St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 71

ST LDUIS POST-DISPATCH 1" Aware Of State Law On Prisoner Release, Stamps Testifies Ik 11 status of a prisoner being considered for work release. Whether such court orders existed were immaterial to the selection process, she said. Mrs. Willis made the initial selection of participants. Her selections were then approved by Rudy L.

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Built in anti-skate mechanism. Unit Is wood-grain vinyl on wood products with polystyrene front. 5206 missioner of adult services at the Workhouse. The final list was then sent to I wSS Stamps for review. Workhouse records subpenaed by the courts showed that five of about 40 participants in work release had been specifically denied admission to the program by the sentencing judge.

The special work-release program headed by Mrs. Willis was begun at the Workhouse in October 1975. It was sponsored by the Human Development Corporation and was intended to prepare prisoners for employment on release from prison. The prisoners were sent outside the medium-security facility to work at public building job sites. The By PATRICIA McCARRON Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The former warden of the City Workhouse has testified that he was aware that state law required court approval before a prisoner was allowed to hold a job outside the prison.

But, he said, that such approval was not sought as a matter of course. Lynman A. Stamps, the warden, testified yesterday at a hearing on criminal contempt-of-court charges. The hearing ended yesterday in St. Louis Circuit Court after nearly three hours of testimony.

Cole County Circuit Judge Byron Kinder was assigned to hear the case after Judge James S. Corcoran disqualified himself. Corcoran filed the contempt charge. Stamps faces a jail sentence of up to six months and an unlimited fine if convicted. Stamps is accused of deliberately violating the state law concerning work-release programs and violating a judge's expressed orders to keep two men out of the work release program.

Corcoran initiated the charges in August after he learned that two men who he had ruled could not participate in work release were doing so. Both men had been convicted of felonies and sentenced by Corcoran. Corcoran later disqualified himself from the case under an order by the Missouri Supreme Court. Stamps testified that he was not aware that the judge had denied the two men admittance to the work-release. His testimony was corroborated by other witnesses who were employed at the Workhouse and involved in the work-release program.

Mrs. Joan E. Willis, an employe of the Human Development Corporation, who directed the special work-release program at issue in the case, testified that no inquiries were made to determine if the court nad ruled on the work-release prisoners were observed by HDC staff members. Corcoran suspended the program last April after the abuses were disclosed. Reg.

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5208 The program was resumed in June and program co-ordinators were directed to lit obtain the necessary court approval before any prisoner was released. v. i re i ami Stamps, warden singe 1972, was forced to resign his post in October after shortages of up to $40,000 were discov ered in commissary accounts. Yesterday, the city's Board of Esti mate and Appointment gave the circuit attorney's office authority to hire an outside consulting firm to conduct an audit of the Workhouse accounts. Circuit Attorney George A.

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LAWRENCE Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Former homicide Detective William H. Cox will appeal his dismissal from the St. Louis Police Department partly by challenging the admissibility of wire-tap evidence in an administrative proceeding, his attorney says. Cox, a policeman for 18 years, was dismissed yesterday by the Board of Police Commissioners, which upheld allegations that he had fixed a murder case and had accepted offers of "female companionship" from Eugene (Papa) Kirk a convicted heroin dealer. The wire-tap issue will be a key part of his appeal, said Cox's attorney, C.

John Pleban. The appeal will be filed within 30 days, probably in St. Louis County Circuit Court because Cox resides in the county, Pleban said. Much of the case against Cox was developed from five telephone conversations he had with Kirk in 1974 that were recorded in court-authorized federal wire-taps on Kirk's phones, the recordings were introduced in a lengthy board trial in November. Pleban said several issues would be raised in the appeal.

In addition to the wire-tap question, Pleban said he probably would allege that there was not substantial and competent evidence to support the guilty findings. Pleban said he probably would also challenge Police Department procedures for discovery of evidence. He said he that he had suppressed evidence in a ll ft 6 murder case in which Kirk had an interest, and that Cox had accepted "female companionship" for the purpose of sexual intercourse from Kirk. In addition, the board found to be true an allegation that Cox had solicited a present for his wife's wedding anniversa ry from Kirk. It has not been determined whether Cox actually received the gift from Kirk.

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Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Courtney Goodman Jr. was considering the warrant request. He asked for additional information from the police. Goodman said that he wanted more measurements taken at the crime scene and wanted written statements from policemen who might know about the incident. St.

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$100,000 Bond Set In Shooting Case I I Wf' 1 Oct. 19. McGinnis, a 35-year-old truck driver from Joplin, was arrested in his home Sunday on a warrant issued in St. Charles charging him with assault with intent to kill. He is being held in the St.

Charles County Jail. Police are investigating the shooting to determine if McGinnis is also connected with the gas company burglary and the shooting of Bergmann. St. Charles Magistrate Richard K. Zen-has set bond at $100,000 for Clarence Leroy McGinnis, accused of firing shots at a St.

Charles detective at the rear of the St. Charles Gas 21 North Main Street, last Sept. 12. The shooting occurred moments after a burglar took $700 from the gas company safe and wounded Auxiliary Patrolman Fred B. Bergmann.

Bergmann, 47 years old, died at Christian Hospital Northeast Sale prices effective thru this weekend Two Men, Boy Rob Food Stamp Office Two armed men and a juvenile disarmed a security guard and took about $1000 in cash and food stamps valued at almost $7500 yesterday from the St. Louis Food Stamp Issuance Office, 2331 Mullanphy Street, police said. 20, was armed with a revolver, police said. The juvenile, who appeared to be about 14 years old, was unarmed. The robbers held an office security guard, Elisa Brooks, 52, at gunpoint and took her revolver, police said.

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