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Testimony Ends In Torquato CasePITTSBURGH lt;UPI - The prosecution has rested its case against former Cambria County Democratic chairman John Torquato and his two codefendants, who are charged with extorting $80,000 from 16 contractors who leased equip ment to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation The trial was recessed Wednesday until 9:30 a m Monday while U.S. District Judge Maurice B Cohill Jr considered defense arguments on motions to dismiss the charges Before releasing the jury. Cohill granted a motion by Torquato's attorney. Thomas A Livingston, to drop as evidence a series of bank records introduced Tuesday bythe prosecutionIt took three prosecutors and more than So witnesses to complete the government’s 14-week case against the three defendants Charged with Torquato in the alleged scheme to extort money from trucking firms in return for highway contracts are John George and Harold ( Stevens, both PennDOT employeesPolice Slayer Asks for PardonPHILADELPHIA lt;UPI -The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons today was to hear a request from MarilynDobrolenski for commutation of her two consecutive life sentences for the January 1972 slayings of two Delaware state troopers Mrs Dobrolenski, 25, pleaded guilty to the shooting deaths of troopers Ronald Carey and David Yarnngton, who were gunned down after a robbery that she committed with parolee Irving R Hogg whoalso died in the shootout The couple s “Bonnie and Clyde escapade, as it was called at the time, began when Mrs Dobrolenski and Hoggs set out to rot) the Talley Hoi motor Lodge at Concord Pike in Delaware after she left her 2-vear-old daughter at a boarding homeArmy Engineers Find Unsafe DamsPITTSBURGH (UP!) - The U S. Army Corps of Engineers said today it had found 45 unsafe or potentially hazardous earthen oams during an inspection program, including three in western Pennsylvania A Corps spokesman said the dams do not require emergency action, but they could endanger lives if left unattendedCollision Claims Fox Chapel TeenPITTSBURGH lt;UPI - Jeff Bettschart, 16, of suburban Fox Chapel was killed Wednesday in a two-car collision on Guys Run Road in Harmar Twp Authorities said Bettschart was riding in a car driven by David Ging. 16, also of Fox Chapel The other car was operated by Mary Baum, 47, of Scott TwpFlaherty Kin Claims PrejudicePITTSBURGH (UPI) - A 17 year-old relative of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Pete Flaherty has lt;barged he was flunked by a high schoolteacher who is opposed to Flaherty’s candidalt;John .liit ki* Kearney of suburban Kennedy TownshipWednesday filed uit in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court seeking an injunction allowing him to participate in that nights graduation ceremonies.
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Kittanning Leader Times
Kittanning, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Jun 22, 1978
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