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purltngton Campaign '82 4B Money 5B Thursday, August 5, 1 982 Investigators Suspect Greed Or Anger as Motive in Killing i fVfri be identified, said through discussions with other parents they discovered Cadoret had behaved suspiciously with children for years. One mother said she was looking out the window when Cadoret showed her young daughter "nature pictures of birds and flowers." He then invited the child into his apartment, and minutes later the litle girl came running home, the mother said. The child had been shown "dirty pictures," the woman said. "I was It wasn't so much I wanted him incarcerated; he needed some help," she said. "Someone finally called him on it, but nothing ever became of it because there was no evidence.

"My experience with the people on Shepard Street is that they believe things are better left alone. It's a close-knit street," she said. Manning said Cadoret had complained to police about people trying to break into their apartment. "I heard it once or twice but didn't get up. I was to scared to see," she said.

"The police wanted proof," she said. "Now they've got it." evidence money is missing," Vallee said. Manning said she has not been allowed in the apartment since Monday night. She said she had a small amount of money hidden which she will check on today. "I won't live there again," she said.

Vallee confirmed Wednesday that he investigated Cadoret several years ago for allegedly showing neighborhood children obscene photographs. Vallee said two complaints, from parents did not result in, formal charges because Cadoret) denied them and such photographs were never found. "I talked with Cadoret and told him people in the area were not pleased with him allowing chil-. dren inside his residence. This department had never received another complaint since," he said.

Vallee said he believes that episode "has no bearing on this was just a complaint from a couple of concerned parents." Manning said she asked Cadoret if those allegations were true. "He said it isn't so, but if he did it he wouldn't own up," she said. The parents, who asked not to it had not been fired. Manning said she was questioned until 1 a.m. Wednesday.

"They asked me mostly if I'd done it, if I'd killed Mr. Cadoret," she said during a telephone interview at the home of friends. "They think I done it. I didn't." Manning said Cadoret was jealous of her friends. "He's very outspoken.

He don't like people coming to talk to me. I can't have no friends or nothing else. He didn't like anybody who had anything to do with me." The other person given a lie detector test was Manning's daughter who was with her when the body was found. Neither is a suspect, Vallee said. They were questioned with the hope they might provide police with leads, Vallee said.

Cadoret underwent surgery for a wound on the back of his head and died Tuesday morning. The autopsy report says his skull was fractured by a "blunt impact." Investigators have been "unable to find any instrument that could have been used in an assault," Keller said. A report that Cadoret had $1,800 in his home "has never been proven and there is no 9Ji tm-m jfcj- vj-'-- I 111 Free Press Photo by JYM WILSON Sgt. William Timmerman of the Winooski Police Department enters William R. Cadoret's apartment on Shepard Street to work on the investigation into Cadoret's death.

Bones Belonged to AnimaJ, Not Human two dozen bones seen since. His blood-stained were found off Middle Road by the next day and his four-wheel-drive vehicle was found in Williston three later. was handicapped as the result of accident. Investigators have said the probe has slowed by refusal of the missing estranged wife. Diane King, to take a detector test.

investigators would continue their efforts to locate the man. Yandow said it is possible New York Trooper Ralph Suffolk and his dogs will be asked to return to assist local police on the case. Suffolk's dogs are specially trained to find items that have been buried. He has traveled throughout the Northeast on special investigations and has worked in Vermont on other cases. Investigators were aware some of the By MIKE DONOGHUE Free Press Staff Writer Bones found by a New York State Police dog in Burlington's Intervale Tuesday belonged to animals and not a human, Dr.

Eleanor N. McQuillen, state chief medical examiner, determined Wednesday. Essex Police Lt. Robert Yandow had thought the dogs might discover the remains of Wilfred King III, who has been missing since October 1980. Yandow said animal bones, but McQuillen said Wednesday they all are.

The Intervale search was conducted after information was obtained through two secret court inquests, police investigation and calls to the Essex Police and Champlain Valley Crime Stoppers tip line, Yandow said. King, 37, left his Jericho Road home about 7 p.m. Oct. 24, 1980, and has not By JANE SMITH Free Prats Staff Writer Investigation of the mysterious death of William R. Cadoret is going slowly, but officials are "more convinced" that the 77-year-old Winooski man was the victim of someone's anger or greed, State's Attorney Mark Keller said Wednesday.

As of late Wednesday, Keller and Winooski Lt. Armand Vallee said there were no Investigators confiscated several items from Cadoret's 18 Shepard St apartment for fingerprinting, and Keller said lie detector tests taken by two people "helped channel our efforts." One test was conducted into the early hours of Wednesday; the other about 8 a.m. "It has become less and less likely it was an accident," Keller said. "There is no logical place in the house for an accident to have happened, based on the circumstances." Cadoret was found lying in a pool of blood on his kitchen floor about 9:30 Monday night, according to Ida J. Manning, 67, his live-' in housekeeper for 19 years, who discovered the body.

A gun was found in the house but police said Medicine Man Dies ur Legion By KATHERINE SPRINGER The Associated Press Legionnaires' disease is believed responsible for the death Wednesday of a 69-year-old Windsor man who was the former hospital roommate of another victim of the pneumonia-like disease. Officials at Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, N.H., said Arthur Frankland died around 9 a.m. due to respiratory complications. Frankland had been transferred from Mount Ascutney Hospital in Windsor when it was discovered that his roommate Allen Poland, 86 had Legionnaires' disease. Poland later died from the disease.

