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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MAR. 3, 1976
Six policemen to be sentenced
Associated Press
HOUSTON — A sentencing date
of April 12 has been set for six Hous
ton police officers convicted on fed
eral charges of conspiracy against the
right of citizens by illegal wiretap
ping and brutality.
A federal court jury which con
victed the six Tuesday also found
four of the defendants guilty of theft
from suspects and three guilty of fil
ing false income tax returns.
The verdict came from the
eight-man, four-woman jury after it
had deliberated four full days, log
ging 30 hours behind closed doors.
Members of the defendants’
families wept as the 22 separate ver
dicts were read by U.S. District
Court Judge Owen P. Cox of Corpus
Christi.
The defendants, all convicted on
charges to violate citizens rights,
were Douglas W. Albert, 39, Ben-
nard D. Jackson, 36, Gilbert Gon
zalez, 34, Jesse C. Smith, 36, John J.
Davis, 28, and Richard Y. Garcia, 48.
Davis and Garcia were convicted
of charges of theft of $8,500 from
Charles S. Jacobs of Ann Arbor,
Mich. All except Davis and Garcia
were convicted of charges of theft of
$300 from John R. Huston of Ann
Arbor, Mich.
Albert, Gonzalez and Smith were
found guilty of charges of filing false
income tax statements. Davis was
acquitted of that charge. Jackson was
not charged on that count and Garcia
is still to be tried on it.
Defense attorney James A. Moore
said he would appeal immediately
after sentencing.
The officers, all in the narcotics
division at the time of the charges,,
are veterans in the police depart
ment with seven to 18 years service.
Moore said he probably would
base his appeal on the fact the court
admitted into evidence a tape re
cording of Michael Chavez, a former
narcotics officer, who discussed of
ficers allegedly splitting payoffs.
Jacobs and Huston both testified
they were repeatedly kicked and
beaten by arresting officers. They
also testified officers stole some
$9,000 from them and met later in a
grocery store parking lot to split the
money according to how much each
officer spent on the case.
Police Chief B. G. “Pappy” Bond,
who testified at the trial that he
would reinstate the defendants if
they were acquitted, said he was
“saddened” by the verdict.
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Explosive suicide kills 4, injures 11
Plaza to house
new drug store
Associated Press
POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. — A
man whose wife was in jail on a
charge of killing their infant daugh
ter lugged a shotgun and suitcase full
of dynamite into the Mason County
Courthouse, then fired the gun into
the bag, authorities report.
The resulting explosion before
midnight Tuesday killed the man,
his wife and two police officers and
injured 11 other persons, state police
said.
Among the injured, state police
said, were six officers and five county
jail inmates.
The dead were identified as Bruce
Sisk; his 18-year-old wife, Harriet;
Mason County Sheriff Pete Wedge
and Deputy Kenneth Love. The
woman had been jailed Monday on a
charge that she murdered the
couple’s 2-month-old daughter.
Wedge died at a Huntington hos
pital, where he had been flown early
today after doctors described him as
being in extremely critical condition,
officers said.
E. R. McCarty, deputy police
chief in Point Pleasant, said Sisk en
tered the courthouse about 10:50
and ordered an officer to take
p.m.
Liberals
next
move
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Now he’ll have to prove himself
again in Florida, where he is cam
paigning today. He said Florida polls
show him about even with Wallace
and far ahead of Jackson.
Carter won’t be able to explain
away a defeat in Florida. He has
been hard at work there for more
than a year. Nor will Wallace, who
won the primary there four years
ago, with 42 per cent of the vote.
Jackson already was taking out in
surance against a poor Florida show
ing, insisting that industrial states
like Massachusetts and New York are
the real test for the Democrats.
One problem for the liberals is the
fact that for them there’s a meager
month coming up on the primary
calendar. They have emphasized
New York and later primaries.
All names are listed on the Florida
ballot, but Udall, Shriver and Harris
are not campaigning there.
Next it’s Illinois, where Carter,
Wallace, Shriver and Harris are on
the March 16 ballot; then North
Carolina, where Udall and Jackson
join the list again.
There were the figures on Tues
day’s pair of primaries:
In Massachusetts, Jackson got
146,663 or 23 per cent; Udall
112,716 or 17 per cent; Wallace 111,
773 or 17 per cent; Carter 93,049 or
14 per cent.
Harris and Shriver each got 8 per
cent of the vote, Bayh 5 per cent,
Pennsylvania Gov. Milton J. Shapp
and antiabortion candidate Ellen J.
McCormack 3 per cent apiece. One
per cent voted uncommitted.
The vote awarded 102 Democratic-
delegates on the basis of showings
statewide and in congressional dis
tricts. Jackson was leading for 30 de
legates, Udall for 21, Wallace 20,
Carter 16, Shriver 8, Harris 6, Bayh,
Shapp and McCormack one apiece.
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him to his wife.
It was not known at the time that
the suitcase Sisk carried was packed
with dynamite, the officer said.
McCarty said Sisk was led to the
basement, where his wife was held.
A half-hour later, he said, the explo
sion tore through the brick and stone
structure.
The blast damaged jail cells and
the sheriffs offices above, officers
said. State police headquarters also
are in the courthouse.
“It’s horrible,” said James Farley,
administrator at Point Pleasant Hos
pital where victims were taken. “It
blew people sitting on the outside on
benches out into the street. ”
Farley listed two deputies, two
West Virginia state policemen, an
Ohio highway patrolman and a Point
Pleasant city policeman among the
injured.
The baby, Davie Calline Sisk, was
found buried in a makeshift grave in
an open field near the Sisk home
Saturday. Family members had
telephoned the sheriff s office to re
port the baby missing from her bed
room in the couple’s mobile home.
A new Eckerd Drug Store will be
opening March 14 in College Station
in Culpepper Plaza, 1709 S. Texas
Ave.
The store, operated by the Hous
ton division of Jack Eckerd Drug
Co., will be managed by Ted Steven
son. The opening of the store will
bring to 55 the number of stores op
erated by the Houston division.
The Eckerd Drug chain operates
490 drug stores in 10 states.
By MARK WILLIS
Jimmy Buffett’s new album,
“Havana Daydreamin,” is at best
boring, and compared with his pre
vious albums, it is poor.
Buffett’s mixture of country, rock
and Latin beats has not changed; it’s
just been drowned in orchestration
on this album. The man’s music was
never suited for strings and horns in
the first place, but they don’t even
blend well here.
More importantly, the cluttered
music makes Buffett’s voice sound
weak, which it isn’t. To be sure, he
doesn’t have a great voice, but in its
roughness there is charm. The sym
phony music makes his down-home
voice seem out of place on his own
album.
However, music with Buffett has
always been secondary. Humor and
a deep understanding of human na
ture in the song lyrics are his strong
points. In his first three albums
(“Living and Dying in 3/4 Time,”
“White Sport Coat and a Pink Crus
tacean” and “A-l-A”), the music ac
cents the words.
In this album, the lyrics j
worth the trouble mostoftliei
Here his humor surfaces[
sporadically in a few cuts,
“My Head Hurts, My FeetStinlJ
I Don ’t Love Jesus,’ which iso}|
the best cuts on the album,
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parts of the album, even thou
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