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Newspaper
Chanute Tribune
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1977
Page
5
A blaze at the 40 year old Danbury federal penitentiary killed five inmates and injured 62 others, with officials citing dense smoke from fiberglass paneling and possible arson or an electrical fault as causes. A guard reportedly disobeyed orders during the incident.
Theresa Boone 29 of Cleveland hobbled to Bedford Municipal Court on crutches to plead innocent to petty theft, menacing, and resisting arrest related to a department store price tag switch. Judge Joseph Zingales found her guilty and sentenced her to three concurrent 30 day workhouse terms.
Virginia Price Street, 70, testifies in a $6 million libel suit against NBC alleging the TV movie misportrayed her as an adulteress and claimed she was harmed by the Scottsboro Boys in 1931. She reveals a scar she says proves the assault on a Chattanooga to Huntsville freight train.
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