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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH JUL ill 1990 ILLINOISTUESDAY 6A 'TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1990 Probe Continues Into Teens9 Confession Rekowski said his meeting with Assistant State's Attorney Robert Trone was productive, but he declined to elaborate. He said he still had not authorized the teens to discuss the case with prosecutors. Trone is leading an investigation for the state's attorney's office into whether Alton police coerced the By Robert Kelly Of the Post-Dispatch Staff John Rekowski, Madison County's public defender, met for more than an hour Monday with an assistant prosecutor to discuss whether five teens would cooperate in an inquiry into whether four of ithem were coerced into confessing to a murder. fice so long as Weber was involved in the case.

Rekowski said he was con-' sidering letting his clients cooperate now. Trone said he was familiar with the case, and he repeated Haine's expression of confidence that the inquiry would vindicate the Alton police. Meanwhile Monday, Dick Allen, a former state's attorney who lost to Haine in the 1988 Democratic prima-, ry, said that he was considering running for state's attorney again in 1992. "I'm taking a close look at it," Allen said. He said many party members were" upset that Haine had hired Weber, Republican defeated by Allen in 1984, and even more upset at Weber's re-" cent comments.

Allen said: "Haine is not in a situa-tion where he would receive the par-' ty's backing in 1992. They'd be em-, barrassed to endorse him again." But Allen said he was unsure if he' wanted to leave his law practice Granite City for another run at the elected post of state's attorney. teens into confessing to a killing they did not commit. The five black teens, ages 14 to 17, had been charged in the fatal beating of Scot Young, a homeless man, in a cemetery in Alton on April 22. Four of the five confessed to the killing; the fifth insisted that they all were innocent.

All five were cleared of the murder earlier this month, although they did admit taking Young's truck. The youths' attorneys, including Rekowski, contend that police pressured the teen-agers into confessing to murder. Prosecutors and Alton police deny the allegation. Last week, Madison County State's Attorney William R. Haine fired Assistant State's Attorney Don W.

Weber. The action followed Weber's refusal to apologize for remarks he had made about the case. Weber had called the five teens "a segment of black people who are liars." Rekowski had said his clients would refuse to cooperate with Haine's of i "VC "I 1 ff 1 Jl L-l A I Water Park Pleads An attorney for the Raging Rivers water park at Grafton entered innocent pleas Monday to criminal misdemeanor charges of failure to get a state permit and operating without a permit. A trial date has yet to be set. Jersey County State's Attorney Richard Ringhausen filed the charges against the park earlier this month.

Each charge carries a fine of up to $1,000 a day if the water park is found guilty. Rep. Richard Durbin Democratic Incumbent Paul Jurgens GOP challenger Challenge Crump Pleads Innocent To New Charges Election Opponent Proposes Match With Durbin On A Pistol Range Innocent To Charges Raging Rivers, on the Great River Road, opened July 4 without a permit from the Illinois Department of Public Health as required by law. The park has continued to operate daily without the permit. The health department contends that the water park's "wave pool" lacks gutters to remove surface contaminants, that its chlori-nator is inadequate and that the park's bathhouse is one-third the size required by state law.

distributed marijuana and amphetamines to people under the age of 21 and possessed a variety of drugs at his apartment. The drugs, including a sedative and a sleeping aid, were found by federal agents who searched Crump's apartment on June 13, authorities said. The indictment says the drugs were controlled substances. Crump's lawyer, Burton H. Shostak, agreed Monday to provide investigators with samples of the legislator's handwriting.

Assistant U.S. Attorney James K. Steitz said the samples were needed for comparison with a signature found on a document seized in the search. pries. jjajajj- increase bated on esseeafcw; Ternta mau chanoa without noiica.

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District Judge Edward L. Filippine, who set a trial date of Sept. 4. Crump, 43, was accused last month of selling cocaine and distributing an amphetamine this spring from his apartment in the 12400 block of Whisper Hollow Drive. A superseding indictment that was returned Thursday contained those charges and new allegations that he 1 SPRINGFIELD, 111.

(AP) Many political candidates chal- lenge their opponents to debates. GOP congressional hopeful Paul Jurgens said Monday that he wanted a different kind of match: pistol-shooting contest with Rep. Richard Durbin, a Democrat from Springfield. Jurgens, who ran unsuccessfully Durbin in 1988, challenged the four-term congressman to his target-shooting skill on at a national shooting tournament in the western Illinois town of Barry. Durbin rejected the invitation, noting that Congress is in session this week.

But he took a pot shot at Jurgens in the process. Jurgens shot himself in the foot when he issued this challenge without even checking the gressional schedule," Durbin said. Jurgens, an oral surgeon from Decatur, said he proposed the shooting match to draw attention to his differences with Durbin on gun control. Both candidates gen Slight Ittcrac for long pfVITWlTf Belleville Branch 4 Executive Woods niinois 233-4500 Residential 451 KSg- 28819898 COMPANY ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RATE 9.83 The aoove are bawd only on S80.000 loan a 20 itemn payment. Monthly payment of 672.68 for 30 yean Sis comes standard mwiw a test drive.

