THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1981
Page 9
State
Jury trial waived by Daniel
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Staff photo by Dave Einsel
Bikes, bikes and more bikes
transportation. This row of bikes is neatly
displayed by Hobby Hall.
FO sighting attributed
o burning waste fumes
United Press International
ALVESTON — Reports this
k of eerily pulsating lights and
ering star-shaped objects in
night sky over Galveston Is-
most , f - lhave aroused the curiosity of
T ct v 1 flying saucer investigators.
' s nort John Schuessler, formerly a
ilurenB , e a g CnC y engineer now in
exp® ) one ]j j) ou g] as Corp s, space
those is if clivision, said his group —
ide Internal Systems Investi-
ided. K started catalo-
tratc an ,g M onc l a y an( J Tuesday
■ / " t 'f it’s sightings.
' inori ] olice officials said dozens of
hesasl j ents p roni one enc j 0 f j s .
1 to the other called in reports
led weird glow emanating from an
iv ' )c!! lentified source,
it aW )n C witness, police dispatcher
hool y Smith, said: “The object it-
Itosm' was shaped like a star. It had
‘ on ' its on it like a star, hut it was
district! ;hlarger than what you’d think
situatifc jr would be.”
! ant ^ | be said in one hour Tuesday 25
ers and 1 p[ e a ] on g th e 25-mile-long is-
ng tlie| heported a similar object with
,11501®! vm g anc l flickering lights that
nt see® ip en ti re streets of the city,
litta® chuessler said: “We’re sure
re’s something to the sightings,
people are not making these
orts based on mass hysteria,
were not into giving a pat
w. Enough people have tried
be Air Force and other govern-
M Al i lta 8 enc i es — an d they did not
y-j ie up with much. ”
KI [ hast Guard spokesman Martin
*** lor attributed the sightings to
off-shore gas well that was
ning waste fumes. A helicopter
pilot said the fire’s light was re
flected off a haze layer at about
7,0(X) feet and that is what Galves
tonians saw, he said.
Schuessler said the 12 aeros
pace scientists involved in VISIT
have compiled 70 cases of uniden
tified flying object sightings to
help cpnstruQt a model of what
people are reporting.
“We know how to design the
inside of a space craft,” he said.
“What we are trying to do is take
the reports we are getting from
people and translate them into en
gineering lingo.
“Physical evidence is very im
portant. Last December, two
women and a boy reported they
had been abducted and they had
been burned with radiation-type
burns. From those effects, we are
trying to determine what kind of
systems could have caused them.”
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United Press International
LIBERTY — Vickie Daniel,
charged with murder in the shoot
ing death of her husband, former
Texas House Speaker Price
Daniel Jr., Wednesday waived
her right to a jury trial.
The case will be decided by
State District Judge Leonard Gib-
lin Jr. of Beaumont.
In a move considered highly
unusual, defense attorney Jack
Zimmerman said the decision was
“based on my evaluation of the
evidence.”
“I just felt the case had not been
proven and in order to end the
ordeal for Vickie I felt there was no
way an impartial finder of the fact
could find her guilty,” Zimmer-
mann said.
Daniel told Giblin her decision
to waive the jury was a voluntary
one and had not been pressured or
threatened in any way. If found
guilty, she faces a maximum sent
ence of five years to life in prison
and/or a $5,000 to $10,000 fine.
A quick poll of most of the jurors
indicated they probably would
have deadlocked on the case be
cause at least two members of the
panel were convinced Daniel was
guilty of murder, and at least one
was convinced of her innocence.
But one juror, who asked not to
be named, said that in talking with
other jurors, he felt jurors prob
ably would have compromised
rather than deadlocking. He said
Daniel would have been con
victed, but she would have re
ceived a probated sentence. He
said all jurors felt the shooting was
neither accidental, as Daniel
claimed, nor premeditated, as
prosecutors alleged.
Lynn Allen, a policeman’s wife,
said she would have voted guilty
because she believed all the pro
secution’s evidence, including the
contention that Daniel intention
ally got the rifle to shoot her hus
band.
Both she and Mary Penry, who
also said she would have voted
guilty, said they believed 13-year-
old Kimberly Moore, Daniel’s
daughter from a previous mar
riage. Moore testified that her
mother had twice threatened to
kill Price Daniel the night he was
shot.
“I believe she was not as fright
ened for her life as she said, but I
do believe she was scared,” Pen-
rey said.
But Lee Bennett, a former legal
secretary and Red Cross nurse,
said her vote unequivocally would
have been not guilty.
“Her rights were violated repe
atedly,” she said, adding she felt
Daniel suffered extreme mental
and physical cruelty.
The defense resumed presenta
tion of its case once jurors were
dismissed. Defense attorneys had
expected to complete their case
Wednesday.
Daniel Tuesday testified she
considered her marital affairs pri
vate and kept to herself the prob
lems she said the couple had.
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Schuessler said VISIT’s conclu
sions can be used to determine
what UFO witnesses might be
seeing.
But what of the Galveston sight
ings?
“It’s not a close encounter-type
thing because there’s no physical
evidence,” Schuessler said.
“We re still trying to pin it down. I
guess what I’m trying to say is that
I’m not really sure what it is.
We’re still investigating it.”
Schuessler discounted the
area’s space industry as a lure for
extra-terrestrials.
“I would think they would be
more interested in Cape Kennedy
or missile ranges of atomic test
sites,” he said. “Even though
Houston is known as space city, it
gets kind of ho-hum after the first
one or two flights of various pro
jects.”
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