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10BANNE ARUNDEL THE SUN WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1994 MARYLANDREGION Jailed lawyer Fila placed in protective custody I New trial gets under way in slaying of Army clerk Aberdeen man wins retrial on appeal l.hbw mi "Vet Ms. Fila has been at the Detention Center since her arrest April 21. She is charged with attempting to murder Charles Lamasa, who was stabbed repeatedly April 14 by a woman Ms. Fila allegedly hired to kill him. Mr.

Lamasa survived the attack. Protective custody is separate from the general population area and has increased security. On Thursday, Ms. Fila was punched in the head by another female Inmate after the two argued over cigarettes and a pair of Ms. Fila's pants, Mr.

Flanagan said. Ms. Fila had traded the pants for a pack of cigarettes and apparently had demanded the pants back after smoking the pack, Mr. Flanagan said. The other Inmate, who was not Identified, refused and punched Ms.

Fila in the head "during a heated exchange," he said. An X-ray showed she was not seriously Injured. Mr. Flanagan said the assault had nothing to do with the decision to move Ms. Fila to protective custody.

"It was simply an interpersonal dispute, very typical except for the fact that the person Involved happened to be Ms. FUa," he said. By Sheridan Lyons Sun Staff Writer A Harford County man convicted almost three years ago on charges of murder, kidnapping and attempted rape In the 1 990 death of a 2 1 -year-old Army clerk Is back In Baltimore County court for a new trial. Daniel E. Turner, 35, of Aberdeen was sentenced to life In prison without parole in June 1991 by Circuit Judge Alfred L.

Brennan Sr. after a jury found him guilty In the death of Bonnie Sue Joseph. She had disappeared during an early morning trip to a convenience store for snacks and other Items for her Aberdeen Proving Ground co-workers. The trial was moved to Baltimore County from Harford. The retrial, which began Monday before Judge Brennan, Is expected to last about two weeks.

Mr. Turner won a new trial on appeal because of a comment by the judge, who had said In overruling an objection during closing arguments that the victim's blood was on the knife. During the trial, the testimony had been only that the blood was consistent with the victim's, said Harford County State's Attorney Joseph I. Cassilly and defense attorney Robert N. Winkler.

Specialist Joseph, a clerk-typist in the 532nd Military Police Company, was on duty March 11, 1990, when she volunteered to make the 2 a.m. trip Into Aberdeen, Mr. Cassilly told the Jury of eight women and four men In his opening statement Clerks at the local 7-Eleven store remembered her name and the money she had stuffed Into the various pockets of her uniform to keep the orders straight, he said. They also knew Mr. Turner, who was outside the store at the time.

A receipt showed her last pur chase at 2:24 a.m., the state's attorney said. When she failed to return to the post, the military police searched for her. At 6 a.m., Mr. Cassilly said, a woman called the Harford County sheriff and said that she had heard a woman screaming, then had seen a man walking away from a body. A police hunt began, he said, "and by about 9:30, this defendant was run to the ground." Mr.

Turner's clothes were soaked with blood, his shoe prints matched those from the killing scene and the pursuit, and a knife, the victim's car keys and her list of things to buy were recovered along the route, Mr. Cassilly said. The defendant was linked to the crime by blood and semen tests and by glass on his clothing that matched the shattered window of the victim's car. Mr. Winkler told the Jury: "We don't know what went on in that car.

Nobody does." But he told the jurors they nonetheless are being asked to determine Mr. Turner's intent, a requirement to convict him of first-degree murder. He questioned the validity of an attempted rape charge because the victim was dressed, except for her shoes. He also questioned the theft charge because the amount of cash found on the defendant Is disputed. Mr.

Winkler suggested the jury consider whether Mr. Turner might be guilty of second-degree murder or less, "depending upon what may or may not have occurred." In the first trial, prosecutors had sought the death penalty. But the prosecution cannot seek death In the retrial, Mr. Cassilly said, because Mr. Turner cannot legally put himself in greater Jeopardy by appealing and winning a new trial.

It Inky the rescued pygmy sperm whale plays in her pool at the National Aquarium's marine animal hospital. Inky to pause in Florida before swimming free Article named her as drag informant By Michael James Sun Staff Writer Susan M. Fila. the Baltimore attorney charged with plotting to kill her law firm partner, has been placed In protective custody at the Baltimore City Detention Center as a result of a newspaper article Identifying her as a drug Informant, a corrections official said. Ms.

