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Page 6/The Battalion/Wednesday,January 25, 1984 3-year-old crime may be solved Lucas tied to more killings United Press International BENTON, La. — Sheriffs deputies questioned confessed mass killer Henry Lee Lucas Tuesday in the death of an un identified woman — one of a growing number of killings being tied to Lucas in northwest Louisiana and northeast Texas. Officials in at least two north east Texas counties were pre paring to seek indictments against Lucas and his sometime traveling companion, Ottis Elwood Toole. The men have told officials they killed about 200 people as they traveled, both together and separately, across the country. Toole earlier this month was charged in the death of a Hen- AGGIE ALLEMANDERS SQUARE DANCE CLASS Start Wednesday, Jan. 25 at 6:30 226 MSC Come Join the Fun! derson school teacher, and pro secutors said Lucas may face burglary charges in that inci dent. Smith County investigators said they will consult prosecu tors later this week about filing charges against Lucas and Toole in the robbery, rape and killing of a woman in her home just north of Tyler. Cherokee County Sheriff Allen Horton said a grand jury will hear evidence against Lucas and Toole in the 1982 slaying of a 20-year-old man killed while he was hitchhiking near Jack sonville. to Florida to interview Toole ab out the unsolved slayings. The unidentified woman’s decomposed body was found in January 1981 by a man walking along Louisiana 157 in north east Bossier Parish. She was stab bed to death, and a kitchen knife was found plunged into the ground near her body. “We feel like we’re well on the right track on this particular one,” Dooley said. “I’d like to close this one out.” JAY’S GYM TOTAL FITNESS FOR MEN & WOMEN 5 Clean, spacious, professional atmosphere Individualized Instruction & Evaluations Circuit Training Bodybuilding/Powerlifting Carpeted Locker Rooms/Showers Over 6000 lbs. of free weights Nautilus principal machines Variable resistance, multi-cam equipment Open 6 days a week to men & women Special Spring Semester Rate Call For More Info 3609-A S. College (across from Chicken Oil Co.) 846-6272 Bossier Parish investigators questioned Lucas Tuesday in Georgetown, where he is await ing trial for the death of an un identified hitiker. The men are suspects in about six unsolved homicides in Bossier Parish and Bossier City, said Sheriff Vol Dooley. Bossier Parish Detective Sgt. 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Supported by: National Safety Council An American _ Revolution good'$veah FREE SOFT DRINKS WILL BE SERVED AT THE EVENT COURTESY OF fi Rare bird dies after treatment for gunshot United Press International ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A 2-year-old whooping crane, one of fewer than three dozen members of an ex perimental flock of the en dangered birds, died while being treated for gunshot wounds, officials said Tuesday. Veterinarians and patho logists planned to examine the carcass to try to find the exact cause of death of the bird, which was found to have three shotgun pellets in the upper teg and lower abdomen. The bird was underweight and weak, although it could fly, when captured at the Bos que del Apache National Wildlife Refuge near Socorro, N.M., last weekend and trans ported to the Rio Grande Zoo for treatment. Tom Smylie of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the bird, believed to have been a male, weighed about 9 pounds, compared to a nor mal body weight of 14-15 pounds. W’iidlife groups offered a $1,1)00 reward for informa tion leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who shot the bird, and Smylie said a person who reports the shooting of an endangered bird can collect up to a $2,500 reward. “We’ve got about 100 of these birds in the wild, so you’re not talking about a lot of birds,” Smylie said. The experimental flock was started in the mid-1970s to create a second wild group of whoopers. The primary flock of 75 birds winters on the Texas Gulf Coast and spends summers in Canada’s North west Territories. The new flock is composed of birds hatchet! from eggs taken from the Canadian nest ing grounds and placed in nests of sandhill cranes at Gray’s Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Idaho. The young whoopers are raised by their create sandhill “parents” tor out . , year, which includes the fali : ! n ^ migration to New Mexico. iP’ ’ , Smylie said a total of3jf‘ As 11 whoopers were counted i Ions, f and fo munin 1 Th( ation I: vice to ters ca rating south through Color*- ; t ° 1, '!' do last fall, while 2b had be/ 0 observed d u ring the winter os | ei s ^ or near the central New Met _ ^ j ico refuge. f( ° re 1 be dead whooper, whid „ M , i tv was hatched in Idaho in 198! was seen leaving the refujt Dec. 27, he said, and returi ing Jan. 5. “They noticed its behavior was not up to par, and it was not eating well,” he said “Then it seemed to be recce ering, but when the last edd snap hit, it began to deteri rate.” Smylie said officials dona know when or where the bird was shot, but said it was likely it was wounded whileosj ‘ -j-|‘ the refuge. He said shootinm nK . IU ( whooping crane is punishable | by a maximum penalty onK n j ve i vear in jail and a fineolLi i $20,000. m h( mostac wears 1 to a pa i stude n mand ions h Judge denies mistrial plea in Latourette murder case United Press International HOUSTON — The lawyer representing the woman charged with murder in the shooting death of former pro fessional football player Charles Latourette Tuesday claimed news accounts of the trial were biased and requested a mistrial. However, the request for a mistrial was denied, along with motions to sequester the jury or postpone the case in the trial of Patricia Latourette, who is charged with murder in the slaying of her radiologist- husband on Dec. 22, 1982. Mrs. Latourette pleaded in nocent in the case. Defense lawyer Jack Zimmer- mann asked for the mistrial af ter Houston television and radio stations broadcasted excerpts from a tape-recorded conversa tion between the Latourettes two months before the shooting. In the tape, Mrs. Latourette is heard screaming and yelling at her husband and threatening to kill him because she did not like the way she was being treated by him. The 25-minute tape was play ed for the seven-man, five- woman jury Monday, and two television reporters received permission from the presiding judge to record the tape as it was being played in the courtroom. Zimmermann said playing the tape on television and the radio caused “pervasive, pro secutorial-bias, improper and inaccurate reporting.” He said although the jury had been in- Bys. I He ill of h ■raid to bak ■5 to them, good < st i ui ted not to listen toorrti®f e reports of the case, ZimirfI - manu said the pressure froimlilp 0111 ' or Get community would be so that it would convict his diot® ien c The tape, peppered ri|f 01 '? 1 curse words and threats,nM . made while Latourette,a 11 football player for the St. LoiK5 ir ( Cardinals, dictated medicalnlr. 'U cords in bis office. His wifedlf 111 ? v led him on the telephoneandliljr 1 ^ 1 recorded her words fromd ''’ 0 . amplication over a spealim r ’ W1 ‘ phone. She repeatedly acaslK ranc him of having a girlfriend ar| tlon 1 rejecting her. Mrs. Latourette, a realesKjjy^ broker, told her husband o( months not to come home.i* cause if he did, she wouldsto him with his own guns. Uni Federt Dallas has 'no room at the inn' p .pform Crow was not available fe| United Press International DALLAS — Illinois delegates to this summer’s Republican Na tional Convention have learned the hotel they were assigned to will be torn down before they get there. The 186 members last week were assigned to the Dunfey Dallas hotel, a rambling English manor-style building converted years ago from an apartment house. “I just got the letter today (Monday) saying we had been assigned to the Dunfey,” said Illinois state party executive director Chris Atchison of Springfield, Ill. “When I called to get some more information about the hotel 1 spoke to a very pleasant lady who said, ‘Your hotel is being torn down.’” The hotel was placed on the list of lodging available to the 20,000 people expected in Au gust, but on Jan. 16 a deal was signed to buy the hotel and tear it down to make room for a shopping center. The hotel will be closed Feb. 1. The culprit is developer Trammell Crow, a Dallas civic leader who also chairs the com mittee to raise money for the convention. Was nwi rtvdlkiuic i ; p ro p os comment, but Crow compar; 0 f(; ett official Robert Farrell, will pj ie handled the purchase, said It t) K . act “didn’t know anything abouf the co the mixup. ierits that it “That’s not my responsildeal. ity,” Farrell said. “Wegavettotakeov two weeks to wind down. T. corpor advance hookings are theii I problem.” Belinda Skaggs of Oklahoro City, spokeswoman for l OOP’s 1 lousing Committee,sai she expects little difficultyi finding new quarters for thedt legation. Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Spring Rush ’84 Jan. 26, Thursday No theme Jan. 28, Saturday “Cabbage Patch Doll” Party Feb. 3, Friday No theme All Parties At T.K.E. House 102 S. Parker PARTIES BEGIN AT 8:30 e 3 TKE House Texas 4 miles 5 vfi <N Parker \ for more information, call 696-9412 or 823-7359