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PENTAX PROGRRIIIPLUS Reardon, Vogt's attorney, admitted that Vogt had run a gambling operation, but contended that the government had failed to show a connection between the I cal betting and the line information Vogt id Includes exclusive two year limited warranty-product registration on the program body. received in the telephone calls. ii Reardon said that Vogt did enough By Kathryn Rogers 01 tfw Port OiptcH Staff John EL Vogt of Maryland Heights, who authorities say ran a multimillion- dollar gambling operation from his home, has been convicted in federal court of illegally taking bets over the telephone in 1 979. The jury deliberated 3H hours Wednesday before returning its verdict VS. District Judge William Hungate set sentencing for May 4.

The charges against Vogt, 43, stem from a 1979 investigation in which federal agents confiscated gambling documents from a house he owned in the 11800 block of San Remo Drive in Spanish Lake and $6,000 in cash from his apartment in the 2100 block of Nemnich Avenue in Moline. The raid took place 1 days after federal agents had tapped Vogt's telephone. The raid was one of several conducted in St Louis, St Louis County and Sikeston, Mo on Dec 3, 1979, as part of a crackdown on gambling operations in the area. Vogt of the 1 1800 block of Sologne Court, was charged with 10 counts of using interstate telephone calls to assist in his gambling operation and failing to file the proper tax form with the Internal Revenue Service. He faces maximum sentence of 21 years in prison and a fine of $1 10,000.

He will remain free on a $23,000 bond pending his appeal. During the three-day trial, tapes of telephone conversations between Vogt and people placing bets were played for the jury. Jurors also heard tapes of 17 conversations in which Vogt was given information about the odds on games called "line" Information. Some of the phone calls placed by Vogt were traced to a toll-free number registered to the Ottawa Sports Service in Manchester, N.H. Employees of that service gave Vogt line information.

William Holmes, a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, testified that Vogt bad -accepted nearly SI million in bets during the 15-day period in which bis telephone was Holmes arrived at that figure after studying the documents seized from Vogt's business no have his own line and did $39nt95 1. Programmed auto just focus and shoot. 2. Ape dure-priority auto depth of field control. 3.

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Another woman was murdered near Blythe, and two cars were stolen, authorities said. Malone was captured by San Jose, police on March 24, 1981 less than 40 miles from the Monterey jail from which be had escaped 43 days earlier. The jury of nine women and three men in the courtroom of Judge Alphonso H. Voorhees have been sequestered for Malone's trial in Parr's murder. Wabash and Evergreen avenues.

Parr, of the 4300 block of West Pine Boulevard, was unconscious and was bleeding from the ear and nose. He died at Christian Hospital-Northeast several hours later. A bullet was recovered from his brain in an autopsy. Malone also has been convicted of killing two women in California and is a suspect in three other murders, including Parr's. Malone faces a death sentence and life in prison in the two murders for which he has been convicted in California.

Authorities alleged that Malone and an accomplice had escaped from jail in Monterey, on Feb. 9, 1981. They are suspects in the murder of a man in Merced County on March 11. Police said they also had robbed a gas station in Arroyo Grande the same day, and had been involved in a highspeed chase in Santa Maria. The accomplice was caught at a bus station, but Malone forced a man at gunpoint to drive him to Los HOSttD YASHICA OLYMPUS OM-4 HAS NOW ARRIVED A new technology has arrived.

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Kelvin Malone, 23, is on trial in the fatal shooting of William Parr on March 18, 1981. Assistant Prosecutors John Lord and Robert McCulloch are seeking the death penalty. Malone was released from the Missouri State Penitentiary in November 1980, authorities said. He had been sentenced to seven years in prison for robbery. Malone had pleaded guilty to taking in a street robbery in Brentwood on Feb.

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