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Show AMERICAN CONDEMNED BY RUSSIAN COURT ST. PETERSBURG. Jan. 5. .loscph K-Meads, K-Meads, an American, and two local engineers en-gineers were condemned by lhA superior court toduv to one week's arrest for negligence neg-ligence in connection with lhe explosion of the submarine Dragon in the Xeva rlvej- lust August This reverses the decision de-cision of the admiralty invest igation committee, which found that the acci-denl acci-denl was din: to unavoidable causes. Mends, whose home Is at Baltimore.. was tender of the Dragon and in the "Uiplov of the builder. Simon La I;, of nWdgopnrl. Conn, lie 3ud sixteen others were injured in the explosion, which wa said to be due probably to the iKiiIUon of benzine. The submarine, built for I the Russian government; hud not bt.cu J formally accepted at th time. |