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Show ELECTRICITY USED AS A WEAPON Newark, N. J., June 17. James M. Finnogan, an employe of an electric company at Harrison, Is under arrest here today, charged with a long-distance assault iby electricity upon Alfred Al-fred Van Rlpor, a fellow forkman. Van Riper was knocked down by an electric shock last Tuesday when ho touched a braus wator faucet and has been In a hospital over slnco Ho claims that tho faucet was connected with a wire and thnt Finnogan, with vhom he had quarrolcd previously, turned on tho current when he Btarted to wash his hands nt tho faucet. oo |