age 6/The Battalion/Tuesday, April 24,1984
Man charged with not
returning library books
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by Paul Dirmd
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EL PASO >— A district attor-
icy’s spokesman said charges
A^ere being prepared Monday
tgainst a businessman sus
pected of keeping a total of 844
xxiks checked out of the El
Paso Public Library over the
aast five years.
Police said they found 842
overdue books at the man’s
nonie and two more at his of
fice. “Those are the ones we in
ventoried,” said Detective Car
os Gonzalez. “I suppose there
:ould be more we don’t know
tbout.”
Gonzalez said the man will be
charged with theft over $750, a
third degree felony.
Assistant District Attorney
Richard Jewkes said the man’s
identity has not yet been re
vealed since charges have not
yet been filed. Jewkes said he
will probably receive the case
from police on Wednesday.
“The man told us he’s an avid
reader and he just kept the
books,” Gonzalez said.
Gonzalez said the 844 books
included fiction, sports, techni
cal “do-it-yourself,” biography,
history and other topics. All had
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been checked out of the main El
Paso Library from 1979 until
police first contacted the sus
pect a week ago.
Chief Librarian Nathan A.
Josel said the books had an av
erage value of $23 each and the
total “could be worth more than
$19,412.”
Gonzalez said the collection
of library books was discovered
by authorities after a visitor in
the suspect’s house mentioned
the books to someone else, who
alerted library officials, who
asked police to investigate.
Josel said the library keeps a
record of unreturned books.
City Council drastically cut the
library’s operating budget in
1980, Josel said, and librarians
discovered it was costing
$56,000 annually to mail over
due notices.
“We were only collecting
$20,000 a year in fines,” he said.
“The fine rate has gone up
since then, but so has the cost of
mailing notices.”
Pointing out that 844 books
kept by a single borrower “is a
rarity,” Josel said librarians got
lax about keeping up with over
due books, since notices were
not being mailed out.
He said the El Paso library
loses an average of 1,500 books
a year checked out and not re
turned, about 5 percent of its
inventory. He said the El Paso
figure is half the national .li
brary loss average.
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Prison manager shot in face
Inmate witnesses murder
United Press International
Gonzalez said the books have
been returned to the library, ex
cept for $750 worth to be used
as court evidence and returned
after the suspect’s trial.
EDINBURG — A state
prison inmate testified Monday
he watched former convict Eroy
Brown fire three shots at point-
blank range into the face of
prison farm manager Billy Max
Moore.
James Edward Solomon, 50,
a Shelby County native who has
spent 18 years in prison on six
felony convictions, demon
strated in Brown’s murder trial
how the defendant allegedly
held Moore’s collar with his left
hand and fired a snub-nosed
.38-caliber pistol into Moore’s
head as the pair grappled be
hind a car.
Walker County District At
torney Frank Blazek called the
eyewitness to the stand after
distributing to the jury dozens
of pictures of the site of the kill
ing near Turkey Creek Bridge,
and of Moore’s corpse lying in
pool of blood.
Over continuous objections
by defense attorney and Sen.
Craig Washington, D-Houston,
Blazek also showed the all-His-
panic jury photographs of the
body of Texas Department of
Corrections Warden Wallace
Pack, who was shot in the arm
and drowned in the same April
4, 1981, incident at the Ellis
Prison Farm near Huntsville.
A Galveston jury in 1982 ac
quitted Brown, 32, a Waco na
tive, of a capital murder charge
in the Pack slaying after Brown
testified he acted in self-de
fense. His first trial in Pack’s
death ended in a hung jury.
Brown’s lawyers Monday be
gan developing the same de
fense in Moore’s slaying by elic
iting on cross-examination from
James A. Williamson, the first
prison official on the scene after
the killings, that neither Pack
nor Moore was on duty when
they were killed.
Williamson added that prison
guards were forbidden to bring
weapons inside the prison com
pound.
The two prison employees
were killed just outside the com
pound, near a garden shop
where Solomon was working.
The shop was located on a road
that leads to an area known as
“The Bottoms.”
Brown, who was serving a 12-
t 'ear armed robbery sentence he
las since completed, testified in
the Pack case that he feared the
two men were taking him to
The Bottoms to torture him.
Under defense questioning,
Williamson said Brown was not
wearing shoes and had been
shot in the fool when William
son subdued and handcuffed
him after the killings.
Solomon testified that
Moore’s pickup truck, con
taining Moore and Brown,
drove up near the bridge and
was joined by an automobile
driven by Pack.
“Mr. Moore left the pickup
and went back to meet Pad
his car. Eroy got out of
pickup and started runnng
to them. One of the show
•Stop. Get back in that trad,'
the inmate testified.
"He (Brown) kept com
and there was a scufflebetw
Eroy and Mr. Moore.”
Solomon said Moore a
Brown then got in the bad*
of the car and he heard ash
and saw Pack fall.
Then Moore and Browns
out of (lie car on oppsitestt
and met behind the veto
where three more shots >c
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and said, ‘I’m tired of vours-
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mon said
I heard three shots,”SI Monday
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Prostitutes move into business district
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AUSTIN — An influx of out-
of-town prostitutes into an old
south Austin business and
church district has angered
churchgoers and merchants
and frustrated police.
Authorities say the scantily
clad prostitutes, who work all
hours, stroll along Congress
Avenue and solicit business
from people in cars stopped at
traffic lights.
“There seems to be a growing
number,” said police senior Sgt.
Gene Freudenberg. “They’re
bothering everybody. Cars are
circling the block. It looks like a
circus.”
These incidents have been
reported in the area:
— A prostitute reached
through a car window and
grabbed the pants of a pastor as
he pulled his car into the
church parking lot after mid
night.
— Prostitutes have ap
proached women customers of
a car dealership in front of the
showroom and told the custom
ers to move on because that was
their territory.
— A prostitute distracted
motorists by pulling her pants
down during rush-hour traffic.
Freudenberg said most of the
prostitutes along South Con
gress tell police they are from
Dallas, California, Nevada or
New York.
“They think Austin is just
wide open because there are
low fines, and they are not
hassled too much,” he said.
“Until the penalties are raised
to the point where it’s not prof
itable to them, they’ll continue
to do it.”
Associate Municipal Judge
Harriet Murphy said the aver
age fine imposed for an offense
called loitering in a roadway is
$112 to $124. Suspected prosti
tutes are often arrested for loi
tering in a roadway because
there is no need to verify that
an offer of sex for money was
made.
The fine for the same\i
lion in Dallas is $200.
“If we stay steady on
(arrests) for a couple of nijli
then the problem
said Freudenberg
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