Fila who last week was assaulted at the jail in a fight over a pack of cigarettes was moved into a higher-security area of the jail yesterday morning, said LaMont Flanagan, the commissioner of the Baltimore City Detention Center. The reason for taking her out of the general population area was an article in The Sun yesterday that identified Ms. Fila as a drug informant who was working for Baltimore police at the time of the attack on her law partner, Mr. Flanagan said. "We felt that as a result of the expose, her life could possibly be In danger," Mr.

Flanagan said. "We are here to ensure that the Inmate population is safe while they are inside these walls." Rain or shine, Flower Mart will take place From Staff Reports Baltimore's 78th annual Flower Mart will be held today, rain or shine, around the base of the Washington Monument. The city's traditional rite of spring, the event is sponsored by the Women's Civic League, and features flowers, crab cakes and lemons on peppermint sticks. At the mart, the CMC League sells spring flowers geraniums, marigolds, petunias and Impatiens and handicrafts. Traffic In the Mount Vernon area will be diverted and parking restricted for most of today to accommodate the event.

Charles Street will be closed between Centre and Madison streets from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. as will Monument Street from Calvert to Cathedral streets. Centre Street will be blocked off from Cathedral to Charles from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.

Parking will be prohibited on the east side of Park Avenue from Centre to Biddle streets and on Blddle from Park Avenue to Guilford Avenue from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Parking Is banned on both sides of Centre from Howard Street to Calvert, Charles from Centre to Madison, and Mount Vernon Place from St Paul Street to Cathedral between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m. From 7 a.m.

to 6 p.m.. cars will also be denied parking on the north side of Madison from Calvert to Charles, and on the west side of Calvert from Centre to Madison. A st- i ipy Monument 11 i i il i KEY SlKttlS CLOSED BALTIMORE 6 to 5 F.m. CENTRE ST. CLOSED k.

Vs 9:30 t.m. to V1 DETpUR Councilman Boutin elected new mayor in Aberdeen By Suzanne Loudermilk Sun Staff Writer Aberdeen residents ousted the incumbent mayor and filled two seats on the City Council yesterday. Also yesterday, voters In nearby Havre de Grace returned a four-term council member to office and elected two new members. In Aberdeen, according to unoffl-clals results, first-term Councilman Charles R. Boutin ousted Mayor Ruth Elliott, 1 1 64 votes to 760.

The count will be officially confirmed today. As the result was announced, a huge cheer erupted In the senior center where ballots were cast, and a jubilant Mr. Boutin hugged several of his supporters. In voting that ran from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., 1.969 of 5,127 registered voters cast ballots.

Mr. Boutin, a 52-year-old attorney, campaigned on a platform of building consensus with the five-member City Council, Increasing funding for the police and annexing land west of Aberdeen, a century-old community of about 13,000. During her term in office, Mrs. Elliott frequently clashed with council Whale on schedule to depart Baltimore By David Michael Ettlin Sun Staff Writer The National Aquarium is planning a Florida vacation for its rescued and rehabilitated pygmy sperm whale, Including a stay of several weeks at a Marineland park In St. Augustine, before the animal is freed In the Atlantic Ocean.

Depending on results from a final series of blood tests and the availability of a Navy plane and crew, the whale nicknamed "Inky" is expected to end her five-month stay In the aquarium's marine animal hospital and leave Baltimore this week, her human caretakers said yesterday. This Is simply a time for her to readjust to outdoor conditions and rest from her voyage by plane to the facility," aquarium veterinarian Brent Whitaker said of the Marine-land arrangements. "It gives us a last chance to look at her and assure that she is able to meet the challenges that will exist In the wild." Dr. Whitaker acknowledged that there was "always that temptation" to keep the young whale a deep-ocean species rarely seen in captivity, and the first with serious ailments to have been rehabilitated after stranding. There would be so much to learn, having a whale available like this.

But that's not why we're here," Dr. Whitaker said, explaining that the came to $101,028 didacy April 27. On the Republican side. Del. Robert L.

Ehrlich Jr. of Tlmonlum and his rival, Towson banker William J. Frank, are battling for money. Mr. Ehrlich, who began his campaign first, reported raising $45,023 during the period, most from a Feb.

5 fund-raiser at the Dundalk Marine Terminal. He spent $26,515 and owed $5,886 almost all to himself. On March 31, he had $19,486 on hand. Mr. Ehrlich is holding a series of $100-a-tlcket breakfasts for small groups and is planning a golf tournament May 16 at Hunt Valley Golf Club.

