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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1947
Page
2
Detroit May 14 Pred A. Bataky a 43 year old minor police character and once convict gambler was shot down in the street by two men outside a bowling alley and bar. Police fear the motive links to a weekend crackdown on an $8 million gambling syndicate with roots in the underworld. An unidentified woman accompanied them.
City and vicinity items include automobile service offers, a May 16 dinner guest Eldfrey M. Ferree, a legal case in Mayville, a pool hall raid and arrests, a weekly fish fry, local obituaries Amelia Koetiler Thompson and Leon C. Marsters, a grass fire near Kane, a drumbeat of community notices from unions, churches, and schools, plus shop ads and radio shop notices across Erie, Jamestown, Kane, and Oil City.
James F. Darrow of Meadville was arrested by city police this morning at the corner of Poplar Street and Willow Alley on a violation of the uniform firearms act. He allegedly carried a .38 caliber automatic and may be arraigned before Alderman Dominick Lemme today.
Robert Thornton, 35, of North East, was sentenced to 29 to 18 months in county jail on a charge of involuntary manslaughter for a two car crash last February that killed two people. The case, heard before Judge Burton R. Laub at the May term, involved Thornton failing to observe a stop sign near Lavery's Corner.
On the evening of February 17 at the intersection of Routes 6N and 38 a tar truck driven by James Vandervoort collided with Thornton. Vandervoort died two days later at St. Vincent's Hospital. Passenger Dennis Broderick, 5, was killed. Judge Laub sentenced Thornton to Erie County Prison and a $300 fine.
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