The Daily Chronicle from De Kalb, Illinois • Page 9

DAILY CHRQNICIE, DeKolb, Illinois Wednesday, Feb. 1 3, 1 980 9 Poll, frie.nd&say$j Evidence may be altered Dixon ahead by 2-7 O'Neal: Scott has no chance 'I CHICAGO (UPl) Three airline tickets submitted as possible defense evidence in Attorney General William J. Scott's tax evasion trial appear to have been altered, a study by government experts shows. On two of the tickets, the name "Mr. W.

Scott" apparently was substituted for another name. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeremy Margolis said Tuesday. Margolis asked U.S. District Judge John Powers Crowley to hold an immediate hearing on the authenticity of the tickets if the defense plans to use them in cross-examination of the last lew prosecution witnesses.

Defense attorney William Burnett said he docs not know if the tickets will be used during the prosecution's case and Crowley took no immediate action. Scott. 53. is charged with cheating on his federal income taxes for the years 1972 through 1975. The government charges he used campaign contributions for personal purposes without paying income tax on the money.

A candidate for the Republican nomination lor U.S. Senate, Scott could be fined $25,000 and sent to prison for as many as 15 years if he is convicted on all counts. The tickets about which Margolis raised questions were submitted to the prosecution by the defense last week. Margolis said the government had them analyzed by handwriting experts, who found what he called "suspected alterations." For instance, on a Mexican;) Airlines ticket. Margolis said, it appears a $ti4 charge was changed to $76.55 and the name changed to "Mr.

W. Scott." from another name which he was not able to clearly make out. SPRINGFIELD, III. (UPl) Lt. Dave O'Neal says Illinois Attorney General William Scott's tax evasion trial has rendered Scott a hopeless candidate in the March 18 primary race for Republican U.S.

Senate nomination. "A lot of us, his good friends, hope he will be acquitted. But he has been totally maimed by the trial and 1 see him as having no chance whatsoever (of winning)," said O'Neal, who's running against Scott for the Senate seat being vacated by Democratic Sen. Adlai Stevenson 111. O'Neal, speaking Tuesday at the annual Lincoln Day luncheon, said, "His chances of being a viable candidate for the Senate seat have gotten worse day by day.

simply feel some of the things that have come out in the trial have maimed him. And regardless of his innocence, politics is not what things are but what they appear to be O'Neal denied- charges his own criticisms of Scott have hurt Scott's popularity. "I'm not trying to attack Bill (Scott) but 1 cannot, in all honesty, say he's the best man lor the job in' light of the circumstances," O'Neal said. O'Neal said Friday Scott has lost his viability as a candidate and should drop Dave O'Neal out of the race for the sake of the Republican Party. The Scott trial entered its sixth week Monday.

Scott is charged with understating his income on tax returns for the period from 1972 through 1975 and the government is trying to show he converted campaign contributions to his personal use, often stashing the cash in safe deposit boxes. If convicted, Scott could be sent to prison for up to 15 years and fined as much as $25,000. CHICAGO (UPl) -Attorney General William J. Scott would lose badly in the general election if he wins the Republican nomination for the Senate, even though he is far ahead of his competition in the Republican primary, a poll done for the Chicago Sun- Times and WMAQ-TV shows. The poll shows Scott would lose to the Democratic Party's front-runner.

Secretary of State Alan J. Dixon, by a 2-1 margin 57 percent to 28 pel cent with only 15 percent undecided. The attorney general, currently on trial in U.S. District Court on tax evasion charges, would lose even to lawyer Alex Seith, who trails Dixon by a huge margin on the Democratic side of the poll. The score in that race would be Seith 43 percent.

Scott 40 percent, the poll showed. The survey of 500 registered voters was conducted bv telephone Jan. 26-27. Burlier, the poll found Scott with 43 percent of the GOP vote. Lt.

Gov. Dave 0 Neal with 18 percent and Peoria Mayor Richard Carver with 8 percent, the remainder undecided. Both Carver and O'Neal have called on Scott to withdraw from the primary. Dixon led his four opponents by an equally broad margin. Carver said Tuesday he is encouraged by his William J.

Scott "Considering the error margin," Carver said, "Scott's percentage could be as low as 35. Similar computations could place my percentage at 16 and Lt. Gov. Dave O'Neal at 10." arn these high rotes with a DeKolb Sovings investment certificate. showing, even though the poll placed him third in a field of three.

"The point I find especially encouraging," Carver said, "is that the poll shows more than 30 percent of GOP primary voters undecided seven weeks before the March 18 election. "Given the fact that the margin for error in the poll is actually eight percent or more, the undecided figure could be almost 40 percent," Carver said. "1 believe 1 am now ahead of running slightly O'Neal on a solid base of support and I'm confident of an upsurge over the final five weeks which will pull me away from O'Neal and pass Scott." Witness says Gacy ITA LIA NIGHT made him dig graves Bring the whole family 26 week Money Market Certificate will earn 12.256 SPECIAL 5 to 10 P.M. ITALIAN DINNERS Spaghetti $1.99 tasagna $2.39 Ravioli $2.19 Manacotti $2.19 Cannelloni $2.19 veal Parmegian $2,19 Despite the sexual attacks. Cram described Gacy as "a jolly type of guy very businesslike." He said Gacy, a Democratic precinct worker, was "a nice guy to work for except he wanted things done his own way He liked the Sense of restaurant 758-7448 Vl I 1215 Black Hawk I power.

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testified Tuesday he dug drainage trenches for Gacy in the summer of 1977. Prosecutors say that was after Gacy already had started using the crawlspace beneath his house as a makeshift graveyard. Gacy. accused of the sex killings of 33 boys and young men, is charged with more slayings than any other person in U.S. history.

Testimony in his mass murder trial before Cook County Circuit Court Judge Louis B. Garippo resumed today. would go down into the crawlspace and give a specific area in which to Rossi testified. "He'd actually mark it out with sticks." "How would Gacy act if someone moved away from the defense attorney Robert Motta asked. "He'd get very upset," Rossi said.

Gacy during the questioning. Prosecutdrs have charged Gdcy ordered ditches dug' "because he wanted to have graves available" for his victims. Rossi, who occasionally played "Patches" the clown to Gacy's "Pogo" at charity events, also said Gacy's home sometimes reeked of a "musty ordor" but the smell went away after Rossi dumped 800 to 900 pounds of lime in the crawlspace on orders from Gacy. David F. Cram; 22, said he dug some drainage identified and linked to him.

Rossi and Cram both said they lived with Gacy and worked for him, despite Gacy's sexual propositions. I Cram was asked if he engaged in sexual activity with either Gacy or Rossi but refused to answer, citing his Fifth Amend-, ment rights against self-incrimination. On Aug. 22. 1976, 19th his birthday.

Cram came to Gacy's house and found Gacy wearing his clown outfit, preparing for a hospital benefit. Gacy showed him some puppets "and then he came up with his handcuff trick," Cram said. "The trick was, you needed the key," Cram said. He testified Gacy put the cuffs on him, swung him around and "said he was going to rape me." Cram said he kicked Gacy in the head, ending the incident. Cram also said Gacy entered his room in September 1976 while he was sleeping and "just pounced on me." Cram said Gacy ripped his bluejeans and they fought and struggled until Gacy "suddenly got up, walked to the door, smiled and said, 'You ain't no Both Rossi and Cram testified Gacy, despondent over a 10-day police surveillance in the disappearance of a Des Plaines youth, told them he had admitted to police he was involved in the "syndicate" slayings of more than 3D youths.

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