...to drop murder charges against Stephen Freeland, 50, and Leon "Smickle" Wright, 54, in the killing of Officer Henry Schaad. The apparent inability of detectives and prosecutors to make a case for 32 years was not "reckless," as defense...
...convicted of second-degree murder and face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison in the death of rookie Patrolman Henry Schaad. The verdicts came nearly five months after two white men were convicted and the city's former mayor was acquitted...
...Leon Wright, 54, said Terrence McGowan, who is representing Mr. Freeland in the murder case of York police Officer Henry Schaad. "If I were representing Mr. Wright, I would stand up and point a finger at Mr. Freeland," Mr. McGowan told...
...Prosecutors seeking the conviction of two black men in the July 18, 1969, race-riot slaying of rookie patrolman Henry Schaad nevertheless have brought to the stand black witnesses who have a lot of negative things to say about the police. They...
...settlement also calls for the appointment of a panel to make recommendations for an appropriate memorial to Ms. Allen and Henry Schaad, a white city policeman who also was shot to death during 10 days of rioting in the summer of 1969. York Mayor John...
...two-month period. Leon F. "Smickle" Wright, 57, who was convicted of second-degree murder in the killing of Officer Henry Schaad, died Tuesday, several days after having been taken to a hospital from a prison in northwestern Pennsylvania, prison...
...March 3. The men pleaded innocent to murder charges. They are accused of firing on the armored police van in which Henry Schaad and two other officers were riding July 18, 1969, the second day of the riots. York County President Judge John H...
...violence. Allen, 27, was gunned down on the fifth day of rioting. Three days before, a rookie white policeman, Henry Schaad, also was fatally shot during the riots while he was patrolling a black neighborhood in an armored police truck. Schaad...
...blacks and handing out ammunition to gang members in an effort to even the score for the shooting of white patrolman Henry Schaad on July 18, 1969, in a black neighborhood. Some testimony has been graphic. Racial epithets were used liberally...
...turf in an effort to exact revenge for the July 18, 1969, fatal shooting of a white police officer. That officer, Henry Schaad, 22, died Aug. 1, 1969. Another witness, Ellis W. Stough, 67, who worked with Mr. Messersmith at a filling...
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