Word: burg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anti-semitic feelings prompted the vicious, belt-buckle beating of a 14-year-old boy by a group of Newton teen-agers last Saturday, Stanley P. Burg, '54 confirmed last night...
...Burg attempted to save Stephen M. Berger of Chestnut Hill from the attack of the armed and drunken boys. When he intervened, one of the boys cried, "I'm drunk and I'm tough, and you'd better watch out." Then they struck Burg from all sides and cut him on he scalp with sharpened belt-buckles...
...year-old leader of the gang admitted to the police that he had planned the attack on a Jewish boy for some time, Burg said. The leader's stepfather is a Jewish criminal lawyer...
Stanley P. Burg '54, visiting at the home of a friend heard cries for help and ran outside to find five youths assaulting Stephen Berger. When Burg attempted to fight the attackars off they turned on him with heavy belts and switch knives. He suffered a black eye in the struggle which ensued. The Berger boy was rushed to Newton Wellesley Hospital in serious condition with a possible fraetuted skull...
...found a witness who corroborated Rogers' story that he had arrived in Peters burg by train, thus could not have stolen the car in North Carolina. At that evi dence, Rogers' sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Then a fellow convict told Rogers of Argosy magazine's "Court of Last Resort," an investigative agency started by Argosy Publisher Henry Stee-ger and Whodunit Writer Erie Stanley (Perry Mason) Gardner (TIME, May 9, 1949). Rogers wrote to Argosy and Ar gosy went to work on the case...