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THE BATTALION
Monday, Februan
— |
Gunman consumed
by Amber murder
BEDFORD (AP)—A man shot dead by a police sharpshooter
after he opened lire from a third-floor apartment balcony was
known by authorities as a bothersome tipster who claimed to
know who was responsible for the 1996 kidnapping and slaying
of Amber Hagerman.
It still has not been determined what caused Matthew
Wade I loward, 42, to throw furniture
from his balcony on Friday and then
begin shooting at Shoal Creek Apart
ment residents with a .357-caliber Colt
revolver. No one was injured. A marks
man killed 1 loward, a criminal defense
lawyer, after a brief standoff.
“We probably will never know," Bed
ford Deputy Police Chief Mike Mason
said Sunday. “We plan on interviewing
some witnesses. We have reports that he
was screaming incoherently.”
Bedford Municipal Judge Tim Mur
phy defeated I loward in a 1995 election
but considered him a friendly colleague.
“1 le did not appear to me to be a per
son that had any problems,” Murphy is
quoted as say ing in Sunday editions of
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
"The tips he had
forwarded on Am
ber Hagerman were
duly investigated
until it was found
they were without
merit."
he
“1 would just see him from time to time at the courthou
said. “I hadn’t seen him in the courthouse in awhile.”
Police knew a different Howard, who apparently gave up his
law practice about a year ago.
Howard's contact with Arlington police inv estigators occurred
from mid-1996 to early 1998, when he said he knew who killed
Amber, said Arlington police Sgt. Mark Simpson, who headed a
task force investigating Amber’s death.
The unsolved slaying of the 9-year-old led to creation of the
“Amber Plan” — through which North Texas radio and televi
sion stations broadcast disappearances.
Task force members investigated the man whom Howard
named, but he had an alibi, Simpson said.
“The tips he had forwarded on Amber Hagerman\
investigated until it was found they were without i
said. "There was never any indication of violence ort
violence in the letters he wrote us. 1 le never got <
\ idual, but he ne\ er had any information ty ing him toito
his own leap of faith from sorael
correspondence he had with him.*]
I loward continued sending If
Arlington investigators about!
"that upon examination uereaHl
irrelevant to anything." Simp$a|
I loward also began sending inf®
toother law -enforcementagenci
rant County and other a
"1 le would write long,rai
tors and had packets ofpaperwj
went nowhere and was absolute]
sessed with tins thing,” Simp
"But it passed over time."
When 1 loward beganpn
on the issue, inv estigatorstu
eus toward I loward, Simpson sail
was cleared.
“He didn't kill Amber.''Stmpffl
Judy Gill, who bought I loward’s Bedford house 1 in!
an apartment®!
the rigors ot homeownet-ship, which since a divorcehads
kC * ■
Sgt. Mark Simpson
Arlington police
back seat to his exhaustiv e w ork as a lawy er.
Howard told Gill he vv as w orking on theAmbercase.fi
“He w as working long hours and it burned him ouC®
“He was going to go from being a criminal attorney i®:
puter programming. I le didn't have time to do yard wortaii
type of thing.”
The officer who fired the shot that killed Howard
administrative leave w ith pay. Officials said it appeal
tective Bill Pond, an 11-year veteran, acted justifiably
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bipartisanship
AUSTIN (AP) It’s one thing to
talk the talk, says George W. Bush, point
ing to his record as Texas governor as ev
idence that he’s the only Republican
presidential hopeful who has walked the
chief executive’s walk.
“What
Republicans
need to do is
elect some
body who
has gotten
results, tan
gible results
that people
can see, that
people can
put their
arms around
and say,
part,” said Bruce Buchanan, a Universi
ty of Texas political scientist and veter
an Bush watcher.