Michael Noble, spokesman for Mary Hitchcock Hospital, said Frankland had a "presumptive diagnosis" of Legionnaires' disease. He said it will be several weeks before it is known whether Legionnaires' disease was, in fact, the cause of the death, but the hospital is "for all practical purposes treating it as Legionnaires." If Frankland's death is confirmed as Legionnaires' disease, it will be the fourth death due to the disease in Vermont this year, according to Dr. Richard Vogt, state epidemiologist. A 75-year-old Lamoille County man died from the disease during the winter and a 57-year-old Windsor County man died last month, Vogt said. The bacteria that causes the disease was found in the hot water system at the Windsor hospital.

After the discovery state officials ordered that the water system be chlorinated to eliminate the bacteria. In recent years there have been two outbreaks of the disease at the Medical Center of Vermont in Burlington. Seventeen people died in the most recent outbreak in 1980. In 1977, Vermont had 43 confirmed cases of Legionnaires' disease, of which 19 were fatal. Both outbreaks In Burlington were traced to contaminated water in nearby cooling towers.

Hospital officials at Mount Ascutney said both Frankland and Poland were admitted for unrelated illnesses, and were highly susceptible to viral infections because of their poor health. Officials believe that both contracted the disease while they were in Mount Ascutney Hospital. No other suspected cases of the disease have been reported at Mount Ascutney, according to I 3 irtH.li.M- 9 ,4 Vacation Cruise collected Tuesday are ry opposition from Clifford Thompson, a Hyde park school bus driver who has campaigned very little. His education proposals include a six-day school week, with shorter days, for children in grades 1 to 6, and more video and computer equipment for primary and secondary school use. Thompson, some of whose young passengers have volunteered to help with his campaign, said Wednesday he believes primary school students suffer the most from boredom.

Despite Kuhin's call for conditions on the state aid increase, she characterized herself as a local control proponent. Asked if those statements were contradictory, she replied that the spending requirements she suggested are so broadly worded that school districts would have great Checking 'Air been crutches hunters weeks King a traffic been man's lie be counted upon to propose a state aid increase of roughly the same magnitude as Kunin suggested. "There isn't any substantial disagreement there," he said. The Republican governor, seeking re-election to a fourth two-year term, blasted the lieutenant governor's idea of restricting the use of some of the increase. He called the suggestion "an absolute, total and wholesale departure from the whole spirit of state aid.

It is to me anti-local control." Particularly in cases where towns already have dipped deep into taxpayers' pockets to provide above average educational quality, they should be allowed full latitude to use state aid to control property tax escalation, Snelling said. Kunin faces Democratic prima Who says you need a boat to ride on the lake? Kim 6V2, sister-in-law Chris Wey, and nephew Justin Wednesday. The Cantrell children are from Virginia Wey of Maryland tows his niece Jody Cantrell, Cantrell, 8V2, around City Bay in North Hero and Chris Wey is from Stow, Mass. Kunin Would Put Strings on Aid to Schools Jr state aid in fiscal 1984, or about 9 percent, to keep the state's share at 38 percent. Under her plan, school districts would have to earmark at least half of the increase for new spending, Kunin said.

The other half would be available for cutting or stabilizing property taxes, she said. She would channel the other $3 million to teacher salaries; training of principals; teacher training; basic curriculum improvement; and science, math and 'computer skill development. Kunln's plan is the main thrust of a position paper on educational issues she unveiled at a news conference. Strengthening education is "the key to a better life for the next generation of Vermonters," she said. Snelling said he probably can Free Press Photo by JYM WILSON discretion.

She said Vermont teachers are the lowest paid in the nation and must be kept from fleeing to other, more lucrative occupations. Besides more money they need morale support from politicians, Kunin said: Vocational educational programs must be coordinated and reoriented to suit the prevailing job market, she said, calling for a single "vocational education czar" to supervise them. The programs should be consolidated in the Development and Community Affairs Agency, the Education L. partment or the Employment and Training Department, she said. "It's a turf battle that' needs to be addressed," she said.

She did not commit herself to Turn to KUNIN, Pag 2B Cars By NEIL DAVIS Free Press Capitol Bureau MONTPELIER Madeleine Kunin said Wednesday if elected governor she would ask the Legislature to attach strings to some state education aid so school districts would have to improve quality. Gov. Rich ard Snelling responded harshly to the recommenda tion, saying it runs contrary to the "local control" spirit with which state aid has been allocated. The lieutenant governor, a Democrat, also said she would urge an increase of $6 million In KUNIN Burlington Police Randomly essing kits are not allowed as evidence In court. Also participating were Patrolmen Robert Falvey and Kevin Farrell, who said the defective equipment tickets were primarily prompted by burned out light bulbs.

Laware said every other driver was asked to stop. Davis and Laware said there is always at least one officer for every car to eliminate waiting lines that could block traffic. The town of Essex has set up similar roadblocks. drunk drivers," he said. A 22-year-old Essex man was issued a court citation for allegedly driving while Intoxicated.

His blood alcohol contest was 0.27 according to the field test kit, police said. Drivers are presumed legally drunk at 0.10. Patrolman James Marrier arrested the man following a short struggle after the driver attempted to get behind the wheel. The second person processed for DWI was released without a citation pending official test results. Results of field proc Each driver was checked for drunken driving, asked to produce proper licenses and registrations and cars were checked for defective equipment, Laware said.

Deputy Police Chief Donald P. Davis said city police began the random roadblocks about six months ago. The biggest problem is trying to find a quiet night when enough officers can be assigned to the detail, Davis said. "It Is one of the best ways to detect By MIKE DONOGHUE free Press Staff Writer Two people were tested for drunken driving and six others received tickets for defective equipment during a 90-minute roadblock on Main Street early Wednesday. The enforcement program, Burlington's version of Project CRASH, netted 29 drivers between 1:30 and 3 a.m.

near Edmunds Junior High School, William Laware, field supervisor, said..

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