“…was freed yesterday…”

New York Times, March 9, 1946, p.14

Frank Pape, 17 years old, of 815 Eagle Avenue, the Bronx, indicted for first-degree murder in the death of William Drach, 4, in October. 1944, was freed yesterday in Bronx County Court, having been declared sane after a year’s treatment by psychiatrists. The youth was adjudged insane at the time of the murder. Pape, who strangled the Drach boy while they were playing, was placed under the supervision of two Lutheran ministers, the Rev. Otto Plagemann of St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church, 156th Street and St. Ann’s Avenue, and the Rev. Henry Schumann of Bethany Lutheran Church, 583 East 163d Street, both the Bronx. The ministers told the court they felt confident they could control the youth.
New York Times, March 9, 1946, p.14