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Page 14 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1981 National Welcome Backli Aggies! ^ Armed with handgun, shotgun Just a reminder that we’re open for all your auto repairs and maintenance. Escaped convicts elude lawmen “Quality Service at a Price You’11 Like!” Owners Dan Waskow & Wayne Pritchard CO-OP TEXACO United Press International AURORA, Mo. — Two con victed murderers and a rapist who escaped from the Kansas State Penitentiary and exchanged gun fire with law enforcement officers at a roadblock fled on foot Wednesday after wrecking their 696-3294 Jersey across from the University Police Dept. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo CAMPUS THEATRE 846-6512 Tonight is Aggie Night! All Tickets $ 1 50 Lawrence County deputy Rick Redfield said one of the inmates was apparently injured in the gun fire, which erupted outside Au rora shortly before midnight Tues day. No officers were injured. The inmates, who were armed with a handgun, shotgun and poss ibly two other weapons, held an elderly Aurora area couple hos tage for three hours before the shootout, police said. They released the woman, Grace Furlow, unharmed on a county road after the shootout, headed east and wrecked their car. Furlow’s husband, Eugene, was left tied up in the couple’s house. Officers said neither was injured. Some 60 police officers, sheriff s deputies and Highway Patrol troopers, aided by bloodhounds, concentrated their search early Wednesday in a rural residential area of southeast Lawrence Coun ty at the edge of Marionville, Red- field said. A helicopter and a plane equipped with floodlights were also used in the search. Earlier Tuesday, lawmen cap tured escaped murderer James Murray after residents in Aurora, a town of 5,300 about 30 miles southwest of Springfield, phoned in to report a “suspicious charac ter” walking through their neigh borhood. Murray, 24, was one of seven inmates who escaped from the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lans ing Sunday by convincing a tower guard to let one of them, dressed in a stolen guard uniform, into the tower. At large Wednesday were Everett Cameron, 32, serving time for rape, aggravated sodomy and kidnapping; Robert Bentley, 28, convicted of second-degree murder, rape and prison escape, and John Kitchell, 28, convicted of second-degree murder and assault. Twenty-five roadblocks were set up in southeast Lawrence County Tuesday after Aurora police discovered a car stolen Monday from David Hancock, 23, who told police he gave four of the fugitives a ride after spotting them on a Springfield street. “They told me they were having carburetor trouble and they were hungry,” Hancock said. “The next I knew they had a gun to my head. They said ‘slide in the back seat and no funny stuff.’” Hancock said the criminals got food, drove around and then went to Hancock’s parents’ home, where they tied him to his bed before leaving with his car and shotgun. Six hours after the inmates ii his house, Hancock worked hit self free and called police to si the criminals said they we headed for Arkansas, Oklahoma Kansas City. He said one “cocky” convict threatened to kill him, but his companions stopped him. After finding the car, office rushed to the northeast section Aurora and found twobedrollsar two 12-gauge shotguns near; abandoned railroad boxcar. Nazi group to protect S. African rugby teait United Press International CHICAGO — One hundred members of a neo-Nazi group will “use violence if necessary” to pro tect a South African rugby team and its fans from anti-apartheid demonstrators at a scheduled Sept. 19 match, a spokesman for the group says. Michael Allen, leader of the National Socialist Party of Amer ica, said Tuesday that party mem bers wearing street clothes and armed "with what’s legal” will mingle with the crowd to prevent violence. Allen said they will not inter fere with marching, chanting or picketing, but will prevent de monstrators from physically trying to stop the game. necessary and we’ll detain then until the police get there,” Alei said. It’s high time that someW stood up to these people.” "We will make the game pro ceed without any disruption by the communists who are planning the anti-apartheid demonstra tions,” he said. “We’ll use force or violence if The visit by the South Afria team has been criticized by an!] apartheid groups who say i violates the United Nations re solution calling for the isolation; South Africa’s sports teams. Civ. rights groups have announce; they plan to demonstrate duns: the match also. Government star witness to plead guilty in Dallas United Press International BATON ROUGE, La. — The star witness in the federal govern ment’s investigation of two five- year-old murder cases will plead guilty to armed robbery charges in Texas, federal prosecutors say. Steve Simoneaux, the govern ment’s chief witness in the reopened investigation of the 1976 murders of Shreveport advertis ing executive Jim Leslie and repu- MANOR EAST III ted underworld figure Rusty Grif fith, was scheduled to be escorted to Dallas Wednesday to plead guilty to armed robbery. Simoneaux already has pleaded guilty to violating the civil rights of Griffith and has agreed to cooper ate in the murder investigation. Five other men have been in dicted since a federal grand jury began reviewing the case early this year. U.S. Attorney Don Beckner said Simoneaux’s plea bargaining agreement with officials in Dallas called for him to receive a 20-year sentence to be served concurrent ly with the 20-year federal sec; ence he was promised for coopei ating in the Griffith-Leslie case Beckner said Simoneaux als planned to cooperate with Ten authorities who were invest^ ing several robbery and the cases. Leslie was shot to death in Baton Rouge hotel parking loti July 1976, and Griffith was gn: ned down three months later i Concordia Parish. Authorities have linked tl deaths to an international ring; heavy equipment thieves. Manor East Mall 823-8300 Midnight Movie Friday & Saturday The United Campus Ministry is the Presbyterian, United Church of Christ and y JpiVt&'T AH CHrtiH ^ I —>1 s. <r_ S Cr> F= rz \A Ft. [ MkHiTtK* S.UH B.Yx Forced by a ^od. Foretold by a wizard. Found by a King. OPEN 9:30-6:00 eS l.orker Room or"'# ~b E5 Z_<—o i l p frrs nr S'. 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