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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.
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Man identified in photo
s Reagan’s assassin sues
yor
United Press International
SHREVEPORT, La. — A man
lentified in a widely distributed
hotoofaNazi group as would-be
iresidential assassin John W.
linckley Jr. said Saturday he was
J laddered an d would sue.
Cl James-.Whittom said it was he
§-not Hinckley — in the picture
available by a free-lance
ihotographer and distributed by
le Associated Press
iVednesday.
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,
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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.
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picted in, ffie AP-photograph walk)
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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
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