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Saturday's forecast Cloudy HighLow 7055 Weather on A-1S Clem Becker Inc. clcrcs doors, 'for good7A-6 1 Pricco (or PIJQ Documentary on Vietnam wins news Emmys A-10 Saturday's tipoff: Peninsula Players. "The Nerd," 2:30 and 8:30 p.m., Fish Creek- QmBDn IEkty IPmess Friday August 31, 1984 A Gannett newspaper 32 pagesTwo sections 25c yf? pIoi snair Whiting Whiting capture excites Antigo Murder suspect was negotiating surrender Murder suspect: Photos from left to right arrested in connection with the murder of show Randolph Whiting as he looked in Margaret Anderson. The Green Bay 1 978, 1 983 and on Thursday after he was woman was killed eight months ago. Where police captured Whiting was captured about 12 miles northwest of Antigo said in the moments after his capture Whiting repeated over and over, "You screwed me out of $20,000." The reward fund is actually about $15,000.

Arrested with Whiting were Frank "Frog" Seebantz, 32, formerly of Green Bay; Victoria Chamberlain, 27, Whiting's girlfriend, and Geraldine Behnke, 26, whose address is unknown. They were expected to appear in Langlade County Circuit Court this afternoon on charges of harboring and aiding a felon, according to District Attorney Phil Free-burg. Whiting was driven from Antigo to the Brown County Jail in Green Bay Thursday night by Sheriff Leon Pieschek. Whiting was expected to appear in court today Langan said police had suspected for quite awhile that Whiting was in the Antigo area. But he said it wasn't until about 11 a.m.

Thursday that they received confirmation from two Langlade Please see Snared A-4 By Terry Anderson and Mike Smothers Of the Press-Gazette Even as dozens of armed lawmen surrounded the Langlade County trailer Thursday where murder suspect Randolph Whiting was staving, negotiations for his surrender were underway, authorities revealed today. Green Bay Police Capt. Robert Langan said about 10 days ago a letter from Whiting setting forth conditions for his surrender was received by Appleton attorney Arthur Schuh. That letter was forwarded to Brown County District Attorney Peter Naze, who in turn passed a reply to Schuh. Langan said he didn't know the specific language of the letter.

But he said it was authentic and apparently was intended to collect the reward possibly for a legal defense offered for his capture. Whiting, 24, has been sought on a first degree murder warrant since shortly after the Dec. 27 murder of Margaret Anderson, 35, of Green Bay. One of the officers who was at the scene Thursday when Whiting rV (8 ll mmi. "--L If SHAWANO GREEN BAY Inside: Chronology details the Margaret Anderson murder caseA-5 An interview with the father of murder suspect Randolph WhitingA-5 Photos and more storiesA-4 and A-5 By Keith Goldschmidt Of the Press-Gazette ANTIGO Pride invaded potato country this morning.

Sleepy-eyed workers drifted into places like Happy's Restaurant, Cutlass Motor Lodge and the Donut Shoppe to hear about Randolph Whiting. The name didn't mean much Thursday morning. It didn't mean a whole lot more at night. But this morning people started to hear the tale of accused killer Randolph Whiting and his capture in an aging mobile home 13 miles north of here. "Our boys do good work here," said Cutlass night clerk Veda Kottke who heard the story from a cabbie late Thursday night and told it to the people in the bar.

"That was a good piece of police work," said one early riser who just finished hearing the five-minute condensed version inside the Donut Shoppe. News often travels fast in small communities. Antigo was first digesting diamonds discovered in the area. It was mulling Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro coming to nearby Merrill Monday. And now it had a captured fugitive to discuss.

But when the news happens on a cleared patch of earth sandwiched between dense scrub trees on one side and three-square milas of marsh on the other, it takes time for all the details to filter into the gossip holes. "It'll take a good week," said Emma Kramer, who besidts the 50 or so lawmen particinating in the capture was the first to know. She watched the arrest of Randolph Whiting, Victoria Chamberlain and Geraldine Behnke through binoculars while leaning against a tree in her back yard several hundred yards from the white and green mobile home. She saw Frank Seebantz get arrested on the road just in front of her white frame house as he tried to return after being goncall day. "It went a lot smoother than you see on TV," she said.

"There'll be no lack of conversation in this town for the next six months." She and her husband, Martin, left a life in Chicago two years ago Please see CaptureA-4 Vidim's family elated! over capture I My nniir By Terry Anderson Of the Press-Gazette Robert Anderson sipped his beer, his sleepy eyes opened wide, his mouth creased into a smile. "This is the best news we've heard in a long time," he said Thursday evening. "It sure made our day. Bobby and I are just celebrating." For nine months Margaret Anderson's ex-husband and their son, Robert have lived in the shadow of her brutal murder. They were together at home in Green Bay Thursday evening when news came that suspect Randolph Whiting had been captured.

Robert who graduated from West High School this spring and will turn 18 Wednesday, said his feelings of bitterness and hurt had increased each day the murder suspect remained at large. "I think it was about goddamn time. That's about it," he said bluntly. "We'd have never made it without each other," the 39-year-old auto serviceman said, The Andersons said they went into Sch-nooky's Bar the former Back Forty Tavern, where Margaret Anderson spent the last night of her life about a month ago. They said the usual crowd was there.

"The place just dropped silent when we went in and nobody said anything until we left," Robert Sr. said. Will they attend the trial? "If they will let me get off work I'll sneak in there," Robert Sr. said. His son agreed.

