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Show 2 A The Salt Take Tribune, Saturday, Iteeemher Tf 9 m 23, 1978 Owner Charged Willi Murder 3 Bodies Found in House 4 By Howard Ulman Associated Press Writer DES PLAINES, Hi. The decomposed remains of at least three bodies have been found at the house of a convicted sex offender, and police said Friday that other hndies might be buried in earthen mounds they found in a crawl space. John W. Gacy Jr., 36, who owns the modest brick bungalow, was charged Friday with murdering a youth who had been missing. Des Plaines Police Chief Lee Alfano said three bodies had been discovered so far. Police dismantled part of the house to see if more bodies could be found. Authorities said Gacy had confessed Thursday to strangling Robert Piest, 15. of Des Plaines. Gacy was being held without bond. Unable to Confirm - rtf one-stor- 7P Associated Press LtMt'pnoto Police barricade bouse in Chicago suburb where several decomposed bodies, believed to be young boys, were found in crawl space. Discovery was made after police found human bone In house. The Chicago Tribune reported that unidentified police investigators said Gacy had made an oral statement that he had strangled 32 young boys. However, repeated checks with various authorities were unable to confirm the report. The search was to continue Saturday. 2 Coast Officers Slain, Lawmen Seek Suspect ' - issued Thursday in Vallejo and found at the murder scene. But the highway patrol said the address listed on the license was not valid. The last name on the license was not lettered clearly, so the warrant was issued listing both names. Both officers were shot in the head. One was handcuffed and killed by a shot fired point-blanThier service revolvers were missing, investigators said. A highway patrol officer at the scene said, this was an execution, pure and simple. Weapons Found The dead officers were Roy Blecher, 50, and William Michael Freeman, 35, both assigned to the Woodland office. Although their weapons were misand a sing, two handguns were found nearby. Sgt. Larry Justus, a Yolo County Sheriffs deputy on patrol near the busy freeway, Route 80, where the officers were killed, said he heard between four and six shots fired through the foggy darkness about 3:45 a.m. A few minutes later Justus found the bodies lying face down on the shoulder of the eastbound lane of the freeway, three miles west of the capitol. The red lights on the patrol car were still flashing, he said. Blecher was a veteran of 21 years on the force with most of the time served in Los Angeles. Freeman served 12 years. Both were married, both were fathers. The last radio contact with the officers was at 3:12 a.m., when they spoke with a dispatcher in Sacramento. However, they gave a different location from the freeway exit near where their car was found. Investigators at the scene said evidence, including the way their cruiser was parked, indicated the two officers were making a routine traffic stop. The killings brought to 147 the number of California Highway Patrol officers killed in the line of duty since 1929. Seven died this year, but all but Freeman and Blecher died in accidents. Deputy Highway Patrol Commissioner Gerry Clemons said a motorist tola officers he saw a man emerge from a stopped car and approach the patrol cruiser. But the witness passed the scene before any shots were fired. Two Calif. (UPI) California Highway Patrol officers apparently making a traffic itop were shot to death execution-styl- e Friday beside their black and white inuser along a busy freeway. An arrest warrant was issued for a suspect believed named anthony Carlo or Carbo, but the Yolo County Sheriffs Office said there was a chance the name was ficticious. Drivers License The FBI joined state and county investigators looking for the inch suspect In his 20s, who was described by a passing motorist as having bushy brown hair and wearing a sweatshirt. for the warrant was i--7 'Information tT jjiased on a temporary drivers license SACRAMENTO, Veteran '' Continued From Page One presidential termination went unchallenged because the treaties could no longer be fulfilled. The State Department view is that in at least a dozen cases presidents have terminated treaties and that most current legal thinking accords with this practice and allows Congress no role. ;The Goldwater suit, which argues that since it takes the president and the Senate to approve a treaty, the president may not act on his own to end one, may never be decided on the merits. The government is expected to argue, before reaching that issue, that the matter is a political question in which the courts should not involve themselves. Goldwater, in a television address Friday night, promised to pursue the case to the Supreme Court. He denounced Carters television speech of a week ago as ten minutes that lived in He said the treatment of infamy. Taiwan calls into question the honor, the very soul, or America's word in the field of foreign relations. He called the agreement to establish diplomatic relations with the Peoples Republic of China and end the defense treaty with Taiwan a contrivance to curry favor with a totalitarian regime whose only interest is to use the United States. Joining Goldwater in the suit were Sens. