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Municipal Judge Marino held PRSL engineer John C. Gillon for the grand jury in December 1957 on a manslaughter charge in the deaths of John and Karen Wawrzyniak on the trestle at Mechanic and Louis streets, along with a motorist in a separate death.
The PRSL engineer whose train killed John and Karen Wawrzyniak on the trestle at Louis and Mechanic streets was released in his own recognizance in December 1957 after a clerical error postponed his hearing.
A requiem high Mass at St. Joseph's Church was set for John Wawrzyniak Jr., 14, and his sister Karen, 9, killed in December 1957 by a train on the trestle over Louis and Mechanic streets near their Orchard Street home.
John Wawrzyniak Jr., 14, and his sister Karen, 9, of 1121 Orchard Street were killed in December 1957 by a Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines train on the trestle over Mechanic and Louis streets; witnesses said the boy died trying to pull his sister off the tracks.