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SUNDAY. APRIL 13, PAGE 10 SEC. 1 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR Iran Cantwell Australia and New Zealand and he is said' to be planning a similar meeting soon ruling on the merits of the evidence and not succumb to the pressure by Sara and the Cantwells not to indict. Stark told the grand jury his investigators had been harassed more in this case than "in my 28 years on the force." Following Stark's statement, the grand jury indicted Cantwell. Police Chief Eugene C.

Gallagher ordered a complete, second investigation of the murder following an initial round of public depositions taken by defense attorney Owen M. Mullin which cast public doubt on the first investigation. MINOR, IN AN internal report dated May 9, 1978, told Gallagher for the first time that a "confidential informant" had told Minor that Cantwell admitted killing Miss Jones. Dunn has testified Minor never told him about the information. Sells said the informant, John Wayne Jaggers, 27, is "the prosecution's prime witness." Jaggers, according to Sells, is a "very believable witness on the stand," who corroborates other expected testimony.

However, Jaggers has a long criminal record that includes a conviction for filing a false crime report and has had several drug and gun-related charges against him dropped since surfacing as a itness agaiast Cantwell. JAGGERS IS identified as a drug return the case to Marion County. He is gambling that another grand jury will reindict. There is no indication Cantwell, his father or the defense attorneys will agree to any plea bargain that includes a guilty plea to the crime. Goldsmith said he would never allow political pressure to play any role in a murder trial.

He said he has never talked to Paul Cantwell about the case, "although I would like to." HOWEVER, GOLDSMITH is freed of the "political football" charge former prosecutor James F. Kelley once leveled. A Republican, Goldsmith can handle the Ruth Jones murder without the fear of facing "fix" charges that Kelley would have if a decision other than a conviction against Daniel Cantwell was returned by a jury. Both sides still claim they want the opportunity to present the case to a jury so that the evidence can be heard and judged. Both sides predict their side will convince the jury.

However, the earliest any trial can be started is the first of June. Clark Circuit Court Judge Clifford Maschmeier has postponed any further court action until then. He is campaigning for the bench, and, observed one person close to the case, "he wants to have some fun 'cause it's his first opportunity to run for office." source for Daniel Cantwell. Cantwell allegedly made the admissions to Jaggers while seeking drugs. After a second investigation, directed by Lt.

James M. Strode, was conducted, police said they were more confident than ever they had arrested the right man, Daniel Cantwell. A third investigation was conducted in late 1979 based on statements which implicated another man. Paul Cantwell today points the finger of suspicion at this man, a drug user prone to violence who is familiar with the neighborhood where Miss Jones was murdered. DEFENSE ATTORNEYS believe they can overcome the testimony about Cantwell's alleged confessions.

They also will call present grand jury deputy Michael M. Beaver, a respected polygraph operator, to testify about the "inconclusive" polygraphs given to Cantwell the morning of his arrest. Beaver told the grand jury he would not have tested Cantwell that night because Cantwell admitted to having taken drugs in the previous 24 hours, had already been questioned for several hours and had reacted violently to accusations by police he wasn't telling the truth. Beaver hints in his testimony that Sgt. Paul Harmon, the police polygragh operator that night, told Beaver he protested giving the test to Cantwell, but was ordered to by superiors.

FROM WHAT police and prosecutors will reveal, other evidence against Cantwell includes a thumbprint in the apartment. However, Cantwell was cleaning the apartment the previous week and was stopped by a policeman when he left the apartment. Goldsmith has authorized negotiations with Cantwell's attorneys to at least Olympics Continued From Page 1 the President advised the USOC that in light of international events the national security of the country is threatened, the L'SOC has decided not to send a team. "If the President advises the USOC on or before May 20 that international events have become compatible with the national interest and national security is no longer threatened, the USOC will enter its athletes." Six hours before Saturday's vote, Vice-President Walter Mondale delivered a final administration appeal that U.S. athletes stay home.

IN HIS HALF-HOUR address to the delegates, he said, "Athletes and sports organizations and national bodies around the world await your lead to mobilize their commitment. "They do so for good reason. Today, virtually every industrial nation on earth is dangerously dependent on Persian Gulf oil. How could we convince the Soviets not to threaten the Gulf, if a blow was dealt to our deterrent? How could our government send a message to Moscow, if tomorrow's Pravda brags that our policies have been repudiated?" "We recognize the tremendous sacrifice we are asking of sports officials. But on behalf of the President of the United States I assure you that our nation will do everything within its power to ensure the success of the Los Angeles Games; to help the Olympic Committee restore its finances; to provide even greater assistance to the development of Continued From Page 1 duty to justify the police investigation.

