BOY ELECTROCUTED
LIVE WIRES ON MOTOR
TRAILER
CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER
CHICAGO, September 18.
Alfred Vivent, aged 34, a mechanic, admitted connecting live wires to the window-screens and door-handles of a motor-trailer parked in a backyard. He was arrested on a charge of manslaughter following the electrocution of a boy aged five who was playing around the trailer.
Vivent said his reason was the recent theft of a wireless set.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 70, 20 September 1937, Page 9
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