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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1953
Page
6
A Paragraf outlines police alerts for Joseph P. Cuncen wanted in Erie on a rape charge. It also notes real estate transfers in Concord Township, a deer hunting report from Clymer, a missing 13-year-old in Erie County, and multiple local incidents including hospital updates, weather outlook, and a Pittsburgh fire death.
In Pittsburgh a court appointed attorney named 67 year old retired St Louis stenographer Mrs. Della May McKeon as the long sought niece of Pittsburgh woman Mrs Sarah M Weller. The estate totals about 40 million dollars with roughly seven million to go to the claimant if her claim is substantiated. The report was filed by Anly Charles Spinelli as special master in the Allegheny County Orphans Court.
Andrew Shaffer Jr admitted shooting neighbor Mrs Anna Hartzel on her back porch while she did family wash. Hartzel, 55, was in critical condition with two gunshot wounds to the chest. Shaffer, 38, said the neighbor hexed his family and was held without bail. The incident occurred on the northern edge of Bloomsburg.
Five people died in a fiery collision at a Wilkinsburg intersection when a large trailer truck struck three autos. Firefighters labored over three hours to remove the bodies from twisted wreckage. Unidentified was the woman among the deceased. others included William Rivers of Orlando, Florida. William Smith and Frank Theis of Pittsburgh. Everett L. Jones of Sidney, Illinois, a truck passenger. The charred remains of Smith and Theis were recovered from Theis’s wrecked car.
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