/ National THE BATTALION MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1981 Page 9 DC to seek execution for Saturday slayings United Press International HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Texas Department of Correc- ms officials vowed to ask prosecutors to seek the execution of e inmate accused of drowning the warden of the Ellis Unit ■ i Saturday and then shooting and killing another high- nking prison official. The suspect in the case, a 30-year-old inmate convicted of gravated robbery in Tarrant County, was a trusty at Hunt- ille’s maximum security unit. TDC spokesman Rick Hartley said the inmate “apparently ot himself in the foot’ during the fracas and was in good mdition in the Huntsville prison hospital Saturday night, iffering from a gunshot wound. The suspect is being kept under heavy security. Hartley id, The suspect’s identity was not released pending the formal ing of charges. “There apparently was a short period of time after the killings until other unit officials could get to the scene, not more than 10 or 15 minutes, and he was apprehended im mediately,” Hartley said. “We believe he may have shot himself in the foot during the fight.” Rev. Walter M. Cooksey, the justice of the peace who investigated the case, said he had “skeleton information” that the incident began about 12:15 p.m. when prison farm mana ger Billy Moore “somehow or another got word there was someone smoking marijuana” at one of the Ellis Unit’s garden shop areas. “That’s farm land, you know,” said Cooksey. “He (Moore) went down to arrest the man and bring him in,” Cooksey said. “On the way back, they met Warden Wallace Pack on the road. One of them got out of the car and talked to the other — it must have been Moore talking to Pack. “There was a little pistol in the glove compartment in Moore’s car. The suspect got it and shot four times. He shot Moore through the head but didn’t hit Warden Pack,” said the justice of the peace. “But he got the warden in a ditch — it’s a pretty good sized body of water — and drowned him in 2 or 3 feet of water some way or another. ” Pack was reported to be 54 years old. The bodies were sent to Houston in a Huntsville funeral home hearse for autopsy. “The suspect apparently tried to escape, but did not,” a Department of Public Safety dispatcher in Austin reported. “We have not been called in for assistance. Only one Ranger has gone to the scene to investigate. They have everything under control and there is no one at large.” Cooksey said he was acting as coroner in his rural county and, after making arrangements for the bodies to be taken to Houston, he returned to the site of the deaths to complete his investigation. Hartley said the inmate was a “Class Two” trusty, which allowed him out of the maximum security unit of the prison facility. He said the suspect, who arrived at the Huntsville unit Oct. 20, 1977, worked in the section of the prison where vehicles are routinely maintained and repaired. “We do anticipate charges,” said Hartley. “The (Texas) Department (of Corrections) is certainly going to seek two charges of capital murder.” There was an initial report of a “near-riot” or “escape” at the prison, but Hartley said the incident was reported by another inmate and the situation at the prison unit never became serious. Hartley said the incident was an isolated one. He could not confirm reports that the suspect had been smoking marijuana. The Ellis Unit is located near Huntsville in Walker County. Its sprawling farm includes livestock and dairy facilities, a syrup mill, sawmills, brush factory, bus repair facility, dental lab, woodworking shop and factories at which inmates make garments, shoes and belts and metal signs. Uler appeals to delay death sentence United Press International ANGOLA, La. — A convicted Her who shouted to his trial jury, ]ive me death,” will look to the deral courts Monday to keep the ate from fulfilling his request. Colin Clark is scheduled to die /ednesday in Louisiana’s electric tair for the 1979 stabbing of a aton Rouge restaurant manager. Attorney Richard Shapiro said ewould seek a stay Monday from ie U.S. District Court in Baton iouge. He said time was running t for Clark, who changed his ind about wanting to die. “Itdoes seem like we re getting lose,” Shapiro said. “We’re just [oing to file the motion and hope | the best. Preparing legal work lithin this time frame is very diffi- iult but it has to be done. There’s lot much of an alternative. ” Department of Corrections officials during the weekend pre pared for what would be Louisiana’s first execution since the 1961 death of Jesse James Fer guson for the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl. While lawyers plead his case in federal court, Clark will be pre pared for death with visits from Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola Warden Frank Blackburn, who will ask about the inmate’s wishes for spiritual counseling, family visits and a last meal. If no stay is received Monday, Clark will be moved from death row to a death house isolated five miles into the remote prison com pound. The house, a single-story cin der block building, contains a spe cial cell where the condemned man will be under suicide watch. It also houses the state’s 6-foot, solid oak electric chair. On Friday the state Supreme Court denied a request to stop Clark’s execution. Earlier in the day, state District Judge Carl Guidry rejected all 12 motions filed by Clark’s lawyers, who said their client should be granted another trial because his attorney was intoxicated during the initial proceedings. A hearing on a request for a stay filed by another death chair candi date, convicted state police killer Dalton Prejean, was scheduled for next Thursday. Prejean will die April 15 and become the first black executed in the United States since 1968 unless he wins a stay. The convictions of Clark and Prejean both have been upheld by fifth and sixth Angola inmates to the state Supreme Court. The face the state’s electric chair this U.S. Supreme Court has refused year. The others all escaped with to review them. The two are the court-ordered stays. ROBERT HALSELL TRAVEL SERVICE Announces the Association of MRS. 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The picture depicted three n-Ameriffl ten in the Nazi uniforms of the lajor At*' national Socialist Party of Amer- he plans ft ra at a meeting on March 11, t econom* is Mexic* mstituents. Whittom was arrested in Okla homa City in April 1977 for allegedly handing out Nazi litera ture while dressed in a storm- trooper uniform. He was charged with distributing handbills in a public place, but the charge was later dismissed. ; : ' 1 '- He said he dropped out of the Nazi party three years ago when he left Oklahoma City. Michael Allen, who organized the St. Louis rally, said Hinckley attended the March 1978 demon stration, but that the man de picted in, ffie AP-photograph walk) Whittom, not Hinckley. r ational Henry & “lam no longer a Nazi,” said iVhittom, a former Oklahoma City esident. “I quit the party shortly cieved after that.” Whittom said identifying him y and Hat 1 «Hinckley without checking to opponent! cer t a j n 0 f the identification ivas “unprofessional and irrespon sible.” Whittom did not say whom he juld sue and he did not make ros sound!) clearifhewould sue for slander, as htoftheci s nor 3 execute :nt margH: -ounds candidal :ent erate ^ ause inistration spread suit a both i-Americ# 1