SMOKING IN BED
Not Culpable Negligence If a Fire Starts AMERICAN FINDING (Received February 25, 10 p.m.) New York, February 24. Judge Bohan dismissed the manslaughter indictment against William Hoffman, who was accused of smoking a cigarette in bed and starting a fire which caused the deaths of five persons in a boarding-house, holding that the act of a sleeping man dropping a cigarette and starting a fire did not constitute culpable negligence. Accused was freed.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 130, 26 February 1937, Page 11
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