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bman accused of hiring hitman ednesday, August 28, 1991 The Battalion Page 5 HOUSTON (AP) - A Chan- lelview woman ordered the death !of the mother of her daughter's [cheerleading rival and used dia mond earrings as collateral for the Shired killing, taped conversations revealed Tuesday. The recorded conversations were played for jurors in the trial of Wanda Holloway, who is ac cused of trying to hire a hitman in a scheme prosecutors contend was meant to improve her daughter's chances of becoming cheerleader. Terry Harper, Holloway's for mer brother-in-law, took jurors step-by-step Tuesday through six taped conversations in which he and the 37-year-old defendant planned to pay someone to kill or kidnap Verna Heath. "I would like it done. I'm seri ous about it. I've just got to come up with the money," she said dur ing one conversation. Prosecutors allege Holloway Thieves steal bicycles from Austin police AUSTIN (AP) - Four of nine bicycles used by Austin police offi cers to patrol the Sixth Street I nightclub district and the Univer- I sity of Texas area were stolen from | | the department's parking garage. The $800 bicycles, two of J which were donated to the police ■ department last year, were locked I on a bicycle rack with cables and p padlocks in the patrol building. "Nobody hates anything I worse than a thief, and a sneak I thief is about the lowest form of I human being there is," said Lt. I Gerald Raines of the police tactical I services division. Officers had last used two of I the bikes Saturday night and early I Sunday morning and discovered I the bicycles were missing Mon- I day. Welcome to A&M hoped Heath's daughter. Amber, would be so upset over the death she would drop out of the cheer leading competition, giving her 13-year-old daughter, Shanna Harper, a better shot at winning. Defense attorneys claim she was set up by two scheming brothers. Amber is a freshman cheer leader this year at Channelview High School in suburban Houston. Shanna is not on the team. Terry Harper wore a hidden tape-recorder at the request of Harris County sheriff's detectives whom he had contacted after he said Holloway first asked him to "get rid of" Heath last fall. In their last meeting Jan. 28, Holloway gave Harper diamond earrings and promised to pay cash for the hit within a month. "I can't afford to do both," Holloway said, referring to an ear lier plan to kill both Verna and Amber Heath. "The mother's the one who screwed me around, the mother's done all the damage." "You want her dead?" Harper asked. She replied: "I don't care what you do with her, you can keep her in Cuba for 15 years. I want her gone." "Now, Wanda. He (the hit man) said she won't be breathing much longer," Harper continued. "OK, go for it," Holloway said. Holloway spoke rapidly on the tapes, and both she and Harp er laughed and joked throughout the conversations. She was concerned about get ting caught, saying, "If I ever get tied into this, I know I'd have to move. ... But I know I want to do it." Holloway and Harper debat ed several times about whether both or one of the Heaths would be hurt and if they should be in jured or killed. BUY YOUR BOOKS NOW & SAVE at *13 LOU POT S SR L BOOKSTORE 3 WE GUARANTEE the Right BOOKS Northgate Redmond Terrace Jersey Street (across from Post Office) (next to Academy) (Southgate) Dry cleaner employs armed security guards HOUSTON (AP) - A dry- cleaning company trying to pro tect customers and employees is hiding armed guards in its stores. Tjhis marks the third time since the late 1960s that Pilgrim Cleaners has utilized such security measures. 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