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national Battalion/Page 11 November 1, 1982 Poisoning suspect maintains innocence tries - ; from from staff photo by Ronnie Emerson Spellbound at Heaton Hall 0 MSC Lou Ann “Fairy Godmother” Waskon, left, casts a workers, along with about two-thirds of the staff, spell upon Tee “Clown” Williams while at work in dressed up on Friday to celebrate the arrival of the records office of Heaton Hall. The two Halloween. Brazos County Michigan man finds money 01*111*10 under house, gives to state stopper 775-TIPS United Press Internationai CHICAGO — Illinois Attor ney General Tyrone Fahner issued a plea Saturday to cyanide-Tylenol suspect James Lewis to turn himself in if he is innocent, as Lewis maintained in a letter mailed to the Chicago Tribune. Lewis sent the letter to the newspaper last week proclaim ing his innocence in the seven Chicago cyanide-Tylenol kill ings. The Tribune published the contents of the letter in its Sun day editions. The letter was mailed from New York on Wednesday and turned over to the FBI Friday night. Fahner, the head of the task force investigating the seven deaths from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, told a news conference there was no doubt the letter was written by Lewis. “I would like to send a mes sage to Mr. Lewis,” he said. “We would like you to consider turn ing yourself in. I can understand your running if you are respon sible but that is all the more reason for you to turn yourself in. “Ifyou are innocent your con tinued writing is pointless.” Fahner assured Lewis investi gators would help him prove his innocence if he is. Lewis’ letter to the Tribune accompanied an inch-thick packet of materials relating to his wife’s former employment at the defunct Lakeside Travel Agency in Chicago. She was fired last March. Lewis wrote that investigators were wasting their time investi gating him and his wife. He said they should spend their time in vestigating Lakeside Travel and its owner. “As you have probably gues sed, my wife and I have not com mitted the Chicago area Tylenol murders. We do not go around killing people. We have never and we never shall,” said the note, signed “Robert Richard son,” the alias Lewis used in Chi cago. Fahner said Lewis’ professed innocence in the latest letter is inconsistent with a $ 1 million ex tortion letter sent to Johnson 8c Johnson Co., parent company of the manufacturer of Tylenol, shortly after the killings. Lewis is charged in a federal extortion warrant with writing that letter. “He says he has never killed anyone,” Fahner added. “But there are people in Kansas City who feel differently than that. All this demonstrates is Lewis is an unusual person who writes a lot.” In 1979 Lewis was charged but never tried in the dismem berment murder of an elderly Kansas City man. The packet sent to the Tri bune did not directly refer to the extortion letter, but one of the other notes said: “I too am a vic tim, but so what.” “My situation is not so sad as that of the beraved (sic) families and the memories of their loved ones. I hope the law finds who ever poisonned (sic) those cap sules and I would demand capit al punishment.” Also included in the letter was a bizarre cartoon signed “R. Richardson 82.” It purported to show the flow of money at Lake side Travel. Police speculated the original extortion letter was an effort to embarrass the prom inent North Shore businessman who owned Lakeside Travel. Lewis and his wife, Leann, were last seen Oct. 14 when they checked out of a low-rent hotel in midtown Manhattan. Fahner said the search for the couple is still centered on the East Coast. lation « ery ofll* ie miliwi worn ala :1 over. United Press International NEWBERRY, Mich. — Hon esty means a lot to Vernard “Ole ”Olsen, who found $90,()()() when he bulldozed an old house foundation and promptly turned the cash over to his em ployer, the state of Michigan. Olsen, a Department of Natural Resources equipment operator, found the cash while bulldozing a house foundation intheTahquamenon Area State Park on Oct. 21, the DNR said Friday. DNR crews spent the follow ing weekend collecting the money from under a concrete slab near Tahquamenon Falls. In a statement released in Lans ing, the DNR praised Olsen, 50, as a hero. “Mr. Olsen certainly showed his dedication to the depart ment, integrity and high stan dards by reporting the find im mediately,” said Tahquamenon park manager Wayne Suida, Olsen’s supervisor and the first to learn of the discovery. Bill Cornish of the DNR park staff said the money was found in the basement of an old house the state bought in 1977 for $32,500. The house, built in the 1930s, was torn down some time ago, he said. “I think his (Olsen’s) attitude says a lot,” Cornish said. He said the DNR has not yet contacted the former owners of the prop erty, and doesn’t know if those people are the true owners of the money. #BLACK AWARENESS DR. JOHN FERNANDEZ 1 OFFICIAL NOTICE General Studies Program Students who plan to Pre-Register for the Spring Semester in the General Studies Program arc URGED to pick up a Pre-registration Form in Room 100 of Harrington Tower from Oct. 26 thru Nov. 12. DIETING? Even though we do not prescribe diets, we make it possible for many to enjoy a nutritious meal while they follow their doctor's orders. You will be delighted with the wide selection of low calorie, sugar free and fat free foods in the Souper Salad Area, Sbisa Dining Center Basement. 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