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Fond du Lac Reporter, Friday, Jan. 31, 1975 Pag 3 racked courtroom hears Turner's The body was placed In the bathroom. Plastic bags were obtained from the kitchen. Then In the bedroom, the clothing was placed In a plastic bag after a zipper, shoes and other hard surfaces were wiped off. The statement continues JOHN I- -Tit SHEIMO IMO i i A orter' i (Reporter' prompted me to take Lisa Into the bedroom." Following that, the statement tells of the clothes being removed and of the sexual assault.

The statement Indicates there were no screams or outcries, that there were moans and a soft whimper. Then the statement says Turner noticed she was not breath'ng. He put his ear to her chest and could hear her heart was still beating. He artempted to revive her by p'acing his hands on her chest. He listened to the heart acain: she had stopped breathing.

At that point, Arlene Pen" the woman with whom he been liv'ng, drove up to the house. She and friends had taken their children trick or treating. At about 8:30 p.m. Miss Penn and her daughter were picked ud to go to a Halloween partv. Alone again, the statement says that Turner went into the bedroom and put some socks over his hands.

A statement taken from Gerald M. Turner on Aug. 8, 1974 which he signed acid which fully described his Involvement In the death of Lisa Ann French on Halloween 1973 was read into the record In Circuit Court Thursday afternoon. The courtroom was packed and the spectators heard Special Agent Louis Tomaselll read from the statement that Lisa Ann French came to Turner's residence on Halloween night while he was home alone. According to the statement, Turner was in the bathroom when Lisa entered his home and as he came out he saw her standing Inside his door.

The clothes the girl was wearing are then described. Turner said in that statement that Lisa said "hi" and continued into the house. "We were talking about the candy bv the door." "At the time I was highly sexually motivated." statement reads, "and this east on McCabe Road, where the vehicle was stopped. The bags were taken through the ditch, and the bag containing the body was dropped over the fence while the other was thrown, a cording to the statement, a short distance beyond the body. The time was 9 p.m.

Returning to the house, Turner said, "I checked the house well" for any evidence of what had happened. a to his involvement in the death of Lisa French the statement says, "I have never mentioned my Involvement This statement is my first acknowledgement." The statement ends with questions posed by Tomaselll and Robert Anderson, an analyst with the state Crime Laboratory. They asked what Turner thought was the cause of Lisa's death. "I believe she died of shock" and choking stomach contents, Turner said. Asked why he had not told Miss Penn what had happened, the answer was "fear of apprehension for the murder and sexual molestation of a young girl." Tomaselli, a special agent with the 6tate Division of Criminal Investigation, who was assigned to the case in March of 1974, was also asked by Dist.

Atty. Alexander Semenas 1 constitutional rights were given Turner before the statement wa3 He said that the rights had been given and that Turner had waived them. Asked if at any time on Aug. 8, Turner had asked to see an attorney, Tomaselli declared, "No 6ir!" He also stated that the statement was typed, at the request of Turner, by Anderson. Under cross examination, defense counsel Henry Buslee, asked exactly how the statement was produced, and Tomaselli said that it was given verbally by Turner and Anderson typed it.

Anderson, who took the stand next as a witness for the state, was also asked under cross examination by Buslee if the words in the statement were exactly as given by Turner. When Buslee brought up specific phrases in the statement, Anderson said there was a possibility that Tumor could have first used street language but then agreed to a different wording. Semenas asked Anderson repeat why Turner had not told Miss Penn about what had happened to Lisa French. Anderson read, "Fear of apprehension for murder and sexual molestation of a young girl." Buslee asked, "Were those the exact words." Anderson said, "to the best of my recollection." Buslee: "Was it possible other words were used? Could he have said something different?" Anderson said, "It's possible, but I don't believe so." Capt. Melvin E.

Heller of the city police department, also called as a state witness, said that there had been police contact with Turner on Dec. 20, 1973; March 27, 1974; April 9, 1974; and Aug. 8, 1974. At no time during the testimony Thursday afternoon was any mention of police contact with Turner on Aug. 2, 1974, when Turner was taken to Madison for a polygraph examination.

