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LIVE WIKES CONNECTED T® MOTOR TRAILER CHICAGO, September 18Alfred Vivent, aged 34, • mechanic, admitted connecting live wires to the window screens and door-handles of a motor trailer -which was parked in his back yard. He was arrested on a charge of manslaughter after the electrocution of a boy, aged five, who was playing near the trailer. Vivent said that the reason for his action was the recent theft of a wireless set from it.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22202, 20 September 1937, Page 9
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