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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1979
Blood type frees man
serving life sentence
on charge of rape
United Press International
FLINT, Mich. — John Henry
Harrison, convicted and sentenced
to life in prison for the rape-slaying
of a 16-year-old babysitter, is a free
man today because of his blood
type.
Harrison spent eight months in
prison researching and preparing a
petition to the trial judge, proving
his blood type was not the same as
that used as evidence against him.
Genesee County Prosecutor
Robert Leonard reluctantly agreed
Harrison had proved his case and
ordered the 45-year-old former
truck driver released from custody
Tuesday.
Harrison’s blood was never typed
during his trial. He learned of the
discrepancy only after he was issued
a prison identification card listing
his blood type.
His release marked the end of a
bizarre case that began March 3,
1970, when Jan Logsdon, 16, disap
peared while babysitting.
The key testimony against Harri
son in his 1971 trial before Genesee
County Circuit Judge Thomas C.
Yeotis came from a crime laboratory
analyst with the Michigan Depart
ment of Public Health.
The analyst said saliva samples
from Harrison indicated his blood
type was O-positive.
After more than a year in the
Southern Michigan Prison at
Jackson, Harrison was issued an
identification card showing he had
A-positive blood type.
The prosecutor said Wednesday it
would be impossible to retry Harri
son, even though he said he still be
lieved Harrison was guilty.
“There is no way I could get a
conviction,’ said Leonard. “Even if
the other evidence stood up, what’s
important is that an expert has to
tally excluded the defendant. All the
rest of the case is circumstantial and
could be totally coincidental.
SALAD-SANDWICH-SOUP
Rain blossoms
Now open for your convenience in the basement of Sbisa Dining
Center. Salad priced by the ounce and sandwiches by the inch.
Open 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
A combinaton of several warm days and gentle rains brought
forth early spring flowers in several places on the Texas A&M
campus Thursday. These blossoms sprang up in the North
Mall near the Chemistry Building.
Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
Same entrance as the Underground Railroad. (Sbisa Basement)
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TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
MSC TOWN HALL
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SALLY ANN HOWES
\ EARL LOIS
WRIGHTSON & HUNT
Presents
JOHNNY RODRIGUEZ
IN
Friday, March 2, 7:30 P.M.
G. Rollie White Coliseum
music by RICHARD RODGERS
lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
book by HOWARD LINDSAY ano RUSSEL CROUSE
SUGGESTED BY
THE TRAPP FAMILY SINGERS BY MARIA TRAPP
> staring TERRY SAUNDERS
A&M Student/Date
Non A&M Student Date
General Public
General
Admission
Free w/ticket
$3.00
$4.00
Reserved
$4.00/4.50
$4.00/4.50
$6.00/6.50
Tickets & Info — MSC Box Office 845-2916
Town Hall will be looking for “The Good Ag” February 27
through March 1 in conjunction with the Johnny Rodriguez
Show on March 2.
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MSC TOWN HALL
SPECIAL ATTRACTION
Zone I
Zone II
Zone III
A&M Student/Date
7.00
5.75
4.50
General Public
8.00
6.75
5.50
8:15 p.m.
Rudder Auditorium
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Off campus merger proceei
irents
By TRACEY WILLIAMS
Battalion Beporter
Disagreement about rules that
will govern the new organization
marked the Thursday night meeting
between representatives of
Hassle-Free and the Off-Campus
Student Association as they con
tinue to work toward a merger.
Both groups act as links between
Texas A&M University and the
22,0(H) students who live off cam
pus. Thursday’s meeting was the
third session in which members of
these two groups discussed the pro
posed merger.
The main area of disagreement at
the meeting involved the length of
membership necessary to run for an
executive office.
Representatives of Hassle-Free
said that they feel it is important for
a person to be a member of an or
ganization for about a year before
being able to hold an executive of
fice. They defined the executive of
fices as president, vice president,
treasurer and secretary.
“I want the executive officials to
know how the organization works
before they hold the offices, and if
you have a strong enough organiza
tion, the people in the group are
going to want the offices,’’ said Mike
Pettus, Hassle-Free chairman.
Representatives of the OS A dis
agreed.
“If somebody that hasn’t been in
the organization has the gumption
to come off the street and run a
tough campaign, then evidently
they’re going to do sonn
the office,’’ said Jill Hall, pr«
of OSA, in explaining that sin
not feel membership requirei
were important.
