Wednesday, March 5, 1980
Topekans charged with murder
University Daily Kansan
By JENNIFER ROBLEZ Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Shawnee County district attorneys filed a first-degree murder charge late Monday against a Topeka woman in connection with the killing of a 22-year-old Lawrence man last week.
A second Topeka woman also was to be charged with first-degree murder yesterday.
Kathleen R. Cobb, Topeka, remained in Jakupa in topteake year for $100,000. She returned to Topeka and Davis, whose body was found last Thursday in a alldown area the southeastern limits of Topeka.
Another Topeka woman, Ramona Moon, is being held on a charge of first-degree murder. She has not yet posted a $100,000 bond.
Sally Pokorny, assistant county attorney,
said Davis was shot once in the head. She
said coroner reports estimated the time of death to be sometime Wednesday night.
SHE SAID that the shooting was not accidental or self-inflicted.
healed of self-injuried.
"He didn't commit suicide," she said.
"There are so many motives running around that we don't know what caused it."
However, Shawnee County detective Gerald Foldgreen said there might be some evidence that Davis was attempting suicide.
"We have information that Mr. Davis was trying to commit suicide at the time of the incident," Federgedeer said, "but we have not seen what about kind of drugs he may have used."
"All we know is that somebody put a shot through his head."
Federegreen said one of the two women in custody gave his department directions to the gun's location. He said the gun was found at Lake Shawnee in Topeka, but he
would not say which suspect gave the directions.
"This is really an odd case. It wasn't so much someone assisting another in a suicide as it is the taking of that person's life," he said.
POKORNY SAID that the two women and Davis were in Lawrence the day of the murder and that they returned to Topeka Wednesday night.
Pokoryk said Cobb and Moon were questioned by Shawnee County detective Friday after Davis' body was found in a driveway. She said the women came to identify Days.
Pokorny said drug paraphernalia were found near Davis' body.
Davis reportedly lived at 161 Lincoln St. in Lawrence.
Funeral arrangements are being handled by Rumsey Funeral Home, 601 Indiana St.
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Beasley, executive director of Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) in the Kansas City area, spoke on "Why Jesse Jackson went to South Africa."
persist in the direction they're going, I'm afraid there is going to be a bloodbath.
Operation PUSH, hended by Jackson, is a civil rights organization dedicated to "making our Constitution a reality" for minorities, Beasley said.
Blacks in South Africa cannot vote, own property, live in cities, or assemble and protest, he said. The few jobs available to blacks all navy low.
"You have an option if you're black," he said. "Low wages or no wages."
Americans can have a direct hand in ending the aparthied system in South Africa, Bees Payless said last night in a speech sponsored by the KU-Y.
Americans called on to end apartheid
Krugerrand sales in the United States provide South Africa with $60 million a year and the oil used by the government. If that revenue were cut off he said, "the government should buy."
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"We're saying, without fear of contradiction, that the United States is in a partnership with South Africa."
But he said that the apartheid system was bound to change sooner or later, either by peaceful or violent means.
"It's up to the government of South Africa how it comes," he said. "If they
He said U.S. companies, which employ about 60,000 blacks in South Africa, could help in the fight against parachied by North African holdings of their South African affiliates.
Beasley said Americans could significantly help end apartheid by
By BRIAN VON BEVERN
Kruggerrands are South African units of money, made of solid gold, that are being bought by investors in the gold market
stopping the sale of Kruggerrands in the United States.
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