University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 31. 1989
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Briefs
WILLIAM HEARING
TODAY: John William, the transient charged in the July 1988 slaying of a 6-year-old Lawrence boy, is scheduled to appear in a Douglas County district court hearing this morning to determine if he is competent to stand trial.
William, 28, is charged with premedicated murder or, in the alternative, felony murder and the death of Richard D. Settlermore
Settlemyre's dismembered body was discovered floating in the Kansas River near Burcham Park on July 14, 1988.
If William is found competent at
today's hearing, he will stand trial beginning on Nov. 6.
STUDENT CHARGED: A male KU student allegedly violated the city's indecent exposure ordinance Sunday after running around the playing field west of Oliver Hall wearing little more than a black G-string, a KU police report stated.
A satyr is a half-man, half-goat creature from Greek mythology.
The student, who had his hair arranged in two hern-like pony tails on the front of his head to give the appearance of being a saty, said his display was in observance of Halloween, the report stated.
Police report
► An unknown person tried to enter Corbin Hall on Sunday after using a piece of concrete to break a window valued at $50, KU police reported.
▶ A car stereo, power booster, radar detector, sunglasses and several cassette tapes valued together at $695 were taken Sunday from a student's locked car parked in the 2400 block of West 25th Street, Lawrence police reported.
A suspect threw a keg of beer onto a student's car windshield
Sunday and then stomped on the car's hood causing $500 in damage while the car was parked in the 1300 block of Ohio Street, Lawrence police reported.
> A man exposed himself Saturday to a female student in the 1700 block of Vermont Street, Lawrence police reported.
The model of the KU campus in the Kansas Union received $350 in damage Friday when one leg was damaged and one of the glass side panels was cracked, KU police reported.
Eudora shooting was murder-suicide
A shooting Friday night in Eudora that resulted in the death of two people was a murder-suicide, authorities said yesterday.
By a Kansan reporter
Loren Anderson, Douglas County sheriff, said the incident was the result of a domestic dispute between Douglas A. Hawley, 28, a rural Valley Falls resident, and his former wife, Kimberly Kay Hawley, 26, of Eudora.
Authorities said Douglas Hawley shot and killed Kimberly Hawley and injured Donald E. Harris, 25, of Eudora, as she and Harris were sitting in a pickup truck. The incident occurred at 6:57 p.m. Friday in front of house in the 700 block of Maple in Eudora. Kimberly Hawley had left her two children at the home with a babysitter.
Three shots were fired and are believed to have been directed at Kimberly Hawley and not at Harris,
who was looking after Kimberly Hawley after hearing that she and her ex-husband were having problems. Anderson said.
After shooting his ex-wife and Harris, Douglas Hawley left the area and drove about two and one-half miles northwest of Eudora on County Road 200E and killed himself with the gun that was used earlier. Anderson said.
Harris was transported to KU Medical Center and later transferred to Shawnee Mission Medical Center.
A spokesman for Shawnee Mission Medical Center said yesterday evening that Harris was listed in serious condition and was in the hospital's critical care unit.
The Hawley's two children are in the custody of their maternal grandmother, Anderson said.
Authorities said that the Hawleys were divorced but that they had carried on a relationship after the divorce.
Pretrial hearing for Creamer set back to Nov.20
Bv Rich Cornell
Kansa staff writer
A man who smoked marijuana Sept. 5 in the Douglas County Law Enforcement Center to protest President Bush's war on drugs will not face a pretrial hearing until Nov. 20.
Mark Creamer, who faces a felony charge of possession of marijuana, originally was scheduled to face a pretrial hearing yesterday. District Judge James Paddock accepted a request from the prosecution for a continuance because the police officer who arrested Creamer was out of town.
Creamer said he voluntarily submitted to a urinalysis to prove he had not taken any illegal drugs since he was charged. He is scheduled to begin mandatory testing next week.
Creamer ate poppy seed rolls yesterday to test positive for opium, saying the test would mistake the seeds for onium.
"I'm showing the fallacy of the tests," he said. "If everyone ate poppy seed seeds, they would get no proven test results."
unless the seeds came from the Middle East. Seeds imported from there contain opiates not available in seeds grown in the United States.
If Creamer tests positive, Skinner said, the sample will be sent to a lab having the best known test methods. A Kansas law enacted Oct. 2 requires that any test believed to be positive must be confirmed.
Jim Skinner, supervisor of clinical chemistry at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, said testing positive after eating poppy seeds was unlikely
The testing method used to confirm findings at Lawrence Memorial would detect the difference between poppy seeds and opium, Skinner said.
midnight, he will hold a parade in downtown Lawrence, he said.
His wife, Dale Creamer, works at Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center. She said she understood both the importance of the war on drugs and her husband's protest of it.
Education will do more to solve the drug problem than enforcement, she said. The Creamers' six children have profited from such education, she said, because they, like her, can make choices based on good knowledge of drugs and their effects.
Choice, not the law, is why she does not use drugs, Dale Creamer said.
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