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, Carl Curtis of Nebraska, Jake Garn of Utah, Orrin Hatch of Utah, Jesse A. Helms of North Carolina and Senator-elec- t Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire. Also, Reps. Robert Bauman of Maryland, Steve Symms of Idaho, Robert Daniel, Jr., of Virginia, Eldon Rudd of Arizona, John Ashbrook of Ohio, George Hansen of Idaho, Larry McDonald of Georgia and Bob Stump of Arizona. 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Nevada and Wyoming) 575 mo. Daily and Sunday (Utah, Nevada, M 00 year Idaho, Wyoming) Daily Only (Utah, Idaho, Nevada 370 mo pnd Wyoming) Sunday Only (Utah, Idaho. Neva3 00 me da and Wyoming) Daily ant Sunoay (AM 7 SC month Other States) Daily eod Sunday (All 00 00 year Other States AM mall subacrlptions payable tnedvenaa. 5 The Tribune is a member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is entitled eudustveiy to tt use of reproduction of sil total nem printed in this newspeoer as weM as all A P news diseefitwi Member Audit Bureau of ing service. Lt. Joseph Kozenczak of the Associated Press Laserphoto John Gacey, right, in back seat of car, is taken in for . questioning. Several bodies were found under his house. Associated Press Writer A RIDGE, Guyana Guyanese coroners inquest ruled Friday that the Rev. Jim Jones and others were criminally responsible for the deaths of 910 persons at the Peoples Temple commune of Jonestown and that Jones was murdered. The jury of four men and one woman decided only one cultist committed Aim Moore, Jones personal suicide nurse. Foreman Albert Graham, 62, said the jury did not have enough evidence to fix responsibility in the deaths of two other persons. Committed Suicide? The initial jury finding said Jones, whose body was found with a bullet wound in the head, committed suicide. But after a tirade by the magistrate in charge, Haroon Bacchus, the jury concluded he was killed by some person or persons unknown. The jury's finding, comir.g on the sixth day of the inquiry that began Dec. 13, closes the only official Guyanese inquiry into the deaths at Jonestown. Another inquiry is under way into the deaths of Rep. Leo J. Ryan, and four other persons killed on an airstrip outside Jonestown earlier that day. Ryan was investigating the cult. The finding enables the government to begin issuing death certificates for the persons who died in Jonestown Nov. 18 and is expected to speed release of the bodies from a military morgue at Dover, Del., Air Force Base. Death Certificates We've arranged extra people to write the death certificates and they should get started on it by Sunday, said Guyanese Public Prosecutor Emanuel Romao "We will send them out in batches as soon as possible and the (U.S.) embassy plans to pick them up right away. The jury ruled almost exactly as suggested by Bacchus, who in his summation told the Jurors they should moke up their own minds I would ask you to say Jim Jones and his associates, which would include his medical team, murdered those persons," Bacchus said after citing testimony showing Jones kept cultists under armed guard, told them they should die with dignity" and ordered babies poisoned. t The most pathetic thing in this whole exercise was this woman, Christine Miller, pleading for her life and this man saying, She was not the one to decide ... all the while saying he had supernatural powers. "You give ptjople poison and don't know they're going t? die? Bacchus said. MATTHEWS - When the jury filed back into the courtroom after being sequestered 18 minutes, Graham rose and said, James Warren Jones died by suicide. What evidence do you have to Bacchus shouted, support suicide? rising to his feet with the prosecutor. Bacchus said government pathologist Dr: Leslie Mootoo stated that Jones was shot at close range in the side of the head, but that the gun was found 20 yards away. He said this was inconsistent with zhe jurys finding and suggested more deliberation. The jury, drawn from residents of this tiny jungle village 150 miles northwest of Georgetown, near Jonestown, trudged back to the jury room. They filed out 11 minutes later and A woman SALEM, Ore. (UPI) testified Friday at the trial of a man accused of raping his wife that the victim, Greta Rideout, called police from under a kitchen table and was frightened, crying and incoherent just after the attack. Sharon Ann Dolan, a neighbor of John and Greta Rideout, said Mrs. Rideout came to her house Oct. 10 and said John had gotten