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Page 4 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1974 Henley to take stand in Houston mass slaying tria HOUSTON CT) — Teen-ager Elmer Wayne Henley takes the witness stand today at his pre trial hearing into the homosexual, torture and slayings of 27 Hous ton area youths, his lawyer said. Timothy Kerley, 20, testified Tuesday that he was also marked for death and that only Henley’s gunplay saved him. “I had enough sense to be aware that I was to be killed,” Kerley testified. That was be fore Henley shot and killed Dean A. Corll, 33, last August 8 in Corll’s home in suburban Pasa dena. IT WAS THE SHOOTING of Corll, the man police call the leader of the murder ring, which broke open the macabre case. Corll’s death, which Henley ad mitted, was ruled self defense by authorities. Henley’s lawyer, Will Gray, said Tuesday this phase of the hearing could wind up Thursday or Fri day. Kerley, Henley and Rhonda Williams, 15, were at the Corll home in the early morning hours of Aug. 8. After sniffing paint, all three passed out and awakened bound and gagged. In earlier tes timony, police quoted Henley as telling them that Kerley and Miss Williams were stripped nude and tied to a large plywood board in one of the bedrooms of the home while Henley was released by Corll. Miss Williams also testified Tuesday but she was allowed to do so behind closed doors in the chambers of District Court Judge William Hatten because she is a juvenile. KERLEY TESTIFIED Corll was about to sexually assault him when “Wayne said, ‘You’ve gone far enough, Dean.’ Dean jumped up and ran at him with his hands raised and said, ‘Kill me, Wayne, kill me.’ And that’s what he did.” Henley fired five or six shot into Corll, Kerley said. Then after the two young persons were re leased from their bonds and clothed, the trio debated calling police. “Wayne said maybe we should just leave. I said no, we should call the police and he said okay,” Kerley said. After the shooting, the three went out on the sidewalk in front of the house to wait for police and Kerley said Henley told him he had killed other persons. “He said he had done that four or five times.” UNDER CLOSE questioning by Gray, Kerley admitted that Hen ley had not said he had killed four or five persons, but that was what he took Henley’s statement to mean. “He was upset about killing Dean,” the tall, long-haired wit ness testified. “He was crying and holding his head.” Kerley said the three had been sniffing acrylic paint, “drinking beer and white lightning” during the early morning hours and that Henley had sniffed more paint ‘Chicken Ranch’ to offer new dish GRADUATE PLANNING SOCIETY Presents Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy W. C. Fields 7 p. m. Thursday, Jan. 24 College of Architecture Auditorium 50^ Each HOUSTON <A>>—Two Houston businessmen have purchased the “Chicken Ranch,” the famed La Grange brothel that was closed last year by the state at the request of Gov. Dolph Briscoe. The new owners, who asked that their names not be used, purchased the establishment from Edna Milton. The price was not disclosed but one of the new own ers said it was a “bargain.” For their money they received 12 acres of land and a 12-bedroom INSURANCE — HOME LOANS BUSIEK-JONES AGENCY Equal Opportunity Housing 1200 Villa Maria — 823-0911 FARM & HOME SAVING ASSOCIATION (Nevada, Mo.) llii house, a community fixture for at least 129 years. They said they had no trouble securing financial backing in the purchase. “We’ve been approached by several banks to carry the loan,” one of the new owners said. They also said several Houston busi nessmen want to move the Chicken Ranch to Houston and re-open it as a restaurant. La Grange is 60 miles west of Hous ton. They said they are not making a moral judgment about whether the Chicken Ranch should have existed. “But it was there, at least since 1915, some say since the Repub lic,” they add. “It’s part of Texas history worth preserving.” Get back in the Swing... Swing with... i-iu list i>s»id University National Bank JUNIORS and SOPHOMORES 1974 AGGIELAND CLASS PICTURE SCHEDULE A-G . H-L . M-0 . P-R . Feb. 11-Feb. 15 S-V . Feb. 18-Feb. 22 W-Z . Feb. 25-Mar. 1 Pictures will be taken from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. UNIVERSITY STUDIO 115 N. Main 846-8019 North Gate (Bring fee slips) just about 15 minutes before he shot and killed Corll. But he added that the intoxicat ing effects appeared to have worn off by the