University Daily Kansan, October 24, 1983
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CAMPUS AND AREA
Victim's flashlight an issue as Puckett trial enters 6th day
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
Leona Fourhour testified in Douglas County District Court Friday that when her husband returned home on the early morning of June 25 he was carrying a flashlight that had a black magnet on it.
The flashlight was one of the items that Harry Puckett's daughter later testified was missing from her father's home.
James Chadwick Fourhorn is charged with the first-degree murder of the 94-year-old Puckett, whose body was discovered in a room of his house at 1109 Delaware St.
Fourhour is also charged with negravated burglary. The state rested its case Friday, and the trial enters its sixth day of testimony today.
LEONA FOURHORN testified that the last time she saw her husband on June 24 was during a party at their apartment.
She said that he and another couple left the apartment about 10:30 p.m. or 11 p.m.
She was awakened about 2:30 or 3 a.m. when she heard tapping on a window, she said. The tapping was made by her husband who wanted her to unlock a door to let him in the apartment
She said that she noticed he was carrying a flashlight and later iden- tified.
treed the flashlight in court as red-tipped and metallic with a black magnet on it.
That flashlight, and another red-tipped, metallic flashlight that did not have magnet on it, we used to flash it in June 27 when James Fourhour was arrested.
Leona testified that the flashlight without the magnet belonged to them but that she had removed the batteries so they could be used for other things.
IDA WALKER, Puckett's daughter,
testified that she had bought several
flashlights for her father because the
house had no gas or electricity.
She bought one with a magnet on it so that her father could attach it to his bed and not have to look for it during the night. she said.
She testified that, when the police asked her to look through her father's home to determine what was missing, the flashlight with the black magnet on it was one of the items missing. She later identified the item as Leona Fourhorn said her husband was carrying when he returned home.
During cross-examination, Leona said that when she first talked to police, she did not mention anything about her husband carrying a flashlight.
She also said that when she talked to police a third time, she told them that he had come home about 4:15 or 4:30 a.m., that he was "sweaty, as if he washed himself," and that "he was acting real nervous, wringing his hands and was not able to sit still."
ON CAMPUS
TODAY MOUNTAINEERING CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in the Oread Club of the Kansas Union.
the **GUERRILLA THEATRE** protesting nuclear arms in Europe will be staged at noon in front of the Union.
TODAY
Union.
STUDENT CREATIVE ANACHRONISTS will meet at 8 p.m. in the Union.
Union.
BASEBALL SIMULATIONS Club will meet at 7 p.m. in Parlor C of the Union.
Union.
KJHK WILL BROADCAST "Al-
ternative Conversations," a
phone-in talk show, at 6 p.m.
"THE COMMITTED MARRIAGE: A Christian Perspective," a Life Issue Seminar, will be about "Marriage as Discipleship" at 4:30 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center, 1204 Oread Ave
TOMORROW
CAMPUS CHRISTIAN fellowship will meet at 7:30 p.m. at 1116 Indiana St.
Indiana st.
CAMPUS CRUSADE for Christ
will meet at 7 p.m. in the Big 8 Room
of the Union.
KU SWORD and Shield will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union.
the union.
TAIG SMAJ Dance Club will meet at 7 p.m. in Dance Studio 242 of Robinson Center.
ROBBSON CENTER CHAMPIONS! will meet at 7 p.m. in the Trail Room of the Union.
IN INFORMATIONAL picket sponsored by the Justice for Humanity Project will take place before a 7 p.m. speech by General Bernard Rogers, in front of the Union.
The Lawrence Opera House has come to a possible end to a series of financial troubles.
By SUSAN WORTMAN Staff Reporter
A Lawrence National Bank foreclosure suit against the Opera House, 642 Massachusetts St., has been dismissed except for the paper work, Wint Winter Jr., attorney for Lawrence National Bank, said yesterday.
New loan keeps Opera House open
"We will be filing a motion for the bank to dismiss the suit," he said. "It is just a matter of getting the paperwork done."
Skip Moon, owner of the Opera House, said that the suit was dropped because he was able to obtain a loan from University State Bank, 955 Iowa St., to cover the loan at Lawrence National.
NOW THAT MOON has possession of the building again, he said he would like to see it renovated for use as a school studio performing arts and an audio studio.
the biggest question right now is whether we will do the work, or if the city will, or if some other company will do the renovation." Moon said.
The Opera House was built in 1911 and is a historic landmark in Law
Several groups are interested in doing the work, he said, but plans are not definite.
"It has been around for a long time. I used to go to help when I was in college." Moon said. At that time it was called the Red Dog Inn.
Moon bought the Opera House in 1975
after having taken out a 10-year loan from Lawrence National Bank. He bought the building from Property Development Corp.
After having trouble with several tenants not paying rent, Moon decided to operate the building himself in 1977.
THE LOAN WAS to be renewed every two years, but Moon said that in 1980 "the bank told me they were going to call the note on the loan."
"At that point, I quietly put the Opera
People didn't buy memberships because they thought the Opera House was going to close. And, they started looking for other places to go.'
Skip Moon, owner, Opera House
House on the market through a local realtor. I thought it was the ideal piece of property for the city to buy as a civic center," he said. Moon said that the commission had shown an interest in buying the building and had voted in May 1981 to look into purchasing the Opera House.
The Lawrence City Commission was supposed to secure three appraisals on the property, contract for a feasibility study and secure an option. They did not for the study bit. Moon said, the commission obtained only two appraisals.
They never made me an offer and when that all went public, our business
went to pot," Moon said. "People didn't buy memberships because they thought the Opera House was going to close. And, they started looking for other places to go."
SEVERAL OTHER GROUPS were interested in buying the building, but after the City Commission publicly announced that it was considering buying the Opera House, the other potential buyers vanished. Moon said.
"That is what led to the bankruptcy," he said.
Moon set New Year's Eve 1961 as closing night for the Opera House because the cereal malt beverage license expired that night and Moon did not think the City Commission would issue another license.
The Opera House closed as a public bar on New Year's Eve but has been operating for private groups.
"WE'VE BEEN RENTING it for private parties for the last month and a half." Moon said. "It won't open as a business again, but we will continue to make it available for parties, banquets and dances."
Lawrence National Bank filed the foreclosure suit in January 1982 and Moon was forced to file for bankruptcy equipment and property in the building.
The bank asked the Douglas County District Court to remove Moon from bankruptcy court in September so that the bank could file foreclosure against
After being delayed twice, the bankrupty suit has been dismissed, Moon said.
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