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Appeals court upholds murder
conviction in child death case
United Press International
AUS T IN — The 50-year pris
on sentence and murder convic
tion of a Fort Hood soldier ac
cused, along with his wife, of
beating his 2-year old son to
death was affirmed Wednesday
T. Bruch, who was convicted
with his wife, Connie Sue Bruch,
in Bell County fot the Sept. 11,
1979 death of Richard T. Bruch
Jr
time.
The appellate court said testi-
by an appeals court
The 3rd Court of Appeals let
stand the conviction of Richard
According to testimony, the
child either died of a massive
single blow to the head or a
series of blows over a period of
mony and photographs intro
duced at the trial showed the
baby’s body was a “buffeted
mass of bruises.”
Although Bruch’s wife was
accused of delivering the fatal
blow, Bruch was convicted
under the theory of a conspiracy
to injure the child.
Bruch admitted he struck the
child with his hands, a wooden
paddle and a wooden spoon be
cause the baby was “head strong
and self-willed.”
One of the Bi uchs' neighbors
testified she overheard beatings
administered by Mrs. Bruch,
some lasting as long as 45 mi
nules.
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Paper closes
after 103 years
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The
Memphis Press-Scimitar, its cii-
culation down by 47,000 in the
past decade, will cease publica
tion Oct. 31 after more than a
century of operation, Memphis
Publishing Co. announced
Wednesday.
The firm, a subsidiary of
Scripps-Howard Co., also owns
the citv’s only morning news
paper, The Commercial
Appeal.
Some of the 95 full-time staf
fers of the Press-Scimitar will be
given the opportunity to go to
work for the Commercial
Appeal, which will expand its
news coverage.
“This is not a sudden move
forced upon us by economu
hard times,” said Joseph R. Wil
liams, general manager of Mem
phis Publishing. “Our company
is financially healthy and confi
dent about the future. This is,
rat he t a decision based on a con
tinuing decline in cin uhtion
and leadership which we have
been unable to reverse despite
considerable effort by a dedi
cated group of employees and
on research conducted over the
past eight years.”
Williams noted in a statement
published in Wednesday edi
tions of the afternoon newspap
er, which will be 103 years old
the month it closes, that circula
tion fell from 127,000 in 1973 to
80,000 a decade later, reflecting
a national trend in readers’
habits away from afternoon
newspapers.
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Bubble boy, now 12
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HOUSTON — Sterilized
birthday presents and specially
prepared Holy Communion
wafers Wednesday were passed
into a sanitized bubble where
David, born 12 years ago with
out immunity against infection,
celebrated his birthday .
David, whose last name has
been withheld to protect his pri
vacy, passed his birthday with
fatpily and dose friends at the
family honie.
His parents gave him adven
ture books, new video games
and "Return of the jedt” items,
and expects soon to start read
ing a sterilized set of encyclope
dias.
Baylot College of Medicine
officials said 72-pound David is
the oldest survivoi of untreated
severe combined immune defi
ciency (SCID). He lias
been touched by an unglol
human hand ami lives insf
tion in a four-comparim
plastic bubble inside hisfaml|
living and diningrooms,
year-old sister does iiothaWj
disease.
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day.
He has never been ski
outside his germ-free bull
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