Show boy steals deadly germs from hospital HiD NOUGH germs germa of diseases to kill all aliew ENOUGH new york if they were let loose to multiply were found by two venturesome but shaky detectives when they broke in upon a boy of 14 years who in hla his active pursuit of bacteriological knowledge had bad stolen and was gloating over dozens of glass slides those little transparent plates viewed by a person who know where the boy scientist had purloined them would have called forth only the remark kind 0 dirty hey need to have those little specks cleaned off dirty special the man who said it would have turned gray with terror had he be known that those pinpoint pin point blotches blotcher blot ches were bacilli of small py pox typhoid favor diphtheria and the still deadlier typhus ambition to become a great eclen scientist had so seized upon young irving benton of brooklyn Dro oklyn that he was determined ter mined to get material for his stud studies fes no matter how he be got it ilia his mother Is a scrubwoman scrub woman earning so poor a living that it if cirrhosis cultures were on oa sale at bargain counters for a dime a a tube she could not afford to buy one atom for her boy so handicapped by poverty but determined ter mined to get material for stud the boy stole it helas arrested at his home where he had bad fitted up a laboratory he was working over a culture of typhus germs when the detectives tec tives entered the house bouse at police headquarters the he weeping youth admitted that he chehad had stolen a microscope an xray X ray machine and the bacteria slides to equip himself for a scientific career ho he said ho be could not afford to buy the apparatus and his determination to study and his hii poverty drove him to take the apparatus from the laboratory |