time officers arrived and they were taken into custody. ASKED HOW LONG the ef fects of sniffing paint lasts, Ker ley replied, “It depends on how long you sniff. Usually I can understand what’s going on with in 30 minutes or an hour.” When a patrolman arrived at the house, he said, a policeman warned them that they had the right to remain silent about what had occurred. Several hours after the arrest at the Pasadena police station, Kerley said, “A man came in and read off a piece of paper about our rights.” Kerley was asked if the man. Municipal Court Judge Russell Drake, explained what he was do ing. “I’VE SEEN enough movies to know what he was doing. It was all self-explanatory. You have the right to remain silent and stuff like that.” Kerley said he had known Hen ley about six months at the time of the shooting and considered him a friend. He had known Corll and David Owen Brooks, 18, only casually, he said. After Henley was arrested for investigation in the Corll shoot ing, Henley started telling offi- AUSTIN people’s lot that more cers that Corll had told t going on at killing other youths luredt t i on al Conv home. lator-delega The next day, however, t; ^ poll n Mullican, a Pasadena dete Chapter of testified Henley gave him an 3 70 ment admitting to killing at__ six of the 27 youths later Concert features variety and style WAN One day . . «c per wo Minii Ch $1.00 Journalists host Zindler Marvin Zindler, the Houston reporter whose efforts were in strumental in closing the Sealy and La Grange bordellos, will give a talk at TAMU, sponsored by Sigma Delta Chi, a journal ists’ society. Zindler will speak Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Room 701 of the Rudder Conference Center. Ad mission is free and Zindler will answer questions following his speech. TAMU students probably re member Zindler for his part in the Rice halftime show with “the Mob” during the Rice football game. After satirizing the Aggie band. Reveille, and senior boots and before playing their version of the War Hymn, the Rice Band performed while Zindler twirled two batons. Zindler works for Houston’s Channel 13 as a consumer affairs reporter. By MARY RUSSO Frederic Hand proved himself more than a classical guitarist in last night’s Young Artist’s Ser ies presentation. Bathed in violet light with a yellow spot, the constant variety of both period and style of Hand caused the audience to give the artist a standing ovation. He started the program with a number of dances which were transcribed for the guitar. “Trans cribed d o e s n’t mean bad or good,” Hand said, “but I’m trying to play mostly music originally written for guitar.” He accomplished this goal with a number of pieces by Latin- American composers Jacon and Baca and Powell. These numbers got the audience tapping toes and snuggling close if they came as dates. “He doesn’t just|L~. music,” a foreign student marked, “he plays spirit a;;, harmony with his choices." Hand tries 3 p.m. d Two bedroon lot. References to bring m ,,,823-2 607. different eras, such as c! in b ° ai $460 a semestei and contemporary into k>- horse “common ground.” The in gg^After's sation he did started with , One bedroom of Cat Steven’s folk-rock, Vi tlemen only. ed from there to the Beatles- 1 ^ 8 * 5046 ' One bedroon wegian Wood” and woveintoi Mozartian patterns. “The: purpose of these improvisati® to illustrate that differenth of music all have the same a ground,” said Hand. apartment. $8 The Vihuela, a 10-stringli 1 Bdrm ui nished $l’i ment has eluding bu chrome fre we extra .lockers, c swimming Tropici 2701 pitched forerunner of thei dishwi ern guitar, was spotlightd Hand’s program. Last yen did some Bach transcripti® lute music, but Hand wantit include the music of Bach’sfrv S. L. Weiss. The contempt showed many of Bach’s flak | the two most interesting p*: were dances sounding son* , like harpsichord music. “I choose the music I like : for any specific reason k cause I like it,” said Hand: also likes to play his ownn which has strong influms Latin blues and syncapatioM romanticisms of VaugW* Hams. The final numbers, compositi( of his own, showed his abilitjl put emotion into music ashepM ed an elegy for Martin Lk King. Rather than tolling bells he told of admiration in FAI The sarr {way” at way Ap carpeting NEW t furniture and N 1 More livi dollar. C ly East, Apartment, liver ersity, air Marvin Zindler pie words for a man of fredo: bedroom' futiy Bedroom 1 Pietely furnii 8 and 6. 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