Roosevelt Standard | 1917-08-15 | Page 7 | Boy Makes Bombs of Pencil; Loses Hand

wv vw r BOY MAKES BOMB OF 0 PENCIL LOSES LOSE S HAND i f I 1 lorain 0 0 aspirations to be a real worker just like sone some of his grownup grown up companions aio ns cost fourteen year old john S katonak his right hand hafid anil and fla Ia his knie knee johnny took the lead from a pencil filled the hollow tube with powder and plugged it with a dynamite cap as in each end ile he attached electric wires to set off the charge 40 40 AS and when the wires been became n e crossed the explosion followed