Homemade Bomb Has Faulty Timing
Narrow Escape for 15-year-old Douglas Smith
Bainbridge News & Republican, May 20, 1943
Douglas Smith, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Reno Smith, of North Main street, had a narrow escape Saturday afternoon at his grandparents', Mr. and Mrs. Bert Edson, at Damascus, when a homemade bomb exploded, seriously injuring his left thumb.
Douglas and a friend, Harry Dickson, 15, of East Windsor, had made a bomb from a large burr and bolts used on the railroad tracks and powder from shotgun shells. After completing their amateur job, they threw the bomb off a bridge expecting it to explode. However their dream failed and the bomb didn't work, so Douglas went to investigate when the bomb exploded, injuring his thumb and hand.
He was taken to Dr. Tyler in Windsor, where tetanus serum was administered, and later was brought to Dr. Edward Danforth.
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