Burns Mail in Letter Box
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Burns Mail in Letter Box
On confessing to having set fire to the contents of a letter box at Louis and Everett streets, Frank Thompson, 15 years old, of 1140 Lansdowne avenue, was yesterday committed to jail by United States Commissioner Joline in Camden. To Detective Brothers Thompson said that on Sunday night he ignited a match and then dropped it into the mail box "just for fun." It consumed about a dozen letters.
On confessing to having set fire to the contents of a letter box at Louis and Everett streets, Frank Thompson, 15 years old, of 1140 Lansdowne avenue, was yesterday committed to jail by United States Commissioner Joline in Camden. To Detective Brothers Thompson said that on Sunday night he ignited a match and then dropped it into the mail box "just for fun." It consumed about a dozen letters.
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