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Show 7.1ULE BLAMED FOIt DEATH OF TWO MEM : . ' .. - ; . V . Coroner's Jury rinds Verdict, Stat-ing'Anlmal Stat-ing'Anlmal Pushed Driver in ; Front of Train. j , . . -WASHINGTON. Pa,; March 5-"We find that the deceased. William Bent-ley, Bent-ley, earoe to his death under the wheels of a train, having been pushed upon the track by a mule.. Topsy. This was, the strange verdict of a Washington county Coroner's Jury, holding an investigation into the death of William Bentley, colored, who was killed by a Panhandle train at Bur-gettstown Bur-gettstown last Friday night. It developed at the Inquest that this same mule had caused the-dath of another an-other man named Edward Toung, who was a foreman employed by " a construction con-struction company making Improvements Improve-ments to the Panhandle road near McDonald. Mc-Donald. The vicious mule kicked him In the abdomen and his death resulted a few minutes later. Topey was taken to Burgettstown later la-ter in the. week. Bentley was 'driving the animal, with another mule, in a wagon and stopped at a grade grossing to await the passing of a fast express. Just as the train reached the spot where he was standing beside his team. Topsy raised her foot and sent him spinning on to the tracks directly in front of the train. |