St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 14

1U June 21, 1979 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Officer's Hunch Almost Causes Death Hostage direction in which he had fled. Schmidt and other co-workers of Noser's at the Florissant Police Department said that the sergeant's actions after being shot and wounded were not out of character. Schmidt said that the 16-year veteran of the department "is just a great guy to work for" and "a very dedicated guy he always did more than he had to." Major Robert Lowery called Noser "an excellent policeman." "He's always been agressive and willing to work," Lowery said of Noser. "He's very cheerful and dedicated.

He's one of my supervisors as well as one of my best friends." Noser was in critical condition at Christian Hospital Northeast. driver's window which had been shattered by a bullet. Noser returned six shots through the open window with his service revolver, striking his assailant's car. After the exchange of gunfire, the suspect sped away and Noser had the physical strength and presence of mind to call in a full description of his assailant and the direction he was headed over his police radio, Schmidt said. When other officers arrived at the scene, they found Noser lying on the front seat of his car, covered with shattered glass and blood, but conscious.

Schmidt said that despite his pain, Noser was able to tell the officers what the happened and to make sure they had the description of the robber and the several police officers who headed in several directions to try to fjnd the robber. Then, as Schmidt tells it, Noser's brush with death happened this way: Noser thought the robber may have headed for Alton, so he drove east on Highway 67 to U.S. Highway 367, where he spotted a man in a car matching the description of the one used in the holdup. But the man in the car was bare-chested, while the man involved in the holdup wore a blue shirt, so Noser pulled up closer to get a better look at the man. As Noser began radioing in a description of the car, the driver got out and approached Noser's car, shooting at the sergeant seven times through the windshield and at close range through the it 1 As the police radio crackled after a holdup at the Northwestern Savings Loan office, Florissant police Sgt.

Jay Noser decided to play a hunch. He drove his unmarked police car east on U.S. Highway 67 with the thought that the robber might drive to Alton, said Detective Ron Schmidt, Noser's partner for the last six months. The hunch turned out to be correct, but almost deadly. It had been an uneventful and routine work day for Noser and some of the detectives he supervises.

They were in the Florissant police station reviewing reports when the call about the holdup came in. They went immediately to the savings and loan office, and were among KE3 i III i mm Mil ROM PAGE ONh He ered no resistance, Mantle said. lite violent sequence of events began about 3 p.m. Wednesday when a man in vblue shirt and armed with a chrome-plated revolver entered the Northwestern office. The man took an undetermined amount of cash from the four women employees who were inside the office, Florissant police said.

No shots were fired and no one was injured. Jtie robber then fled from the rear of the building where he entered a red and white Pontiac and, after removing his shirt, sped away on Highway 67. Witnesses noted the auto's description and its licence plate numbers, and police broadcast the information over their radios. Noser, who was in plain clothes at the Florissant police station, heard the broadcast and drove his unmarked police vehicle toward the office. Later Noser encountered the suspect's caf on Highway 67 near the intersection with U.S.

Highway 367 between 10 and 15 minutes after the robbery and pulled it ovf said Florissant police Lt. Timothy Mahoney. 'The suspect got out of his car before Sg Noser could exit and the suspect immediately fired four shots through the windshield, striking Sgt. Noser," Mtthoney said. w'He then ran up to the driver's side and fired through the driver's window, knocking out the window glass.

'The suspect then stuck his gun injtde, through the window, and fired point blank against Sgt. Noser," Mahoney said. Police said that Noser was struck in the chest, shoulder and legs but that apparently none of the shots hit vital organs. rhe incident was witnessed by at least three persons, police said. i At about 3:20 p.m., Miss Roeder said, stie' was sitting on the front porch of her family's residence in the 12000 block of Benham Road along with a family friend, Frank Schloemer, 80, and her brother, Paul.

Wednesday was Paul's 15th birthday, and Miss Roeder, who wjll be a senior at Visitation Academy this fall, was home from her job as a cftfeteria worker at St. John's Mercy Medical Center. Their parents, Joseph E. Roeder Jr. and his wife, Zoe, were both at their jobs in St.

Louis. A speeding auto pulled into their driveway, she said, and Schloemer thought it was one of her young friends. 'Frank was going to yell at him for driving so fast and when he opened the porch door, the man pulled a gun and told us to shut up and move into the house," Miss Roeder said. The man told them he had just robbed a bank. "My brother and I said, 'Please, don't hurt Miss Roeder said.

"Using curtain cords, the man tied Paul and Schloemer to a stairway bjinnister. He then took Miss Roeder upstairs with him as he shaved off his mustache in a bathroom and put on a knit shirt that belonged to the Roeders. "I begged him not to hurt me," Miss Roeder said. "Then he told me he wanted to get away as far as he could and he needed somebody to drive him and he said I was going to be the driver." Miss Roeder said the man appeared to be unfamiliar with the area. He didn't know which way was north or south or which direction was the city.

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But the man said no, that would mean crossing two bridges and he feared roadblocks. Then Miss Roeder suggested Lake Saint Louis, an area with which she was familiar. The man, who had not been wearing a shirt, pulled on one belonging to Paul Roeder. Then they left in the family's 1973 Buick, a white-over-gold Riviera, and headed west on 1-270 to 1-70 with Miss Roeder driving. "The whole time, he told me not to worry, that I would be home tonight," she said.

When Miss Roeder asked her abductor about the robbery, he told her "That was how he made a living." After they left, Paul Roeder managed to take a small knife out of Schloemer's pocket and cut their bonds. He telephoned his mother at her job at Pet Inc. offices, where she is an insurance technician. Mrs. Roeder immediately gave police a description of the auto.

Mantle, of the Highway Patrol, was traveling east on 1-70 when he heard the description broadcast. He spotted a car fitting the description coming at him westbound. Mantle let the car pass by, and then crossed the center median to follow it. Mantle radioed the vehicle's position. Inside the Roeders' car, Hayes saw the police car following him but told Miss Roeder not to speed up.

When the car reached the Lake Saint Louis exit, it turned off and found the exit blocked by Officer Sampson's squad car. With Sampson in front of him and Mantle pulling in to block his exit, Hayes surrendered without resistance. Police said they recovered $1,400 in cash from Hayes' pockets and said he was carrying a fully-loaded, chrome-plated nine-shot, .22 caliber revolver. The gun was believed to have been stolen. Miss Roeder said her father suffered chest pains after learning of her ordeal.

He was taken to Christian Hospital Northeast and transferred to DePaul Hospital where he was being held for observation, Miss Roeder said. This story was written by Geof Dubson of the Post-Dispatch staff, with information provided by Post-Dispatch reporters Claudia MacLachlan, Patricia McCarron, Becky McReynolds and Bill Voger. out, the other two inmates pushed through the door and attacked Goodridge and guard Robert Gobble. One of the inmates held the makeshift weapon against Goodridge's stomach and told him that they were "getting out now." During the scuffle Gobble broke away from the inmates and ran to report the escape attempt. As the inmates began forcing Goodridge toward the jail print shop, Goodridge punched Vie man holding the weapon and eluded him.

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