Cantwell even today accuses Kelley and his staff of not doing enough to prevent the indictment. "If the grand jury had not gotten angry at Kelley's staff, they probably wouldn't have indicted him, based on the evidence presented to them," said Lawrence 0. Sells, a former deputy prosecutor assigned to the case. PRACTICALLY LOST in the "Cantwell case" is the brutal murder of Miss Jones, a deeply religious woman who was moving into a converted garage, owned by young Cantwell's mother, because of moral opposition to her father's drinking. An employee of the Indianapolis Public Schools kitchen.

Miss Jones had started taking classes at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. The apartment at 1702 Bradbury would have been her first attempt to live outside her parents' home. She was murdered within 90 minutes of moving in. An autopsy showed she had been struck on the side of her face and behind her ear, stabbed in the neck with a fork 10 to 12 times, struck in the ribcage, and strangled. SEVEN RIBS, four in her chest and three in her back, were broken by a single blow, possibly a kneedrop, that also ruptured her aorta.

Miss Jones' body was found about a m. that morning. Police found little, if any, evidence at the scene except the fork. A lampeord that may have been used to strangle the woman was missing and has never been found. Dunn and Investigator Thomas A.

Minor scoured the neighborhood for witnesses that evening and the next day. Early in the evening of Nov. 2, Dunn learned from a neighbor of the Cantwells that Daniel had told a group of girls, including two of his sisters, that he had strangled Miss Jones. ACCORDING TO Dunn's grand jury testimony, no one knew the woman had been strangled because it had yet to be reported in the media. However, the grand jury heard testimony from other neighborhood youths that at least six other youths made similar "gruesome jokes" about strangling the woman.

Because, according to Dunn. Cantwell was the only one who knew she had been strangled, he was brought in for questioning at 10.30 p.m. Nov. 2. Statements from his mother and sisters were taken at the same time.

When Cantwell told police he had been at work at 8 a.m. the morning of the murder, police checked the restaurant and learned Cantwell did not show up until 11 a.m. At that time, Cantwell agreed to submit to a now-disputed polygraph (lie detector) test. Cantwell's polygraph test was administered from midnight until 4 a.m. Nov.

3, when a police polygraph operator told Minor and Lt. Reed MoLstner that Cantwell had shown deception to several questions about the murder CANTWELL WAS then arrested for murder. Paul Cantwell. and his ex-wife Rose, held a news conference to proclaim their son's innocence and hired attorneys Hugh J. Baker and Patrick Chavis, who in turn hired ex-FBI agent Charles Keenan to conduct a private investigation.

Through three days of grand jury hearings on the murder, Dunn testified, presenting the police case while Deputy S. i f- if' i. W'y. Continued From Page 1 accordance with a series of decisions adopted by the European foreign ministers at a meeting Thursday in Lisbon following Mr. Carter's announcement.

He said France will be included in other joint European actions in regard to Iran. JAPANESE Prime Minister Masay-oshi Ohira, in his strongest public statement yet in support of the U.S. position in the crisis, said good relations with the United States were more important than oil from Iran which provides 10 percent of Japan's oil needs. He said Japan would consider sanctions against Iran after consulting with other countries. Argentina recalled its ambassador from Tehran on Saturday and expressed, "its profound anxiety over the hostage situation, according to a Tehran Radio broadcast monitored in London.

The meeting coincided with a flurry of other diplomatic activity, following the American imposition of sanctions and suspension of diplomatic relations five days ago. FOREIGN MINISTER Sadegh Ghotb-zadeh called in the ambassadors of Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Greece, Finland, Austria and Switzerland and "asked these countries not to follow the political policy of the United States," the government radio reported. Friday Ghotbzadeh covered the same ground with the ambassadors of the Common Market, Japan, amateur sport; and above all, to recognize the true heroism of our athletes who do not go to Moscow." AFTER MONDALE spoke, the delegates went into a closed-door session, then adjourned for lunch before taking the vote on the boycott question. There were three resolutions before the body: The first, proposed March 15, said that a team would go unless Mr. Carter decided later it was not in the national interest.

The second, introduced Friday after heavy White House pressure, said that a team would not be sent unless Mr. Carter gave his okay. The third, introduced Saturday by a group of athletes, said that a team should be sent. USOC OFFICIALS had been hoping for a quick vote on the boycott, but as the meeting started, disputes began over who could vote and other procedural questions. In addition to the vote, the committee had to consider the apparent willingness of the federal government to pump millions of dollars into the USOC budget.

