The Town Talk from Alexandria, Louisiana • Page 29

Altxantirin BnUg Eoitm Suit Friday, June 2, 1978 La. News D-3 Suspected Slayer's Death Leaves Lot of Loose Ends Chief Randy Ratcliff. "I was hoping we could bring him back here and talk to him and maybe find out where the other two bodies were." Hohenberger took his answers to such questions to the grave with him when he snatched out his gun as police approached him in Taeoma Wednesday and, despite efforts to stop him, shot himself in the head. "We are still dragging Bayou Tcche, back of the property where he worked in Morgan City," said St. Mary Parish Sheriff Chester Baudoin.

"That's all we can think of. We have checked all the fields and the wooded areas around there." "I am sorry he was killed, he might have told where the other bodies were, or if he had killed any other people," said Gordon Mark Canella. "I feel sorry for those other parents whose kids are still missing." The body of his own son, Gordon M. Canella, r7, was among the three located after an FBI artist's conception of an unidentified kidnapper put police on Ho-henberger's trail. Sheriff Baudoin said Hohenberger, who was wanted on charges of rape and kidnapping in California, was daring in seizing youngsters.

"I talked to one of the officers that handled the California case," said Baudoin. "He said this man was very bold, he kidnapped a girl right on front of a lot of Chief Ratcliff said he was holding Sidney Harris under bond as an accessory after the fact of murder. He said Harris had nothing to do with the kidnappings but tipped Hohenberger that the police were looking for him. MORGAN CITY (AP) "I would a lot rather he got gut shot," Chief Deputy Kenneth Wright of St. Mary Parish said when he heard that Robert Carl Ho-henberger had died of a self-inflicted a bullet in his brain.

The sad fact was that the .22 caliber pistol shot Hohenberger fired as police closed in on him in Ta-coma. left a lot of loose ends in the investigation along his back trail. Among other things, police in Boca Raton, and Cartersville, Ga would like to know whether Hohenberger charged with three murders here had anything to do with kidnap-murders in their area. "There are a lot of similarities," said Cartersville Police Capt. Bill Kirkslinger.

But his personal hunch was that Hohenberger, a drifter, won't turn out to be the one who kidnapped an 18-year-old convenience store clerk last March 21 and killed her. In Boca Raton, police said their check of Hohenberger in connection with the kidnap-murder of two teen-agers last Jan. 5 was a procedure triggered by similarities between their case and the Morgan City killings. Here in Morgan City, there were still two missing teenagers: Mary Leah Rodermund, IB, and Bertha Gould, 14. If Hohenberger killed them, and police think he did, where are the bodies? Three bodies have been recovered here thus far.

Hohenberger was charged with murder in each instance. "I am despondent and depressed," said Police ff 1 111 xr'Mk nil Jmthu A hi: 'T 4 A ing has mostly replared the outdoor toilet, but the outhouse is preserved for future generations in a museum exhibit in Baton Rouge, (ll'l Photo) A youngster pausrs to have his picture taken before entering a typical outhouse in rural Clear Fork Valley, in (his 1963 photo. Gleaming indoor plumb Outdoor Toilet 'Enshrined1 aler, read: "Outhouse, 10 ft. high, 6 ft. wide and 8 ft.

deep. Weathered cypress. Excellent sealing facilities." Dutton, who has personally tested the seals, said the buildings often were made from scrap lumber, but were given individual touches. Cut out ares, angles and, of course, moons, adorn doors and walls. Seats come in oval, round and teardrop shapes.

"Most of them are comfortable," he said. "We ran across one square one. You'd have to have a lot of padding for it to feel good." Graffiti on outhouse walls was virtually non-existent, he said, allhotigh some folk with lime on their hands carved intitials. The museum outhouses are for display to add realism only, Dutton said. Briefs Officer Convicted Of Cruelty to Dog JENNINGS (AP) A policeman, who said he was just following orders, has been convicted of cruelty to animals by a judge who cited the My Lai case in his ruling.

District Judge Walter C. Peters found Patrolman Richard Doucel guilty, holding him responsible for doing what his police chief said: Calch the dog or shoot it. "It's a touchy situation, but it's also a dengerous situation," said Peters. "You don't shoot people when they trespass on your property." The dog, a mixed breed collie owned by F. E.

Gary, was shot after a neighbor complained to police that the animal was tearing up her vegetable garden. Officers said she had made similar complaints for about six months and that the city dog catcher had not caught the animal. Testimony in the trial indicated two officers went to the woman's garden and were unable to catch the dog. So Dou-cet shot him. According to testimony, the animal limped home, and Doucet shot him again to put him out of his misery.

The My Lai Army courts martial, held after the killing of civilians in a Viet nam village, held that no one could excuse an illegal act by saying a superior ordered it done. Doucet will be sentenced next Tuesday. Maximum penalty would be $100 fine and 90 days in jail. Hitchhiker Suspected SLIDELL (AP) Police say they are looking for a hitchhiker and a 1978 model car in connection with the slaying of a Slidell couple at their home. The bodies of James P.

Holt and his wife Doris, both 50, were found by their son Mark, 15, when he returned from a friend's house Wednesday night. Police Chief R.A. Collins said both parents had been shot in the head. He said they made a trip to Mobile, earlier Wednesday in a rented maroon Chevrolet, and may have picked up one or more hitchhikers. Collins said the Holts were active in church work, and were known to have previously picked up hitchhikers and taken them home in attempts to convert them.

