Students Deny Guilt In Auto Theft Case

Middlesex County Judge Haven Parker announced yesterday that the cases of three undergraduates, Charles W. Bender '57, David F. Knutson '57, and Keith P. Kerney '57, arrested for attempted larceny of an automobile, would be left for further consideration until June 7.

Judge Parker made the decision in East District Court, Cambridge, after the defendants pleaded not guilty.

The three were caught by a squad car on Mt. Auburn St. early yesterday morning, following a half-mile chase at high speed, and were arrested at gunpoint.

Police said that the students, allegedly on their way to Smith College, after attempts to borrow a friend's had failed, "took the first car they found."

They have been released on personal recognizance.