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A-2 Thursday. October 5, 1995 Green Bay Press-Gazette Wednesday's highlights From A-l said. "If he received prompt med ical attention, I think it quite pos Monfils sible he'd have lived" despite those Jurors unaware of Simpson outcome injuries. Young said. However, he died of strangula tion, due to the rope around his neck and to breathing pulp, Young said.

is not allowed to read accounts of the Monfils trial or any other trial in newspapers, said Jeanne Ramsden, administrative coordinator in the Brown County clerk of courts office. Bailiffs, who are with the jurors around the clock, screen all viewing and reading material for the jurors, Ramsden Press-Gazette Jurors in the Tom Monfils murder trial probably are the only people left in the area who don't know the outcome of the O.J. Simpson trial. The sequestered jury isn't allowed to watch television, except for approved movies, and Autopsy findings don't show the time of death, nor do they give any clue as to the number pf people involved in beating Monfils or Press-Gazette Millworker James Boucher and retired millworker Carl Stencil identified a rope and weight found around Tom Monfils neck as items from the No. 7 paper machine area.

Monfils was working that machine the day he died. Former Brown County Coroner Genie Williams testified that she supervised the recovery of Monfils' body from the vat and maintained custody of it until Dr. Helen Young did the autopsy on Nov. 23, 1992. Young testified that Monfils had several large cuts on his head and a dent that was 2 inches long, 38-inch wide and ''6-inch deep.

He also had a broken jaw and severe bruises on his neck, chest and groin. All of those injuries happened before he died, which she could tell because bleeding occurred around them, indicating his heart still was beating, she the weapon or weapons used, Young said. Most of the injuries involve "blunt trauma" consistent with a punch or kick, and the dent to the head appears to have been from some hard, straight-edged object, she said. Judge James Bayorgeon announced he had dismissed a juror who became ill and needed medical attention. Fifteen people remain on the jury panel, enough for 12 jurors and three alternates.

Lepak had once pushed him around physically. Robinson asked if Lepak could be called a bully. Boulanger said yes. Boyle referred to an incident in which Boulanger and Lepak had a confrontation, and Lepak allegedly lifted Boulanger and threw him over a paper roll. The incident was not horse-play, Boulanger said.

"I remember going over the roll," he said. Boulanger said he was 5-footrl0 and weighed 180 pounds at the time. Lepak is 6-foot-5 and 300 pounds. Earlier testimony from co-worker Dennis Servais indicated that Lepak was big but "all bark and no bite." Doubts raised about Mineau Boyle suggested Monday that paperworker Jon Mineau was "part and parcel" and a "co-conspirator" in Monfils' death. Mineau, who is not charged in the case, told the Press-Gazette Monday he had no part in Monfils' death.

Boyle said Mineau appears to have special knowledge of events that morning. The James River company fired Mineau last week without comment, although Mineau said the company fired him for harassing another worker. Mineau denied the harassment. tioned to her "something called the "Wiener forklift theory- "1 have no idea what you're talking about," Young told him. and Steam dropped the line of questioning.

But after Wednesday's court appearance. Stearn told the Press-Gazette his question referred to David Wiener, a witness in the case. "You'll hear it." Stearn said. "You'll have to hear it in the testimony." He declined further explanation. Wiener, a former employee at James River, is serving a 10-year prison sentence for fatally shooting his brother, Timothy, 29, on Nov.

28, 1993. Timothy Wiener was shot after he came to David Wiener's Allouez home and kicked in the door after arguments over the phone. Young testified Monfils weighed about 200 pounds and had a 50-pound weight tied to his neck. In their questioning, defense lawyers made much of the 250 pounds total and the fact that the vat where Monfils was found was a long walk in the mill from where prosecutors say his beating took place. Questioning by Boyle and Stearn indicated they both believe Monfils' body was wrapped in paper, possibly to hide it as it was transported to the vat and possibly also as a way to stop blood from dripping.

Young said Monfils had received several wounds to his head and neck before he was thrown into the vat. and those would have bled extensively. Wiener has testified in previous court hearings that he saw Basten and Johnson facing each other and stooped as if carrying something heavy between them near the paper pulp vat on the morning of Monfils' disappearance. Wiener allegedly told no one what he saw and even denied under oath that he saw anything, but then he reported it to police more than six months after the fact, Stearn said. Wiener allegedly made the call to police while intoxicated at a wedding reception, lawyers said at the defendants' preliminary hear ing earlier this year.

Defense lawyers weren't allowed to attack Wiener's credibility then, but they promised to do so at trial. Was Lepak a 'bulfy7 Testimony from millworker Donald Boulanger Tuesday implied that Randy "Wimpy" Lepak was a bully. Lepak, along with all six defendants and then-union president Marlin Charles, is named in a wrongful death lawsuit that Monfils' widow, Susan, filed in May 1993. Lepak also was charged with a misdemeanor blackballing charge in connection with Monfils' death'. He paid a $1,000 forfeiture for harassment, which is not considered a crime, and $200 for disorderly conduct.

Boulanger testified Tuesday under questioning by Basten's attorney, Nila Robinson, that Press-Gazette 435 E. Walnut P.O. Box 19430 Green Bay, Wl 54307-9430 Business Hours: Weekdays, 7:30 p.m. Saturdays, 7:30 a.m.-noon A GANNETT NEWSPAPER Main office: 435-4411 or (800) 444-0007 William T. Nusbaum David Hollingsworth president and publisher marketing director Claude J.

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Basten, Hirn, Moore, Piaskowski, Kutska and Jon Mineau, who is not charged in the case, all were in the No. 9 machine control room next to Monfils' machine shortly before the confrontation, Kellner said. However, Don Boulanger, the machine tender on Mineau's machine, called Mineau away, Kellner said. Kutska also seemed to know in early summer of 1994 that Monfils had sustained some sort of head injury, even though that information didn't become public until later, Kellner's testimony showed. Kellner and Kutska were working on Kellner's truck when Kellner bumped his head while ducking to avoid a wrench he'd dropped.

"Be careful you could get a Monfils bump," Kellner said Kutska told him. By Paul Srubas Press-Gazette Keith Kutska stood "watching the show" with his arms folded while others harassed Tom Monfils. but Kutska left to take care of his machine and never saw how it ended, paperworker Brian Kellner testified this morning. It ended with Monfils' death at the James River mill that morning. By the time Kutska was done with his machine.

"Tom was gone," Kellner said. Monfils' body was found the next day in a pulp vat. Kutska, Mike Piaskowski, Rey Moore, Mike Hirn, Dale Basten and Mike Johnson are charged with being party to homicide in Monfils' death Nov. 21, 1992. Kellner was deer-hunting on the iporning Monfils died and saw none of the alleged confrontation between co-workers and Monfils.

However, Kutska told him about the incident and had Kellner, Kellner's ex-wife and Kutska' wife play-act parts so he could explain the details, Kellner said. The role-playing happened July 4, 1994, at the Fox Den Bar in the community of Morgan, Kellner said. Kellner gave assistant district attorney Bill Griesbach a shove this morning to show how Kutska had shoved Kellner in the bar that night. That shove was Kutska's demonstration of how Hirn had shoved Monfils, Kellner said. But Kutska hedged on some details, Kellner said.

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