MECHANIC ACCUSED OF MANSLAUGHTER
LIVE WIRES CONNECTED TO TRAILER (Received September 19, 6.30 p.m.) CHICAGO, September 18. Alfred Vivent, aged 34, a mechanic, has admitted connecting live wires to the window screens and door handles of a motor-trailer parked in his back yard. He was arrested on a charge of manslaughter after the electrocution of a boy aged 5 who was playing around the trailer. Vivent said his reason was the retheft of a wireless set.
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Southland Times, Issue 23310, 21 September 1937, Page 8
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