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Battalion/Page 11
November 1, 1982
Poisoning suspect
maintains innocence
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staff photo by Ronnie Emerson
Spellbound at Heaton Hall
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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.
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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.
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