The Baltimore Sun from Baltimore, Maryland • 63

THE SUN, Thursday, November 3, 1983 Trotter to fill Senate seat Double indemnity in murder OKd BROADWATER, from Dl party's methods when they favored him over the last 20 years, Broadwater called Tuesday night's events a breach of faith. "It showed the people of the 24th District that they have no control over their destiny when the white community wants to control it. You had five or six hundred people there thinking they were in a democratic process. The decision was made before they got there. It's sad." Observing that the leading candidates for the seat were black and that all had significant support among black county officials, Mr.

Miller said there was no effort by white politicians to dictate. "Tommie knows how the game is played," he said. "He knew we had the votes. That's why there were no bitter words. He told me, 'You're going to have to deal with me in three Mr.

Miller said he believes a comeback is not out of the question for Broadwater. "People are of a forgiving nature," he said. "The crime he committed was committed under a great deal of stress. The business world he had built from the time he was very young was crumbling. People can understand." Still confident and aggressive despite his conviction, Broadwater said he hopes to run for his seat in 1986.

Under the state Constitution, he is barred from seeking office as a Democrat until his proba- that a murder had taken place. "If you would tell us what you need the officer for," said a police clerk, according to a transcript of the conversation. "I just told you. I committed murder," Mrs. Lamb replied.

Clerk: "Mrs. Lamb, what is your problem?" Mrs. Lamb: "I was being beaten and I committed murder. In self-defense." Clerk: "Mrs. Lamb-" Mrs.

Lamb: "I told you. You going to send an officer down here or not?" Clerk: "Mrs. Lamb, do you know you can be charged with making a false report?" Mrs. Lamb: "Hey, I didn't make a false report." Clerk: "What is the problem?" Mrs. Lamb: "The problem is I committed murder in self-defense.

I wasn't going to be beaten again." Clerk: "OK. Is the person that beat you there now?" Mrs. Lamb: "I would imagine so. He's up lying in bed dead." At that point, police got her phone number and sent officers to the house. Northwestern National Life Insurance Company had wanted to pay Mr.

Lamb's son and two daughters only the $20,000 face value of his life insurance policy. But the children said the insurance policy's "double indemnity" provision covering accidental death meant that they should get another $20,000. Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Robert S. Heise disagreed, saying that murder could not be considered an accident. Yesterday, in an opinion written by Chief Judge Richard P.

Gilbert, Maryland's intermediate appellate court said that in this case, murder could be considered an accident. Judge Gilbert wrote that because a murder is "violent, unintentional, and involuntary," it should be thought of as an accident from the victim's perspective. The appeals court based its decision on what it thought Washington law on the subject would be because of a provision on legal jurisdiction in the contract. By J. S.

Bainbridge, Jr. Annapolis The children of an Anne Arundel county man who was shot to death by their mother will be able to collect double their father's life insurance because the Court of Special Appeals yesterday said that murder in such a case can be considered an "accident." Edna Lamb, the woman who pulled the trigger three years ago, was sentenced to two years of weekends in the county jail and 2,500 hours of community service. Her defense lawyers argued that she had been the victim of abuse throughout her stormy 20-year marriage to her husband, Charles. Mrs. Lamb said she and her husband had been drinking at a Landover restaurant and on the way back to their Edge-water home, they had argued.

The fight continued as the couple readied themselves for bed and had ended when she shot her husband in the back. After the shooting, Mrs. Lamb called Anne Arundel county police to ask them to send an officer to the home. She apparently had some difficulty convincing them 'TT7 TOYS BIKES BABY FURNITURE -U HOME COMPUTERS VIDEO GAMES WMI I I I 1 1 A. I V57 i See store manager for details.

Not available at Jumpers Hole. TfZ-JV 1 liLffli PSS fl ATARI I Atari 5200 tion is completed in 1987: he cannot register to vote and, therefore, he cannot enter a primary where only registered Democrats are eligible. But the law does allow him to run as an inder pendent unless it is changed as Mr. Miller says it will be. Broadwater said yesterday he believes it will prove impossible to exclude him retroactively Thus, he paid close attention Tuesday night to the selection of what he calls his interim replacer ment.

