Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Charles Loftly, the aide at the state’s Tryon Residential Facility who suffered a stroke last week, a month after police said he was hit in the head with a board by a teenage resident of the institution, has died, and an Oneida County coroner ruled his death was from natural causes not related to the assault.
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