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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1981
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Coup plot payoff $50,000
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — A self-
styled soldier of fortune insisted
Thursday two businessmen gave
him more than $50,000 to over
throw the government of a tiny
Caribbean island republic.
Michael Perdue of Houston,
who pleaded guilty to plotting a
coup against Dominica and be
came the government’s star wit
ness, rejected defense claims he
got the money in an antiques deal.
“I had antiques transactions,
but they had nothing to do with
the coup,” Perdue said.
In the third day of the trial of
electrical contractor L.E. Matth
ews of Florence, Miss., and James
White of Lakeland, La., their de-
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fense lawyers continued to assault
Perdue’s credibility.
Matthews and White contend
Perdue tricked them into unwit
tingly bankrolling the so-called
“Bayou of Pigs” operation.
The bizarre paramilitary ex
pedition ended before it began
when federal agents arrested 10
would-be mercenaries in New
Orleans on April 27.
Prosecutors Lindsay Larson
and Pauline Hardin planned to
call expert witnesses who sampled
Perdue’s handwriting and com
pared it to documents the defense
claimed proved legitimate antique
transactions.
U.S. District Judge Jack Gor
don ordered the sample taken af
ter Perdue testified Tuesday he
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could not remember signing or
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Matthews and White were
charged with conspiring to topple
the government of Prime Minister
Mary Eugenia Charles and giving
$57,800 to the makeshift merce
naries for guns, ammunition and
military gear.
In exchange for the money. Per
due said he promised Matthews
and White shares in Nortic Enter
prises, a corporation he was going
to form to run gambling casinos,
an international airport and agri
cultural interests if the coup suc
ceeded.
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White could get up to eight years
in prison and $13,000 in fines.
Priest offers to visit man
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accused of beating him
United Press International
DALLAS — A priest who was
kicked in the face and
threatened with death during a
robbery says he’s willing to visit
one of the suspect’s jail cell to
grant him forgiveness.
The Rev. Daniel Griffith of
St. Constantine and Helen
Eastern Orthodox Church was
beaten and robbed Sept. 27 by
three men who offered him a
ride. As the beating was being
administered, however, one
man begged for forgiveness and
asked Griffith to visit him if he
was caught.
Tuesday Robert Eugene
Weare, 24, was captured and
jailed Tuesday on robbery
charges.
Griffith said Wednesday he
would fulfill the man’s wishes if
Weare was sure he wanted a
him, or the other two for that
visit.
“I think it would be best to
respond to his (Weare’s) initia
tive,” Griffith said. “I think that
I would like to see him and talk
with him and see if I can help
him.
“I know what he’s done is
wrong and I believe he should
face the censure of society for
the protection of others, hut I
feel no personal anger toward
matter.
“We must be merciful as our
heavenly Father is merciful.”
Weare, who has admitted to a
life of crime since age 12, said
from his jail cell that he felt an
urge to ask forgiveness while
robbing Griffith and that the in
cident had changed his life.
“I had some compassion or
some compelling thing inside
me to reach out to him,” he told
the Dallas Times Herald. “Here
I am, robbing somebody and
reaching out to him at the same
time. I told him I just needed
help, and I knew it. At that
point I realized I wouldn’t be
able to keep on doing what I’ve
been doing because I have to
live with myself. ”
Charged with three aggra
vated robberies and being held
on $10,(XX) bond, Weare con
fessed to several armed robber
ies. Police said Weare, a wel
der, received a 15-year sent
ence in Washington state last
year for auto theft. The sent
ence was suspended on the con
dition he complete a two-year
program in a rehabilitation cen
ter. Weare said he fled the cen
ter a few months later.
He was arrested in Balch
Springs, Texas, last week o:
warrants from California.
Griffith said he accep
ride from the three men afte
his car broke down. When It !
arrived at his church, Grit:
said, the three followed himaiK
attacked him. His nose n
broken by a kick from one (ft
other robbers as Weare,
ing a gun on him
forgiveness.
