Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1913 — SET MAN AFIRE AS "JOKE." [ARTICLE]

SET MAN AFIRE AS "JOKE."

Fiendish Prank of Workmen In a Pipe Foundry. Burlington, N. J. —Two men, who, to play a joke on John Valaskl, employed in an East Burlington pipe foundry, poured kerosene oil over him while he slept, then touched a match to his saturated clothing. Vfttaski awoke with a shriek as the fire touched his fleßh, and his tormentors laugh, ed at his antics. “T: ~~ • Screaming with pain Valaskl, a human torch, rushed through the foundry. Fellow workmen tried to stop him, but he eluded them until George Kears, a moulder, seized him and smothered the flames with his coat. Valaskl’s clothes had been burned away and his flesh terribly scorched. The fiendish jokers fled when angry foundrymen threatened them with a dose of their own "fun.”