Sarah byberry, educational, time machine

July 13th 1958

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‘Just Snack,’ Cook Calls Stolen Food – The News and Courier

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – “I was just going home to fix a snack,” Wainwright McJetters told police at dawn Saturday when they stopped him for passing a red light.

Inside the car were 60 lemons, 20 pounds of ham, 100 pounds of sugar, 12 pounds of coffee, 15 pounds of assorted cuts of beef, 144 eggs, 100 pounds of potatoes and 20 pounds of macaroni.

McJetters finally told police he was a cook at the Philadelphia State Hospital – and the food belonged there.

He was jailed on a charge of burglary and receiving stolen goods.

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Sarah byberry, educational, time machine

June 9th 1975

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Body Found in Air Duct at Hospital – Observer-Reporter

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Authorities at Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry are trying to determine how Mary Ann McGrath, a patient, whose body was found in a heating duct, got into an area that is usually locked and inaccessible to both staff and patients.

The 32-year-old woman had been missing for nine months before maintenance men found her body Friday. Miss McGrath had been at the hospital since she was 13. She was described as being retarded.

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