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3AUG26l9958 SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1995 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Appeal Will Examine i Payments To Accusers! Wilson was convicted got more than $75,000, and her suit still was pending during the trial. The other women got payments ranging from $10,000 to Polinske said the appeal also would raise the issue of a police log book that shows that Wilson was answering a 911 call at the time the victiro testified she was assaulted. Polinske said the log book had not been checked when Wilson was tried. Eft-linske replaced the attorney who defended Wilson at the trial.

Wilson's mother, Carolyne Wilson, resumed her picketing outside the Madison County Courthouse in Etf-wardsville Friday. She said she would picket until her son's innocence "is proven. Prosecutors have argued Keshner's rulings were proper and that they have not seen any evidence to support the claim about the log book. Br 1 I By Charles Bosworth Jr. Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The attorney for a former Venice police officer convicted of rape said Friday that his appeal would focus on civil suits filed by the six women who claimed to have been assaulted.

During trial, Associate Judge J. Lawrence Keshner had refused to allow the defense to raise questions about the suits. As a result, Roland D. Wilson constitutional right to confront his accusers was violated because he could not ask if money was a motive for the women to lie, says his attorney, Brian L. Polinske of Edwardsville.

On Thursday, Associate Judge J. Lawrence Keshner sentenced Wilson to 30 years and called him a "disgusting, degenerate coward" who hid behind a badge while sexually assaulting women. Polinske said the women received a total of more than $160,000 from Venice to settle their suits. He said the victim in the charges on which Man Convicted By Joe Holleman Of the Post-Dispatch Staff In a taped interview with police, Kenneth Gebhardt described how he killed a 5-month-old girl. "I grabbed her too hard.

I dropped her. I didn't throw" her around. He said he did not mean to hurt Shantique Declue, who suffered a fractured skull, brain and eye hemorrhages and swelling cf the brain. A St. Louis Circuit Court jury wants Gebhardt, of St.

Louis, to be sentenced to life in prison for the killing last year. The jury found Gebhardt, 21, guilty Friday of second-degree mur Andy Davis stands in front of "The Bride and the Groom." Another of his works was pulled from the Missouri State Fair. Officials Buckle Under On Chastity Belts 0 decided to remove the piece before the fair opened Aug. 17 in Sedalia. The decision to yank the piece baffled Andy Davis, a University of Missouri art graduate student who was one of 50 artists whose work was chosen for the prestigious Missouri Top 50 exhibit.

The annual publicly funded exhibit honors some of the state's elite artists. "The chastity belts were supposed to make you think of mental attitudes that one should adopt when you leave the house for the day," he said. "It seems odd that a piece that specifically is supposed to be about fidelity in a marital rela PROFESSIONAL BUILDING TO BE SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER 1200 SOUTH BIG BEND BOULEVARD Ptime professional building, historic structure, completely rehabili-tated six years ago, all new interior and operating systems, first class finish. Occupied by law firm at this time, suitable for a wide variety of professional and business uses, approximately 5010 square feet. Includes four partners suites with secretarial areas and file storage.

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"The state fair would have been deeply criticized for being insensitive to their audience," said Anthony Radich, executive director of the Missouri Arts Council. "We should be sensitive to what the audience is: families and young people." The arts council funded the exhibit and, along with fair officials, Festivals, By Victor Volland Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Three festivals and a parade over the Labor Day weekend will kick off an eventful fall in the city. Special events, from ethnic fetes to football, are scheduled nearly every weekend through October and most are free. The St. Louis Blues Heritage Festival will be back at Laclede's Landing Sept.

2 and 3. The annual Japanese Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden runs Sept. 2-4. The Greek Festival, also an annual favorite, returns to St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at Kingshighway and Forest Park Boulevard Sept.

2-4. The annual Labor Day Parade, sponsored by the St. Louis Labor Council, will start at 10 a.m. on the tionship was a controversial piece." The 4-by-5-foot assemblage, titled "The Honor System," consists of a wall with a coat rack attached. Hanging from the rack is a man's coat and hat; a woman's coat; and his-and-hers chastity belts.

Four exhibition artists were awarded $1,000, and three others, including Davis, received a "judge's mention." But officials still believed some families and young people could find Davis' work offensive. "The whole issue of censorship bothers me as an artist and as a throughout the area, Sept. 14-16. Great Forest Park Balloon Race, Sept. 15-16.

