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ng FoutMEDIA COURTHOUSE — AjijSl, and Michael Laird, 17, of 4IS Upland youth on trial in theJGorsuch Si. *stabbing of four Ridley Township youths was found guilty of some assault charges and innocent. *o[ others by a jury Thursday afternoon.Judge Edwin E. Lippincolt 2nd deferred sentencing of William S. Strain, 20, of the 200 block 12th Street after his attorney, Garland D. Cherry made an oral motion for a new trial.The jury of five men and seven women returned its verdict around 4 p.m. after some four hours of deliberations tq climax the 3^4-day trial.'Police said the fight occurred between two carloads of youths which was triggered by an auto accident in Springfield. An en suing chase .ended in Ridley Township.A fifth yotith, Ralph Flanagan, 19, of 324 W. 22nd St., Chester, also was cut. He had been riding in Strain’s car.Asst. Dist. Alty. Bernard P. Carey Jr. put a number of witnesses on the stand, includir fhe other four who had been stabbed,Cherry did not put Strain—or ary witness—on the stand. But. Il found Strain fiuilty of as-jthg lawyer tnI(! the jliry_ Strain.lt; sault and battery with intent to'car was virtually “encircled” bymaun, assault and battery and aggravated assault and battery but. innocent of assault and battery with intent to kill and carrying a concealed deadly weapon.The four youths were slabbed during a melee about 11 p.m. March 11, 1966, near Gino’s drive-in, MacDade Blvd. and Milmont Avenue, Milmont Park, Ridley Township.They were Walter Gordun, 18,! of 623 Muddock St.; .Tames Shore, 17, of 621 Maddock St.; Fred Rowles, 18, of 617 Folsoma gang of other boys.“You don’t have the obligation to allow yourself to be beaten to a pulp when you're in your ownl automobile,” Cherry said. ‘The. law says a man has a right to defend himself. Whatever he grabbed to use, he had a right.” It marked Hie second lime Strain had been on trial in tin s tabbings.The first was ruled a mistrial last October by Judge Francis J. Catania because of the introduction of evidence.
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Delaware County Daily Times
Chester, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Jun 22, 1967
Page 29
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