age 6/The Battalion/Tuesday, October 11,1983
Owner of plane sought
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SHERMAN — Figuring out
ho owned an ultralight found
a hangar with the bodies of a
:puty, a former policeman and
'o other men could be one of
e keys to solving the slayings,
rayson County Sheriff Jack
riscoll said Monday.
The four bodies were found
tturday night on the ranch of
te of the victims, Bob Tate, 51,
ho frequently flew the trendy,
otorized hang glider-like
aft.
Family members said the
men had planned to meet with a
prospective ultralight buyer
Saturday afternoon, and that
there should have been two of
the craft, which are worth a few
thousand dollars, in the B&B
ranch hangar near the Texas-
Oklahoma border. Only one was
found.
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“Two of our tasks today is to
firm up if we had an ultralight
stolen and firm up who owns the
one that’s there,” said Driscoll.
“We’ve had five different stories
(about its ownership).
“I’m having a little trouble
believing that four poele could
be killed over an ultralight, but
then you had five people
slaughtered in Kilgore over
$2,000,” Driscoll said, referring
to the Sept. 23 slayings of five
people in East Texas during a
Kentucky Fried Chicken res
taurant robbery.
In addition to Tate, the other
victims were Grayson Deputy
Phillip Good, who would nave
turned 30 on Sunday; former
Sherman policeman Ronald
Mayes, 37, and Jerry Brown, 51.
Simple robbery was virtually
ruled out as a motive because
one of the victims had at least
$ 100 in his wallet and the others
had between $13 and $40 on
them.
Officers recovered 11 .22-
caliber shells from the scene and
autopsies produced 11 bullets,
Driscoll said.
Three of the men were shot
twice in the head and their
bodies hidden under a pile of
carpet scraps. Mayes was shot
five times — in the head, neck,
chest and twice in the abdomen
— as he apparently tried to flee.
Driscoll said both hollow
e oint and regular .22-caliber
ullets were used, but pending
further tests he was not ready to
say whether more than one
weapon was used.
The sheriff also said officers
had not been able to determine
whether Good, who had only
been with the department one
week, was carrying his weapon
Saturday.
“I have been told by his wife
that his holster was at home,”
Driscoll said. “I don’t know if he
had it on him. I don’t think he
had any ID on him.”
Driscoll said he had not
checked Good’s house for his
gun because the deputy’s widow,
Melina, was too shaken up and
was staying with relatives.
He said because Good was
only a jailer, there was no reason
to believe he was killed because
of a pending investigation.
Simple robbery was
virtually ruled out as a
motive because one of
the victims had at least
$100 in his wallet and
the others had be
tween $13 and $40 on
them.
“He was not working on a
case. He was off-duty,” Driscoll
said.
As a last resort, Driscoll said they
might hypnotize Mrs. Good to
get the name of the person the
men planned to meet.
“She knew but just can’t re
member,” Driscoll said.
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\ mother tried in court
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HOUSTON — A jury Mon
day was given the case of a 21-
year-old mother of two accused
of involuntary manslaughter for
leaving her children alone in a
hot car which caused their
deaths.
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men and six women that the chil
dren were left unattended in
two 15-minute shifts while she
visited with a friend. She said she
did not know her children
would die in the car, which was
parked in the sweltering heat
with the windows rolled up last
August.
The Harris County Medical
Examiner’s office said 3-year-
old Alex and 18-month-old
Crystal, died Aug. 5 of extreme
heat, which made their brea
thing difficult and from dehyd
ration.
Assady said she checked on
the children after 15 minutes
and saw them playing in the car.
Fifteen minutes later she check
ed on the youngsters and
thought they were asleep.
She said she saw them crawled
up in the back seat of her car.
“Did any one really know that
15 to 20 minutes could be fatal to
those kids?” defense lawyer
Robert Rice asked the jury Mon
day. “It could have happened to
anyone not aware of the risk.”
Assady said she left the air
conditioner in the car on, but
turned off the ignition, which
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small vehicle.
Rice asked the panel how
many of them had ever left their
children alone in a car with an
air conditioner on.
But Harris County Assistant
District Attorney Joe Magliola
said Assady “violated her duty as
a mother.”
“No duty is as important as
the duty a mother owes her chil
dren,” Magliola said.
HONOLULU — Federal Re
serve Board Chairman Paul
Volcker warned Monday that
the international debt problem
is likely to persist for years and
the world financial system will
be endangered if smaller banks
fail to continue to cooperate in
working out solutions.
“We had better shake off any
sense of complacency that the
problem is over, or that we can
leave it to others to solve,” Volc
ker told the annual convention
of the American Bankers Asso
ciation.
In an obvious reference to
the reluctance on the part of
many smaller bankers to go
along with agreements worked
out by their larger counterparts
to give debtor nations more
money and more time to pay
their existing debts, Volcker
warned that no one would be
able to escape the fallout if the
world financial system were to
collapse.
“ 11 is an illusion to believed
any of us — managers of larp
or small banks, domestic to
rowers, or citizens generall)-
could escape scot free in the I®
of financial environment®
plied by a breakdown of inten
tional credit flows,” he said.
Volcker acknowledged®-
press conference that “so®
banks are restive" about go®
along with new lending agff
ments worked out by a relalis 1
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