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_The Summerville News, Thursday, February 28, 1991
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Kidnap, Shooting Probed
from front page
Wednesday morning at Floyd
Medical Center (FflC). suffer
ing from three and possibl?'
four gunshot wounds. Sheritf
Turner said one bullet struck
Bishop in the face and two
others may have struck him in
the chest. A fourth shot metg'
have also been fired, he added.
The bizarre day of events
started shortly after noon Sun
dtfi in the maternity ward of
FMC. Rome Police Chief Joe
Cleveland said Invs. Terry
Autry and Tom Bojo probed
the incidents.
A woman first entered the
room of Yolanda Strange, 20,
Rockmart. Mrs. Strange told
The Summerville News that a
woman walked into her room
and said, “I'll take the baby
now.” Little Breanna Strange
had been born at 3:52 p.m.
Saturday and weighed six
gounds, 14 ounces. Mrs.
trange said she thought the
woman, who was dressed in a
green tee-shirt and pants, was
a hospital volunteer. The
woman asked the name of her
child, Mrs. Strange said, and
then kissed Breanna.
When the woman started
out of the room, Mrs. Strange
said she asked if she needed the
small ‘“‘buggy’’ that was nor
mally used to transport babies.
The woman replied that it
wasn’t needed.
YELLED
As the woman got just out
side the door, Mrs. Stran%e
said she heard a nurse ‘‘yell
ing” that the woman couldn't
tafie the baby out of the room
without beingraccompa.nied by
the mother. The woman then
turned around and brought
Breanna back into the room
and kissed the child again,
Mrs. Strange said.
The young Rockmart
mother then walked to the nur
sing station and saw the same
woman with another baby in
her arms. Nurses called for the
hospital's security service and
an unidentified visitor to the
maternity ward held the
woman until the guard arrived,
Mrs. Strange sais.u’l‘he woman
didn't offer any resistance, she
added, and Mrs. Strange said
she didn't hear her utter a
sound.
The second child picked up
by the woman was eigl}-it-pound
elfiht-ounce Nickolas Hawkins,
who had been born at 6 a.m.
Saturday. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Tommy Hawkins, Ar
muchee, and the grandson of
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Teems,
Subligna.
FAMILIAR
Mrs. Teems said she was in
her daughter's room Sunday
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afternoon when the woman
walked in and said it was ‘‘time
to put the baby back in his in
cubator.” Mrs. Teems said the
woman seemed familiar but she
didn't recc:fixize her at the
time. The Subligna woman said
she and Mrs. Bishop had gone
to school together.
“The minute she walked
past me, I thought, ‘she’s steal
ing our baby,” " Mrs. Teems
recalled.
Just before the woman
walked out the door with the
child, Debbie Renette Teems
Hawkins, 24, the child's
mother, asked why the baby
needed to be returned toits in
cubator. The woman replied
that the child needed its bath,
Mrs. Teems recalled.
SUSPICIOUS
When the woman left the
room, she pulled the room door
closed but Mrs. Teems opened
it and walked outside to see if
the woman would head toward
the nursery. She did but then
walked around a corner where
the stairs and elevators are
located.
A nurse saw her and yell
ed ‘hey’ and said ‘she has a
baby,’ " Mrs. Teems said. The
nurse got the Hawkins baby
away from the woman, who a(i)-
Parently was captured seconds
ater.
“You just don't think of
anything like that happening,”
said a relieved Mrs. ’lPeems.
The report filed by Rome
Invs. Autry and Bojo quoted
Mrs. Bishop as saying she
couldn’t have chil«fren and
wanted to hold one.
SHOOTING
Sheriff Turner said his of
fice received a call from the
Chattooga County Emergency
Medical Service (EMS) about
8:30 p.m. Sundxl about a
shooting on Berry Ridge Road.
Deg{ David Patterson found
Bishop sitting in an armchair
when he arrived. When Inv.
Ladon Lively arrived at the
scene, Turner said, an am
bulance was pulling out of the
Bishops’ driveway to take the
wounged man to FMC at
Rome. . : i 5
Sheriff Turner said an in
vestigation revealed that
Bishop had apparently been
shot with a .22 caliber revolver
while in the living room of the
co?le's home. Four spent car
tridges were found in the
weapon, he said, leading in
vestig:tors to sus%ect that
four shots may have been fired
at Bishop.