“I think in a sense (Wearei
life was touched, or hewouldi
have asked for forgiveness,
Griffith said. “If I can lie|
deepen his commitment, I
would like to do it.
“He was afraid he'd hurtmt
that he’d hit me in the face,
he just pushed my head back!
told the investigator to tell hi
that if he wanted, I would via
him in jail.”
The investigator promisedk
discuss the priest’s offer
Weare, Griffith said,
had not yet heard backfromtlie
officer.
Griffith said he preferred b
wait until he was sure Weare
still wanted to see him.
Police said about $80incaA
$4(X) in checks, a stereo andi
television set were stolen in tit
robbery.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — More
than ruffled feathers could be
shaping up for the American
Humane Association and sponsors
of a traditional weekend “turkey
drop.”
Gov. Frank White to stop the 35-
year-old tradition in Yellville,
Ark., an event in which live tur
keys are dropped from the air to
crowds in the local courthouse
square.
Attorney General Steve Clark
said Wednesday that American
Humane Association officials can
legally arrest anyone who stages
such an event, and an AHA dire
ctor says his organization is pre
pared to do just that.
Clark said an 1879 law gives
agents of humane societies and
similar organizations the right to
legally interfere with such activi
ties and make arrests if they feel
there is a violation of state law in
volving cruelty to animals.
association’s agent in LittleRi
Ann C. Thompson, andaskke
be present at the festival ino
the drop is held.
“I think to make our point
don’t want to put anybodyinii
White said. “Right now fi
that if we saw the drop was all
to take place, we would fint
struct our agent to go toaju
and try to get a cease and de
order. ”
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“We’d rather educate than pro
secute, but if it does take that extra
step, we’ll be ready to do it, ” De
nnis White, the association’s dire
ctor of animal protection, said.
The association asked Clark and
“It gives the authority to a
humane society to make arrests
and take them to municipal
court,” Clark said. “There’s no
thing I can do, but there’s appa
rently something they can do.”
White said he would contact the
However, White said, ifsuil
order could not be obtained,^
would “have somebody to
the appropriate move.”
Asked if that meant m:
arrests, White said, “Yes.”
The drop has been taken oil
schedule for the Yellville fei
but it still could be held.
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Texan’s request for lower bont
denied in drug possession cas<
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United Press International
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A fed
eral district judge Thursday re
fused to lower the $1 million bond
of a Texas man who flew a twin-
engine airplane loaded with about
$200 million worth of cocaine into
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The 614 pounds of cocaine was
seized by federal, state and local
agents and was reported to be the
largest amount ever flown into the
United States.
Judge Robert Taylor said he did
not feel he should overrule state
judges who had refused to lower
the bond for Charles Leslie Kagel-
er Jr., of Lubbock. But Taylor
admonished attorneys in the case
to give Kageler a speedy trial or he
would act to free the suspect.
Kageler testified at the hearing
that he flew the plane into the
Sevierville-Gatlinburg airport,
but that he did not know what the
aircraft was carrying. He said the
plane had been loaded in the jung
les of Colombia, but he was una
ware it was cocaine that was being
placed aboard.
The 24-year-old Kageler, led
into the federal courthouse in
handcuffs, has been held in the
Sesvier County jail since June 12.
Knoxville attorney Robert
Ritchie argued the bond was un
reasonable. He maintained^
er’s wife had moved to East
nessee to be near her husband'
“he has the kind of family.ties
would lend itself to a reasi
bond. ”
Prosectors said they fear fc
er would flee if the bond was
duced. , i|
Federal, state and local ¥
searched three months foril
pects before arresting Kageler
Clarence Dennis Newell, 5C
Kemah, Texas.
Charles Leslie Kageler Sr.-
owner of the airplane, is stillkd
sought in the case.
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County Jail under $1
bond. He has attempted tok|
the bond reduced once.
Kageler and Newell are chars
with felonious possession
cocaine with intent to deliver
sell it. _
The airplane has since 1^ j
flown to Nashville where statef
cials are preparing to auction
The cocaine is also in custod)
Nashville.
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