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Fort Lauderdale News from Fort Lauderdale, Florida • Page 7

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Fort Lauderdale News. Friday, Jan. 8, 1982 hf 7A FERTILIZERS INSECTICIDES ROCK BARK MULCH Witness in Williams' trial says car on bridge at murder site SKIFFS ROAD 7 WORKINGMAN'S Nursery GERANIUMS sea BALE OLEANDERS I $19S $io95 $19S I BEGONIAS 6 IN. POT CARISSA $f49 MILORGANITE 44 LB. BAG.

$399 79 $1 I'ailcd Fm tnteraational ATLANTA The police recruit who was under the Jackson Parkway bridge the night Wayne Williams became a suspect in the Atlanta child murders testified today he saw a car turn on its lights on the bridge seconds after he heard a loud splash in the river. Robert Campbell told the jury in the third day of testimony in Williams' trial for the murder of two of the 28 black victims that he used his flashlight to follow the waves of the splash in the Chattahoochee River to a point below the concrete bridge. "I looked up, I looked down, looked up again and I was about to look down again when I saw lights come on right there above where the splash originated," he testified. "Then what did you see?" asked prosecutor Jack Mallard. "The car went on across the bridge very slowly," Campbell said.

It was the first revelation that Campbell had seen a car as well as heard a splash early in the morning of May 22, 1981, and the first testimony that Williams, who was driving the car that another recruit saw coming off the bridge, had been running with its lights off. Two days later, the body of 27-year-old Nathaniel Cater surfaced downstream. Williams, 23, a black photographer, is charged only with the slayings of Cater and Jimmy Ray Payne, 21, but police have indicated they have evidence linking him to at least 10 others among the slayings that terrorized Atlanta black neighborhoods during a two-year period. The state is trying to prove Williams drove out on the bridge to heave Cater's body into the river. The defense claims Williams merely happened to be driving across the bridge, that he never stopped, and that he isn't strong enough to throw a 150-pound body over the bridge's 4-foot-high railing anyway.

Jacobs, 30, denied emphatically defense charges that he didn't see the car until it was nearly off the bridge because he had retired to the bushes behind him to relieve himself. He also denied he was a "scary-type" person who radioed in reports of ghosts haunting his stakeout spot, and an implication he was after the half-million-dollar reward for a solution to the child murders. A small, wiry black officer, Jacobs was a recruit not a sworn policeman when he was assigned to the stakeout detail. Police officials, trying frantically to stem the abduction-murders that were occurring in the spring of 1981 at the rate of one every two weeks, pulled recruits from their Police Academy classes and put them to work. Prices Good Thru Thurs.

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second officer, Capt. William Demski said today. Demski said LaBorde is Identified by the FBI as an associate of the Black Liberation Army. He has been identified as a suspect in the prison escape in 1979 of Joanne Chesimard, the BLA leader imprisoned in New Jersey for the murder of a state trooper. LaBorde was arrested Thursday The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA Police have arrested a suspect in a series of terrorist crimes including the 1.6 million robbery of a Brink's truck last October in which two police officers and a security guard were killed.

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