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Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1976 Phila. Daily News (S aril ITswoot Although hospital records list the cause of death as a heart attack, Goldberg said that "in the case of Russell Sell we are of the opinion that homicide was the cause of death." The petition said a "preliminary investigation of five other deaths indicates homicide." GOLDBERG SAID he had suspects in mind in at least the Sell case but refused to reveal their identities or whether they still worked at Far-view. The other deaths investigated as homicides are those of Thomas Gar-ett of Beaver Falls, who died in 1960; Cletus Kreeger, of Gettysburg, who died in 1965, Samuel Udelson of Philadelphia, who died in 1965; Robert Jackson of Philadelphia, who died in 1966, and John Rankins, who died in 1969. A coroner's report said Garrett's body, exhumed earlier this year, contained wadded newspaper in place of vital organs.

HONESDALE, Pa. (UPI) Employes of Farview State Hospital apparently murdered six mental patients between 1960 and 1969, according to a special prosecutor investigating the institution. In a petition filed in Wayne County Court yesterday, prosecutor Elliot Goldberg said at least six of the 19 suspicious deaths he is investigating apparently were homicides. The amended petition sought to empanel a special grand jury to investigate the deaths and alleged acts of wrongdoing at the Waymart facility. ACCORDING TO the petition, there was a "widespread, tacit conspiracy among the guards and other hospital personnel against patients" and that "state employe guards and supervisory personel have fraudulently and brutally procured the signatures of patients on Social Security and Veterans Administration checks." One patient, Russell Sell, of Lebanon, died in 1963 as a result of a beating by guards, the petition said.

Photoaraohv bv Sam Psoras Warwick employe Ken Roberts signs off in hotel lobby Unlfax Snow-frosted Michael L. Mitchell waits for bus in Buffalo, N. Y. Cold Spell Settles In Noses are red, fingers are blue, the weather is cold, and so are you. And so you will be for quite some time.

It is, the National Weather Service tells us, unseasonably cold. THE NORMAL LOW for this time of year is about 31 degrees. It was 15 degrees at International Airport at 7 a.m. yesterday and 11 degrees at 11 last night. Today's forecast projects high of 30-35, which would be consider ably warmer, but with a chance i snow, which continues into morrow.

The 30-day forecast shows thi' same trend to colder than usinl temperatures here and all along the East Coast. The Weather Today Sunny in morning. Cloudy High 33. Wind SW S-15 MPII Snow chance in afternoon 20 percent Tonight Cloudy. Winds SW S-15 MIMI Snow chance 30 percent.

Tomorrow Cloudy. High 35. Snow chain 30 percent. Temperatures Warwick fos a Spirited SemiMf under new management, as a combination apartment house-hotel. The new thing may be just as fabulous as the old Warwick was in her heyday; but it won't be the same.

Down at the end of the bar, old friends, Dr. Jeremiah Lee, Phyllis Freiwald, Ray Stanley and Ed-just-back-from-Lauderdale, were summoning up old times. Lee has been coming to the Warwick every day for years. Where would he go from here? "I'm a bachelor, I might go into a monastery," he quipped. "I think that's a very difficult question.

I could go to the "Say the Barclay," said Phyllis, at his elbow. She owned the Warwick's gift shop, which Mildred Fantini was wistfully dismantling last night. "I MAY STOP drinking," Lee said. Stanley, asked what was his best time at the Warwick, settled on dancing to Lenny Herman. "We only did one dance, what dance did we do, Phyllis, the dip?" Phyllis said it was the samba.

Travel agency owner Carmen Cel-enza, who used to play tenor sax back when the Warwick Room was the Society Room, was fetching a lady a drink and generally doing the honors of the place. And bartender Charlie Secatore, in residence 24 years, famed for pouring perfect drinks without measuring, spilled a Manhattan from the shaker on its way to the glass. Body Found in River Was Phila. Widow The body of a woman found a week ago in the Cooper River in Camden was identified today as that of Mrs. Blanche Wind, 47, of 6th St.

near Wharton. Mrs. Wind, a widow who worked as a domestic, is survived by four children, aged 16 to 22. One of the children identified her body. Camden County authorities said she died of drowning last Wednesday.

Centfitions City PlHUOhMa: 7th Victim Dies After Home Fire By LAURA MURRAY The good-looking middle-aged blonde at the Warwick Hotel's bar said her name was Carmella Rizzo and the reporter who asked her if she felt sad about the hotel's closing after all these years did a double take. There was either a put-on or a scoop in the wind. The mayor's wife doesn't sit at bars or talk to reporters. And she isn't blonde. But this was another Carmella Rizzo, who started coming to the Warwick 10 years ago for the Bonwit Teller fashion shows and liked it well enough to start coming for dinner.

Now she and her husband, Victor, were having a farewell drink. THE-BLUE-AND-WHITE Warwick Room closed at midnight. Three-hundred members and guests of the Federation Allied Jewish Appeal were served the last banquet last night. The last big convention, that of United Methodist Church Council of Bishops, was held two weeks ago. In the lobby, locksmith Anthony Se-bastiano was fitting the first lock ever on the front doors since the Warwick opened 50 years ago.

IT WILL REOPEN in a year or so, Clarification The telephone number listed in a Daily News storv Monday on the Medical Examiner's Office, 823-8430, was the personal number of the examiner, Dr. Marvin E. Aronson. If you wish to talk to an investigator in the office about an unidentified body or a missing person, call 823-8444 anytime, day or night. It IS 17 ii If 4 74 70 5 27 17 It 0 17 It ti 31 II Sunny Sunnv Maifly Claudv Partly Claudv Parity Claudv Fair Claudv Partly Claudv Sunnv Parity Claudv Partly Claudv Fair Partly Cloudy Center City A flam Citv Saltan CNcaee Lai Anealei Miami New Orleans Naw verb nmbucah St.

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P.M. AM PM Hiti Sl 3 3 Law 3:14 :41 10:44 11:14 :44 i By JOE CLARK Lars Bay, 81, died this morning at St. Agnes Burn Center, the seventh elderly victim of a fire that swept a Germantown boarding home Saturday night. In addition to taking seven lives, the blaze injured 17, four of whom remain hospitalized at Germantown Hospital. MEANWHILE, the investigation continues into the fire which Fire Commissioner Joseph Rizzo has termed "suspicious." Although police and fire investigators have questioned a number of persons, a spokesman tor the fire marshal's office this morning said the probe is "still status quo." Also, Common Pleas Court Judge Charles P.

Mirarchl who is in charge of a grand jury probing nursing and boarding homes in the city, said the panel is checking for possible criminal violations at the home. Althoug permitted to accommodate six residents, the boarding home at Wayne Ave. and Hansberry had more than 20. Four of 10 survivors, who've been relocated to another Germantown boarding home, reportedly were diagnosed as "disoriented and very confused." "They should be in a supervised nursing home," said a State Health Department regional supervisor, noting that medical care is not provided in boarding homes. The four survivors at Germantown Hospital were found to be undernourished and ridden with lice.

"They were deloused," said a hospital spokesman, who added, "the staff even ran out of the liquid spray for the delous-ing." THE TWO-ALARM BLAZE in the 18-year-old house began in the second-floor stairwell and quickly spread to the third floor. The initial six victims, ranging in ages 62 to 76, were found trapped on the third floor. Although areas of the second-floor hallway appeared untouched by the blaze, an area near the stairway was burned almost to the brick, indicating some type of highly flammable material may have been used to set the fire. To Call the News: New. 854-2600 Circulation 854-2281 Horn Dallvary 665-1234 Want Ads 854-2300 PuWithed daav at 400 N.

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