While Mr. Nat Peiper and several other Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were on board the German steamer Vancouver today, a cable snapped and dropped a 12%2-ton cargo boom, crushing to death a longshoreman on the nearby North German Lloyd motor ship Weser.
The F.B.I. investigators, who were examining the Vancouver in an effort to discover the cause of a recent explosion which sent the Vancouver into the mud of the Oakland estuary, rushed to the Weser.
. They learned that "Nick Pesha, a longshoreman had been crushed to death by the falling boom. They immediately started preliminary investigations. They questioned the officers and examined the fallen boom and also the machinery.
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