At one point, he considered the option of backing a close relative on the theory that such a person would step aside in 1986. He discarded this option and searched without success for another cooperative stand-in. Finding none, he sided with the independent Mrs. Howard at the very last minute, explaining that she was backed by all the black elected officials, save one, from the 24th District. He had rejected Mrs.

Howard earlier, hoping to find someone more amenable to his long-term plans. Asked if Broadwater has asked her to quit the race at one point, Mrs. Howard said, "I think it was an invitation to keep things united." The winner, Mr. Trotter, smiled when it was recalled that the party organization had opposed him in his race against Broadwater in 1978. "Everything changes," he said.

"Sometimes it's in the interest of the party organization to go with a maverick." Is even more change on the way? Bonnie F. Johns, a school board member who wanted the seat but won no support Tuesday night, said she believes the process must be made more democratic particularly when persons are chosen to fill large parts of a term: in this case, about three years. Replacements should be made by election, she said. "The old-boy political network controls she said. "Women are told to stay at home." This ap proach may not work forever, she said, because "We have a more intelligent, involved citizenry now." Steel unemployed to be paid again BENEFITS, from Dl In return for concessions by steelworkers, steelmakers agreed to make special SUB payments for three months to workers with less than 10 years seniority.

In addition, those with between 10 and 20 years service were to receive those special payments from June to December or until the regular SUB fund began making payments. Those laid off employees received the same 30 percent now available to most of the laid-off force while the SUB fund slowly regained some of its depleted funds, the company spokesman said. The union's contract dictates that when the fund reaches 15 percent of its capacity, the money accumulated must be disbursed. As of Tuesday, the SUB fund was 22.64 percent full, according to Mr. Baldwin.

He refused yesterday to say how much money would be in the fund if it reached 100 percent. The fund has grown at the rate of 67.5 cents for every hour worked by union employees since steel-workers signed a nationwide contract in March, according to company officials. Mr. Wray, a five-year employee who worked the plant's coke ovens at about $9.50 an hour before bis most recent layoff in May, 1982, said his family has been living from month to month ever since. i "We're cutting corners on everything.

We've cut through all our savings, and we've sold some things," said Mr. Wray, who oversees the monthly giveaway of about three bags of groceries to. the families of 500 local steelworkers who have lost their jobs. J. Mr.

Wray said the November SUB money, while welcome, will not change the current quality of his family's life. "I'm not going to jump through hoops for crumbs," he said. "I'm willing to eat a crumb, but I also recognize this $40 as a crumb. This won't even take care of the gas and electric bill," he said. 'Sting' subject gets three years' AIELLO, from Dl ant suffers from diabetes and a heart problem, for which he had been hospitalized for several months recently.

The lawyer said Aiello "would not survive incarceration" and he asked the court, "Do we terminate his life with a jail sentence? Judge Eugene M. Lerner said, in handing down the prison term, he did not "take the offense lightly and Mr. Aiello will have to pay back society." But the judge said he directed the prison system to examine the defendant immediately to determine if he was fit to withstand prison life, and to report Its findings to him. According to Mr. Ruter, Aiello was part of a conspiracy with two others to convert checks totaling $8,222 and stocks and bonds amounting to $286,000 to their personal gain.

The checks and stocks and bonds owned by Mr. Ragonese were found by the defendants in clothing that Mr. Ragonese left in a Baltimore dry cleaning shop where one of the defendants worked, he said. The special prosecutor said the codefendants, Lucy Ciurca, 53, and Jennie Vittello, 68, were given suspended sentences, fined and placed on probation in hearings held earlier. In January, 1982, Aiello pleaded guilty to charges of theft and attempted theft of $20,300 in connection with the false billing of Baltimore city or hauling sludge from the Patapsco sewage treatment plant, a case unrelated to the securities theft.

He was fined and received a suspended prison sen; tence. University in N.Y. offering scholarships to minorities The University of Rochester has a scholarship program for minority students. The Baltimore Urban League may nominate up to five students for a scholarship ranging from $2,500 to $11,200, the full amount of fixed costs at the New York university. Anyone interested in more information can contact Maggie Lane at the Baltimore Urban League at 523-8150.

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