to her. Mrs. Dolan testified, when talking with police and somebody else (on the telephone) she was under my kitchen table. She was scared. She was crying. She was incoherent. Rideout, 21, a restaurant cook from Silverton, is the first man in the country to stand accused of raping his wife under a 1977 state law. He is free on $5,000 bail. Resumes Tuesday four-ma- n The jury was excused early and told to return Tuesday when the trial will resume. Defense lawyer Charles Burt said he would advise Rideout to testify next week. An employee of the Salem womens crisis center, Helen Biebelheimer, testified out of the jurys presence that Mrs. Rideouts face was swollen up, her eye was black and blue. Her face was a real mess on the left side just after the alleged rape. eight-woma- - ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. (UPI) The FBI Frieday announced the arrest in Acworth, Ga., of Richard Robard Hughes, 33, a fraud suspect who had claimed he was the illegitimate son of the late Howard Hughes. Hughes, 33, was sought on warrants charging unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud. The FBI said the federal fraud charges were filed in connection with a Sandoval County, N.M., case in which he allegedly represented himself as Howard Hughes son to convince a couple to give him more than 115,000 to gain access to a trust fund set up by the billionaire. Blanton issued a statement after his I grand jury appearance, saying, answered all question'1 the jury put to him. He refused, h ;r, to answer reporters questions. Blanton also said that to the best of he had personally my recollection passed on all executive clemency cases granted during his ter:., of office. State prosecutors charge more than people given early release during Blantons tenure might have to be returned to prison as a result of a chancery court riling that Blanton had unlawfully delegated his executive clemency powers to a subordinate. 6(iO Blanton said none of the prisoners need worry about the status of the cases because he had decided to personally all executive clemency grants and reconfirm them. n, Mrs. Biebelheimer said that on Oct. she received a call from a man who identified himself as Rideout. Mrs. Rideout, 23, was staying at Mrs. Biebelheimers Salem home at the time. One Little Bruise He said she (Mrs. Rideout) had only one little bruise above her eye, Mrs. Biebelheimer testified. He said he hit her a couple of times but had not raped her. Earlier, a family friend, Jennie Reich, 20, described Mrs. Rideout as an honest person who was her friend. Mrs. Reich Under said Mrs. Rideout was honest about everything but sex. She also denied having a homosexual affair with Mrs. Rideout. Burt asked Mrs. Reich, If Greta Rideout said under oath that she told John (Rideout) you and 'she had a homosexual affair, would that change your opinion of her honesty? 27 cross-examinati- Graham announced: Some person or persons unknown is clearly responsible for the deaths of James Warren Jones. Cyanide Poisoning Testimony showed the 910 persons died of acute cyanide poisoning. The jury also concluded Ann Moore died by a gunshot wound and that his mistress, Maria Katsaris, drank the brew.' Mrs. Reich answered, I know why she told him that. She was baiting him. Of course it was a lie. In earlier testimony. Jack Hinkle, Rideout's half brother, said he told Mrs. Rideout that what she was doing was not fair, especially since she was getting a divorce. The jury did not rule on whether Miss Katsaris, the cults financial secretary, committed suicide or was murdered. Graham said, James Warren Jones and others unknown are criminally responsible for the deaths of 910 persons. Judy Mayo, 27, a half sister to Rideout and Hinkle, testified that Mrs. Rideout had said Jack (Hinkle) forced her to have sex. What kind of sex I dont know." Another witness, Douglas Lowe, 24, testified that Mrs. Rideout had once denied to her husband in Lowes presence that she had sex with Hinkle. Governor Has 4Nothing to Hide Gov. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) Ray Blanton, questioned for two hours Friday by a federal grand jury invesscandal, told tigating a pardon-sellin- g reporters, I have nothing to hide." "As you know, I appeared before a federal grand jury today on a different matter. I answered all questions on all subjects that they asked me to answer on and Id he willing to answer them in Burt said Hinkle also has categorically denied having sex with the future because I have nothing to Mrs. Rideout. hide," Blanton said. If youre not guilty of anything, youre not worried about answering questions of the court. I trust the grand jury implicitly and Im sure they will make the proper decision." Three of Blantons aides have been NEW DELHI, India (AP) Qatar has charged with racketeering in the scan- blacklisted 31 Indian business firms for in affidavits that dal, and the