While the requirement on
bership was not decided,
other requirements to run
executive office were agreed;,)«
These requirements are '
Le
United Press Int
OUSTON —
old Massacht
whose parent
then fled to Mi
beatment, mad
ographers he m
student must live off campus,J m to the Unitec
at least a 2.25 GPR that
maintained throughout the st; inghis head in 1
ter, and have successfullym
pleted 30 credit hours.
Other actions taken by the
included defining the duties o[
president and deciding to wait
the constitution was
name the organization,
Carter relays message
of marine released by
to Mom
Iranians
’m fine,” he
United Press International
LANSDALE, Pa. — Her
mother’s instinct told her something
had gone wrong, so she called the
White House.
Four hours later, President Car
ter himself called Mrs. Jayne Kraus
with a message from her son, freed
after being abducted from his
Tehran hospital bed: “Tell my
mother I love her very much.”
phone call from the White House at
noon Wednesday.
Her son’s message, relayed by
Carter, was: “Tell my mother I love
her very much. Get to Nina. Tell
her I love her too and I feel good.”
erald and Diam
i, Mass., slippe
itry for a televi:
lesday despite
order for refri
Massachusetts
|ictate Chad’s tr
dr lawyer, G<
assured them th
ited.
Massachusetts
irra issued the
the Gree
La Jan. 23. Ch
fubination of ch
ile-vitamin tr
Lerican docto
Carter said Marine Sgt. Kenneth
Kraus, 22, had been released to the
U.S. Embassy by the new Iranian
government Wednesday. Left-wing
radicals had abducted him from his
hospital bed, charging he had killed
three Iranians in the embassy gun
battle last week.
“I’m so happy and relieved,” said
Nina Trongone, Kraus’s finacee and
a student at Montgomery County
Community College. “I hope he
comes home. I just hope he comes
and we’ll be together for awhile.”
instinct told me that som
gone wrong.”
She said she first talked
dential adviser Zbigniew Bi
who assured her everything
being done to rescue her son '
Kraus said she was surprisedij
Carter called her later.
As of Wednesday night, Kraus’s
widowed mother had not received
word on an expected arrival date.
“My prayers have been an
swered,’ Mrs. Kraus said, fighting
back tears, after getting the tele-
Carter’s telephone call, which
ended days of anxiety for the Kraus
family, came about four hours after
Mrs. Kraus had called the White
House because, she said, "things
had gotten out of hand. My mother’s
Poster
of hero
snatched
By STANTON RAH
Battalion Reporter
the Aggie Players
THEATER ARTS SECTION
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
TEXAS ASM UNIVERSITY
■ 45-3411
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I here he stood, as big as me, w
main corridor of the Memorials
dent Center. All of a sudden,*
doer-of-evil came running i
snatched Superman off his feet, ij
went right out the door
man of Steele under his arm.
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says he has s
le library try
Guy Steele, who owns the Mo sus s ^* S j ()I '
Collection shop in Dal smain , in ^
specializes in selling movie posit an e r m ., °- e
stills and T-shirts. This weel ™ ()f Mann
brought a sample of his warn , le Arans *
Texas A&M University, courtesr ent . .
Aggie Cinema, the primaryfi : saic v
programming committee at 1«
A&M. j S()n pj
Beth Scott, an of Aggie Ok *
officer, said that the free-stani )0 (
6-foot, cardboard advertisement
the movie, “Superman,” was ,*tnate c:
from the MSC at about noonTi*
day.
The poster, valued at $35,i 1LWAUKEE
part of Steele’s display in the Mi lescribed as
where he was selling movie post! scan pick up
The Superman poster was noli But at gover
sale, because it cannot be replatf 'indictment r
Scott said that the Supern ithis week c
poster is not all that Steele lostb J Finney, 3
Also taken, in separate instana dence cours
were a package of photographstf edures offere
the movie “African Queen,” vab : Prison’s edit
at $20, and several movie posit) 'e indictment
In all, Steele has lost about!! Mprm for for]
worth of merchandise, Scott sail he gained ft
Steele had planned to si informs and
through today, but he sold most 'b for tax reft
the posters he brought with hal le Internal 1
Thursday afternoon. one check
Steele said that despite the tit! but com]
he would like to return next yet’ error before c
nailed.
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February 23
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