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United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — A fire to
day killed a man and his two
young sons, who were trapped
in their burning home by bur
glar bars that failed to release
From the inside.
Benedict Keller, 35, a techni
cal sergeant at Lackland Air
Force Base, died before noon
today at Wilford Hall Medical
Center.
His sons, 2-year-old Gregory
and 6-year-old Benedict Jr.,
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were pronounced dead on arri
val at the hospital.
Diana Keller,wife and mother
of the victims,was at work when
the morningfire erupted.
Neighbors said they heard Kel
ler’s screams for help from a
back bedroom but were unable
to pry the bars off from the out
side. Two Bexar County sher
iffs deputies finally pried the
bars off and pulled the victims
out through the window.
Two Bexar County sheriffs
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pried the bars
off and pulled the victims out
through the window.
The cause of the fire, which
broke out about 9 a.m., was still
unknown. Preliminary damage
estimates to the house were
placed at $100,000.
Investigators said they were
trying to determine whether the
burglar bars were improperly
installed or if Keller was too
weakened by smoke to release
them.
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United Press International
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DALLAS — A Plano po-
eman testified Thursday
lack engineer Lenell Geter
nied involvement in any of
t robberies in Plano and sug-
in joining ftsied police look at his room
er. Contact late, Anthony Williams, but
officer also admitted he
ight have misunderstood
Geter.
District Judge John Ovard is
aringa defense motion to dis-
iss the entire case on an un-
ecedented motion filed “in
interest of justice.”
Geter was arrested Aug. 24,
B82, in Greenville for a fast-
Bbod restaurant armed robbery
ftthe Dallas suburb of Garland,
e dassroomi He was eventually sentenced to
lilein prison.
:iel also r«| Geter was later freed on
other chffl and ordered to stand trial
iddress gro*E again amid national publicity to
0 much of as I s charges that the conviction
en up by ext was result of a racist judicial
ies. Istcm and sloppy and unfair
icndations»investigation by police agencies
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to make Geter and five other
black South Carolina men em
ployed in Greenville suspects in
a string of robberies in the Dal
las area, said he talked to Geter
after his arrest in Greenville.
“I do not recall exactly what I
asked him about my robberies,
but he (Geter) said something to
the effect he had no involve
ment and we needed to look at
Williams,” Cochrane said under
examination by Edwin Sigel,
one of Geter’s attorneys.
Questioned further by Sigel,
who was trying to show that
Geter only identified Williams
as his roommate because Coch
rane had Williams’ picture,
Cochrane said:
“There is a possibility some
thing may have been lost in
translation. ... It was my under
standing Geter was trying to im
plicate Williams. ... It is possible
I might have misunderstood.”
Cochrane also said that dur
ing photo lineups he later con
ducted, witnesses to the three
robberies in his jurisdiction
cleared both Williams and
Geter.
The defense has said that it
will show there was a conspiracy
among law officials to pin the
robberies on the South Carolina
engineers, that the prosecution
did not reveal evidence favor
able to the defense at Getef’s
previous trial and that Geter
was subjected to unfair and sug
gestive photo lineups and vic
timized through police surveil
lance of his residence long
before any robberies were com
mitted.
On cross-examination by As
sistant District Attorney Nor
man Kinne who sought to dis
pell the conspiracy theory,
Cochrane said he was not part
of any conspiracy to get Geter.
mendations
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Thou
sands of Mardi Gras revelers
irig prograr Thursday began their 38th an-
varsity co! nLal “non-stop, three-day
[ht per wed R r ty” in Washington’s festive
activities [forerunner of the legendary
team week, carnival season beginning next
al program weekend in New Orleans.
|Thirty festival queens with ti
les like “Miss Crawfish” and
liss Swine” are among the
jousands of Louisiana resi
sts and officials who have
ten over a downtown hotel as
fficial headquarters for the
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ol competM
e three-day celebration that cul-
■nates in Saturday night’s gala
ball hosted by a secret society
called The Mystick Krewe of
ifiuisianians.
■Began 38 years ago “just to
we Washington a taste of Loui-
iiana celebrations,” this year’s
relorful festivities are chaired
r incidents' b y Re P- GiU is Long, D-La.
* Universit) , fl"The guests at all three
t | iro; Jevents are in the thousands,
■obably between 2,000 and
-JORTHEFPM people, primarily Louisia-
Ty lO-speeii|.' ans ” said Jean Smith, a Long
from in m [ P e ' Help me, half the state
flies up here.
Western Fl'‘ ‘Louisiana Gov.-elect Edwin
stoi |lwards, Lt. Gov. Bobby Free-
Hali bike rat* an an< ^ ot her state officials are
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lot of state legislators, mayors
and public officials of all sorts.
“Just everybody, really. I
don’t know how they run the
state during Washington Mardi
Gras.”
New Orleans’ famed carnival
season, which annually draws
more than a million people for
what has been dubbed the
world’s largest free party, be
gins Feb. 26 and lasts through
Fat Tuesday, March 6, the last
day of revelry before Lent be-
gins.
But Louisianians love a party
and politics so thousands of
them travel north for the invita
tion-only, Washington version
of Mardi Gras.
“There are private parties
constantly. It’s a three-day non
stop party. There are all man
ner of receptions cocktail par
ties before and after every
event. There also are a lot of
hosptiality suites,” Smith said.”
The official festivities began
Thursday with a luncheon with
Mardi Gras king Crawford
Bishop of St. Amant, La., mem
bers of the Louisiana congres
sional delegation and the 30 fes
tival queens and 30 princesses.
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