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Page 8/The Battalion/Friday, January 20, 1984
Doctor testifies in Jones trial
United Press International
GEORGETOWN — An
emergency room physician testi
fied Thursday 15-month-old
Chelsea McClellan showed signs
of having been given a dose of a
powerful muscle relaxer when
she was admitted to a hospital
where she was treated on the day
she died.
Dr. Richard Mason, an
emergency room doctor at the
Kerrville hospital, also said
pediatric nurse Genene Jones
commented on the excitement
surrounding Chelsea’s treat
ment in the emergency room on
Sept. 17, 1982.
“Dr. (Kathleen) Holland was
busy working on Chelsea and I
was standing next to her.
Genene Jones looked up at me
and to the people around me
and said to me, ‘They said there
wouldn’t be any excitment when
we came to Kerrville’,” he said.
Jones, 33, is charged with
murder in Chelsea’s death. Pro
secutors are attempting to prove
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of two killed the baby by inject
ing her with the muscle relaxer
Succinylcholine, also know as
Anectine. She faces a maximum
sentence of life or 99 years in
prison if convicted.
Mason said emergency room
personnel were told Chelsea was
being brought to the hospital
from Holland’s clinic, where
Jones worked, because of se
rious breathing problems, but
he said Chelsea showed no signs
of respiratory arrest when she
arrived.
“She was a very pretty girl. I
thought she was a healthy look
ing child, well-nourished,” he
said.
He said the baby’s move
ments and breathing patterns
indicated she could have been
given a dose of Anectine several
minutes earlier.
Earlier Thursday, an
emergency room chief nurse
testified she saw two needle-
marks on Chelsea’s legs when
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the child was brought to the hos
pital.
Registered nurse Sharon
Keith, the first witness to testify
in the trial, said Chelsea showed
few signs of distress, though the
hospital had been alerted by the
clinic to expect her to be suffer
ing from respiratory arrest.
“I noticed that she had two
injection marks on her legs,”
Mrs. Keith said. "I questioned
Genene about them. I asked her
what kind of shots she’d had at
the office and she said she’d had
some baby shots.”
Mrs. Keith said Ms. Jones la
ter told her not to withdraw
blood from the baby because
Chelsea had had a seizure after
receiving routine inoculations
— a reaction Mrs. Keith she had
never encountered.
The emergency room nurse
said Chelsea “looked in good
condition” when she left the hos-
E ital with Ms. Jones about an
our and a half later to be taken
to another hospital in San Anto
nio for further examination.
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Ambulance driver Steve
Brown later testified about 15
miles from the Kerrville hospital
Ms. Jones yelled, “Pull this son of
a bitch over,” and told atten
dants the baby’s heart had stop
ped. Dr. Holland’s and!
Jones’ efforts to revive I
failed and she died shortlyal
The jury got its firstt
Th u rsday of a picturtj
Chelsea. They stated
ped and without emotioml
color photograph of tiiedtil
a blue dress and baby I
Kerr County District An
ney Ron Sutton toldjurorsil
five-minute opening statet
Ms. Jones’ motive for I
Chelsea would become doj
the “tragic story” unfolded,
Tears streamed dotuiS
c heeks of Chelsea’s mattiB
aunt and eat-graiidm(l(tKB|
the jury listened to theM
ment. Ms. joties sat impassJ Un
throughout. AC
"1 want you to see this sidues
this tragic story, of the djOlBusin]
Chelsea McClellan unfn jn thr<
fore your own eyes and j food p
own ears," Sutton said. "YotMere cc
going to wonder why third tu re
red. Why, why, why, why; Thursc
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ence of events unfolds lx:j White
you . it will become incua; were p
c leai as to the reason whymhe rec
out me having to tell you !vironrr
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day care center from whid
month-old girl wasabducti
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continue operating undet
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of licensing for the Texas
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said die Dll R’s i egiohali Thursc!
Dallas has recommended I Polii
license of Jack and Dee'sbs [herasl
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to go along with the pro|
agreement since the day
center had previouslyM
good record of childcare]
DHR notified the day bottom
c enter ii was revokingil5n® er gy
after an in fain, Jessica Ply sla g e ,
was abduc ted last Septe™ on g (
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later unbanned aud abaif(i® neer
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was sentenced to lOyearsin work ol
on for attempted nuuderiTip utili
shooting of his wife—anpH in t
dent he tofd au(fy3r/fi/»V»S. ref
not remember, slate dis®<feen
court records showed. Vaughn
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Van Liew was found
shooting Donalee Curtis
Liew at a state highwaydf]
ment office last June. W
attorney George Thomps° r
told the jury Van Liew,51.
tormented because hiswif f
dragging but divorce pn*
ings.
Prosecutor Gene Walter
the jury any action byl
Liew did not justify ‘'an<
season on wives.” Judg
Clinton denied Thompson 1
quest for a mistrial bfcli*
Walters’ statement.
“She picked at the man
dangled him over the pro 1 ?
of insanity,” Thompson^
jury in his argument th,
Liew was not in his right®
the time of the shooting,?
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Embezzler indict?
LUBBOCK—A U.S4*
Court grand jury basing
bank vice president fores
/.ling bank funds and fail 0
record security purchases/
records show.
Melvin L.ee Boothe off 1
Bank and Trust was name
20-count indictment
Wednesday. The indictnten
cused him of embew
$389,420 in bank fundsarfl
ing to record $15.2 m
security purchases.^
Court records' sail 1
offenses happened
J an uary 1982 and Feb'
1983. Most of the purcltf
securities involved U.S.trf
notes.
In an unrelated indict
the grand jury charged 1
National Bank Teller 0
Giddens with misapplying
la*u month.