SCHOOL FIRE IN CHICAGO
Boys Were Seen Smoking (N.Z Press Association —Copyright) CHICAGO, December 17. Police said today that some students had admitted smoking cigarettes in a stairwell at a school where a fire which killed 92 children and nuns was believed to have started. But none of the students questioned would admit smoking cigarettes in the stairwell the day the fire had broken out. Sergeant James Kehoe said 85 students told investigators they saw rubbish and debris piled in the stairwell at Our Lady of the Angels School. Sergeant Kehoe had said yesterday that two of the survivors of the fire, boys aged nine and 10, told police they saw two older boys smoking in the stairwell shortly before the fire started. Police had hoped that the two boys, whose names were not revealed, would be able to identify the older students. But the boys said they had seen the smokers from the back and did not get a look at their faces.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28774, 20 December 1958, Page 22
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