FBI said with Israel, the it had information that Blanton either conducting trade or took part Economic Times newspaper reported knew of the parole-sellinFriday. in it. One of his aides, Charles F. Taylor, a The gulf state claimed veteran state trooper and alleged bag the firms used Israeli materials for man in the scheme, pleaded innocent chemicals, drugs and other products, to the charges in federal court in the Delhi-base- d daily said. Samarendra Kundu, Indias deputy foreign minister, Memphis Friday. In addition to Taylor, two other told Parliament the government has Blanton aides, legal counsel T. Edward requested the firm to comply with Sisk and extraditions officer Charles conditions set down by Qatar's Israeli Benson Jr., have been arrested in the boycott office. New Delhi maintains a b case. policy in the Middle East. Firms Blacklisted For Israel Trade - . pro-Ara- Woman Crashes Into Capitol, Flings Head her her car mother." straight A woman TRENTON, N.J. (UPI) into the statehouse slammed steps Friday and flung a plastic bag containing her mothers head out the car window. A small American flag had been stabbed into the head's bloody , neck. The woman, Jean Zeiinsky, 48, of Ringoes, N.J., told police as they arrived, Merry Christmas. This is what you want." An hour later, her mothers body was found at Ms. Zelinskys home about 15 miles from Trenton, police said. sheriffs Witness Cites Fright in Rape Claim Rev. Jones Criminally Responsible For 910 Deaths, Guyana Jury Rules By Tom Fenton shelv- department said missing persons re ports were filed two years ago on two former employees of Gacy, both youths in their late teens. Garys neighbors described him as a likeable man who frequently volunteered to perform as a clown for children at charitable events. Police in Waterloo, Iowa, confirmed on Friday that Gacy was sentenced in December, 1968, to 10 years in the Iowa Mens Reformatory on a charge of sodomy committed in 1967 on a juvenile male. He was eventually transferred to a psychiatric unit and released, the Iowa police said. Authorities said Gacy served about 18 months of his sentence before being paroled. dirt-floore- d Captured by FBI er Suit Challenges U.S. Break With Taiwan Gacys painting, remodeling and Hugl ies Imposter er r T- - reportedly had applied for a job with said Cook County medical examiner, Dr. Robert J. Stein. Stein said the skeletal remains of two bodies were removed Friday. Both bodies had been buried, he said. One was removed from the crawl space under the house and the other from the garage, he added. No details were available on the third body. Confessed Strangling Authorities said Gacy confessed Thursday to strangling Robert Piest, 15, of Des Plaines. Gacy was being held without bond. Authorities said that Gacy, twice divorced and living alone, was convicted in Iowa in 1968 of sex crimes, served time and was paroled in 1971. He had lived in the home where the bodies where discovered for six years and operated a contracting business from it. The dwelling is in a quiet residential neighborhood in an unincorporated part of Norwood Park Township, northwest of Chicago, a mile from Schiller Park Forest Preserve. Part of the three bedroom house was being dismantled for easier access to the crawl space, which is 4 feet deep and measures about 30 by 40 feet. Cook County Sheriff Richard Elrod said Gacy is giving all kinds of statements." Elrod said Gacy had claimed there was a body here. A body there and that they had been dumped in the lake or a lagoon or were buried. There had been rumors that as many as 20 bodies might be found, and Elrod said its possible." But Alfano said such a count seems very high, but I have no way of disputing that at this time. Officers were first alerted on Dec. 11 when the Piest youth was reported missing and was linked to Gacy by the boys mother, Alfano said. Gacy was kept under surveillance until officers, armed with a search warrant, entered the house Thursday night. Piest was a drug store employee who Ms. Zelinsky, who had slashed own throat twice with a razor, was treated for cuts, then returned to the statehouse by state police, where she was held on suspicion of homicide. One witness said he saw the womans off State Street and go up the curb and into the marble columns on the steps about 4 p.m. She then threw the head, wrapped in a plastic bag, out out of the window, TTie small flag protruded car swerve Witnesses reported her saying while being dragged out of the car, Its my A neighbor, Vincent Menchick, described the Zelinsky home as well kept and said, Jean has always been a girl who has stayed pretty much to herself. She didnt mix or blend with the community'. Why, I don't know. She has been hanging in and out of jobs," Menchick said. We have had people calling us fer recommendations. She was always a bright girl But apparently she had problems with handling people. |
