Man pleads not guilty in 1969 slaying

LOWELL (AP) - A New Hampshire man charged in connection with the 1969 slaying of a Massachusetts teenager has pleaded not guilty to perjury and witness intimidation charges.

Michael Ferreira of Salem, N.H., was ordered held on $500,000 bail Wednesday in Lowell District Court.

The Sun of Lowell reports that the 57-year-old Ferreira is charged with perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury in 2008 investigating the 1969 death of 15-year-old John Joseph McCabe of Tewksbury.

Ferreira is also facing a murder charge in juvenile court because he was 16 at the time of the slaying. That arraignment was closed.

Prosecutors say Ferreira and two friends beat and bound McCabe to teach him a lesson for flirting with the girlfriend of one of his co-defendants. McCabe's body was found in Lowell.