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Show Wire Tells Death of Sisters to Telegtapher New York. C. T. Wright, telegraph operator on the loug western trunk wire of the Associated Press, "broke" for the first time In many a long trick when the emotionless Morse code ticked off the story of a truck wreck nt Gastonla, N. C. "live girls killed," the Item read-Just read-Just another of the so-common holiday holi-day fatalities a picnic party or a family outing, a grade crossing, a speeding express. "The dead are Bertha Wright, sixteen, six-teen, her sister, Laura, twenty," the copy read and theu a break and the sign : "More" as another point Interrupted In-terrupted with what seemed to the control editor a more weighty Item. Telegrapher Wright took the Intervening Inter-vening Item and then completed that from Gastonla. "They are my sisters," he explained, "one of them lived with me most of the time since mother died. I'm afraid I'll have to ask for relief so that I can go there." |