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Page 4/The Battalion/Tuesday, December 13, 1983 Dad confesses.to poisoning his children; receives life United Press International COMANCHE — A truck driver pleaded guilty Monday to poisoning his two children over a dispute with his ex-wife and was sentenced to two concurrent life sentences. District Judge James Morgan spent the morning hearing pret rial motions before Delbert Black entered the guilty pleas in the June 10 cyanide poisonings of his 5-year-old son Richard and 8-year-old daughter Amy. The children died in the Hico, Texas, hospital where their mother, Sylvia Black, was employed. Prosecutors alleged eveiopment oundation 1 “Meeting the Needs of Texas A&M Today and Tomorrow” Office of Development Texas A&M University 610 Evans Library 845-8161 ~ , k XK gmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiMimiiiiiiinmimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiHiiiiiiimimiiiiiiiiii University Book Stores w NORTHGATE "OPEN 0 A M. 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During pretrial motions, the judge ruled a statement made by Black to police at the time of his arrest would not be allowed as evidence. The judge did not state his reason for barring the state ment, the contents of which were not released. At the time he was arrested. Black was free on bond and charged with a February attempt to kill his wife, police said. The couple was divorced in May. Black’s employer, Jerry John son of Hico, said that two weeks before the poisonings, he had witnessed Black and his ex-wife arguing, and told authorities Black had returned threatening to kill the woman. Johnson said he visited Black’s home the night the chil dren died, and saw the children drinking from a common glass “When I look back on it now, I realize he just didn’t want me there in case they started having some kind of reaction or some thing,” Johnson said the day of the children’s funeral. as they watched television. He said Black ushered him outside to talk. Police said the evening the chil dren died, a man identified as Black dropped them off at a ser vice station and told another driver they needed to be taken to hospital. Hico police officer Randy Harrison said that same evening a man identifying himself as Black telephoned a neighbor and said he had poisoned him self and his children. A search of Black’s trailer turned up a can of cyanide- based ant poison and a glass con taining a residue of the poison mixed with sugar and syrup, Harrison said. Black was later arrested in a pasture in nearby Erath County, where he was jailed for six weeks. 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Hunt sued one of Hunt’s sons Monday for $7 million for violating a court settlement giving him part of the late oilman’s fortune. Hugh S. Hunt seeks the money from Ray Lee Hunt, one of Hunt’s sons from his second recognized marriage and executor of the H.L. Hunt estate. Also named as a defendant is George Cunyus, attorney for the estate. Hugh Hunt claims to be the son of Hunt and Frania Tye Lee, who sued Hunt in 1978 for support of herself and her four children. During the trial, Mrs. Lee agreed to a settlement that allegedly totaled $7.5 million. But the settlement left un answered the question of whether Mrs. Lee and Hunt ever married, as she claimed they did in 1925 while the late oilman still had another wife. The suit claims Ray Lee Hunt and Cunyus violated the Master Settlement Agree ment by naming Hunt and other beneficiaries of the set tlement as “natural children” and “natural but not legiti mate children” of Hunt, thereby subjecting them to higher Louisiana taxes than H.L. Hunt’s other children must pay on their inheritance. Such wrongs a rc ted with intentandaj! conspiracy, to violate Jl ter Settlement Asi 1 the creation ofp and publicitycafi u non the legitimacy^ and thereby the validy marriage of Franiam H.L. Hunt,” thesis It claims Ray Lee Hunt also violated the agreement by commenting publicly in a Georgia court suit on a matter sealed by the court, failing to file annual reports on the sta tus of H.L. Hunt bequests to the trust fund and not calcu lating and distributing the be quests as required by law. The suit seeks Jb for breach of the a correction or retram 0r) , statements madeU Hunt, properaccounii: distribution of HuntiJ and any other danJ might be assessed tm ( In the suit, HughHm asks for an injunctiontf nently barring thedefr from further violation/ settlement agreetneni Slowly in a trai rocking < Coke machines often make thirsty students take action bnce of t bid worn Tinge the chair ^•eak, tap reak, taj: I of her wi she feels by Cathy Smith Battalion Reporter Walk up to a Coke machine. Fumble for some change. De posit 45 cents. Push the button for a soft drink. Wait for the drink to roll down. Check the empty chute. Push the button again. Wait again. Check again. Make a fist. Punch the button. Wait again. Check again. De press the coin return lever. Again. Again. Again-again- again-again. Kick the machine. Walk away thirsty. Coke machines are the friends and foes of everyone at Texas A&M. Aggies play their own game of roulette whenever they use one of the more than 150 machines on campus. If the thirsty Aggie wins, ev erything is fine. It’s when the Coke machine wins that the trouble starts. Hartzell Elkins of Coca-Cola in Bryan says that vandalism of Coke machines is a definite problem at Texas A&M. Broken glass, cut electrical cords and jammed coin slots are a few of the ways machines are damaged. Coca-Cola is responsible for making all of the repairs on the machines. Although all Coke machines are subject to vandalism, Elkins says that the machines in the dormitories are most frequently vandalized. He says that some machines have been thrown from second-floor Were they throw someone lost 45« maybe to get to tht Who knows, but the reason, a Coke about $2,500 to replatt Does this problem o other buildings andti) here? Sudde lights up tall kitt jen and ier wind “Anim ^tive in di who hav< | withdraw Franklin, with the Maj. 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