That contact was brought a during a hearing prior to the trial. Turner is charged with first degree murder and three counts of sexual perversion. He is being held in the county jail under $100,000 bond. The courtroom Thursday afternoon was packed and by mid-afternoon spectators were standing around the edge of the courtroom and others were outside. At that point security was tightened as more guards appeared inside and outside the courtroom.

Several hundred persons were in the courtroom. Staff Wrilpri i hat the bag containing the clothing was put on the floor in the front of Turner's 19C8 El Camino, and the bag containing the body on the front seat. Next described is the route taken out of the city to McCabe Road and to a point about one-fourth of a mile Advisory Task Force completes tasks I'M'? i it 1 I fr I Il Ji 1 1 If By STEVE SANDBERG (Reporter Staff Writer) Feelings of satisfaction and anticipation prevailed a members of the Citizens Advisory Task Force on Community Development gathered for their sixth and final meeting Thursday night in the Chegwin School cafeteria. The feeling of satisfaction came from the knowledge that they had ably completed the three tasks assigned them by a common council-created Community Development Committee: identifying the needs of Fond du Lac, exploring the alternatives for meeting those needs and selecting priorities from among the alternatives. The anticipation is 1 knowing that the fruit of their labor is being refined "by the Community Development Committee for presentation in the form of a project application during a public hearing to be held in the Chegwin cafeteria at 7 p.m.

Wednesday. The project application will outline how Fond du Lac plans to spend $2,559,000 allocated to the city over the next three years under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 and the $853,000 earmarked for the first act-on year of that period. There were 58 task force members in attendance Thursday night; and it was reported by city Manager Myron J. Medin who presented certificates appreciation to individuals who had given one or more of the past six Thursday nights to the cause, that 160 persons had participated as members of the task force at one time or another. The job of the task force Thursday night was to take the priorities they had established in 12 different problem areas during previous sessions, consider each one and list the various organizations, governmental agencies or interest groups that might be interested or could help in meeting the goals.

Task force Chairman Rosalie Tryon told those in attendance to give a great deal of consideration to those named to be sent lists of priorities; and an interesting array of resource groups, such as 4-H Clubs, service clubs, the Fond du Lac County Bar Association, St. Agnes Hospital and various physicians' groups, resulted. Members present Thursday night were also asked to fill out sheets evaluating the task force concept, the opportunity they had been given to participate in a decision making process, the site of the meetings and the manner in which material was ex For writing worthless checks They were also asked If they would serve on another task force and if they had any suggestions for Improving how the six meetings had been conducted. While the results of that evaluation have not as yet been tabulated, Mrs. Tryon said in skimming through them that most of the responses seemed favorable and that she was pleased with the reaction.

mmunity development Director Ray Christ said Thursday night that members of the city staff "have been very enthused" about the citizen participation generated by the task force. He explained that the Community Development Committee had also been meeting on a weekly basis to refine the input that resulted from the task force meetings. In her final address to the task force, Mrs. Tryon said she had "never been more impressed than with the solutions arrived at" during the six meetings. She encouraged the task force members to attend next week's public hearing, sidling that at that time they would see the results of the work they had Jail term of 2 years levied also $47 driving.

St. Lawrence was ordered to pay a 4 Sm zf -fa '6 4S J' jSS i 7 Worthless check charges resulted in a prison term Thursday for Peter Sehmitt, Route 1, Van Dyne. Sehmitt was charged with four counts of writing bad checks in Fond du Lac County. Judge Hazen W. McEssy, in handing down a two-year prison term, said he also was taking into consideration similar charges from Dodge, Green Lake and Winnebago Counties.

The charges were based on bad checks written i December in amounts of $169, $391 and $1,770, all to area farmers, plus a $150 check In August to a local oil company. Judge McEssy sentenced Sehmitt to Waupun State Prison terms of one yearvon each of the four Fond du Lac County counts. Concurrent one-year terms on counts 1 and 2 were ordered served consecutive to the concurrent one-year terms on counts 3 and 4. The judge ordered fines of $100 and costs today for Michael A. Wondra, Route 1, Cainpbellsport, for driving too fast for conditions, and William D.

