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Woman jailed
in kidnaping
DETROIT (UPI) — A 24-year
old Ohio woman, the fourth
suspect in a $250,000 kidnap
scheme that ended with a
Detroit bank officer dead of
stab wounds, was jailed Thurs
day night on SIOO,OOO bond.
Sharon Scheurell of Columbus
was charged with aiding and
abetting in the abduction of
James J. Crawford Jr., 25,
whose body was found Thurs
day along a rural dirt road
near the central Ohio town of
Newark.
Her arrest was announced 24
hours after the FBI reported
the arrest of three men, who
were jailed in lieu of an overall
$700,000 bond on extortion
charges.
Police sources said the three
men were likely to face federal
kidnap charges.
Authorities withheld details of
the investigation that led FBI
agents to the suspects, but
police sources said an infor
mant was involved.
Fire kills girl
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) - An
eight-month-old girl has burned
to death in a trailer fire about
10 miles north of here in rural
Madison County.
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James Crawford Jr.
Crawford, a bachelor who
lived in suburban Grosse
Pointe, was abducted a week
ago today as he arrived for
work at a National Bank of
Detroit branch where he was
the assistant manager.
Bank officials said they
received telephoned demands
for $250,000 ransom and were
ready to pay it, but did not
because Crawford’s kidnapers
did not explain how the bank
should pay the money.
Crawford’s body was spotted
Madison Sheriff Jack Fortson
said Karen Denise Green died
Thursday when her family’s
trailer caught fire.
early Thursday about 12 miles
from Newark, where police said
he apparently was stabbed and
left for dead sometime Tues
day. They said Crawford
apparently was able to stumble
about 250 yards before collaps
ing and dying.
Sheriff Max Marston of
Licking County, where the body
was found, said Crawford
apparently was kept prisoner in
a farm house near where his
body was found.
Two of the three male
suspects, William Nabozny, 38,
of Dearborn, and John S.
Garside, 39, of Columbus, were
arrested by FBI agents who
stopped their car on an
interstate highway near Day
ton, Ohio.
Chester S. Wysocki, 38, of
Dearborn, was arrested as he
was washing his car in the
Detroit suburb of Farmington.
Police said he was on parole
from a federal prison for his
role in a 1970 bank robbery.
Charged
with killing
CAMDEN, N.J. (UPI) - A
delicatessen owner has been
charged with the murder of a
man who ran naked into his
store Thursday, beat four
customers and then assaulted
the store owner, police said.
Sam Starling, 28, died of
gunshot wounds in the chest
and abdomen suffered at
Tony’s Delicatessen.
A spokesman for the Camden
County Prosecutor’s Office said
witnesses reported Starling ran
into the store wearing no
clothing and beat four cus
tomers.
The spokesman said the deli
owner, Anthony Laßocca, told
the man to leave, but Starling
instead turned on Laßocca,
who reached for a gun beneath
the counter.
News Summary
By United Press International
Tax relief bill
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate Finance
Committee has prepared a modest tax relief bill destined
for a veto.
After a two-hour meeting Thursday at the White House,
President Ford and Congressional leaders braced for
what may turn out to be the last White House-Congress
clash in 1975 and the political ripples that will wash into
the 1976 election year.
The President told four senators who met with him that
he will veto legislation to extend for six months the 1975
antirecession tax reductions if the bill fails to include a
promise to put a lid on spending in the fiscal year
beginning October, 1976.
Patty Hearst case
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — Patricia Hearst carried an
automatic rifle as part of a Symbionese Liberation Army
bank robbery team because she feared for her life, a
defense lawyer said Thursday.
F. Lee Bailey explained his strategy for next month’s
trial to U.S. District Judge Oliver J. Carter this way:
“Putting it simply, it amounts to the defense that
‘Somebody put a gun at my head and I did what they told
me.’”
Carter had called the hearing to listen to arguments on
pretrial motions by the defense and prosecution. The U.S.
Attorney’s office had sought to have the defense disclose
whether it would use diminished mental capacity as a
strategy.
Counterintelligence
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Attorney General Edward H.
Levi, revealing he may have been a victim himself of an
FBI counterintelligence program, says he feels the
bureau needs new guidelines to prevent abuse from within
— such as happened under J. Edgar Hoover — or from
without, by secret presidential directives.
Levi told the Senate intelligence committee Thursday
that when he came to Washington to take up his job, “I
was told I was the recipient of a COINTELPRO letter.”
COINTELPRO was a secret FBI intelligence operation
run under Hoover from 1959 until 1971 that harassed
dissidents and reform advocates of all political
colorations and often sent anonymous letters discrediting
people with false information.
Tread lightly
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (UPI) — A team of economic
analysts warned the federal government Thursday to
tread lightly on the sensitivity of American consumers or
face a collapse of the nation’s economic recovery.
The Survey Research Center at the University of
Michigan, in its bimonthly survey of consumer sentiment,
said recent gains in public optimism about the economy
have slackened.
Any more discouraging economic news, analysts said,
could shut off consumer spending.
Sentenced
to life
CARTERSVILLE, Ga. (UPI)
— Jerry Ray Lane, 24, has
been sentenced to life in prison
plus 20 years on charges of
murder and robbery in the 1974
slaying of a Cartersville busi
nessman.
A Bartow County superior
court jury Wednesday night
returned guilty verdicts and
sentences on both charges
against Lane in the Oct. 7,1974
slaying of George Hooks Jr.
Michael Eugene Berryhill, 23,
of Marietta is under a death
sentence in the same case. He
was sentenced earlier this year
and the death sentence was
upheld by the Georgia Supreme
Court.
Hooks, plant manager for
Union Carbide here, was shot to
death by a man who forced his
way it his home and stole about
$6.
District Attorney David Vaug
han had asked the death
penalty for Lane.
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Jaguar killed
BUENAVENTURA, Colomb
ia (UPI) — Police today
reported a ranch hand killed a
six-foot, 200 pound jaguar that
had devoured an entire seven
member family, 50 cattle, and
several dogs and cats.
Police in Cisneros on Colom
bia’s Pacific coast said over the
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past two years the jaguar had
killed “the Martinez family,”
consisting of seven persons as
well as the cows and domestic
animals.
The body of the jaguar was
taken to a taxiderminists’ for
preservation in a museum.
SHARP INCREASE
COLLEGE . STATION,Tex.
(UPI) — Farmers in the state
planted 375,000 acres of sun
flowers in 1975, a sharp
increase from the 5,000-acre
crop of the previous year.
Agriculture specialists say
chances are good that sunflow
ers will become more impor
tant to the state’s farm
industry.