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lurks(Eoitttlummmhisi:hnth-WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1968PAGE 3COth'lArossinir I tousewife Facesip?imi.nurder Chanre In ShootimrreMrs. Winifred Lear. 28. Wash ington Crossing housewife, has been charged with murdering Yardley mechanic Vernon Bergen.Upper Makefield Police Chief William Kershaw lodged the murder charge yesterday.Bergen was critically wound-ed by a shotgun blast last Wednesday morning in Mrs. Lear’s yard. Mrs. Lear told po lice she had shot at severalhousewife. The original bail was cancelled.Material WitnessesFour of the original charges lodged last week against Mrs.Lear were drooped noon Ber ItThree material witnesses tothe shooting were continued under original bail set shortly afterthe shooting.Walter Yates and Douglas Jenkins were continued underprowlers in an attempt to scare them away.$1,000 bail each while Jack Don nelly was continued under $2,000 bail. All were in the Lear yard when the shooting occurred, po lice said.dropped upongen’s death.Hearing SetA preliminary hearing will be. held Friday at 11 a.m. in the Up-1tiri.per Makefield Township munici pal building on Eagle Road. JP Clarke will preside.Prosecuting attorney for the Commonwealth is AssistantlaDBucks District Attorney Oscar Bortner.47beNew BailOn Buckingham FarmlandBergen remained unconscious and in critical condition in Mercer Hospital, Trenton, from the time of the shooting until his death yesterday.Fanners FMrs. Lear was released undera new bail of $16,000 following arraignment yesterday after-noon before Justice of the PeaceLocation OfRaymond Clarke. She had prev i o u s I y been released under $15,000 bail.siBy MARIAN MIHLBERGER Courter Times Special WriterMrs. Lear, through her attor ney Bernard Gray of Levittnwn,surrendered to Clarke shortlyafter learning of Bergen’s death.Bail of $15,000 was set on theopen charge of murder while $1,000 bail was set on a chargeBuckingham farmers near the site of the new Bucks County Sanitary landfill plan to seek Township aid in an effort to re verse the decision to open the landfill made by the county commissioners last week.jeski land for the past ten years. He said the junkyard at the end, of the landfill site takes up only 10 acres. He wondered how thecounty commissioners could ig nore zoning regulations which citizens are bound to observe.aclirof wantonly pointing a deadly weapon, one of five originalThe farmers believe there must be a better location for a landfill rather than on 80 acresSwartley and the other farm ers said they are concerned jmfrcharges lodged against theWof prime farmland which they said, is at the highest elevationabout possible water pollution and about the landfill drawingrats.7:toExtremely PureIsadore Joka. a builder wnoin the township.~ iU. t\a iowns a sizable spread, said the farmers want to know what willclWD
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Levittown Courier Times
Levittown, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Jul 03, 1968
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