Miscellany, Dec. 26, 1932

Electrocution

In Colon, Panama, Austin Maeder, 20, fireman on the U. S. submarine S-12, was electrocuted & killed on duty. Circuit: empty lamp socket, sweating back, wrench in hand, engine.

Criminals

In Bloomsburg, Pa., John Harrington Jr., 9. and his sister Lillian, 7 climbed into Bloomsburg Bank-Columbia Trust Co. through a 6-in. washroom window, picked up two sacks of Sunday School collections, climbed out again. Margaret Harrington, 14, to whom they offered $2, gave them away. Last month they had been arrested, released in their father's custody, for filching from concession stands.

Gaolers

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