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Philadelphia ‘horror house’ suspect
thwarted in jailhouse suicide attempt
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man
charged with murder after police
found half-naked women chained in
his basement and body parts in his
freezer tried to hang himself in jail
Thursday, but was not seriously in
jured, authorities said.
week and charged with two counts of
murder and multiple counts of rape
and kidnapping.
David S. Owens, superintendent
of the Philadelphia prisons, said
Heidnik used his T-shirt to suspend
himself from a shower pipe.
Gary Heidnik has been held with
out bail at the Philadelphia Deten
tion Center since being arrested last
Heidnik was taken to the Guiffre
Medical Center, where Dr. James
Giuffre said the prisoner had an
abrasion around his neck, but was
not seriously injured.
Hospital spokesman Frank Cra
ven said Heidnik was brought to the
hospital about 10:30 p.m. “with what
looks like an apparent suicide at
tempt.”
Heidnik was in stable condition
and alert, Craven said, adding that
he would be admitted for obser
vation and further evaluation.
Police led to his dilapidated row-
house by a woman who said she es
caped from Heidnik found three
women chained in a basement pit.
Heidnik, a self-styled minister, ap
parently lured the women to his
house with flashy cars and money.
Despite the run-down condition of
his house, authorities have said he
has a $500,000 stock portfolio.
Texas gets monei
from Senate’s ‘nol
to Reagan veto
Runoff
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we’re both in the runoff,” Bradshaw
said.
Bradshaw said his first move in
the runoff will be to contact Hogan
and try to clear everything up before
campaigning resumes again.
He also said he doesn’t plan to al
ter his campaign now that he’s ad
vanced to the runoffs.
“We will still run a campaign with
an experience platform — the plat
form we began with is one we felt we
could win with, so we’re going to
stick with it,” he said.
Hogan said he has no plans to
change his campaign strategy much
either since it worked well enough to
get him into the runoff with a con
siderable majority. But he will listen
to the advice of any candidates who
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now may choose to endorse him, he
said.
“I’m going to stay on what I be
lieve in and keep the same ideas,”
Hogan said. “But I’m going to talk
with other candidates who are en
dorsing me so I can get some ideas
from them.”
He also said starting this cam
paign from the position of front
runner gives him some added confi
dence.
“Down deep, it makes you feel
good, but that’s how it affects every
body,” he said. “If you win a track
meet by a hundred yards it gives you
a better feeling than winning by a
few inches. I’d feel terrible if I just
got lazy and quit campaigning at this
point, though, so I’m going to keep
at it.”
Bradshaw said it’s not easy start
ing out from behind, but he’s not in
timidated by starting the race from
that position.
“It takes 50 percent to win an elec
tion, so that means that Mason has to
get 23 percent more, and I have to
get 33 percent more,” he said. “We’ll
just have to work a little harder than
before. I think we can do that — I
believe we can do that.”
Complaint
(Continued from page 1)
ing the runoff campaign he could
still be disqualified, but said if the
candidates spend responsibly from
here on out that event is unlikely.
Reached for comment, Bradshaw
said, “I knew when the complaint
was filed that it would end up this
way, because I knew the facts. I had
my receipts and my file, and I was
ready to present it to whoever
wanted to see it.”
He has mixed feelings about the
publicity’s effect on his image and
his campaign now that he’s in the
runoffs, he said.
“If the other candidates’ intention
was to bother me personally, then
they won,” he said. “If it was to
knock me out of this race — they
lost.”
DALLAS (AP) — The Senate
override of President Reagan’s
veto of the highway bill frees up
$850 million in federal funds for
Texas highways in 1987, state of
ficials said Thursday.
That money wilf support about
20,145 jobs in construction and
related activities, said Marcy
Goodfleisch, spokeswoman with
the State Department of High
ways and Public Transportation
in Austin.
It also may mean that Texans
will be able to drive 65 mph on
some highways by mid-summer,
she said.
some major state dollars fortl
projects that would have bray
“We’ve been wailing for two
days,” she said, referring to con
gressional action. “Reaction in the
whole department has l>een very
positive because we know we can
go to work on projects that are
now needed.”
She said estimates are that 23.7
jobs are created with every mil
lion dollars spent on highway
projects. The department will l>e-
gin letting contracts almost imme
diately.
“We have been postiioning
projects for a while now and as
early as December started using
f ederal dollars,” she said j
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