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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1957
Page
5
New Britain engineers faced a water shortage as large pumps at Hart's pond in Kensington stopped after becoming tangled in the blades. After a half day of work, the team found the culprit: a single eel, dead, blocking the mechanism and silencing the pumps yesterday.
Fred L. McDonald 36 of East Hartford was sentenced in Superior Court to two to five years for burglary. He admitted 24 Hartford home thefts using a pole to grab handbags through open apartment windows. About $427 in cash and other items were stolen.
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