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5DEC 71995 6) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1995 St LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 17A POLICECOURTS Missouri Executes Killer Who Turned To Religion MISCELLANEOUS of robbing the Roosevelt Bank, 2233 South Brentwood Boulevard, about 4 p.m. Wednesday. After the robbery, the man tried to flee from police by traveling east on Highway 40 (Interstate 64). He was involved in a wreck at Hampton and Oakland avenues and was taken into custody. COURT ACTIONS Jennings: A jury convicted Tiawuan Doriety on Wednesday of 18 various charges of sexual assault in attacks that spanned two months in 1993.

Doriety, 20, of Jennings, faces life terms in prison when Circuit Judge Daniel Tillman sentences him Feb. 9. FIRES St. Peters: Firefighters in St. Peters are investigating the cause of a blaze that destroyed an abandoned farmhouse on the city's western edge and slowed evening rush-hour traffic along Interstate 70.

More than 40 firefighters fought the blaze, which was reported at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. The two-story, frame building was destroyed. 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: VIOLENT DEATHS St.

Louis: Drummond Mahr, 25, of the 2300 block of South Compton Avenue, was fatally shot in his home at 8:23 p.m. Tuesday. Police said Mahr who was shot once in the chest and once in the cheek and had a puncture wound in his hand had been upset about breaking up with his girlfriend. Police were searching for her Wednesday. St.

Louis: Larry Tucker, 43, of the 4200 block of West Evans Avenue, was fatally shot by two masked men at 8:45 p.m. Tuesday. The men confronted three of Tucker's friends on his porch, then went inside and shot Tucker in his back and left side, said police. Tucker had an extensive police record. BANK ROBBERIES Brentwood: Police arrested a man on suspicion his eyes at 12:15 a.m.

when the first of the drugs were administered. He was dead two minutes later. O'Neal had fasted all day and declined a final meal Tuesday night, said Department of Corrections spokesman Tim Kniest. O'Neal visited with a minister and his attorney, Michael J. Gorla, and talked with his wife by telephone during the day.

In a last-ditch effort to stop the execution, Gorla had sought a failed stay from the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday: O'Neal was first sentenced to life in prison after, at 17, he killed a 78-year-old man in a burglary in Strafford, in southwest Missouri. Then, in February 1984, he killed Arthur Dade in a prison walkway, stabbing him four times with an ice pick. Richmond Heights: A gas leak about noon Wednesday forced the evacuation of the University Club Tower, 1034 South Brentwood Boulevard. Workers installing a lawn sprinkler system in front of the 23-story building hit a gas line.

Fumes seeped into the building. About 400 people had to be evacuated by using the stairs. Four people were taken to the hospital after becoming ill from the fumes. The building was reopened about 4 p.m. South St.

Louis County: A boy, 11, was caught with a revolver about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at Robert Sperreng Middle School, 12111 Tesson Ferry Road, in the Lindbergh School District. A gymnasium worker found a revolver under a jacket. When the boy picked up the gun and jacket, he was detained. The gun was unloaded, but the boy's jacket pocket contained three bullets.

The boy, a sixth-grader, said he was carrying it for protection not at Sperreng, but for when he returned to his neighborhood in St. Louis. The boy was turned over to his parents; juvenile charges may be filed. Sunday 10am-6pm CRESTWOOD Watson Rd. Sturdy Drive Just 12 Mile West Of Crestwood Plaza Shopping Center CRESTWOOD, MO (314)965-5999 POTOSI, Mo.

(AP) Robert Earl O'Neal who spent half of his 34 years in prison for murder, was executed by injection early Wednesday at the Potosi Correctional Center. O'Neal, a reputed white supremacist who killed a black fellow prison inmate more than a decade ago, became a born-again Christian while in prison and took his Bible with him to the execution chamber. "Praise the Lord in the name of Jesus," O'Neal told prison officials shortly before his execution. "I forgive everybody involved in this. Jesus is my Lord." O'Neal mouthed words to his wife, Lynn, watching from a separate room, just before the drugs were administered.

O'Neal stopped talking and closed Jury Takes Break In Drug Case Members of a federal jury went home Wednesday night after deliberating for two hours in the case of George and Elisa DeLuca, accused of running a drug ring that bought Colombian cocaine in New York and sold it here. Authorities allege that the ring moved more than 300 pounds of cocaine between June 1992 and March, when an indictment was returned. The DeLucas were charged with conspiring to deal drugs and money laundering. On trial with the DeLucas was Gustavo Montoya, a Colombian alleged to have been a heroin supplier to the ring after getting cocaine became more difficult. U.S.

District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh presided over the five-week trial. Earlier Wednesday in his closing argument, Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven HoltshoUser said problems arose for the DeLucas when Elisa DeLuca started "shorting" payments to her drug suppliers "to satisfy George's unquenchable thirst for cash." The DeLucas bought a $400,000 house in Chesterfield in June 1993. They made a $100,000 down payment in cash, authorities said.

The DeLucas have maintained that the money was an inheritance from Elisa DeLuca's wealthy father in the Dominican Republic. Elisa DeLuca has been in jail since her arrest in September 1994 on related charges in New York. George DeLuca, a retired New York City police officer, has been in jail since Monday. He had been free on bond. His bond was revoked after agents said he withdrew more than $9,000 from a bank account here land wired the money to a friend in New York.

Authorities alleged the money represented a getaway fund. Educator Disputes Nepotism By William C. Lhotka Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Rockwood School Board President Michael Corley Sr. believes a nepotism charge filed against him over the hiring of his son as a physical education teacher was part of a conspiracy to force him off the board. Corley testified Wednesday that "there definitely were people trying to get rid of me from the School Board.

I was the swing vote." The case was argued before St. Louis County Senior Judge Herb Lasky. Corley said he had abstained from voting on Aug. 26, 1993, to hire his son, Michael Corley as a teacher at Babler Elementary School. Babler's principal, David Hensley, testified that he had attended that School Board meeting and had heard Corley Sr.

abstain. But former board members Peggy Ashton and Janet Puis said they had heard Corley Sr. vote for his son's employment. Board secretary Ann Hanekamp and former Rockwood Superintendent Dennis Peterson also said Cprley voted affirmatively. Lasky gave lawyers for Attorney General Jay Nixon and Corley until Dec.

20 to submit written arguments over whether Corley should remain on the School Board or be removed. Corley was elected to the board in April 1993. His term expires next year. He is a principal at St. Richard's School on Shuetz Road in west St.

Louis county. In a split vote, the seven-member School Board decided last year against renewing Peterson's contract; he had served the district as superintendent since 1989. Corley was one of the members who voted against him. Three months later, Nixon brought the nepotism suit against Corley. Peterson said he was "especially surprised and somewhat shocked when Mr.

Corley voted for hiring his son. I felt it was a conflict of interest. I was unaware at the time of the nepotism provision in the Missouri Constitution." K----sm- i i i 5 'J ili IW tt hi -B 4 LJ'J. Vl I 1 I IN ORIG. ORIG.

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