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SentencingDeferreduiitiContinued from Page One 3 a QESB _ |avbut was not able to identify!, them in her yard about 2:40 a.m. on June 25 because it „ was hazy and dark.She said she had known Ber- a gen, John Donnelly, and Doug j las Jenkins around Yardley ( but said she did not know the , t fourth man, Walter Yates. Jen-', kins, who works at the Cold t Spring Bleachery. and Don !. nelly, testified Monday morn-j, ing. Yates’ whereabouts are apparently unknown. 1Drinking Donnelly and Jenkins told the court the four of them had been drinking, first at the Con tinental Hotel, Yardley, and later at the Cross Country Bar on Route 1, Falls Township.' They said they decided to go ' to the Lear residence, but after knocks on the door went unanswered, they decided to1 leave, and were scared off by 1 the shotgun blast.; Bergen, who was the driver of* the car parked in the Lear* driveway, was hit in the face' I by one of the blasts. He died inMercer Hospital, Trenton, on July 2.* Lowell Lear corroborated his s wife’s story of frequent visitsby prowlers and said he at one time swore out a complaint e against a man, not identified t in court, who was never prose-e cuted, he said. Mrs. Lear said e she had several times identified Bergen as being amongthe prowlers.Mrs. Lear was defended by attorneys Marvin Portney and Edward P. Casey. President Judge Biester told Mrs. Lear at the outset of Monday's hear-i ing that the maximum penalty for i n voluntary manslaughter is a fine of $2,000 or three r years imprisonment.s No date has been set for sentencing.
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Doylestown Intelligencer
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, May 27, 1969
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