SMOKING IN BED
Not Culpable Negligence if a Fire Starts (Received 26, 8.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 24. Judge Bohan dismissed ihe man» slaughter indictment againat William Hoffman, who was accused of smoking a cigarette in bed and 6tarting a fire which caused the deaths of five persons in a boarding-housing, holding that the aot of a sleeping man dropping a cigarette and starting a fire did not constitute culpable negligence. Accused was freed.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 36, 26 February 1937, Page 5
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