Mr. Ehrlich received $14,550 ASSOCIATED PRESS marine animal stranding program was designed for rescue, rehabilitation and if the animal's condition allows return to the wild. Inky (members of the species excrete an Inky substance when excited or frightened) washed up on a New Jersey beach at Thanksgiving, suffering from Infections and a blockage of her digestive system by what was found to be plastic debris she had swallowed In the ocean. "It's almost as If it ate a small trash bag containing these items," Dr. Whitaker said of the debris Including part of a Mylar balloon, a cigarette box-shaped plastic wrapper and a piece of a heavy plastic bag.

Dr. Whitaker said he and others Involved In Inky's treatment Including volunteers who accounted for some 40,000 hours of help can only hope that freeing her "is the most humane thing to do, and that the animal will benefit from our actions." They also hope, he said, that the public "will become more conscious about how we treat the environment know that trash, whether it's dumped into a storm sewer or off the side of a boat, can end up In the ocean and the belly of a marine mammal." At Marineland, Inky will be swimming In an outdoor pool filled with seawater, becoming acclimated to sunlight and fresh air before being freed in the ocean from a Coast Guard vessel a radio-beacon tag attached to her small dorsal fin for tracking, and a video "critter-cam" held by temporary suction on her back to give scientists a last look. from political action committees. Including $4,950 from the National Rifle Association PAC and $2,500 from the National Automobile Dealers Association PAC. Mr.

Frank, running his first campaign, raised $23,608 and spent $16,181, leaving him $7,427 on hand. Most of his money came from a March 24 fund-raiser. Mr. Frank, who says he will not accept PAC money, is holding a $100-a-tlcket breakfast May 1 1 and a $200-a-tick-et golf tournament June 16 In Towson. The other candidates, all Democrats, are James Edward De Loach Kauko Kokkonen and Joseph John Blsh Jr.

City officials said they could not Immediately say how much such Increases would cost. Among the possible sources of revenue to finance pay raises are cuts In the capital budget and Increases in permit fees. Several City Council members said the panel's decision on the firefighters' raise should not preclude a cut In the city's property tax rate, which at $5.90 per $100 of assessed value is by far the highest in Maryland. "Usually, there's some sort of cushion for this. I think there's room for both," said Councilwoman Sheila Dixon, a 4th District Democrat OBITUARIES In 2nd District race, Brewster gets most funds members on issues such as a new city charter and Investigations of the city Police Department and its chief, Jack Jolley.

She was elected mayor In 1992 In the city's first popular election for that office. Previously, a board of commissioners appointed an honorary mayor from among council members. In Aberdeen's council elections, Mary Lou Thompson, a political newcomer, and DeWayne Curry, a first-term incumbent, won two-year terms with 1,212 votes and 1,120 votes respectively. There was a field of six candidates. The Havre de Grace council race pitted eight challengers for three seats on the six-member board.

The winners are Anna Jones Long, who was elected to her fifth term on the council with 725 votes; Henry J. Schreiber, manager of a credit card center and a retired policeman, who garnered 700 votes; and Joseph W. Kochenderfer, a retired mathematician-manager at Aberdeen Proving Ground, with 594 votes. They will serve two-year terms. Of 4,323 registered voters.

1,284 cast ballots. His contributions His only Democratic rival who raised enough money to require a federal report Is Barbara O. Kreamer, former Harford County delegate and County Council member. Ms. Kreamer reported raising $14,579 during the three months and spending $1 1,309.

With the money she accumulated earlier, she had $16,141 March 31 and debts of $35,493 from an unsuccessful 1990 campaign for the 1st Congressional District seat The newest Democratic candidate, Del. Connie Galiazzo DeJuliis of Dundalk, had not raised the minimum $5,000 by the March 3 1 deadline for filing a report Mrs. DeJuliis announced her can The request from the firefighters the only bargaining unit to have binding arbitration would have cost the city about $1.9 million, Mr. Harris said. On Saturday, the panel selected the city's offer.

Mr. Schmoke said through Mr. Coleman that the panel's decision "confirms what we have been saying, that there is very little money in the budget for paying raises this year." William V. Taylor, president of Baltimore Firefighters Union Local 734, said his members were unhappy with the decision. "Our people haveithe largest 9 a.m.

to 6 p.m. PARK AVE. Centre St. to Biddle St. (east side) BIDDLE ST.

Park Ave. to Guilford Ave. 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. CENTRE ST.

Howard St. to Calvert St. (both sides) CHARLES ST. Centre St. to Madison St.