NO STATEMENT
Bishop claimed his wife had
shot him, Turner reported, but
she refused to make any state
ment about the incident.
Mrs. BishoF appeared to
have been lightly cut about the
face once or twice, Turner said,
but no knife, razor or other
sharp instrument was found at
the scene of the shooting. Both
Mr. and Mrs. Bishop afi)peared
to be intoxicated at the time,
Sheriff Turner reported.
Inv. P. R. Hill assisted with
the investiFation.
Mr. and Mrs. Bishop have
for years been prominent in
Summerville business affairs.
He is a successful building con
tractor and she is a Certified
Public Accountant. Mrs.
Bishop is a former member of
the Chattooga County
Hospital Authority and was in
strumental in obtaining state
a;;iroval for the addition to
Oak View Nursing Home.
Brown Case Off For Term
from front page
15. Apparently under terms of
last Novemger‘s Supreme
Court ruling, Lofns had no
choice but to order a mental
ev;:jluation of Brown, Van Pelt
said.
Judge Loggins, in his ad
dress to a crowded courtroom
Tuesday morning, said only
that the case had been con
tinued for the term for “legal
reasons.”’ Hedid not elaborate.
He indicated that it might be
tried in a special term prior to
the August term or during that
time.
SLAYINGS
Brown was charged with
murder in the shotgun slaying
of his estranged wife, Teri M.
Brown, 27,a§oudland. and her
boyfriend, Gari' Sentell, 39,
Alpine and Gaylesville, Ala. in
front of Menlo City Hall on Ju
ly 17, 1990. The primary elec
tion was under way that day
and Mrs. Brown was assisting
at the iolls. She was Menlo ci
ty clerk.
The estranged couple’s
house at Cloudland was found
engulfed in flames a short time
later with Brown's pickup
truck jammed into the rear of
the house. Lawmen first
thought Brown might have
died in the fire but a search
didn’t turn up a body. He sur
rendered to then-Inv. Larry
Kellett the following afternoon
in a wooded area near Little
River.
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Referendum On Board Planned
Solons Support Vote On Commission Board In March, 1992
from front page
because the group had not
verified that at least 10 %ereent
of the signatures were those of
registered voters.
VERIFIED
The petition was returned
to Perry by the group’s steer
ing committee last week. More
than 1,900 signatures were on
the document, and 1,084 had
been verified. Perry also
verified a percentage of the
signatures with the county’s
voter registration files stored
in his personal computer.
More than 9,200 county
residents are registered voters.
Members of the %roup’s
steering committee are Veatch,
Malcolm F. Wright, Fondren
Wright, Steve Weaver, Pat and
Lewis Strange, Farril White,
Alfred McDaniel, Jerry Brown
and Billy Wright.
The petition requested a
gublic vote on a five-member
oard of commissioners to be
elected from districts compris
ed of Trion, Summerville,
Pennville, Menlo and Lyerly.
Commissioners would serve
staggered, four-year terms, and
receive an annual salary of
$3,600. The board-elected
chairman would receive $4,800
annually, not $8,400, as er
roneously reported in last
week’s issue of The News.
COUNTY MGR. :
A county manager and
other employees could be hired
by the board. Similar requests
were also made by Dade Coun
ty this year. )
The petition also asked that
a special election for the
referendum be called in
November, but Perry and Hug-
DEATH PENALTY
Van Pelt said he wouldn't
seek the death penalty in the
Brown case when it is tried. It
has been his experience that
jurors in North georgia don't
(gl'rant the death penalty in
omestic slayings, the district
attorney said Tuesday. He
referre({ to a Walker County
case of several years ago in
which the husband told his wife
weeks ahead of time how he
was going to kill her and pro
ceeded to do so, but the jury
voted to give him life in prison,
Van Pelt said. -
The district attorney said
he also considered all factors in
the case, including the fact that
Timothy Brown didn’t have a
previous criminal history. *“The
chances of it being successful
ly accomplished were not good
enough to seek it,” he said.
