—-vrida . January 28.2(XX) MS News in Brief UJ£ 5giT( t oddler’s death ffles police HURST (AP) — Police waited y^j.-Thtirsday forthe results of an au topsy on a two-year-old Hurst girl who died after having seizures at ■aye a re center. ■Megan Godley died at Cook ■Idren's Medical Center in Fort Worth on Wednesday, a day after the seizures. Ne are waiting for information .toi>ee what direction to go, and to _ t hints to what we should be looking for," Hurst police It. Steve My* s said Thursday. ■Authorities said the girl had alskull fracture. Doctors at Cook also found bruises that th|y believe were from previous injuries. ■Myers said the autopsy was ^expected to be performed Thurs- T" day by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s office. The release of // .the preliminary results could take > another day. Investigators have already ed with family members and fan ily friends, which Myers said is a normal step in such situations. ■"Nothing has been ruled out ^Kl there's nothing I've seen that points specifically at any one thirg,” Myers said. “There is cer- ^tair ly no indication that it’s a day care situation.” odley was taken to the hos- B , pitti! after workers at the Fun 4 Kids Child Development Center in Hurst called authorities Tues- . day to report that she was having * a seizure. Different tactic against hate ! >r BEAUMONT (AP) — Groups who monitor white supremacy or ganizations agree that communi ties should band together to gird against Ku Klux Klan rallies. Ex actly how to accomplish that goal is where they differ. The Anti-Racist Action Net work, largely composed of young people, takes the in-your- face approach. Jerry Bellow, 27, and cohorts in the Columbus. Ohio-based chapter protests fyevery Klan rally and march they can attend. ■The chapter, one of 140 na tionwide, shouts insults at Klan members and police, whom rthey accuse of protecting the KKK. Their members often are arrested, but Bellow says it’s Vwoith it. ^JgJ^j'My advice is to be really di- >SWORD , rect, confront them, talk to neigh- ^bors, don’t hide in your church and pray,” Bellow said in a story by The Beaumont Enterprise. “Go '^down to the rallies and pray mere. Get in their faces.” ig Ted Almay, superintendent of the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation division of the attorney gener- ■ al ’s office, favors less con- frontational displays. ■“So we’ve done things to orga- nize various community functions,” Almay said. “In one city we had a ^ park cleanup day. We’ve had com- munity pride functions sponsored *TJ—— American Wholesale Mattress 693-2822 1663 S. 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Strapped to the gurney, Moreland’s first words were “Jesus, God, Lord.” Then he gave a lengthy final state ment in which he told his lather and brother, watching through a window nearby, that he loved them. “You’ve been the best. All of you have truly been the best,” he said. “I be lieve I'm going home.” Moreland then turned to his victims’ relatives and apologized. “I really mean that. It’s not just words. My life is all 1 can give. 1 stole two lives and I know it was precious to y’all,” he said, and they nodded in acknowledgment as he spoke. “That's what al cohol will do for you.” He sang the words “take me home Lord,” as the lethal drugs were adminis tered through his veins. He took two deep breaths, then exhaled four times before falling into un consciousness. Moreland was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m., eight minutes after the flow of lethal drugs began. The 39-year-old Indiana native never denied killing Clinton Corbet Abbott and John Royce Cravey. The two triends were stabbed repeatedly in the back, robbed and left to die in a Eustace trailer home after a day of beer drinking on Oct. 9, 1982. Instead, Moreland maintained he act ed out of fear after Cravey, a 41 -year-old iron worker, allegedly made homosexu al advances toward him. The claim is similar to the “gay panic” defense used last year in the trial of one of the men accused of fatally beating Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyoming college student. A judge disallowed the strategy. Relatives of Moreland’s victims ran kle at the suggestion. “My brother was by no means a ho mosexual. 1 know this for a fact,” said Robert Cravey. “Neither was Clint. I le'd have fought you if you even mentioned it to him.” Jurors also rejected the idea, con victing Moreland of capital murder for Abbott’s death on June 15, 1983. He was indicted but never tried for Cravey’s killing. “There's no doubt in my mind that what I did was wrong,” Moreland told the Athens Daily Review in a recent death row interview. “But some of the things they did at that trial were wrong, too. If you're going to convict a man, especially if you’re going to take his life. I’d think you’d have to do it fairly.” Moreland said his trial at torneys, Hank Skelton and the late Bill Bandy, mishandled his case, a claim attorney James T. Maloney supports. “There were a number of errors in Mr. Moreland's trial dealing with the nature of the indictment... the jury se lection process and the sufficiency of evidence that were not properly pre served,” Maloney said. Skelton, who practices in Athens, de clined to discuss the trial. Meanwhile, the victims’ relatives re mained steadfast in their determination to see Moreland receive a lethal injection Thursday. It was Texas' third execution this week and the seventh in January, the most in January since eight men were killed in June 1997. "There were a number of errors in Mr. More land's trial dealing with the nature of the indictment..." — james T. Maloney Claim attorney DPS trooper fails to appear for hearing AUSTIN (AP) — A Texas Depart ment of Public Safety (DPS) trooper, who revealed photographs of troopers dressed in Ku Klux Klan costumes after he was suspended without pay, failed to appear for a hearing he requested with the DPS director. Darron Anderson, 35, scheduled an appeal hearing Wednesday morning with DPS director Col. Dudley Thomas, but never showed up and has n't contacted the department, spokesperson Tom Vinger said. Anderson’s lawyer, state Rep. Ron Wilson, D-Houston, did not return a call from The Associated Press for comment Wednesday. Dudley suspended Anderson without pay in November and recommended his dismissal after Anderson was indicted for arson. 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