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Girl Who Started Fires Mental Case
Psychiatrists declare a 13 year old Pond Creek girl who set five northern Oklahoma church fires last November is mentally ill. She has been under observation at the Oklahoma Research Foundation in Oklahoma City for nine days and admitted setting the fires to resent religion. Grant County Judge John Pollard will commit her to a suitable mental hospital when available. until then she remains at the sanitarium. The juvenile delinquent ward was found on December 8 for burning the Pond Creek Christian church and four Tonkawa churches.
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Medford
Okla
Pond Creek
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Research Foundation
Oklahoma City
Grant County
John Polilard
Pollard
Pond Creek Christian Church
Tonkawa