St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 8

8A January 18, 1977 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH save 30 DURING OUR FACTORY AUTHORIZED SALE Killing Suspect Says Beatings Led To Confession BEDROOM SUITES PINE MANOR B0RGHESE MANUSCRIPT WAYSIDE ROMANO tsfist? Ift.1T. WLSUL. OTHER COLLECTIONS said that shortly after police began questioning him on Feb. 27 they became dissatisfied with his answers about the robbery-killing at the Express Market on Woods Mill Road just north of Clayton Road.

At this point, Rapheld testified, tive George Ice "hit me with his fist and said 'you're lying'." Detective Edward Opich then hit him with a blackjack and Insisted that he had "killed this girl, Rapheld said. Under questioning by his attorney, Raymond Bruntrager, Rapheld said that Initially he denied police assertions that he killed Miss Atchison. Rapheld said that after the detectives struck him repeatedly, threatened to arrest his wife and have his children made wards of the state, he decided he "could not take any more." "I said please leave me alone," Rapheld testified. "I'll say anything you want me to say." His subsequent admissions of the robbery and killing, which were recorded on a tape recorder and on videotape, were forced by the beating and contained answers suggested by police, Rapheld testified. Seeking to rebut the contention that the confession was involuntary, George R.

Westfall, assistant prosecuting attorney, sought to develop inconsistencies between Rapheld's trial testimony and the taped statements. Four other defense witnesses testified yesterday on the allegations of police beating of Rapheld. Mrs. Delores Hark-ness, a medical aid at the County Jail, said she saw bruises on Rapheld's upper body when she examined him last March 4, about five days after police questioned him. Westfall brought out that these bruises were not mentioned in her report of that examination.

A jail guard, John Kolar, said he saw bruises on Rapheld's body when the prisoner was changing into jail clothes on Feb. 28. He said Rapheld had said he had been struck by police. However, Westfall cited a pretrial statement by Kolar to the effect that Kolar could not recall Rapheld mentioning the beating. Here it a wealth of outstanding tuitei in Mediterranean, Spanish, Contemporary, French, Italian and Traditional Styles at huge savings during our Factory Authorized Sale.

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LOUIS POST-DISPATCH By WILLIAM F. VOGLER Of the Post-Dispatch Staff St. Louis County police beat him until he confessed to killing a store clerk in a robbery last year, John L. Rapheld testified yesterday. Rapheld, 21 years old, of the 4100 block Air Bags FROM PAGE ONE and an additional 1500 sedans with driver air bags in model year 1981.

And Volkswagen has agreed to produce at least 60,000 cars equipped with that company's passive safety belt re-'strainlng systems for sale in model years 1978, 1979 and 1980, Coleman said. The Volkswagen system is a passive restraint that is attached to the door of the car. It automatically wraps itself around the driver when the door is closed. The Secretary also said that three insurance companies Allstate, Nationwide and Volkswagen Insurance have agreed to offer premium reductions to owners of cars equipped with the passive restraints. Air bags are inflatable devices that cushion the driver when sensors in the front of the car signal that a crash is occurring.

The bags inflate almost instantly and begin deflating within less than a second. Last month, Coleman said he had determined that passive restraints were Court FROM PAGE ONE van, Dominic Buzzacco and Vanis Rob-bins, could not be used because federal agents knew their identities before applying for the wire tap but did not include their names in the application for court approval. In another case, the Supreme Court today approved labor agreements re T'uvrfryiMVimn of DeTonty Street, St. Louis, testified after the state rested its case yesterday before St. Louis County Circuit Judge James Ruddy.

The trial began last Monday. Rapheld is accused of the fatal stabbing of Judith Ann Atchison, 20, and first-degree robbery on Feb. 20. Rapheld an effective method of protecting automobile passengers in a collision. But he said he would not require automakers to equip all cars with the devices, becase he doubted that the public was ready to accept the air bags.

The four companies have agreed to bear the entire cost of producing and marketing the cars. Both GM and Ford have agreed to market the cars with vigorous advertising and dealer promotion, Coleman said. GM has agreed to spend between and $15,000,000 on its program, and Ford will spend at least $2,000,000. Coleman said his department's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration would monitor the program and compile data on accidents involvingthe-cars. The GM and Ford contracts have three conditions.

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