement.
 Green Paint
 On the left shoe, at the rear and above the heel, there was some green paint, and at the toe of the right shoe there was a scraped appear ance. Examination of the premises disclosed white line on the window sill of the south window, front, of the third floor apartment occupied by MT. and Mrs. Thomas Deliniks and their small child, which window was more or less above where de- ceased lay. The white line was ap- parently was deceased's left shoe, a white oxford. There were parallel lines on said sill, apparently from deceaseds fingers and made in at- tempting to save himself from fall ing.
 On the sidewalk between the building and the body there was a large amount of broken glass and in the window of the second story above this glass there was a broken pane, apparently broken by deceased in falling. Between the broken win dow and the one directly above on the third floor, which contained the markings above referred to, the clap boards showed a white line, appar- ently made by deceased's shoe, and parallel finger marks similar to those on the sill but extending down over four or five feet of the clap boards.
 Standing at the window on the third floor it is noticeable that the window sill is rather lower and nar- rower than ordinary. Deceased ap- parently went out backwards when he lost his balance in attempting to sit down on the sill, the window be- ing wide open from the bottom, struck the second floor window, or the ledge which projects about Q foot and runs along the front of the building just below the second floor window, and was thrown upon his head in the roadway.
 On Fishing Trip
 Deceased returned with Deliniks shortly after 100 &. m. from a fish, ing excursion and, the hour being late, lay down on couch near the window in the Deliniks living room. Deliniks undressed and retired to bed in an adjoining room. Deceased apparently rose later and sat or attempted to sit in the open win- dow, backed too far out and lost his balance and fell. On his left wrist was wrist watch on which the crystal was broken and which had stopped at $40.
 Mrs. DelinikS was aroused from sleep by the noise of breaking glass and hurrying in found the window wide open and deceased lying on the pavement below. Assistant Medical Examiner Harold F. Merrill arrived short time later and pronounced Devine dead on arrival. There was a large amount of blood on the pavement at deceased,s head. find that the death of said Jo- seph Devine was due to fractured skull and intracranial injuries but that said death was not due to the criminal act or omission of said Thomas Deliniks or any other per- son or persons.