Collins's Case

The deceased was an employee of long standing of the Haverhill Electric Company at its gas plant in Newburyport, where he met his death on August 5, 1935. He was found dead in the office, where he had a right to be and where no one else had occasion to be at that time.

There were in the room gas pipes to a “heatrola,” a sort of gas heater, and to a water heater; but the pipes to these were closed by valves that could not be opened without a wrench. There were, however, two other gas pipes terminating in “hose cocks” which could be turned on and off by hand like an ordinary gas jet. These were…