Holt's wallet and the car were missing. Oil Showers Houses GOOD HOPE (AP) Crude oil shot out of a ruptured storage tank and spattered more than 200 houses and scores of vehicles as far as a half-mile away. No one was injured and there was no fire when the tank burst Thursday at the GATX storage plant. GATX spokesman Don Puzdur said the cause of the rupture was not immediately known. The mess resulted after the floating roof of the tank ruptured like a pressure cooker on a kitchen stove.

Big globs of No. 6 crude hurtled skyward and came down like rain. "Raining oil, I guess that's a good description," said Captain Wallace Friloux of the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Department. "It covered everything." There was no Immediate estimate of damages.

"It went up in the air and It came clown thick," Friloux said. "The wind blew it In a northwesterly direction and it fell over a residential area. It covered everything. You can Imagine the mess." Good Hope is in St. Charles Parish, about 30 miles up' the Mississippi River from New Orleans.

By Royal Brightbill BATON ROUGE (UP1) Behind every great house there was a little house in earlier times. The outhouse, with its own special atmosphere, was an indispensable retreat in daily life. Indoor plumbing lung ago pushed the outhouse into history, but a collection of the little houses at the Rural Life Museum of Louisiana State University stands as a reminder of the more personal hardships endured by earlier generations. It began humbly enough. "Three or four years ago someone gave me several items to put out here in the museum and one of them included just a seat," said John Dutton, associate curator of the museum.

"It hud three holes in it. We were only able to save one hole, the others had decayed and rotted out." The Rural Life Museum then began a search for nuthouses to put behind its 18th and 19th century buildings. The invoice for the latest acquisition, a single sc Corps Action Complicates Caddo Dispute SHREVEPORT (AP) The Corps of Engineers has thrown a curve to the City of Shreveport, which has hassling with Marshall, Texas, over the right to pump water from Caddo Lake. The Corps said Thursday that it made a mistake in 1969 when it gave Shreveport a permit to use the lake on the Louisiana-Texas line as a backup water supply. Mayor Calhoun Allen called the Corps' action flabbergasting.

Allen had been utilities commissioner when the city built a $1 million intake structure on the lake where the Corps had said to put it. Current utilities commissioner Billy Guin said the city will go ahead with plans to build a $17 million pipeline from the lake, hoping they can get an after-the-fact permit. In a letter received by city officials Thursday, Col. Early J. Rush, district engineer of the Corps, said the Corps was mistaken when it told the city no special permit was needed to use the lake water.

Rush said the letter was not based on regulations requiring extensive studies before bodies of water could be tapped for reservoirs. He said officials at the Corps in New Orleans apparently were unaware of the regulations, which deal with such things as fish and wildlife, conservation, pollution, aesthetics and ecology. Calls It a Corps Goof Guin called it a Corps goof, but he said Rush will allow the city to work out all the details necessary for the permit. "This is not a long-term problem," Guin said. "They have in effect prohibited us from taking water out until wc comply with all their requests.

"In the meantime we will be able to prove to everybody's satisfaction that our plans will not hurt the environment in the lake, will not hinder Marshall, Texas, from taking wa of the lake, or hinder navigation on the lake." Shreveport and Marshall have been arguing for several years over the rights to water in Caddo Lake, which is about midway between the two cities. Marshall gets its water from a tributary feeding the lake, but wants to tap the lake itself; Shreveport relies on Cross Lake at Its city limits but wants to use Caddo Lake as a backup supply. Marshall City Attorney Ray Jackson said it was too early to tell whether the Corps' latest action was a victory for his city. Jackson said recent estimates indicate that the amount of water in the lake may be substantially greater than previously estimated. "The general public sometimes mistakenly thinks to use them, but we they are usable and attempts have modern facilities.

Passman Leaves Monroe Hospital separale (rials," Gravel said. One indictment against Passman charges thai he received in bribes from Park. A separale indii l-nient accuses Passman of falling to report on his 1972 and 197:1 income (ax returns. Passman represented his Northeast Louisiana district in Congress for 30 years mil II lie was defeated for re-election in 1970. too sick to stand (rial because he has suffered from profound depression, lapses of memory and inability to think clearly.

Camille Gravel, attorney for Passman, said Thursday that he had filed a motion In U.S. District Court in Washington, asking that the charges against Passman be combined for a single trial. "The former congressman, at his best, should not be asked to face two MONROE (AP) Former Congressman Otto Passman was out of the hospital today for the first time since he was accused of accepting Korean bribe money and lying about it on his income tax. Passman, 77, cheeked out Thursday from St. Francis Hospital in his hometown of Monroe.

He transferred there May 20 from Toiiro Infirmary in New Orleans, where he had been a patient since from March 29, two days before he was indicted in the South Korean congressional influence-buying scandal. Doctors said Passman probably had suffered a mild heart attack and had a case of pneumonia. His attorneys have been arguing that he is 12 rmmmmmmmmm Sentenced for Rape UNUSUAL CABINET. HARDWARE Open all day Sutunlay 1111 HARRIS leot NEW ORLEANS (AP) Ellis Guillot, 34, has been sen-tenccd to the maximum of 40 years In prison for the Oct. 30 forcible rape of a 15-ycar-old girl.

Guillot was accused of preying on teen-agers In lovers' lanes while Identifying himself as a policeman and armed with a gun. Criminal District Judge Rudolph Becker sentenced Guillot Thursday, saying that "the facts of this case war-rant the maximum penalty." Wc want to apologize for our air condition ing being out. Everything is working fine now so come on in and enjoy our good hot hiseuils, breakfast, noon time lunches, Mexican food, seafood, etc. And don't forget wc arc still serving boiled crawfish, fried crawfish tails and etouffec. Wc Have Added Help To Improve Our Service HOlinS DAILY KXCKPT SUNDAY.

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