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Wednesday, April 11,1984 /The Battalion/Page 3 I ucas confession etc United Press International AN ANGELO — Ilenry Lee told a sheriff he had com- sd 360 murders, including ne victims who were [eted” like fish, a taped con- ion played Tuesday at the fessed mass killer’s capital I ider trial revealed. In a portion of the tape, chvvill not be played for the Lucas told Williamson |ty Sheriff Jim lioutwell, killed them every way e is except one. We haven’t ioned any that I know of ,” ssaid, adding he and trav- companion Ottis Toole ikd, shot and strangled vic- filleted them like a fish,” ssaid. He also stated that ther Victim died on a cruci- cas is on trial for the ngulation of an unidentifed hitchhiker, whose body | found along Interstate 35 Georgetown in central las Oct. 31, 1979. Mejury was to be given its instructions Wednesday Iriioou. A guilty verdict lid mean that l.iu as would ler be sentenced to life in prison or given the death pen alty. The uncensored tape was played because attorneys dis agreed about wording on an ed ited version. On it Lucas said he and Toole killed more than 60 people in Texas. “Some were Ottis’, some were mine,” Lucas said. “I’ve been trying now since way back in the 70s to stop doing them.... There’s no way I can stop doing them,” Lucas said of the slay ings. Asked why he decided to confess to the killings, Lucas said, “It’s what I promised God I was going to do.” Part of the tape that the jury will be permitted to hear in cludes Lucas saying how he and T oole paid off supervisors of a Jacksonville, Fla., construction company to list them on time sheets when the two men were not working. Judge John Carter also al lowed jurors to hear former roofing supervisor Mack Caulder testify he was convicted in Alabama lot forgery in 1969 and convicted and sentenced to federal prison for forgery in 1970. On the stand, Caulder real- Ibrary awards ent Caperton could be imft ven if the b nittently, on one sitting a ['THERESA CORNELL Reporter late senator Kent Caperton recognized Tuesday night fiends of the Bryan Library his help in the revision of ral re liable this l’i rides toward t as muchta Library Systems Ac t. parked car,M Sty librarian Clara Mounce " the Library Systems Act up the ten systems in Texas ler which public libraries op- le. She says the Bryan library founder the slate library in are to a gnfttin. arsorsowei They (Austin libraries) di- issue tickets The funds to us,” Mounce up the offo P h ey also approve of our L M range plans. We are part investigate* 0 ier little Per that 31 county system.’ iaperton, author of the revi- is of the Library Systems ,was awarded with a plaque' ould hires# [pin at the annual meeting rrps of Cadet the group during National :> the 21stcel rary Week (April 8 - 14). Ca st itus! ton acce P le d his award by RandallS( thal lus contribution to . library was a repayment of a Graduate3t^t an( j an investment for the 1 remember with great dness the wonderful sum- jr afternoons I spent at the an library as a child,” Caper- said. “So I consider it in |ie way a repayment of a 't. It is also an investment be- Lloyd Bents cause, as the father of a 20- month-old little girl, I hope she will jump at the opportunity to spend many hours here at the library.” Caperton’s contribution to the revision of the Library Sys tems Act improved library pro cedures, Mounce said. “The Library Systems Act ba sically spells out what we have to do to keep our membership up to date,” Mounce said. “ We also have to meet certain standards and they spell out the stan dards.” Friends of the Bryan Library also received a check from the Chamber of Commerce during the meeting for $800 to use for the business reference section of the library. In other business, the group announced the continuation of their used book drive for the li brary book sale October 11-13. Last year, the sale brought in $4,600 at 25 cents and 50 cents a book. The profits were used to buy a $6,000 Minolta copier for the library. Mounce says the copier has already made a profit of $290. 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Prosecutors also called Ken neth Emery of Jacksonville, Fla., who said Lucas was absent for up to three days at a time during the roofing job. Emery was a co-worker of Lucas. Earlier Tuesday, two psychia trists disputed testimony that Lucas was schizophrenic, add ing they believed the confessed mass killer legally sane. “It is my opinion that he was sane at tire time of the of f ense,” Dr. Richard Coons of Austin said. Both he and Dr. Clay Grif fith of Dallas said Lucas has personality disorders, including desires to have sex with corpses and animals. Expert witnesses for the de fense Monday said Lucas is a schizophrenic acting out his im- pluses. “He might hear a voice from time to time, but if he steals cars, that’s a legal problem — not a medical problem,” Coons said of Lucas. The 47-year-old drifter’s at torneys argue that confessions about the Georgetown slaying were false. “There is certainly a startling lack of psychosis in these con fessions,” Coons said. Griffith agreed with Coons. Defense attorney Don Hig ginbotham contended that Lu cas confessed while under the influence of Thorazine, which he called an “anti-psychotic” drug. Griffith said Thorazine was used for various problems and given to Texas prison inmates to control behavior problems. “On a scale of 1 to 10, Lucas would be above the top, above 10, in terms of dangerousness,” Griffith said. Griffith said he specializes in criminals. Prosecutor Ed Walsh was ex pected to call other rebuttal wit nesses. The defense rested its case Monday without calling Lucas to the stand. Higginbotham said Lucas fal sely confessed to the George town slaying as “legal suicide” because he was so remorseful for having killed his 15-year-old common-law wife. Lucas was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Frieda “Becky” Powell ol Jacksonville, Fla. He also received a 75-year sentence for killing an elderly Ringgold woman. 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