state
Battalion/Page 5
November 15, 1982
Wood portrayed as
gambler, womanizer
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'Indmi 5.30 w hen Maura Phelan, left, and Donna Smith served
hem a breakfast in “Redpot Hotel” on Bonfire site
The breakfast, prepared in popcorn poppers, consisted
Popcorn popper gourmets
staff photo by Irene Mees
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — Specta
tors at the murder trial of
Charles Harrelson got their first
real insight into his character
last week by listening to taped
conversations with four women
Harrelson professed to love and
to the testimony of a “snitch.”
The evidence indicated Har
relson was obsessed with the feai
his family and friends would
turn against him after the shoot
ing death of federal Judge John
H. Wood in 1979. Eventually,
they did.
Harrelson, 44, was the FBI’s
main suspect from the day
Wood was killed outside his San
Antonio apartment. Authorities
say Harrelson killed Wood for
$250,GOO from gambler Jimmy
Chagra, who feared a life sent
ence from Wood at a drug
smuggling trial.
John Lee Spinelli, an inmate
“snitch,” said he “didn’t want to
end up like Mr. Harrelson.”
“To me,” Spinelli said,
“Charles was a puppet master.
He had all these people on a
string, jumping. But the strings
were being cut by various things,
the puppets were heading to
save themselves, to get the hell
out of Dodge.”
Harrelson’s stepdaughter
and former lovers and friends
testified against him after the
government promised not to
prosecute them for possible in
volvement in the Wood case.
Before the prosecution rested
last week, it painted an unflat
tering picture of a convicted hit
man, paroled in 1978, who re
sumed his life as a dishonest
gambler, a heavy drug user and
a womanizer.
The FBI, gathering evidence
in the Wood case by wiretapping
and bugging Harrelson in jail,
clearly captured his different
lines.
“It’s important for you to
know I love you unequivocally,”
Harrelson told Jo Ann Robin
son, the wife of rancher Hamp
ton Robinson of Huntsville.
The two did not know that
Robinson was cooperating with
the FBI and had turned Harrel
son in on a weapons violation —
the reason he was in jail.
“I’ll get out of here next
month. I’ll take you with me,”
Harrelson promised his step
daughter, Teresa Starr, a few
days later.
“I love you,” Harrelson said to
Virginia Farah, a wealthy El
Paso businesswoman, in a phone
call. “I don’t care if it harelips
the world.”
“I love you, dammit, and even
this will pass,” he assured his
fourth wife, Jo Ann Harrelson,
through the screen in a steel
visiting door at the jail.
of scrambled eggs, cheese omelets, bacon, sausage, and
English muffins. Phelan, a sophomore from Houston,
and Smith, a sophomore from Hurst, topped off the
meal with fresh coffee.
ay,
Jnemployment fund dry
|UST IN — Amid concern ab-
Kit further tax increases, the
of Texas had to borrow
iclucimgnw a t ,^ f _,
various T
sandthe’if ivernment l<) meel payments
*jm the unemployment com-
lembers nil
ensation fund.
Bavlor pn® The Legislature met in spe-
editor ofir sess * on * n September and
ews directm
to allow the state to bor-
W"
Kirn (niff®"' federal money — with in-
H iL-liest charges that may reach as
Ighas$40 million — to bail out
n coordi: r* lroubled fuild -
n’saidthill Despite a nearly five-fold in-
or holdin r-’ ase ' n employers’ taxes pas-
i is dial '-r * ( ' ur ' n S tbe Legislat tire’s spe-
' session, the fund officially
ei ini[J enl dry Friday and had to bor-
' ' “wSl.8 million from the feder
al government to pay $8.7 mil
lion in unemployment claims.
But analyst John Kennedy
said the pay-out rate on which
that tax increase was calculated
is already proving to be below
the mark. He said jobless Tex
ans drew $20 million more in
benefits than was expected from
the fund in September and
October, and he predicted un
less the economy makes a dra
matic recovery, Texas em
ployers will be stuck with
another tax hike.
Nolan Ward , chairman of the
Texas Employment Commis
sion, said the estimated wage
base, from which unemploy
ment taxes are drawn, could be
10 percent lower next year than
experts thought when the Leg
islature met.
Texas Employment Commis
sioner Ken Clapp said there was
no way of knowing if the projec
tions were right.
“We hope it’s correct because
the employers don’t need
another tax, just as citizens don’t
need more taxes,” Clapp said.
“But if it does turn out that it’s
wrong, we can correct it next
year when the Legislature is in
session.”
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