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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Thursday, Nov. 7, 1985
Man enters plea in kidnapping
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
A 19-year-old Lawrence man pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated assault, making a terrorist threat, rape, aggrigated kidnapping, and aggravated sodomy yesterday in Douglas County District Court.
The preliminary hearing and arraignment for Mark R. Ma, 2333 Atchison Avenue, was yesterday at 3:30 p.m. Mike Malone, Douglas County associate district judge, set a jury trial date for Jan. 13, 1986.
On Oct. 21, Maas shot himself in the mouth as a Lawrence police officer was serving him with a warrant for arrest on some of the charges. He was released from the University of Kansas Medical Center Oct. 26.
The charges of aggravated assault and making a terrorist threat were filed Oct. 21 against Maas in connection with an Oct. 8 incident that led outside Lawrence High School and involved a 15-year-old girl.
Charges of rape, aggravated kio napping and aggravated burglary were filed Oct. 22 in connection with the assaults against a Rural Baldwin town on the same date.
Douglas District Attorney Jim Flory filed the charge of aggravated sodomy yesterday in connection with the Oct. 20 incident.
Flory called the girl to the witness stand to testify against Maas in connection with both incidents, and she
was also questioned by Maas' attorney,
John Nitcher.
In her testimony, the girl said she had known Maas for two and a half years and dated him on and off for about a year and a half.
On Oct. 8, she said, about two weeks after she had broken up with him, Maas came to Lawrence High School about 3 p.m. and asked her to leave with him so they could talk
When she refused, she said, Maas showed her a gun and told her he would shoot her and himself if she didn't go with him.
She said she left with him in her car and then brought him back to his own car. As he was getting into his car, the heard him say he would “get” her.
When she opened the passenger-side door and asked him why he had made the comment, she said, he pulled her inside. She then agreed to go with him to Clinton Lake.
At the lake Maas ran from the car and she followed him into the woods. She said she found him leaning against a tree and removed the gun from his coat pocket.
"I didn't want him killing himself," she said.
Maas asked her to return the gun so he could unload it, she said. She gave him the gun, and he removed the bullets and returned it to her.
She said Maa took her back to the school and she agreed not to tell anyone about the incident.
She told her father about the incident the next day because Maas had
been following her around, she said. Her father notified the police about the previous day's incident.
She did not have any further confrontations, she said, until about 11 p.m. Oct 20 when Maas' awakened her at her parent's rural Baldwin home.
"He covered my mouth with his hand and held a gun to my head," she said. "He told me not to scream."
She said Maas held the gun on her while she dressed and then forced her into his car, which was parked about 100 yards from her house.
Maas handcuffed her right hand to the car door and her left hand to her right hand, she said.
Maas drove to a dirt road near a school in Wakarausa, she said, and while she was handcuffed, Maas raped and sodomized her.
She said they were parked on the dirt road near the school for about an hour and a half.
Maas then drove her, still hancou-
fed, into Lawrence and showed her graftifi he had written on various
structures around town.
About 6 a.m on Oct 21, she said, Maas returned her to her parents' home.
She said she got into bed for about 15 minutes before getting up to get ready for school.
She saw her family before leaving for school, she said, but said nothing about the incident because she had promised Maas she would not.
At school, the girl told her cousin about the incident. The cousin told a.
Nitcher then called the girl's father to the stand.
friend, and at their urgings, the gnr told her father, she said.
The girl's father told the court that after his daughter had told him Maas had threatened to kill her and himself, he had called Maas and asked him about the incident.
The father said he did not call Maa's parents at that point because, he said, he was afraid Maas would try to kill himself over his "young love."
The father said that as a youth, he had tried to kill himself over a girl. That girl later became the mother of his daughter, he said.
The father said the daughter was in therapy for problems she was having with her parents.
When asked by Nitcher whether the girl had a reputation for telling the truth, the father said, "She has a problem with telling some of the truth some of the time."
The father said he thought his daughter was telling the truth in her court testimony.
Nitcher also called the girl's cousin to the stand. The cousin, also a Lawrence High student, testified that the girl had told him the morning of Oct. 21 that Maas had raped her, and that he had taken the girl to her father.
He said that as far as he knew, the girl did not have a reputation for lying.
Actor to intimate Poe's strange fate
Once upon a midnight dreary,
while I pondered hard and weary.
Over many a volume of curious
and forgotten lore —
While I nodded, nearly napping,
suddenly there came a tapping.
As of someone gently rapping,
rapping at my chamber door.
" "Tis some visitor," I muttered,
"tapping at my chamber door —
Only this and nothing more."
By Bob Tinsley Of the Kansan staff
Many a fan of the macabre in American literature would recognize these solemn words as the opening stanza of Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven."
A professional actor will come to the University tomorrow to bring to life a single night in the life of Edgar Allan Poe.
The actor, Scott Keely, will present "Goodnight, Mpoe" at 7 p.m. tomorrow in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union. Tickets are $4 for the general public and $3 for students with a KIDY. Keely's appearance is sponsored by Student Union Activities.
Sometimes before dawn on Sept.
27, 1849. Edgarr Allan Poe bored a
steamship at Richmond, Va.
bound for New York.
The ship arrived two days later, on schedule. Poe, however, had disappeared.
He was found Oct. 3, delirious and raving in a Baltimore tavern. He never fully regained his senses, and five days later Poe was dead.
"Goodnight, Mr. Poe," Keely's interpretation of what might have occurred during the night of Oct. 2.
The presentation includes excerpts from several of Poe's works, such as "The Raven," "The Conqueror Worm" and "Annabel Lee."
But Keely's presentation is not merely a poetry recital.
"He won't stand up there on a podium." Rick Lindley, SUA fine arts board member, said yesterday. "He's got props and a costume. He imitates Poe's manierrisms and speech, and tries to intimate why Poe met an untimely end."
Lindley said Keely had researched Poe's life and works. Keely, who has been an actor for more than a decade, has taken his one-man Poe show throughout the country. He also has written, acted and directed for radio and educational television.
Keely's performance also includes Poe's sometimes humorous views on politics and the events of his day.
Tickets are available at the SUA box office and will be sold until an hour before showtime tomorrow evening, or nevermore.
KU Baha'i Club Invites Interested Students and Faculty to Attend Our Meeting
Thursday, Nov. 7
7:30 p.m.
Oread Room
Kansas Union
Topic of Discussion
Elimination
of
Prejudice
Featured Speaker:
Zhalih
Para
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