Friday, November 3, 1978
Defense takes over in Westergren trial; confession challenged
The trial of Eugene E. Westgren, who is accused of murdering an elderly Lawrence woman a year ago, shifted to the defense court. She was acquitted—a half of testimony by prosecution witnesses.
Court-appointed defense attorney Jerry Donnelly attempted to discredit the counsel after a judge arrested last Dec. 21 in connection with the death vanessa Smith, 84, of BJS Kentucky.
Smith was found beaten to death in her home last November. 8.
Donnelly, cross-examining the police officers who took Westergren's confession, tried to establish that Westergren was not in good physical or mental condition when he
DONNELY SAID Westergier, who has a history of mental illness dating to 1965, was asked to testify that he diarrhea at the time of the arrest, and was in no condition to make any reliable evidence.
Westergen has maintained throughout the case that he confessed to the crime so that he would not have to spend the night in the cold.
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Donnelly supported his contention by claiming that several aspects of Westergren's confession later proved to be inaccurate.
But Harry Warren, Douglas County assistant district attorney, said the confession described aspects of the crime did not have known without being involved.
Donnelly's first witness, Marilyn Steele, Douglas County deputy sheriff, testified that she had known Westergarden for 10 years, and he said he was the victim in the county jail, "just for a place to sleep."
SHE SAID that when she saw Westergreen the said after he gave his confession, he looked haggard and shaken. She said he was very angry and his speech was apprehent at times.
Another defense witness, David H. Davis, assistant clinical director at Larned State Hospital in Topeka, where Westergren has undergone several psychiatric examinations, testified that in his opinion, the defendant's statements did not say any statement given by a man in Westergreen's condition the day he made the confession should not be regarded as fact.
"He wanted us to help him decide whether he had committed the crime," she said.
Several changes in the Student Senate revenue code, including an increased allocation in fiscal 1980 for the legal services department and a new College Senate Finance and Auditing Committee.
Proposed changes to allow more funds for legal services
Legal services, scheduled to begin operation in January, received 75 cents this semester from each student's academic advisor and the seminar next semester. However, legal services will receive $1.25 beginning with the fall semester, according to the proposed code in the code.
Craig Templeton, Senate administrative assistant, said legal services was able to be budgeted this year without increasing student fees because the Senate vowel last spring to deny the Senate Intercollegiate考试 per student that it had received before.
That $1.25 was then split between legal companies KJHK-P radio station and the Grassroots Music group.
However, Templeton said, only legal money from that allocation will fund the money from that allocation for fiscal 2014.
The committee also proposed that allocations for student organizations not funded by block allocations be raised from $1.35 a student to $1.50 a student. To account for this, the budget will unallocated reserve fund will be reduced from 50 cents a student to 35 cents a student.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Lawrence police yesterday reported a robbery, a burglary and some vandalism
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Vicki Rhodes, 1340 Vermont St., told police that when she arrived at her apartment Wednesday evening a man met her at the door and took her with a blunt instrument and stole her purse.
Lawrence Memorial Hospital said Rhodes remained in fairly good condition in the hospital. Rhodes suffered multiple head lacerations and a skull fracture, officials
Police said the purse and its contents were valued at $15.
Compiled by Henry Lockard
POLICE ALSO reported that a burglary broke into the Barbara Wheeler residence,
The crime occurred at about 4:40 a.m.
yesterday.
The burglar apparently forced the door open, police said.
Tol reported that his car had its windows broken between midnight Monday and 10 a.m. Wednesday while it was parked near his home.
Vandalism reported include one from Mito Tai, Japan graduate student, 1025 Mita Tai College.
UNIVERSITY POLICE reported that the
worth a total of $712.50 from a storage room in Murphy Hall was discovered and recovered.
The theft of several musical instruments,
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Police said the theft occurred while Band Camp was in session during the last two weeks of July. The instruments were taken from the camp and the theft apparently had a key to the room.
A Natural History Museum director reported that two stuffed polar bears apparently had returned safely from trick-or-treating Tuesday night.
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Dr. Bill Roy in the Senate
Kansas is fortunate to have two outstanding major candidates for United States Senate. Bill Roy and Mrs. Nancy Landon Kassebaum are the kind of people you like to see in politics and government. Both are intelligent. Both are of fine character and with great integrity.
Mrs. Kassebaum might be a good senator.
Bill Roy has the potential to become a great one.
In only two terms in the House of Representatives Dr. Roy made a reputation in Congress and Washington that few representatives ever achieve. He was the expert in the health field, he was the man who had information and answers in the areas of government in which he became concerned. He was asked in 1974 why he would leave what appeared to be a safe house seat and a future that promised great influence to run against an incumbent senator. His answer was that he could do more as one of 100 senators than as one of 435 members of the House. He lost that contest in the last days of the campaign by the narrowest of margins. Now he is asking the people of Kansas to send him to Washington again, this time to fill the vacancy to be left by Sen. James Pearson, who is not a candidate.
In Bill Roy, Kansasans have the opportunity to elect a Democratic senator who could quickly become a national figure in the Congress and the party, and who could do much for Kansas. He has applied the same dedication that made him an outstanding physician to government. He cares about people. He
Mrs. Kassebaum shows a good grasp of issues, but there is a large difference between understanding a political question and being able to do something about it. She is asking the voters to send her to the highest elective office in the land after the presidency and vice-presidency. She would leap from private life to the Senate in a single bound. Her good motives may match her ambition, but it is difficult to put her in the same class with Dr. Roy.
Without doubt she is the toughest candidate Roy could have faced. Although her stamina is not to be challenged, she sometimes gives the impression of an injured wren you might want to protect against anyone brutal enough to run against her. Her taxes ought not to be a great issue and her marital status should be no issue at all. The sources of her income and the income of all candidates are public business, and the people have every right to know what private interests are in the background of a politician. But no one is expected to pay taxes he or she doesn't owe. A third candidate, James Maher, is running on the Conservative Party ticket.
Bill Roy has spent an apprenticeship in public service. His qualifications for the Senate would be high in any state, in any region of the country. With Roy as senator the people of Kansas could expect results from a representative who could become a national leader in the top levels of government.
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