THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1979
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ack Thum Thee Clown, suffering
n terminal cancer, slipped into
hobo rags and floppy hat for sev-
1 hjundred young trick-or- treat-
attending the Halloween party
Chicago’s Mount Sinai Hospital.
kCrjass the Atlantic in Britain,
s and warlocks generally ig-
the annual ghoul day.
''Jew York, some magicians
Ike their wands over Harry
■ni’s grave, and in Michigan a
lawmaker used the occasion to
Jbast the oil companies as “vam-
)etroit, an off-duty police
^nt chaperoning a Halloween
was shot and critically
ided outside a church. Police
[17-year-old youth in custody
and were seeking a second suspect,
a 15-year-old boy. Both youths ap
parently “crashed” the party, police
said.
A 4-year-old boy dressed in a
Superman costume was kidnapped
on the way to school in Philadelphia
and held for $75,000 ransom for
several hours before police rescued
him unharmed.
Police in Kansas City, Kan., said a
man fired into a group of eight
youths who were breaking windows
on his house, killing a 17-year-old
boy and injuring a 14-year-old boy.
There were a few reports of crim
inal pranks, and police nationwide
warned parents to check their chil
dren’s candy for possible tampering.
An 8-year-old Lakeview, N.Y.,
boy was given chocolate candy con
taining straight pins when he went
trick-or-treating, police reported.
He was not harmed.
Jack Thum Thee Clown, a
much-beloved Chicago celebrity for
years, appeared for 20 minutes in
clown makeup and costume to the
delight of some 300 area school chil
dren and hospital patients. He was
in a wheelchair; an intravenous bot
tle was attached to his arm, and a
nurse stayed close by his side.
Thum, 54, and his wife, Shirley,
appeared with a cast of youngsters
“taken in” by his family through the
years.
Thum’s 15-year-old granddaugh
ter, Jackie Thum Thee Clown,
entertained the schoolchildren and
hospital patients with magic acts and
clown antics.
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I CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Authorities, fearing for
the man’s life, are guarding the hospital room of a
Sheridan man arrested for shooting three elk hun
ters to death at their campsite in the Big Horn
Mountains.
1 Ronald Andrew Selig, 41, was charged Wed
nesday with three counts of first-degree murder in
the Oct. 20 slayings of Joel Nicholas Ely, 32; his
brother, Thomas Martin Ely, 26, both of
Greybull, and Kenneth George Windjue, 33, of
Manvel, N.D.
P The warrant was served at Selig’s room in
Sheridan County Memorial Hospital where he is
listed in serious condition from injuries received
Saturday when his car plunged over a 1,500-foot
‘cliff near Sheridan.
s A search warrant also was executed at Selig’s
Residence, said Anthony Malovich, chief special
agent of the Wyoming Division of Criminal Inves
tigation.
He declined to comment on the evidence that
led to Selig’s arrest, but said Selig had been hunt
ing in the general area at the time of the shootings.
Malovich said Selig was not linked to reports
that the victims had made about another hunting
party shining spotlights on their camp.
“We had numerous reports of hunters harassing
each other,” he said. “At this point we re not con
cerned about that. We’ve discounted that as a mot
ive for the killings. As far as the motive, I’d have to
decline comment.”
The victims’ bodies were discovered Oct. 21 by
the Ely’s father and brother, who had been camp
ing about a mile away.
Because of the remoteness of the campsite, in
vestigators were ferried to the location by helicop
ter. After completing their analysis of the crime
site, they began interviewing hunters who were in
the area at the time of the deaths.
“This culminates an investigation involving
many hours with no days off and came to a suc
cessful completion with the cooperation of Big
Horn County Sheriff Jon Dahlberg and his staff
and Sheridan County Sheriff Bill Johnson and his
staff,” Malovich said.
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sual tbUKE CHARLES, La.—
lay. eshman Congressman Claude
feared uddy” Leach has vehemently de-
?al an d any knowledge of a scheme to
le “desflij 440 votes in the 1978 election
t elaix t sent him to Washington.
l,each, a Democrat, said he knew
i e-buying existed in his home
a of Vernon Parish and other
t/ vv ts of Louisiana, but he consid-
:d the incidents insignificant.
‘Yes, I heard of vote-buying
l#^|||feigh the years,” Leach said dur-
; his five hours on the witness
nd Wednesday. “Not so much
i was n mey as using half-pints of whiskey
anders; half-pints of wine — I guess I
ea fpl at'd about that.”
