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Eight YearSentence forBierschwalBENTON — Charles Roger (Rocky) Bierschwal pleaded guilty to three felony charges from Cape and Bollinger counties Monday and was sentenced to •l^tit years in the penitentiary.Bierschwal was charged with th{ brutal beating of Cecil Block-erj a construction superintendent, in Bollinger county; with burglarizing Jackson Roll-O-Fun and Board’s sporting goods stpre in Cape County.All three charges were transferred to Scott C ounty on changes of!venue and Monday Bierschwal plgaded guilty to all three.Circuit Judge Marshall Craig sehtended Bierschwal to eight yefcrs on each of the charges, toYun concurrently.|*he Bollinger county case drew vd|le attention. Blocker was attacked outside his home as he left work one morning in Octob-1966. He was beaten with atool and was hospitalized stfkeral weeks with serious injuries.flotive for the attack on Block-was never established, but linger County prosecuting at-ney Kenneth Shrum said he tpmght the beating might be connected to a union dispute in which ifbocker was involved, f'-fct the time, Blocker, a resident lt;jf:Louisiana, was living temporarily in Marble Hill while he “rked on a construction project, said he had never seen Bier-wal before the morning of the ting.ifThe burglary charge involving jftckson Roll-O-Fun was filed Against Bierschwal while he was jail serving a sentence in connection with a traffic charge last summer.“Bierschwal was charged with careless and reckless driving following a high speed chase by the state highway patrol. Items found in the car after he was caught were later traced to the Roll-O-Fun, whicn had been burglarized earlier the same night.Then earlier this year, Bierschwal was arrested inside Beard’s store when Cape Girardeau police responded to a tip that the store was being burglarized.
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Sikeston Daily Standard
Sikeston, Missouri, US
Wed, Mar 13, 1968
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