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COLUMBUS (IS)—Unless Governor Lausche intervenes, 19-year-old Bernard Schreiber of Toledo must die in the Ohio Penitentiary electric chair Jan. 13 for the rape-slaying of 17- year-old Mary Jolene Friess. The Ohio Supreme Court, by unanimous vote, rejected his appeal and fixed the date of his execution. Schreiber was convicted of way laying the girl Aug. 12, 1954 as she rode by on her bicycle, beating her into unconsciousness, dragging her into a wooded area, attacking her, and then stabbing her to death to prevent her from recognizing him later. In other cases, the high court ruled against two Cleveland bars which sought to retain their equor licenses by refusing to admit their appeals to review. The taverns were the Rio Bar, T Inc., which was denied a renewal , its night club license in 1952 for “knowingly and wilfully permitting immoral activities’’ on the prem ises, and the Lucky Star Cafe, op erated by Andre Aliesandro, whose permit was revoked in 1949 on a charge that he permitted the sale of marijuana cigarets in the cafe. The high court also, by a 5-0 vote, absolved the city of Fremont from liability for a tree along a Fremont street which fell and dam aged the property of J.C. Smith. The Standard Fire Insurance Co. paid the Smiths but then sued the city on the ground that the roots of the tree were cut, and the sta bility of the tree thus weakened, when the street was widened. The Sandusky County Common Pleas Court ruled for the city but was reversed by the appellate court. In reversing in turn, the Su preme Court held the law which re quires a city to keep its streets open, in repair and free of nuis ance is limited to maintaining traffic over them. In a unanimous decision, the high court held that parents who once surrender a child for adoption to an approved welfare agency may not later reclaim the child without consent of the agency. It ruled against Steve and Anne Kozak, of Cleveland, who gave their two minor children to the Luther an Aid Society for adoption but later sought to regain custody. In another case, the high court ruled that house trailers whose title is held by a dealer must be in cluded in a personal property tax return. The case went against the Trailer Mart, Inc., of Cleveland, which contended that the trailers were lcensed under the motor ve hicles laws and therefore not sub ject to personal property tax. In two cases, the Supreme Court held that the Charles J. Rogers Transportation Co., and not the Ford Motor Company, was lable for damages to Howard H. Hurt, of Lakewood, who was injured when a Ford casting fell from a Rogers truck and struck his car. The high court held that the ac tion of the carrier in attempting to repair the box in which the cast ings were being shipped, and then to continue the shipment, relieved Ford of further responsibility. The court also dismissed the ap peal of Edward Bellard of Toledo from his conviction and peni tentiary sentence on charges of carrying concealed weapons, mali cious destruction of property, and breaking and entering. The court also refused to admit the appeal of Gene Robert Kreglow and his mother, Georgetta Kreg low, who sought to retain custody of Kreglow’'s child. The Logan county courts awarded custody to the mother, Carol Sue Kreglow, even though the child was given to the grandmother's care when the couple were divorced in 1954. Later the mother sought to regain custody and won in the low er courts.
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Norwalk Reflector Herald
Norwalk, Ohio, US
Thu, Dec 15, 1955
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