CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, January 17, 1985
Page 10
Confession, weapon presented at trial
By KEVIN LEATHERS Staff Reporter
A club and a signed confession were introduced as evidence yesterday in the murder trial of a 19-year-old Lawrence man charged in the beating death of an 80-year-old woman.
Testimony about the new evidence came during the third day of the trial of Donald E. Alexander, 303 W. 21st St., charged with felony murder, rape and aggravated burglary in the
August death of Marguerite Vinyard, 2100 Tennessee St.
Vinyard was found dead on the bedroom floor of her home Aug. 5 by her sister.
Alexander, who lived behind Vinyard, was arrested 17 days after the body was discovered
Two of the Lawrence police detectives investigating the case testified that they obtained the confession and the club from Alexander on Aug. 22. Jerry Wells, an assistant Douglas County district attorney, on Monday described the club as a "tire knocker."
DETECTIVES JAMES HALLEI and Mike McCaffery told the jury that the club introduced was the same one they had seized during a search of Alexander's home. They also testified that the written confession Wells presented was the one they had obtained from Alexander during questioning.
The club and confession won't be presented officially before the jury until defense attorney Wesley Nestor cross-examine the detectives.
sion during questioning and said Alexander told him, "I did it." He then read Alexander's confession to the jury.
MCACFFERY SAID Alexander
MCACFFERY assailed Vinyard with the club.
During cross-examination, you never, Norwood showed to the jury that the confession and other statements made by Alexander were influenced by duress and fatigue caused by tension and a lack of food.
Bombing clinics discussed, KC activist says
By United Press International
KANSAS, CITY, Kan. - Antiabortion activist Gary Tebbets attacks bombing of abortion clinics was mentioned during a strategy session at his home, but he maintains that the remark was made in jest.
Tebbets testified Tuesday before a
federal grand jury that apparently is part of an investigation into the bombing or arson of at least 30 clinics in Baltimore and by federal law enforcement officials.
Federal officials refused to comment on the grand jury's work but said that Tebbets was not the subject of a criminal investigation.
There have been no clinic bombings or substantive attacks against
clinics in the Kansas City area. But Tebbets told a reporter for the Kansas City Times that he was asked whether he knew of anyone who planned violence against an abortion clinic.
"I TOLD THEM no, except for comments that were made obviously satirically," he said.
safely, he said.
"They asked me if I made this comment to a woman out at (a
Johnson County abortion clinic) about someone blowing the place up. I told them yes but that the man who made the message was not serious about the threat. It was one of those offhand things you say."
Tebbets, who has been arrested more than a dozen times for anti-abortion protests, said the remark about bombing was made about two or three years ago during a meeting.
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"Thereal threat to the U.S. would be that the Soviet Union's economy might outperform us in economic growth." Shafer said.
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Harry Shaffer, professor of economics and Soviet and East European studies, told an audience of about 60 people at Ecumenical Christian Ministries that a weapons freeze would cause a decline in the world's war while the Soviet Union's economy would flourish in the short run.
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Shaffer said. Displaced military workers could simply be moved to other jobs, while their U.S. counterparts would be out of work.
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