An inquest was held at Liverpool on Saturday into a double tragedy that the coroner remarked had been caused by the failure of the human element. The deceased were Elizabeth TYRRELL, aged 72, widow and her granddaughter Kathleen DAVIES aged 14 who were found dead in bed in their house in Dryden st. They had been gassed in their sleep by a leak in a service pipe in the street opposite Thomas PRENTON a foreman in the electric cable service of the Corporation said that six weeks ago when a trench was being made in Dryden st, his men discovered a leakage in the service main opposite Mrs TYRRELL’S house The hole in the pipe had been covered with insulating tape and waxed over and they intended to report it to the gas company but as witness was called away to attend another job “the matter went clean out of his mind”. “I admit” said he “that I have been careless and I feel my responsibility in this matter”. The Coroner reamarked that if the leak had been reported the tragedy would not have occurred. He returned a verdict of “Accidental death”. A sad fact of this case is that Mrs TYRRELL’s son who has been in Australia for eighteen yrs is homeward bound and is due in Liverpool later this week to attend the funeral