LAWSON CASE
Meanwhile, Van Pelt said
Judge Loggins had also
ordered a similar psychiatric
evaluation of Fred Lawson, 47,
Summerville Rte. 2. Lawson is
the former Summerville Police
Department captain who was
charged on April 9, 1990 with
attempting to hire a ‘‘hit man”
to kill his estranged wife.
Van Pelt said the Lawson
case is still scheduled to be
tried next Wednesday. There
appears to be enough time for
Lawson to be evaluated prior
to. (tirial. the district attorney
said.
gins both said that no special
election will be held. If approv
ed by the legislature, voters
woullc}e decid% on tahle issue dur
ing the presidential primary in
ek e
¢ . .aElections
cost . ..around $6,000 to
SB,OOO in Chattooga County,
and I am not going to call a
special election and spend the
gepple's money just to answer
his one %uesnon." Perry said.
Perry had previously told the
group’s steering committee
that the vote would be held in
the next regular election.
FIVE DISTRICTS
The five district divisions
are the same as those drawn for
a 1986 referendum called b
former Rep. John Crawfor(i
The referendum was defeated
then by 229 votes, 2,220 to
1,991.
Perry provided a county
map outlining the district
boundaries and listing the
%opulations of each district.
istrict One has a population
of 4,275, and contains the town
of Trion, and the Welcome Hill,
Mountain View, and Dry
Valley communities.
District Two has the largest
po;iulation. listed as 4,487. It
includes Pennville, as well as
highly-populated subdivisions
outside of Summerville and
Trion. District Three is com
prised of the city of Summer
ville, with a population of
4,357, according to Perry's
totals.
POPULATION
The population of District
Four is listed as 4,429, in
cluding Menlo, and the Ber
ryton, Cloudland, Teloga, and
Lawson was scheduled to
be tried last fall but was
postponed after Lawson
entered Northwest Georgia
Regional Hospital at Rome,
suffering from depression, ac
cording to a friend.
Cook, who is also Lawson’s
attorney, filed a notice that he
intended to use an insanity
de_fsnse in the trial, Van Pelt
said.
Lawson was indicted for
allegedly tryin%l to hire so
meone to Kkill his estranged
wife, Donna Marie Lawson, 21,
Summerville Rte. 2. The “hit
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T T R TA T AA A AN AA A A A eAk
Dirtseller communities.
District Five is the larfiest
geographic district, with a
glopulatxon of 4,308. The
istrict includes Lyerly, and
the Chattoogaville, Gore,
Subligna, anfi Little Sand
Mountain communities. Hous
ing subdivisions located south
of Summerville are also
included.
Early 1990 census figures
list Chattooga County's total
population as 22,242,
Georgia is the only state
that allows sole county com
missioners, Perry said. A total
of 17 of the state’s 159 counties
is governed by sole commis
sioners. The counties include
Chattooga, Bartow, Pickens,
Walker and Haralson. Legisla
tion may be enacted in comigfi
sessions to mandate that
counties elect boards of
commissioners.
“I am going to stay down
the middle on this issue,” Perry
said. “There are pluses and
minuses on both sides. I per
sonally, from a state represen
tative's standpoint, gnd it
easier to work with only one
man. However, you can argue
that with a board, county
citizens will have more
representation. But these are
arguments that each county
voter will have to decide on.”
VOTERS
Huggins said that he has
had ‘‘a good working relation
ship” with Commissioner Jim
Parker and previous commis
sioners, and ‘it is a lot easier
to work with one man.” But he
added that the decision belongs
to the voters.
“The people of Chattooga
County are intelligent enough
man’’ was in reality a Georgia
Bureau of Investigation agent.
The Lawsons have sinc:ieen
divorced.
The alleged murder attempt
was the culmination of
domestic problems that first
became public in mid-March,
1990, when Mrs. Lawson
charged her husband with ag
gravated assault. The charge
was reduced to battery at a
preliminary hearing after Mrs.
Lawson said she couldn’t recall
what happened before she
awoke bruised.
to know what form of govern
ment the{ want,. If this is what
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live in Chattooga Count{.
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people have the right to decide
what type of representation
they want, regardless of
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