More than a thousand miles away, in Pawhuska, the news that Whiting had been captured reached David and Lola Copple. "We just cried and laughed at the same time," an overjoyed Lola Copple said Thursday evening, two hours after Whiting was captured. She said Anderson's slaying and the disappearance of Whiting had taken a terrible toll on her husband, David, Margaret's brother. Please see FamilyA-4 "This is the best news we've heard in a long time." Robert Anderson pointing across the room at his red-headed, freckle-faced son who bears a physical resemb-lence to his mother. "There were many nights when we talked together and cried together," he said.

And reflecting on his ex-wife he added, "You know Margaret never hurt a flea in her whole life. We got along together better after our divorce." In the months since the shooting, Robert Sr. has moved back into the home at 997 Shawano Ave. that he and Margaret bought nearly 15 years ago. She lived there at the time of her death.

But he said it hasn't been easy living with the memories. "I'm just getting used to living in this house again," he said. Margaret Anderson 1975 photo 1 Stordeur's wife takes stand "if -1 By Mike Smothers Of the Press-Gazette Brown County prosecutors called more than 17 witnesses Thursday and today to introduce evidence attempting to pin Robert Stordeur to the murders of John Quimby and Mary Maciejewski. The preliminary hearing on two counts of first degree murder against Stordeur, 25, resumed this morning and was expected to last into the afternoon. Stordeur has been held without bond since his arrest last Friday.

Today, his wife, Janice Stordeur, testified that Stordeur had bloodstains on his clothes when he returned to their home at 932 Rockwell Road in Howard about 5 p.m. July 20. He had been gone since the evening before. During that time he killed Quimby and Maciejewski, both 21, the criminal complaint alleges. Mrs.

Stordeur said her husband tried to cover up the bloodstains with grease and that soon after he came home he cleaned the passenger side of the family car. Brown County Judge Charles E. Kuehn overruled 55 objections raised by Assistant Public Defender Michael Hanna, Stordeur's lawyer, during Mrs. Stordeur's testimony. Hanna repeatedly claimed Stordeur had a right to stop his wife's testimony because information she had was private between the two as a married couple.

Betty Maciejewski, Mary's mother, was expected to testify later today that her daughter has been missing since July 19 and that she believes her daughter is dead. by 's car toward Meyer's house for the party instead turned back toward the bar where Maciejew-ski's car was parked. About a half hour later, about 4 a.m., Stordeur left the party alone, Siolka said. Rick Schiltz, a 10-year friend of Stordeur's, said he and Stordeur both drank heavily the night of July 19 at the Merry-0 and at two other taverns. He said they joined the victims and others in the Merry-0 parking lot after the bar closed, Schiltz said.

County officer Todd Zehma testified he found Stordeur lying down, "trying to hide," in a field Stordeur's family owns in the 3300 block of Glendale Road in Howard about 6 a.m. July 24. Next to Stordeur was a green Please see StordeurA-2 District Attorney Peter Naze and assistant prosecutor Patrick Hitt Thursday called as witnesses several young adults who were drinking with Stordeur, Quimby and Maciejewski at the Merry-0 Bar in Howard until it closed early July 20. One of those witnesses, Beth Ann Meyer, also testified that Stordeur both at the bar and later at her home where the group went for a party forcefully tried to convince her to have sex with him. At her home he forced her into her bedroom, threw her on the bed and got on top of her, Meyer said.

She threatened to scream and he let her go, she said. Greg Siolka testified that in Stordeur's presence at the party he mentioned that Quimby and Maciejewski driving in Quim Press-Gazette photo by Ken Weseiy Suspect's wife: Janice Stordeur, the wife of murder suspect Robert Stordeur, testifies in Brown County court today. Bat Pk Mirrit Inside today Drug being made on shuttle could save lives, companies say ONMDUC DOORSTEP Labor Day! a morning Around Wisconsin A- 6 Leckey column B- 5 Beck column A-11 Looking back A-17 Bridge column B- 6 Metroregionalstate A- 6 Business B- 5 Morrises on words B- 6 Classified ads B- 7 Newsmakers A- 2 Comics B- 6 Opinion page A-16 Crossword puzzle B- 8 Scene A-10 Deaths, funerals A-16 Showtimes A-12 Entertainment A-10 Sports B- 1 Fire calls A-18 Sports extra B- 4 Health column A-12 Stock listings B- 5 Horoscope B- 6 Television log A-13 Kid bits B-J Weather A-17 Landers column A-11 Weekend calendar A- 6 Larson column A-17 Young hobby club B-6 SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) A new drug being manufactured in orbit aboard Discovery could lead by 1988 to robot pharmaceutical plants in space making a lifesaving drug that could be used by thousands of people on Earth, partners in the venture say. Engineer Charles Walker, aboard the shuttle as NASA's first paying passenger, is to operate a machine that utw the lero gravity of outer space to make a health-restoring drug that cannot be made on Earth- After three postponements, Discovery began its maiden space voyage Thursday morning with a crew of six. Walker is an employee of McDonnell Douglas an aerospace company that has teamed with pharmaceutical giant Johnson Johnson in an effort to create a drug factory in the sky.

Neither partner will name the drug being developed on the Discovery mission, but McDonnell Douglas project director David W. Richman said, "If it can be pro duced commercially, we will have a lifesaving material that would have an impact on a large population of people." The drug is actually a hormone that is naturally produced in the body in small quantities. The drug machine on Discover will use a techiuque called electrophoresis to separate this hormone from a raw material that contains the hormone mixed with other natural compounds. Please see Drug A-2.