TWO BOYS ARRESTED
SHATTERING OF TENEMENT Reeeived Fridav, 10.40 p.m. NEW YORK, Dee. 13. Two boys aged 13 and ]() years, have been arrested and eliarged with arso' in eonneetion with the shattering of tln? Washington Hoights teiiemeni whithusfar is known to have killed 17 people. Another 20 are missing am. 49 injured. Many of tlie dead ar> children. Wliole families have beei. wiped out xvli ilo some families were made childless. The eldest of the arrested boys is a juvenile delinquent with a poliee reeord. The boys arrested, with othet boys, are suspeeted of starting a fire in the unused ieehouse leading to tlie collapse of the wall whieh stood along side tlie tenemcnt. Reseuers are digging feverishly t'. uneover those sfil! buried. Little liop is entertained that manv of tlie missing will be found alive.
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 December 1946, Page 5
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