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Wade ConvictedOf ManslaughterA verdict of voluntary and involuntary manslaughter was returned Wednesday against C. Alton Wade Jr.. 32.1261 Sheephill Road. North Coventry, in Chester County Court, as theweek-long murder trial concludedWade was granted seven days to file post-trial motions, and in the meantime he is being neld inChester County Farmsprison in lieu of $100,000 bail.wasSentence will be pronounced after those motions areThe Commonwealth was filedseeking a second degree murder conviction in the beating death of Daniel J Strong. 2-year-old son ofWade’s.Elliott Goldberg, assistant district attorney, said he is pressing ahead with the prosecution of Mrs. Strong. 24. who faces the sameThe jury was sequestered nearly nine hours, before bringing the verdict to JudgeRegina Strong last Dec 3 charges. A date is not yet setand a spokesman said he regarded the verdict as acompromiseThe conviction carries a maximum 12 year sentence John E. Stively Jr.. at 11:30 a.m. *RJR^«AVcstj The trial began April 9, after a jury of seven women and five men was from 57 candidates.Wade was represented byFred J| Cadmus 3rd. West Chester attorney, and is himself the son of a West Chester lawfijKmg to testimony presented at the trial, Mrs. Strong's son died of peritonitis, an inflammation of the abdominal cavity, caused by an acid and bacteria spill from a torn bowel.The tear resulted from a blunt impact to the body, such as the impact from a bare heel on the child's stomach, according to Dr Halbert Fillinger. assistant medical examiner of Philadelphia, a specialist in finding the causes of suspicious deaths.Mrs. Strong testified that Wade stomped on the boy'sstomach to discipline him.Before implicating Wade, the mother took the b'ame for the death in a written statement given to Chester County detectives.But she said she was in a state of shock and confusionwhenthegiving police statement, and took tht blameto protect whom she said she loved.She further testified shlt; moved into Wade': three-storv farmhouse irw(Continued on Page 7)
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Pottstown Mercury
Pottstown, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Apr 18, 1974
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