(both sides) MT. VERNON PL. St. Paul St. to Cathedral St.

(both sides) 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. MADISON ST. Calvert St. to Charles St.

(north side) CALVERT ST. Centre St. to Madison St. (west side) SUN STAFF GRAPHIC three sisters. Belle Teague, Toy Smith and Sara Seitz, all of Hickory, N.C.; five brothers, Don and Mack Stafford, both of Hickory.

Roy Stafford of Taylorsville, Lindsay Stafford of Conover. N.C., and Wade Stafford of Gastonia, N.C.; and six grandchildren. R. Randolph Victor Estate and tax lawyer R. Randolph "Randy" Victor, an estate and tax lawyer who practiced In Towson for many years, died Mon- day of a stroke at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center.

He was 58. He had been in private practice since 1966 after serving from 1962 to 1966 as an assistant state attorney general. He grew up on St. Albans Way In Homeland and was a 1953 graduate of Loyola High School. He earned his bachelor's degree In 1957 from Georgetown University and his law degree from the University of Maryland in 1960.

After graduation from law school, he joined his father's firm, Harley, Wheltle Victor. He was an Army reservist from 1960 to 1967. "He was quiet, kind and very religious," said his wife of 31 years, the former Raymo Rutherford. A Mass of Christian burial was to be offered at 10 a.m. today at St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, 5502 York Road, Baltimore, where Mr.

Victor had been a lifelong communicant. Other survivors include a daughter, Suzanne V. Stromberg; and a grandson, John R. Stromberg, both of Baltimore. Memorial donations may be made to the Loyola High School Scholarship Fund, 500 Chestnut Towson 21204.

By Larry Carson Sun Staff Writer Del. Gerry L. Brewster, a Towson Democrat, continues to lead candidates for Maryland's 2nd District congressional seat In early fund raising, reports filed with the Federal Election Commission show. The latest reports cover the first three months of 1994. Mr.

Brewster had $79,373 on hand of $101,028 raised so far, all accumulated without a fund-raising event. Mr. Brewster received 16 contributions of $1,000 during the period, but only $1,600 from political action committees. For his entire campaign, 59 of his contributions were for $1,000 each, the legal limit an individual can give In an election. Glenn W.

Stafford Retired executive Glenn W. Stafford, retired financial vice president of the L.A. Benson Co. In East Baltimore, died Friday of respiratory and heart failure at a hospital in Fort Myers, where he had a winter home. He was 79.

He had also maintained a home In Boone, N.C., since leaving Rodgers Forge 10 years ago. He retired in 1978 after 33 years with Benson, an industrial supply company. Friends in Florida praised him as a gentle man. One said. There is a celebration in heaven today.

Glenn Stafford has arrived." Born in Taylorsville, N.C., Mr. Stafford came to Baltimore as a young man after playing first base on minor league baseball teams in the Midwest. He graduated from the University of Baltimore and served in the Army during World Warn. He was a member of the executive committees of the Middle Atlantic Left-Handed Golfers Association and of the National Association of Left-Handed Golfers, of which he was treasurer. He was a member of Mount Vernon Baptist Church In Boone and McGregor Baptist Church in Fort Myers.

In Baltimore, he was a member for 35 years and financial secretary of Grace United Methodist Church, 5407 N. Charles where services were planned for 2 p.m. today. Mr. Stafford is survived by his wife of nearly 50 years, the former Dorothy Kagle; two daughters.

Can-dace Kocher of Richmond, and Valerie Hardy of Bel Air; a son, Glenn W. Stafford Jr. of Richmond; PAY: Baltimore firefighters get half of raise they sought workload in the state of Maryland-he said. "Everyone In the surrounding areas Is getting 3 percent and above, and we felt the city could afford it." The city is negotiating with 10 other bargaining units representing about 23,000 teachers, police, white-collar workers and blue-collar workers. Officials of those unions said they hope to follow the lead of the firefighters and obtain at least modest pay raises.

"We're hopeful there will be pay raises," said Linda Prudente, spokeswoman for the Baltimore Teachers Union. From Page IB i of a firefighter with five years' experience by $612 a year, to $27,841 annually. Firefighters were seeking a 4 percent raise 2 percent in the fiscal year that will begin July 1 and another 2 percent In January. The city countered with an offer of 2.25 percent Under city law, if the city and the firefighters cannot reach agreement by March 1, both sides submit their final offers to a three-member arbitration panel. The panel, whose decision Is binding, is required to select one offer or the other.

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