Succulent loot
in school break
Windows Broken, Entry Made, Just
Few Feast on Ice Cream – Probe on
Breaking into school is something that few students would like to do, yet over the weekend several students are believed to have smashed some windows at East High School and entered illegally.

School cafeteria manager, Mrs. Robert C. Theobald, called the Board of Education office early this morning and reported that three windows in the cafeteria were broken and that several cupboards had been pried open over the weekend. Some ice cream was taken, she is sure.

School officials believe that students are responsible. Now it is a “police matter.”

Detective John E. Major is conducting the police investigation. He said that only small quantities of ice cream were taken from the school.

Thieves enter
two high schools
Intruders get $55 at West High after
breaking window – Central High, tooThieves last night stole $55 from a West High School office after scaling a boiler room roof and breaking a second story window to gain entrance.

A break-in was also reported at Central High, but detectives said that noting was taken from there.

The forced entries follow close on the heels of a break-in just last Wednesday at West High School. Nothing was taken on that visit, but the culprits entered the cafeteria there and ate bounteous quantities of applesauce and crushed pineapple.

Cash and Bills

Det. Beecher D. Flummerfelt said that both cash and bills were taken in last night’s West High escapade. Thieves entered through the second story window, then apparently made their way downstairs and broke another window to enter the office.

Det. Flummerfelt said that glass was also broken in a door leading from the Garden St. side of the building.

At Central High a window on the ground floor was broken and entry made there. Then glass in an office door was shattered. The thieves apparently could find no money and left without taking anything.

Det. John E. Major and Fingerprint Expert William Simmonds are also in on the investigation.

Cartridge fires,
hurts boy's hand
Fragments from a brass cartridge were removed from a high school boy’s hand by an Auburn physician yesterday afternoon after the boy and some friends had exploded the bullet in West High School’s workshop.

Police learned of the incident when Dr. Anthony L. Cimildora called them at 2:50 p.m. to say that he was treating a young man, Vincent Spinelli, 15, of 25 Wood St., for gunshot wounds in his left hand.

Dets. Beecher D. Flummerfelt and John E. Major, assigned to investigate, reported that some boys had placed a bullet from an army rifle in the workshop vice and struck it with a punch.

The cartridge exploded, sending the lead through the space between the thumb and fingers of young Spinelli’s hand, missing them by a hair. The brass fragments of the case embedded in the palm of his hand, however, and punctured a hole in the left thumb.

The youth said that he could not identify the student who gave him the cartridge, detectives stated.

Spinelli was removed to the hospital for X-rays and further treatment. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Rocco Spinelli.