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Trial begins this week
United Press International
JUNCTION CITY, Kan. — The
trial of a former church secretary
who is accused of plotting to have
her late husband murdered is sched
uled to begin Monday, though ju
rors may have to wait a week before
hearing any testimony.
Lorna Anderson, a former Empo
ria resident who now lives in Hut
chinson, is charged with two counts
of conspiring to commit first-degree
murder and one count of aiding and
abetting first-degree murder in the
shooting death of her husband, Mar
tin Anderson.
Anderson was slain in a Geary
County farm field along a rural road
in November 1983. No one has been
charged with firing the gun that
killed him.
Shortly before the shooting, Mrs.
Anderson complained of being ill
and asked her nusband to stop the
family’s van. When Anderson got
out of the vehicle, a gunman ap
peared from nowhere and shot him
in the head, Mrs. Anderson told au
thorities. She said the gunman then
lied into the night.
Geary County Associate District
Judge Melvin Gradert will preside
over Mrs. Anderson’s trial.
He says he will hear arguments on
motions filed in the case by Mrs. An
derson’s attorney, Jack Focht of Wi
chita, on Monday and Tuesday. The
judge said jury selection would be
Wednesday.
Initial testimony in the trial prob
ably won’t begin until Jan. 21, Grad
ert said, because Focht has to appear
before an appellate court Thursday
in Wichita.
An inquisition in Geary County
Shortly before the shoot
ing, Mrs. Anderson com
plained of being ill and
asked her husband to stop
the family's van. When
Anderson got out of the
vehicle, a gunman ap
peared from nowhere and
shot him in the head.
—
into Anderson’s death, which began
last week, was to resume Monday.
Gradert said it would not interfere
with the start of Mrs. Anderson’s
trial.
Focht filed a number of motions
with the court on Jan. 2, including
one to dismiss the charges against
Mrs. Anderson. One of the grounds
he hopes to have the charges dis
missed on is that Geary County does
not have jurisdiction in the case, he
said.
“There is no evidence that Lorna
Anderson conspired with some un
known person to kill her husband in
Geary County,” he said Friday.
Armed with a search warrant, au
thorities searched the Anderson
home in Emporia for a .22 caliber
handgun and ammunition, as well as
credit cards and identification be
longing to Anderson, according to
court documents.
Focht said a gun was not found.
As a result, one of his motions asks
Gradert to suppress as evidence the
fact that deputies were searching for
a weapon at the Anderson home.
“We have set aside two days for
those motions,” Gradert said. “They
do not state any specific reasons. Un
til 1 hear the arguments, I cannot
make a decision.”
Gradert predicted the trial would
last a minimum of two weeks.
County Attorney Steve Opat, who
could not be reached for comment,
has presented the court with a list of
more than 200 potential witnesses, a
court spokeswoman said.
Mrs. Anderson had been charged
with criminal solicitation in Lyon
County for allegedly conspiring with
the Rev. Thomas Bird to kill her
husband, but that charge was
dropped pending the outcome of a
grand jury probe into the death of
Bird’s wife, Sandra, who was killed
in a car wreck in July 1983.
Mrs. Bird’s death is being investi
gated because of similarities in the
way she died and her husband’s plan
to kill Anderson.
Prosecutors say Bird, a former
minister at Faith Lutheran Church
in Emporia, and Anderson, his for
mer secretary at the church, were
lovers. In August, Bird was con
victed in Lyon County of conspiring
to kill Anderson. Authorities say that
scheme never was carried out. He is
serving a 2 V2- to 7-year prison sen
tence.
Daniel Carter of Emporia and
Gregory Curry of Glenn, Miss., al
ready have pleaded guilty to crimi
nal solicitation in Anderson’s death.
Both men testified for the prosecu
tion during Mrs. Anderson’s prelim
inary hearing in June.
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