Leach was the 36th defense wit-
ss to testify in his 3-week-old con-
of the racy and vote-buying trial. The
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former state representative is ac
cused of paying $5 each for 440
votes cast in the Nov. 7, 1978, elec
tion in which he defeated Republi
can Jimmy Wilson by 266 votes.
Leach told the predominantly
blue-collar jury about his childhood
in Leesville, the death of his mother
at age 9, contracting polio in under
graduate school and taking over the
family plumbing and appliance store
business when his father died in
1963.
He contradicted testimony from
the Justice Department’s star wit
nesses who have testified he
supplied nearly $5,000 to finance an
elaborate scheme to haul voters in
the black section of Leesville to the
polls and pay them $5 each to vote
for him and several other candi
dates.
Leach denied a meeting ever took
place between him and former
Leesville Mayor Ralph McRae Jr.,
during which McRae testified he re
ceived the first of several payments
for the vote-buying scheme.
U.S. Attorney John Lydick grilled
Leach extensively about his activites
on election day 1978. Prosecution
witnesses have testified Leach de
livered money late in the afternoon
— about 4 p.m. — on Nov. 7.
Defense witnesses however, said
Leach left Leesville about 3 p.m. in
order to make several campaign
stops and drive the 2 1 A-hour trip to
Shreveport.
“Do you drive fast Mr. Leach?”
Lydick asked.
“I try to drive very safely, but I
have been known to exceed the
speed limit,” Leach answered.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — De
ntist Larry Levin’s patients
booked their appointments early
for this year’s Halloween.
For the occasion, Levin was
decked out Wednesday in magi
cian’s top hat, black suit and
clown makeup and his assistant,
Linda Cullen, wore a Peter Pan
outfit. Levin’s patients were also
invited to wear costumes.
Each child got a treat: sugar
less gum, balloon animals and a
Halloween toothbrush.
“We actually do work,” Levin
said. “It’s not just a party. But
we’ve scheduled the appoint
ments a little longer so I can put
on a magic show for each kid.”
Levin first tried the Hallo
ween idea last year, but he said
some of his patients didn’t be
lieve him when he urged them to
wear costumes. This year, it was
apparently different.
“We were booked for this day
a lot earlier than for any other
day,” Levin said. “I have a lot of
children in my practice and I
thought it would be a way to
make it enjoyable to go to the
dentist.”
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A representative of Mayor Jane
M. Byrne presented Thum with a
plaque proclaiming Halloween
“Jack Thum Thee Clown Day” in
Chicago.
In London, the high priest of a
witches coven postponed the celeb
ration of Halloween until Saturday
for a general lack of interest. The
holiday is not widely acknowledged
in Britain.
“It’s much more convenient,”
said High Priest David. “Most of
our witches have ordinary jobs and
their bosses wouldn’t be very
pleased if they turned up on Thurs
day morning exhausted because of
our rituals.”
Magicians gathered at New York’s
Cypress Hills Cemetery to pay trib
ute to Houdini, who died 53 Hallo
weens ago, by breaking their wands
over his grave.
The ceremony, said magician
John Bohannon, signifies the end of
Houdini’s powers and was first used
at the master magician’s funeral.
The American Society of Magicians
now performs the ceremony at all
funerals of magicians.
In Michigan, state Sen. Basil
Brown used the occasion of Hallo
ween to introduce a bill empower
ing the Public Service Commission
to control oil and gas prices.
“Vampires are a dime a dozen on
Halloween, but each day we are
faced with vampires known as major
oil refiners who prey ruthlessly on
the average consumer in the true
fashion of folklore vampires,” Brown
said.
Moslem inmate to fight pork in diet
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NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court says a professed
Moslem inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary has the legal right
to contest a guard’s order that he place a serving of pork on his dinner
plate.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday reversed a
lower court decision that threw out the civil rights suit filed by Chris
topher X. Kenner, the Moslem inmate, who claimed he was moving
through the dinner line when he asked not to handle a dish of pork,
which is not allowed in the Moslem diet. The suit says Lt. Foster
Andrews ordered Kenner to place the pork on his plate anyway.
U.S. District Judge E. Gordon West dismissed the suit, claiming
the prisoner failed to show that the lack of a special dietary menu
resulted in malnutrition.
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