That money might not have been forthcoming if the boycott proposal was rejected. "I wouldn't call it dangling a carrot out," said F. Don Miller, executive director of the USOC. "I would view that particular subject as something distinct and separate from the issues before us. I cannot view the interest of our national security in the light of financial considerations." 4 I utl fetal I 50 handling charge (il applicable) add 4 IN Hale ta TOIAI wun envuya uuin some oi trie othe Islamic nations.

According to Carmaroudi, BanLSad reiieraieu uicu tuiuiines wno join tho United States in cutting diplomatic tics ana imposing sanctions wouia lace retail ation, possibly an oil embargo. HE SAID THE ambassadors asked' Bani-Sadr for a specific date for the hostages' release. The president respond ed no date could be set because Ux hostages' fate would be decided bv tho ac yet-unelected Parliament, which is dm expectea iane up me issue until sum mer. he said. Bani-Sadr did not say when the visits and neann eneexs wouia occur.

Tehran radio, monitored in London quoted him as telling the ambassadors "An arrangement has been made where by sucn an internationally acceptable organ as the Red Cross will visit all the hostages without exception." Last week, Ayatollah Ruhollah Kho- meini said visitors would be allowed see the hostages "under the supervision of responsible oniciais. The most recent outsiders to see Dip Americans were three American clergy men who held Easter services for them week ago. THE OFFICIAL Pars news agenrv meanwhile, reported that Pope John Paul II, who has previously called for the hostages' release, sent a message to Khomeini expressing "ine profound anxi ety which is gnawing at our heart over the worsening relations between the USA and the country of your great eminence." The validity of the message-was not immediately confirmed by the Vatican At Washington, in another effort tn punish Tehran, the administration an nounced a new visa policy that could force tens of thousands of Iranians tn leave the United States over the next several months. Iranians in America no longer will receive extensions of temporary visas nor will they be allowed to become permanent residents, except for "compel ling humanitarian reasons," said Davie Crosland, acting commissioner of tlx Immigration and Naturalization Service THERE ARE AN estimated lSO.OOf Iranians in the country. The new stri tures will bear most heavily on tourists corporate officials and Iranian crewmed They are not likely immediately to affect 60.000 students, most of whom have vfcai with indefinite terms.

The Tehran newspaper Kavhan it ported continuing conflict along the Ira Iraq border in the Qasr-e-Shirin area Kermanshah province, 300 miles west Tehran. It said Iraqi forces attaekfj: Iranian units with tanks and rockets he that there were no casualties. Four IrarJ an tanks were wrecked by Iraqi mines, said i PARS QUOTED Libyan leader Col Muammar Khadafy as saying he wotij send envoys to urge Iran and Iraq to fit their dispute in th? name of Islam art unite against "thewmericans, the Israel is and their reactionary mercenaries ant allies." 1 i In camel, whitebone or red $28 Scuffy In mahogany or wheat $32 Empress 'Man-made upper material. "Offer expires April 20. Not all sizes and colors in every store.

Women's Shoes, D210, Indianapolis stores and Lafayette, IN. (Star Photo I DANIEL CANTWELL IN COURT Says Not Guilty Of Murder Prosecutor Sara would ask Dunn about other evidence presented to the grand jury by Keenan and other witnesses. Keenan, in his grand jury testimony, attempted to show that Cantwell was in bed at the time of the murder and that police needed to investigate other suspects. ONE OF THE suspects Keenan testified about was Miss Jones' father, Arthur T. Jones, who died in Sept.

5, 1978, Keenan told the grand jury that Jones had mysteriously gone to Texas for nine days and returned earlier on the same day Ruth Jones rented the apartment from Mrs. Cantwell. The family told police Ruth had become increasingly upset ith her father's drinking habits. The morning of the murder, Jones took his wife to Arsenal Technical High School at 6 30 a.m. and told Dunn he went to his barbershop at 211 South State Avenue where he remained until another daughter, Kim, called him at the shop to ask him to take her to work.

Keenan told the grand jury the barbershop had no phone. In effect, Keenan told the jurors. Arthur Jones was within a 10-minute drive of the scene of his daughter's death during the period the murder occurred, on the day she left home disgusted with her father's drinking. DUNN TOLD the grand jury the rest of Jones' alibi checked out and he didn't believe there was a need to investigate Jones further. Homicide branch chief Lt.

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