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Clair County Circuit Court last month. His attorney, Paul Storment, said the shooting of Marvin Hall, 20, had been accidental. Storment said that the men had been fighting at Taylor's home and that Taylor's pistol had fired accidentally when he struck Hall with it. Hall died from a bullet wound to the back of the head. Storment asked Chief Criminal Judge James K.

Donovan on Monday to give Taylor probation. Assistant State's Attorney James Stern noted that Taylor had two felony convictions for robbery on his record from before 1980 and had been erally support private ownership of firearms. Durbin has voted for some limits on the sale of pistols, while Jurgens opposes such measures. In their race in 1988, Durbin carried nearly 69 percent of votes in the district, which stretches across west-central Illinois from the Mississippi River to Springfield and Decatur. But Jurgens might have an edge with a gun.

He said he hunts with a rifle several times annually and goes target-shooting with a pistol "a couple or three times a year." Durbin said he had been hunting but didn't do so regularly. But he noted that he was a member of the gun club where the shooting match proposed by Jurgens is scheduled to take place. "They invited me to come to the gun club, and they invited me to join," Durbin said in a telephone interview from Washington. "I fully support what they're doing, which is the legal and responsible use of firearms." barred by law from possessing the pistol he was carrying. Stern asked for the maximum sentence 1 5 years.

Donovan said a prison sentence was necessary because of Taylor's possession of the pistol and because Hall's death did not result from an involuntary action by Taylor. But Donovan rejected the request for the maximum. "I do not believe the man intended to kill the victim in this case," Donovan said. "I think he intended to put a pretty good knot on his head." The judge noted that Hall would not have died if Taylor had not been carrying the pistol in violation of the law. Taylor had been charged with murder, but the jury convicted him on the lesser charge.

Second-degree murder formerly was called voluntary manslaughter. band, Darrell Guebert, 38, were injured. None was wearing a seat belt, police said. The child also was thrown from the truck but sustained only minor injuries. He was treated at St.

Clement Hospital at Red Bud. Darrell Guebert was in stable condition Monday in the intensive care unit at the hospital. Illinois State Police at Collinsville said they believed the crash was caused by the truck's right tires running off the road, causing it to skid across the lanes and hit the guardrail. It rolled over several times and came to rest on the roof, police said. In the other crash, Jerry L.

Ri-singer, 21, of the 100 block of West Main Street, St. Jacob, was killed when his car swerved from Illinois Route 143 and hit a tree in eastern Madison County, authorities said. Risinger was pronounced dead at the scene. Risinger was traveling east on Route 143 about 2:45 a.m. when his 1980 Chevrolet Camaro veered from the two-lane highway near Marine, state police said.

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when the pickup truck she was driving hit a guardrail on Illinois Route 3 south of Waterloo and rolled over, throwing her from the vehicle. Her son, Clinton, 5, and her hus- DEATHS Recent deaths In the Metro East area: Alton Thelma Jo Tickner, 77, died Monday, i funeral Wednesday, Ellas-Smith. Belleville "Marv Mildred Woltczuk, 70, died Friday, funeral today, Kurrus. Doris M. Clark, 61, died Sunday, funeral Wednesday, Kurrus.

Earl Jockson Paul Mitchell, 67, died Sunday, funeral Thursday, Kassly; Fair-view Heights. Carlyle Helen 77, died Sunday, funeral today, Zleren-Doy. Colllnivllle Mae L. Paul, 87, died Wednesday, funeral today, Herr. Frank Joseph Plzzlnl, 84, died Monday, funeral Wednesday, Kassly.

East St. Louis Martha Clementine (Logue) Slrtak, 73, died Sunday, funeral Wednesday, Kassly; Fairvlew Heights. Fosterburg Irene Miller, 80, died Sunday, funeral Wednesday, Marks; Wood River. Gronlt. City Donald Lee Wiggins, 47, died Sunday, funeral Wednesday, Thomas.

Robert Hlldebrand, 64, died Monday, Thursday, Thomas. Hartford Earl lhausen, 80, died Sunday, funeral today, Ellas-Smith; Bethalto. Jerseyvllle Lola Mae Williams, 93, died Saturday, funeral today, Gubser. Marlsso Edith L. Tlmmons, 78, died Sunday, fun-ral Wednesday, Hell-Schuessler.

O'Fallon Osco W. Jackson, 58, died Sunday, cre-" mated, Werner. Trenton Theodore Kruep, 69, died Sunday, funeral Wednesday, Moss. Waterloo James R. Prather, 77, died Sunday, funeral today, Kurrus; Belleville.

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