St. 1604 Lakeshore Drive, for drunken mil vH to plained and presented them. Gerald Turner's empty cell in county jail Sheriffs Department books Auditors checking records driver school fee. Thomas R. Putz, who gave no address, was sentenced to six days in county jail in lieu of paying a fine of $25 and costs for disorderly conduct.

He will be released when the fine is paid. Others fined by Judge McEssy were Peter V. Singleton, Milwaukee, $20 and costs, speeding; Scott A. Zuberbier, 191 E. 11th $25 and costs, violation of restriction on learner's permit; Alan L.

Hall, Route 3, Campbellsport, $30 and costs, speeding: Rodney J. Baumann, Route 1, Lomira, $35 and costs, speeding; Orville K. Abraham 46 15th $20 and costs, failure to stop for a red light; James F. Anglin, 787 Ellis $20 and costs, disorderly conduct; and Richard E. Johnson, 24 S.

Military Road, $20 and costs, defective speedometer. Forfeiting bonds were Sally J. Magnuson, Beloit, $37, speeding, and each $8 for illegal parking, Kathleen Crain, 352 Boyd and David O. Williams, 65 Cottage Ave. In Branch 3 cases -Thursday before Judge Eugene McEssey, bonds were forfeited by Edwin a 1 Marion, $40, speeding; Gladys B.

Carlovsky, 330 Mine's North Fond du Lac, $37, driving too fast for conditions; Gary A. Duitman, 2109 Fourth Street Road, $37, speeding; Vincent A. Ebertz, Route 1, Mount Calvary, $37, speeding; Michael S. Flanders, 133 E. First $32, speeding; Ronald C.

Goebel, Route 1, $37, speeding. Also Susan J. Immel, Route 6, $37, speeding; Sharon P. (See JAIL, Page 24) 42 foster care inquiries There have been 42 Inquiries into providing foster care for children featured in Reporter articles during the past five weeks, according to the Fond du Lac County Department of Social Services and the state Division of Family Services. Foster Home Coordinator Thomas Mick stated today "many couples who responded are becoming foster parents." He added, "The public exposure your newspaper has provided is invaluable in my estimation." The Reporter has been publishing personalized stories regarding children that the state and county can place in foster homes.

Such children outnumber the foster parents available. Auditors going through records of the Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Department expect to complete their field work by the middle of next week, County Administrator Donald R. Flanders reported today. He said, with preparation time, a report on the audit may be ready for the county protection of persons and property committee sometime around Feb. 20.

State auditors are checking sheriff's department books with respect to overtime, matron time and other items in connection with a com mittee investigation of complaints against the department. When complete, the audit report is expected to be sent to Dist. Atty. Alexander P. Semenas.

Semenas already has received a report from the State Elections Board regarding its findings discrepancies in the election f'nancial statement of Sheriff John B. Cearns. The district attorney, however, is not expected to look further into the Cearns matter until after the Circuit Court murder trial of Gerald Turner is finished. SHOP OUR INFLATION FIGHTER FABRIC SALE BEGINNING THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 2nd You'll Find Outstanding Savings in every Department During this Penny-Pinching Extravaganza! FEBRUARY is SEW NFDL board policies okayed FIGHT INFLATION WITH OUR DEFLATED PRICES! was tabled. District Administrator Douglas Hendrickson was ill and did not attend the meeting.

A report by board member Bette Worm on the Wisconsin Association of School Boards convention was also tabled. The board adjourned to closed session to discuss personnel and negotiations. KINGSBURY BEER SAVE MONTH! Case Of 24-12 Oz. Btls. Plus Tax Deposit WATCH FOR OUR PABST BLUE RIBBON BEER RED, WHITE BLUE $9)45 12Pak 12-Oz.

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