NEW JERSEY: Crempas (Concl'd)

John Crempa grinned with enormous pride last week while employes of a Public Service Corp. of New Jersey subsidiary testified in court at Elizabeth concerning the ingenious devices with which he had short-circuited or cut their high tension wires more than 20 times (TIME, Oct. 14, et ante). "He interrupted service to hospitals where operations were going on," cried an attorney. "He disrupted the signal service of a railroad, and he threw theatres and department stores and homes crowded with people into darkness."

John Crempa was no longer the underdog last week....

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