It’s a pragmatic view in a state where
the GOP didn’t take control of a legisla
tive chamber until three years ago, where
Republicans
Mail the
on the rix
inD-FW
DALLAS (AP) —Mail the
the rise in the Dal I as-Fort WortM
where authorities mc trine to st3lM&M freshn
"I am a princi
pled person. I
stand on my
ground. I don't
try to do all
things for all
people."
BUSH
hold only a
one-vote
Senate ma
jority and
Democrats
have ruled
the House for
120 years.
“If he had
come in with
a hard-right
program, he
would have
‘This man’s a leader’,” Bush said during
one New Hampshire debate.
After live years in office and signing
4,095 bills into law — everything from
lowering property taxes to limiting law
suit damages — Bush’s guiding philos
ophy might best be described as the pol
itics of the possible.
His two-pronged mantra: Govern
ment should do a few things and do them
well, and an officeholder shouldn’t
squander his political capital.
As only the second Republican gov
ernor of Texas since Reconstruction,
Bush picked his targets carefully and
worked closely with Democrats.
“I’m a conservative. I am not stri
dent,” Bush said in an interview. “I am
a principled person. 1 stand on my
ground. I know how to set an agenda. I
don’t try to do all things for all people.”
And that may be the best way to sum
up his gubernatorial record, analysts say.
“He’s been described as almost risk-
averse. He’s not ideological. He’s chosen
a small number of issues that are clear cut
and not terribly controversial. 1 le’s shied
away from controversy for the most
been demolished his first six months in
office by the Fegislature. We don’t have
a hard-right Legislature, and he wouldn't
be running for president now,” George
Christian, who was President Lyndon
Johnson’s press secretary, said.
“A lot of what he has done as gov
ernor is avoid the bad things,” Christ
ian said. “He hasn’t been confronta
tional. He hasn’t been dogmatic, lie
hasn’t demagogued. I le realized he had
to be bipartisan or he might as well not
be serving.”
From abortion to weli'are. Bush has
compiled a track record dotted with ac
complishments— and some failures —
while sometimes refusing to be drawn
into controversial topics.
His signal accomplishment, which he
touts again and again on the campaign
trail, was his push to lower property taxes.
Bush called on lawmakers in 1997 to
cut school property taxes by $3 billion.
To reach that goal, he proposed a series
of steps that included spending $ 1 billion
of budget surplus; raising the sales and
motor vehicle sales taxes; and imposing
a business activity tax.
out thieves who swipe(
uments and u rite ihouxmisoiAoWfl
worth of fraudulent check.
Kenny D. Smith, U.S. Postal !
spection Service spokesman, said]
problem of mail theft in the Metre
has more than doubled since this t »
last year. Apartment complexes ■The Autries
other areas w ith large conccntrati the University <
mail are particularly vulnerable,hesBered Saturda
"The thieves are looking foripTaloes.
thing with your financial infom»0f course
on it," Smith is quoted as sas Briard King c
Sunday editions ofT/teDa/Wiftiding the
ing Xews. “Before you can do nan's 34 point
thing, they've already hityourchfWri a reperu
ing account." Inpers, timely
Since the beginning of the : *asingly reliat
year in October, postal inspt |g. the Texas /
have made 41 arrests for mail theifell team sqm.
the area. Smith said. Nineteen, iftory over the
are now under federal indictmeBi«9 Reed Are
said. The penalties for stealingn|asA&M’s firs
can range up to $250,000 in linesiflorado.
five years in prison. jh j ust wanl
In a case reported to Dallas) mid. “I’d been s
last month, a woman received a Aw how lomi
from a sales clerk at a Lewisvilleilck on track ”
niture store after someone nwiKKiim, who h
$2,200 purchase with one ofherst ttalftime scor
checks. The next day, the thie'pl 34 p 0 j n t s
made a $ 1,700 purchase at a mall*
purchases of $2,800 and $2,200 atf
other stores.
“These people have my tele]
number and my address,” the wo
who requested anonymity because!
fears the thieves, said. “I justd« ^ .
know what else they could beupi
and I worry about that.”
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