A blast from my past. He lived a block away. I thought he was a couple of years older. This really shook up our provincial little Buffalo suburb! I've posted about this before, but had been unable to find the right search terms to turn up newspaper articles.
From the Tonawanda News, January 21, 1963:
Same newspaper, January 22, 1963:
Grace is apparently alive and living out west. No idea what happened to James. Note that New York law at the time only allowed him to be charged with juvenile delinquency!
The 1960 Pontiac they were driving was on loan from the dealer that was fixing his father's car -- which the son had "borrowed" and cracked up on the icy roads a few days earlier!
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