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Bomb hearing continues
United Press International
HOUSTON — More FBI
agents testified Monday in an
estimated weeklong pretrial
hearing in the case of four Col
orado residents accused of
planting five bombs at a Gulf Oil
Chemicals Co. plant in an
alleged $15 million extortion
scheme.
In testimony Monday before
U.S. District Judge Gabrielle
McDonald, attorneys began pre
senting arguments on more
than 40 pretrial motions which
sought supression of evidence,
separate trials for the four de
fendants and dismissal of the in
dictments, among other things.
A Houston federal grand
jury in October indicted former
gun shop owner John McBride,
46; his common-law wife, Jill Re
nee Bird, 34; McBride’s gun
shop business partner Michael
Allen Worth, 34; former college
professor Theodore Duane
McKinney, 45; all of the Duran
go, Colo, area, on charges of
planting five bombs at Gulfs
Cedar Bayou plant east of Hous
ton in a 15 million extortion
attempt.
None of the bombs exploded,
and the payoff money never was
delivered.
A fifth defendant, Timothy
Justice, 30, pleaded guilty in the
case and agreed to testify against
his co-defendants. Prosecutors
said Justice will be sentenced af
ter his co-defendants are tried.
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Man’s mercy-killing
ruled ‘act of love’
United Press International
ITYLER — A judge has dis-
that hehaW^d murder charges against a
.jdaytohai fi an w h° killed his wife of 45
lasedonn ' ears to end her suffering,
e and qua ^y' n g justice would not be
erved by forcing the man to
/antane* trial.
.onvictioJi f "l found nothing would be
pined in this case by further
mnishing this man,” State Dis-
arrenBiW rict Judge Donald Carroll said
d the « ifter announcing his decision,
lizabeth C “Under the peculiar circums-
ilsherconi ances of this case, I found the
mspirat) 11 t]terest of justice would not be
been married and also indicated
that Mrs. Shick’s family was sup
portive of Shick.
Carroll said the report also
showed, to his satisfaction, that
Mrs. Shick was in extreme pain.
Shick, a retired machinist, re
ferred reporters’ questions to
his attorney, Eric Jensen.
“This was an act motivated by
love,” Jensen said. “She was in
excruciating pain all the time.”
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“It was an impulsive act. He
(Shick) was distressed at the sick
ness in that he wasn’t able to do
anything,” Jensen said. He said
treatment would have brought
only a burdensome prolonging
of Mrs. Shick’s life.
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’Served by putting this man on
probation,” Carroll said.
, Harvey McClellan Shick, 64,
urst into tears when Carroll
nnounced his decision. Shick
left the courtroom clinging to
thatiM hs son, Peter, and refused to
rately ft® 1
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fe in pn >r
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iction.
omment on the decision.
Marie Louise Shick, 62, was
wouldltf i hot twice in the head with a .22-
Burnett® :aliber pistol last June 1 as she
a 28,0^ a y in her bed at the couple’s
tome in the small east Texas
ommunity of Holiday Hills
tear Tyler, 100 miles east of
Dallas.
Mrs. Shick had suffered from
fteriosclerosis — a blockage of
he arteries — since the late
r 4 l/Aff ^ S- doctors were quoted in a
[ g| » » jfeport as saying she su ffered se
vere pain in her lower legs.
Following his indictment by a
Smith County grand jury, Shick
leaded guilty to murder on
9ov. 15, but Carroll refused to
ccept the plea. Instead, the
a ill ud § e or dered a pre-sentence
(JUfl investigation by the county’s
^ ^idult probation office.
The investigative report pre-
lented to the judge showed the
:ouple had no history of prob-
ems in the 45 years they had
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Gulf investigator Bob Quin
tana, the first witness to testify,
said the company received a let
ter Sept. 28 from an unidenti
fied group threatening to blow
up the plant if Gulf refused to
meet a demand for $15 million.
Quintana read the extortion
letter to the court and then iden
tified a series of tape recordings
of telephone calls between him
self and a man who identified
himself as one of the extortion-
But Hopkins testified McKin
ney and Worth were advised of
their rights and McKinney
voluntarily agreed to a search in
which agents found weapons in
his car.
Bird’s attorney, Charles
Szekely, has asked the court to
dismiss the indictment against
his client on grounds of prosecu
torial misconduct.
Szekely claimed Houston
prosecutors violated an agree
ment with Colorado authorities
who promised her immunity in
return for her cooperation in
the case.
ists.
“We want your money. We do
not want to hurt someone,” the
caller told Quintana.
“Right now, there’s not ajury
of 12 people who would convict
us for doing something against
Gulf Oil,” the caller said.
In the final recording be
tween Quintana and the suspect,
FBI agents were heard shouting
“Put your hands up” as they
rushed to arrest Worth and
McKinney at a phone booth at a
shopping center in Apache
Junction, Ariz.
FBI agent Douglas Hopkins
said agents arrested the pair af
ter tracing their movements as
the pair led Quintana to a site to
deliver the payoff money.
Defense attorneys claim their
clients were arrested and
charged as a result of illegal
searches and seizures of their
vehicles and homes.
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