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16 THE TENNESSEAN, Wednesday, April 1, 1981 Inmate in Good Condition Following Suicide Try By LISA HUMAN with intent to murder in the Sun towel around the inmate's arm and applied pressure to stop the bleed-ing-until an ambulance arrived. Jones said jail officials will "try to keep him with a prisoner that we feel will keep an eye on him" after Ray is returned. day shooting of his wife, Estell, 45, with a 45-caliber weapon at their home near Smyrna. She remains in good condition in Rutherford pital. Ray, held on $50,000 bond, is scheduled for a hear ing April 9.

s- "'yf2 JT mi -tefevt- -''hi 1 ill 1 RAY IS charged with assault Tennessean State Correspondent MURFREESBORO A Rutherford County jail inmate charged with attempted murder was listed in fair' condition at Rutherford Hospital last night following what authorities said was a suicide attempt. John Ray, 46, is expected to be discharged from the hospital and returned to the jail today, officials said. He is accused in the pistol wounding.of his wife. RAY SLASHED himself on the inside of the left elbow with what was believed to be a razor blade Monday night, sheriff's officials said. No object was found in the cell and investigators speculated he may have flushed it down a toilet.

"We believe it was a razor blade. Some of the other inmates said Chief Deputy Truman Jones said. Jones said he did not know how Ray obtained the object. SHERIFF CRAIG Snell said no one had brought Ray any packages Monday. Snell speculated that Ray may have had the sharp object with him when he was brought to the jail Sunday afternoon the same day his wife was shot.

Sheriff's Deputy Ben McElroy found Ray in the cell which he shared with two other inmates about 5 p.m. Monday. A bloodstained blanket was draped over his arms, McElroy said. "He wasn't all the way unconscious, but he wouldn't say anything at all," the deputy said. JONES SAID inmates told officials they heard Ray flush some-, thing down the toilet five minutes before McElroy arrived.

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LEWIS SHEPHERD, Joe's father who still lives in Tellico Plains, said he hasn't seen or heard from his son since shortly before the jail es cape and doesn't know whether he is still alive. teen-age women found buried in shallow graves. Authorities in Shepherd's native Monroe County, a mountainous stretch of rural East Tennessee, say they still receive calls from residents who believe they have seen Shepherd and are still afraid. "BECAUSE OF fear, a lot of people maintain surveillance and there's constant reporting," trict Attorney General Richard Fisher said. Callers have reported seeing Shepherd walking, in a car, in a restaurant, but 32 months of Warehouse Pot 'Factory' Raided; Two Arrested By BOB DUNNAVANT Tennessean State Correspondent HUNTSVILLE A "marijuana factory" in an old warehouse, plete with artificially lighted indoor growing rooms and a trash compactor for packaging the product, was shut down here yesterday, police said.

Earl Carroll, 27, of Lawrence-burg, and Alton Higginbot-ham, 26, of Ttfscumbia, were arrested and charged with trafficking in marijuana yesterday as they walked into a two-day old stake-out investigators had maintained around the building. "THERE WERE 600 to 800 plants in pots, arranged under high intensity lamps, and a compactor with about 14 pounds of marijuana already pressed and packaged into bags," police information officer Randy Duck said after the raid. Duck said police discovered the marijuana operation Sunday night when officers patrolling an area of southwestern Hunstville discovered an unlocked gate and an open door at the warehouse. Spotting the marijuana through the open door, the officers notified the police narcotics squad and the stake-out was organized. According to Duck, the two suspects walked into the warehouse, stayed inside a short time and were arrested by police as they attempted to leave.

"WE DONT know how long this place has been operating, but we think it was furnishing a regular amount of marijuana for street sale," Duck said. He estimated the street sale value of the marijuana plants at $40,000. He said the plants taken from the building as evidence were three to five feet tail Bonds for the two men had not been set last night Both were being held in Huntsville City JaiL but were expected to be transfered to Madison County Jail today. A Monroe County grand jury in April 1978 indicted Shepherd, now 28, for aggravated assault and the murders of Roxanne Woodson, 16, and Kathy Clowers, 15. Shepherd also faces a federal charge of interstate flight to avoid prosecution.

Authorities said they found Miss Woodson's body, nude from the waist down, buried in the yard of the Tellico Plains house where Shepherd lived with his parents. The parents found the body and called authorities. The authorities said Shepherd then took them to a remote site in neighboring Polk County where officials dug up the remains of Miss Clowers, missing since March 1976. AT THE request of Shepherd's lawyer, the trial was moved to neighboring Bradley County because the attorney feared that pretrial publicity would prevent a fair trial in Monroe County. While awaiting an October 1978 trial in Cleveland, Shepherd and two other men escaped in July from the Bradley County JaiL The other two were caught within days, but bhepherd was not.

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Shepherd's father said, "You can call it whatever you want Since last June, I told them to get out and stay out unless they had a search warrant. Whenever I go to town, they follow me around everywhere Member D.I I go..