THE BATTALION
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1981
State
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\udge, attorney targets of scheme
Man arrested in death plot
United Press International
)ALLAS — An investment
^ipany executive, recently re
ed from a federal psychiatric
llity, was arrested on a charge of
eatening a federal judge and an
Liey, the FBI said Saturday.
[William Chester Carr, facing a
rge of conspiring to commit
td in a bogus gold transaction
IHeme and recently released
ir$n a Springfield, Mo., facility
after undergoing psychiatric eva-
ll ion, was arrested Friday by a
U; . Marshal.
11 Dallas FBI agents said the mar-
sljal had a warrant for the Tyler
^■iness executive’s arrest for an
alleged plot to kill U.S. District
;]iKge Robert Hill and an uniden-
p|id assistant U.S. attorney.
1 According to FBI, Carr was
taken before U.S. Magistrate John
Tolle, who increased his bond
from $50,000 — set earlier on the
fraud charge — to $1 million and
ordered Carr sent to the federal
correction institute in Fort
Worth.
Carr’s attorney appealed the
bond increase and another federal
judge took that motion under
advisement pending receipt of
transcripts of Carr’s hearing be
fore Magistrate Tolle, agents said.
Carr will be held at the Fort
Worth facility pending another
evaluation by a psychologist to de
termine if he is competent to stand
trial on the new charge, agents
said.
In an affidavit, FBI agent
Eugene Gee said Carr, who suf
fered from cancer of the larynx.
patent charged
in teen deaths
allegedly tried to have Hill and the
unnamed attorney killed “because
they had taken him from a hospital
in Houston, Texas, where he was
receiving good care and placed
him in the (federal) medical facil
ity (at Springfield) which he
thought had shortened his life.’’
Judge Hill had sent Carr to the
Springfield institution in early
July for a six-week psychiatric eva
luation to determine whether
Carr would be able to prepare his
case for the fraud trial. The fraud
charges filed against Carr and
three others said they tried to
swindle three investors out of
$725,000 in the bogus gold trans
action.
The other three were found
guilty in May and sentenced to
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prison terms ranging from 3 to 25
years.
In his affidavit, Gee accused
Carr of contacting Robin Lee Col
eman, an inmate at the federal
facility in Springfield, and asking
him if he would kill Judge Hill.
Coleman was awaiting sentencing
on a conviction of conspiring to
commit murder.
Gee said another inmate
“heard Carr tell Coleman he
would furnish Coleman the
weapons to commit the murders
and heard Carr tell Coleman that
Carr would pay Coleman’s bail to
get him out of prison while await
ing sentencing.’’
Carr told Coleman he would
pay him more than $100,000 to kill
Judge Hill, Gee’s affidavit said.
‘NewlyDead’ quiz show
to educate young drivers
United Press International
OKLAHOMA CITY — In an
effort to cajole younger drivers
to obey the 55 mph speed limit,
Oklahoma’s Highway Safety
Office is going into show busi
ness with “The NewlyDead
Game” — a quiz show with a
“Wizard of Oz” theme.
Bruce Shults, producer of
the show and spokesman for the
safety office, said the 30-minute
show is an educational parody
on quiz shows and will follow
three young Oklahoma drivers
down a Yellow Brick Road
where all the questions and
answers are about the 55 mph
speed limit, Shults said.
And no parody of the
“Wizard of Oz” would be com
plete without the Wicked
Witch of the West as the game
show host, and a little dog
named DoeDoe, he said.
Two state troopers and an
Oklahoma City actor play the
characters, who are given per
sonalities of Oz’ Scarecrow, Tin
Man and Cowardly Lion.
“The NewlyDead Game” was
written, produced and directed
by the Oklahoma Highway
Safety Office and Oklahoma
State University’s Educational
Television Services.
“The 16-to 29-year-old group
comprised about 85 percent of
all speed-related traffic fatalities
on 55 mph-posted roads in
Oklahoma last year,” Shults
said.
Shults said viewers at home
can play along, but there’s a
hitch. People scoring poorly on
the quiz receive the admoni
tion: “Turn yourself in to the
nearest Highway Patrolman
and ask to be taken downtown.”
A below-average score: “Use
your driver’s license for identifi- '
cation only, until you learn how
to drive.”
“We feel the audience of the
NewlyDead Game can be both
humorously entertained and
still relate to the common sense
rationale of the 55 mph speed
limit,” Shults said.
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I United Press International
JUSTIN — The Texas Emanci-
fjon Association agreed Satur-
Jto support a citizen’s commit-
a pushing for an investigation
it!) the drowning deaths of three
ieqnagers in Mexia during a
uifeteenth celebration earlier
:
"^David Echols of Mexia and
Young of Dallas, who serve
[he Commanche Three Com-
ee, said the organization
1 Is to raise funds to assist in the
ve
hm|
'in? 1 .
Man-
rights violation charges can be
brought against the three officers.
But the federal government,
she said, will let state courts pro
ceed with their case before it gets
involved. Young also said that
U.S. attorneys will require that
the Commanche Three Commit
tee provide them with enough
facts in the case to warrant a feder
al investigation.
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stigation of the drowning inci-
larl Baker, Anthony Freeman
Steve Booker drowned when
)at they were riding in with
e law enforcement officials
ized in Lake Mexia. The three
lers, Kenny Elliot, Kenneth
lie and David Drummond
ived and have been indicted
lisdemeanor charges of negli-
homicide.
Che case has been moved to
Jin in nearby Falls County,
.[yfei chols said the charges are not
ire enough and Mexia’s black
munity wants the investiga-
to continue.
Ve do not accept these
ges,” he said. “We plan to
e there was some degree of
jjjlfl it (by the three officers).”
nung said the committee has
erred with U.S. Justice De-
^• es i merit officials to see if civil
idy,
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liwfSAN ANTONIO — Charles V.
elson, prime suspect in the
ing of federal Judge John H.
d, Jr., has offered to assist the
in solving the 1978 ambush of
itant U.S. Attorney James
! ; | San Antonio newspaper story
Saturday Harrelson was not
lived in the attempt on Kerr’s
iJ ^ ut knew enough details to
kin FBI agents solve the case,
ood was shot to death outside
San Antonio townhouse on
' Bv 29, 1979.
exchange for a guilty plea in
d’s killing and assistance in
investigation of the attempt on
Jr, Harrelson — currently held
i Houston jail on unrelated
ipon and drug charges —
ited a guarantee of no more
la 30-year prison sentence, an
ement that he would not be
iecuted on state capital mur-
charges carrying a possible
th penalty and immunity from
secution for the woman who
ghtthe murder rifle, the paper
iarrelson’s wife Jo Ann,
■ged with using a false name to
chase a rifle similar to the
pon that killed Wood, was re-
y released from a Dallas jail
>25,000 bond.
err was ambushed Nov. 21,
5, by several gunmen who
1 automatic rifles into his car.
he prosecutor survived the
ck uninjured, and although
r later picked out three mem-
of the Bandidos motorcycle
? from a lineup, charges have
er been filed.
arrelson also wanted a pres-
tial pardon for his former
mey, Bob Tarrant, who was
icted in 1971 on federal
Urns charges and has since
barred from practicing law in
! ral courts.
bp-level Justice Department
ials vetoed the exchange,
tly because it involved the
ident in a plea bargain ex-
ge.
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