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Junior Assaulted Defending Youth

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A University student was beaten up in defense of a 14-year old boy who was the victim of a brutal attack in Newton Saturday night.

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

Police later arrested fire reufbs all from Newton and booked them on assault and battery charges, disturbing the peace and possession of illegal weapons. Deice fives bluted on possible connection with the still unsolved murder of Rabbit Jacob I. Fuber in Roxbury last New Yessie's Eye.

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