University Daily Kansan, August 22, 1983
Bryan Keith Bell, accused of stubbing Lawrence restaurant owner Frank Seurer Sr. to death earlier this month, was escorted from Douglas County. District Court Thursday following his arraignment. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Thursday.
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Hearing set for suspect
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
Additional information about evidence gathered against the suspect in the stabbing death of restaurant owner Frank Seurer Sr. should be made available at a preliminary hearing scheduled for Thursday in Douglas County District Court.
The suspect, Bryan Keith Bell, 22,
VV102 Camden Manor, was charged last
Thursday with second-degree
murder and aggravated robbery. Bond
was set at $300,000. Bell is being held in
Douglas County Jail.
THE PRELIMINARY hearing will be at 10 a.m.
Seurer, 43, father of KU quarterback Frank Seurer Jr., was found dead the morning of Aug. 2 on the kitchen floor of his restaurant, Pop's Bar-B-Que Yale Road. An autopsy revealed that he from multiple stab wounds to the truss.
Douglas County District Attorney Jerry Harper said he filed second-degree murder charges after deciding that he did not indicate a real-deceased murder.
A first-degree murder charge requires that the murder be premeditated or committed in the act of a felony or both.
Bell was fired from his job as a cook at the restaurant nearly a month before Seurer's death, police officials said, but he had returned to work following Seurer's death to help Seurer's wife reopen the restaurant.
Bell also worked at the restaurant as a manager when it was owned by his
uncle Bobby Bell, a former linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs.
BORBY BELL sold the restaurant to Seurer in February.
Bryan Bell was arrested Wednesday evening following a 15-day investigation by a team of investigators from the Lawrence Police Department, the KU Police Department, and the KU Police Department and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
Fronce said that the investigation inquired into the lack and that they interviewed people.
Harper said the break in the case came Tuesday when laboratory results came back on a piece of physical tissue that was found near Seurer's body.
Lawrence Police Chief Richard Stanwix said police picked up Bell for questioning Wednesday after discovering the physical evidence.
DETAILS OF the interview with Bell were not released. Neither Harper nor Stanwix would say whether Bell had confessed.
Stanwick said a search warrant had been issued for Bell's apartment and some items were taken to the KBI laboratory in Topeka to be analyzed.
As of Saturday, police had not found the murder weapon. On Thursday and Friday investigators searched Clinton Lake for a knife they thought might have been used to kill Sueleen. Stanov said the search would resume at a later date.
The 6-foot-6 Bell was born and raised in Shelby, N.C. He reportedly had a one-day tryout with the Denver Broncos football team in the spring.
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Block backs grain sale
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Calling the Soviet Union "the most lucrative agricultural market in the world today," Agriculture Secretary John Block said yesterday it was in the United States' best interest to sell grain to the Soviets.
Block will fly to Moscow this week to sign a new grain agreement with the Soviets. Appearing on ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley," he said the new agreement was not a reaction to any change in Soviet policies that brought about a grain embargo under President Carter.
"It has nothing to do with detailed foreign policy of the Soviet Union," he said.
"President Reagan campaigned against the Carter embargo ... he didn't believe in it then; he doesn't believe in it now. It's in our interest to sell grain to a buyer that pays cash." Block said.
"When the Soviet Union buys grain from us they transfer some of their resources here. If the grain goes over there, it is consumed. It's also stored in a warehouse, available their resources that aren't available for military hardware."
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SELLING GRAIN to the Soviets,
Block said, simply makes good business sense.
"Agriculture is important to the country and the Soviet Union is the most lucrative agricultural market in the world today." Block said. "In our own interests, we need to make sure they will be cash on the barhead."
Block and Sen, John Melcher,
D-Mont., debated the administration's Payment-In-Kind program, which uses surplus crops to compensate farmers for removing cropland from production.
Block called the program a "dramatic success." Melcher labeled it "a flop."
"The PIK program ... had one primary objective, which is to bring supply and demand into closer balance. Obviously that is being accomplished, with a little help from Mother Nature." Block said.
BUT MELCHER, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, disagreed. "That isn't right at all. It's a flop."
"The second objective was to reduce the cost of government farm programs, and next year, the cost of farm programs, in part at least because of PIB are to be at a lower percent from what they are this year." Block said.
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