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September 27, 1982
Wood murder trial
to begin Tuesday
Calling all freshmen
staff photo by Octavio Garcia
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — Charles
Harrelson’s trial for the murder
of Federal Judge John Wood be
gins Tuesday. His wife Jo Ann
and high roller Jimmy Chagra’s
wife Elizabeth will be tried for
conspiracy to commit murder
and conspiracy to obstruct jus
tice.
Jimmy Chagra, now serving
30 years on the drug smuggling
charge, was granted a separate
trial at the last minute — a move
that federal Judge William Ses
sions had rejected until govern
ment prosecutors said they also
wanted Chagra tried separately.
Chagra and his brother Joe
faced additional charges of drug
smuggling in a reported scheme
to spring Jimmy from the feder
al prison in Leavenworth, Kan.,
after his drug conviction and to
finance his escape from the
country. That issue now will not
have to be addressed at the first
trial.
Joe Chagra, an El Paso
lawyer, agreed to testify against
Harrelson — but not against his
brother — as part of a plea bar
gain in which he pleaded guilty
to conspiracy to murder. The
other charges were dropped.
The prosecutors have hours
of taped conversations between
Jimmy and Elizabeth Chagra
that will be played for the jury.
Elizabeth Chagra is accused
of delivering Harrelson’s
$250,000 payoff money to his
stepdaughter in Las Vegas. She
reportedly wrote a letter to
Wood’s widow this month apolo
gizing for her role and saying
she acted on her husband’s
orders.
Mrs. Chagra’s attorney, War
ren Burnett of Galveston, said if
Jimmy Chagra could be tried
first, he could then testify on be
half of Mrs. Chagra at her trial
and could exonerate her. Other
wise, Burnett said, Chagra
would have to incriminate him
self if he testified.
But Sessions followed the
prosecution’s wishes in trying
the other three defendants first.
Burnett has warned he will try to
delay Tuesday’s trial.
Jo Ann Harrelson has already
been sentenced to three years in
prison for using a phony name
to buy the high-powered rifle
authorities believe was used to
kill Wood. After this conspiracy
trial, she will face another trial
for lying to a grand jury about
the Wood case.
evin Harris (foreground), a senior sociology major in
A-Battery, band of the Corps, and Larry Marek, an
icultural economics major in the C-Battery, band,
stand at the bugle on the Quad and call at freshman to
“hump it.” Harris is from Oklahoma and Marek is from
Marlin.
-3 crash victims ‘critical’
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United Press International
MIDLAND — The pilot and
i-pilot of a small airplane that
lashed into an apartment com
plex and a resident of the com-
Bex were listed in critical condi
tion in Lubbock Saturday with
''' severe burns, hospital officials
xpects saic i
leted ml Two other men injured in the
Biday crash were listed in stable
Jpdition at a Midland hospital.
Police said no additional vic-
aswere found at the Warwick
Apartment complex, where a
small plane carrying prisoners
Louisiana crashed shortly af
ter takeoff Friday, gutting 12
Ipartments and seven cars.
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out 100 miles north of Midland
were the pilot, Allan Sheets, 56,
of Baton Rouge; copilot Ken
Hornsby, 41, of Baton Rouge,
and Richard Sellars, 20, of Mid
land.
Sellars had burns over 85 per
cent of his body, hospital offi
cials said. Sheets was burned
over 70 percent of his body and
Hornsby suffered burns over 35
percent of his body.
The two prisoners being
transported to Louisiana were in
stable condition at Midland
Memorial Hospital.
Witnesses said the timing of
the small plane’s crash into the
complex probably prevented
more victims than the five men
burned in the fire that raged af
ter the accident.
An search of charred apart
ments and cars ended about
four hours after the 2 p.m.
crash. Police said no additional
victims were found.
“It could have been worse if it
had happened when more peo
ple were home from work,” said
assistant apartment manager
Laura Havrda. “And the kids
weren’t home from school.
The plane, registered to the
Louisiana Department of Cor
rections, apparently clipped one
unit of 24 apartments with its
wing shortly after takeoff.
Havrda said the crash dam
aged the most distant of six
apartment complex units, the
one closest to the small, city-
owned Midland Air Park where
the twin-engine Beech appa
rently refueled before it took
off.
The Red Cross and other
volunteers worked Saturday to
find lodging for those whose
homes were destroyed. Havdra
said a motel in Odessa, 20 miles
northeast of Midland, offered
free lodging for up to three days
to victims of the fire.
Police declined to release de
tails of the crash, but one witness
said flames shot as high as 150
feet above the apartments.
Another witness said one pas
senger crawled from the wreck
age and called for help.
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JSC Council meets to hear
reports, approve speakers
The MSC Council will meet
tonight at 7:30 in 216T Memo-
ial Student Center to hear com-
niittee and vice-president re-
orts and to approve new
peakers.
Council president Todd Nor
wood said the council will hear a
eport about a new student de-
'eipoment training program
ailed Phoenix. The program,
vhich is to be implemented this
'ear, is actually a series of prog
ams designed to train students
n various managerial and
eadership skills.
0 p. The council also will hear a
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