12th annual Great Fire Engine Rally and Muster, Tucker Boulevard and Market Street, Sept. 16. Fall Festival, Cherokee Street Antique Row (between Jefferson and Lemp avenues), Sept. 16-17. 24th annual Bevo Day, Gravois Avenue and Morganford Road, Sept.

17. The parade begins at 11:30 a.m. Budweiser Gateway Classic football game between Howard University and the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Busch Stadium, Sept. 23. Battle of Bands will follow the game.

St. Louis Pride Festival and Su- I Soundboard In Baby's Death der and child abuse. The jury recommended a life seiv tence, the maximum punishment on the murder charge and seven years on the child-abuse charge. Sentenfr ing has been set for Oct. 6.

Gebhardt lived with Shantique's mother, Elaine Horsman, and her two children in the 4400 block 'of Minnesota Avenue when the incident occurred Sept. 13, 1994. Horsman got home from v6Yk about 6:30 a.m. She testified that Gebhardt said Shantique had been fussy but appeared to have fallen asleep. Shortly after 8 a.m., Horsman said she checked on her daughter and found that she was not breathing.

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23-24. October events include: Taste St. Louis, featuring food of 40 restaurants and free entertainment inside the Serra Sculpture, 10th and Market streets, Oct. 6-7. Historic Shaw Art Fair, Shaw Neighborhood, east of Missouri Botanical Garden, Oct.

14-15. Best of Missouri Market, showcasing Missouri crafts, foods and other products, Missouri Botanical Garden, Oct. 14-15. Sportslab, featuring interactive games involving various professional and recreational sports, Forest Park athletic fields across from the St. Louis Science Center, Oct.

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Four men are being held in Fort Wayne, after an investigation that began Wednesday when Collinsville police officers noticed that a car pulling into the restaurant near Interstate 55-70 lacked license plates. The two men in the car, both from Tucson, produced an expired license and told differing stories about their travel plans. A search of the car revealed five uncut kilograms of cocaine on its way to Fort Wayne. Two more men were arrested in that city when they arrived to pick up the cocaine. More arrests are possible.

MISCELLANEOUS St. Louis: Six minors, ages 1 5 to 20, were arrested for possession of liquor at the Fallout nightclub, 1324 Washington Avenue. Two bartenders, one of them 20 years old, also were arrested for selling liquor to minors in the incident Wednesday. Chesterfield: A single engine airplane suffered minor damage Friday at Spirit of St. Louis Airport when the pilot forgot to put down his landing gear.

There were no other passengers in the Piper Arrow airplane. The pilot was practicing take-offs and landings, and the mishap occurred on his fourth round. St. Louis: The St. Louis Police Department is cracking down on random acts of kindness.

Next week police will start "ticketing" children for doing good deeds. The ticket is a coupon for a free Slurpee from 7-Eleven. The program, dubbed "Operation Chill," will distribute nearly $3000 worth of the slushy soda to children who help elderly ladies cross the street, stop fights or assist stranded motorists. A goal of the program is to improve relations between police and youth. 9gs I ij Hjj The following incidents were among those that were reported to police departments in the St.

Louis metropolitan area or that involved action in one of the area's courts: COURT ACTIONS North County: Larry Moses, 29, of Jennings, was sentenced Friday in St. Louis County Circuit Court to life in prison without parole in the murder of Michelle Lee, 12. Moses stabbed Lee 25 times with a butcher knife on Jan. 18, 1994. Judge James R.

Hartenbach also sentenced Moses to a consecutive term of life in prison on a charge of armed criminal action. A jury convicted Moses last month. Michelle Lee was murdered in the basement of her home in the 2000 block of Northern Limits Drive, north of Florissant. Her mother, Stella Lee, found the body and saw Moses run out the front door. Moses had been dating Michelle's older sister, but the pair had quarreled the evening before Michelle's murder.

South County: A grand jury in St. Louis County has indicted Michael O. Markus, 44, of the 2600 block of Vortex Drive in the Mehlville area, on three counts of statutory rape and three counts of sodomy. Markus is alleged to have had sexual intercourse with a girl, 13, at his home. He also is accused of sodomizing the girl.

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