Delaware County Daily Times from Chester, Pennsylvania • Page 1

Delaware County County Edition HOME DELIVERY 90 CENTS Friday, December 9.1977 PUBLISHED IN PRIMOS, UPPER DARBY TOWNSHIP, 19018 PRICE 15 CENTS capsule It's so cold Variable cloudiness, windy and cold this afternoon and evening with chance of snow. Highs today in the mid to upper dropping into the teens tonight. Details on page 2. Nabbed in chase CLAYMONT A 22-year- old man was arrested after being chased by police for three miles at speeds in excess of mph on lntei'state-95 today. Delaware State Police said the chase started 12 miles south of Harvey Road when a road supervisor spotted a car speeding north on 1-95.

Other police joined the chase and the man was finally stopped at 3:15 a.m. at Harvey Road. Arrested was James L. Thomas, 22, of 2602 Jacqueline Drive. Brandwyine Apartments.

He was to be arraigned this morning on charges of driving 110 mph in a 55 mph zone, failure to stop at the command of police, driving under the influence of alcohol, and driving with an expired registration. Claymont burglary CLAYMONT About $140 worth of goods' was stolen from the bedroom of Evelyn M. 58, of Bayard Brqokview Apartments, early Thursday evening. Castle County. Police report that the burglars forced open the rear bedroom window of Ms.

Crawford's bedroom, ransacked the rooms, then left through the same window by which they had gained entrance. Ms. Crawford returned home about 5:15 p.m. and discovered that a television, radio and jewelry, were missing. Widener lights out CHESTER A spliced underground power cable shutoff electrical power at Widener College for neary 15 hours Thursday afternoon and early today.

A college spokesman said power went off about 1:40 p.m. Thursday and was restored abut 4:30 a.m. today. Because of the outage, evening classes were cancelled. Meals were prepared with the use of an emergency generator.

Heat and lights were available in the library for students studying. Toll going up The finance committee of the Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA) Thursday recommended a nickel increase in bridge lolls. The Commodore Barry Bridge, linking Chester and Bridgeport, N.J., will be affected if the proposal is approved at the Jan. 18 meeting of the DRPA board. A public hearing will be held before final approval.

Daily TimsX a Renoir of gift wrapping, a Rembrandt of ribbon tying Page 14. B- High Schools basketball team is hustling and it's paid off in a 3-0 record. Page Deaths Editorials 38 Garden 33-37 Horoscope 38-39 Outlook 39 Sports 4 Stocks 6-7 TV 28 39 14-15 9-12 30 38 blast at chem die in County man among injured BRIDGEPORT. N. J.

Firemen and rescue workers today discovered the bodies of two a i i a construction n'roc 1 Ihui scla in Kt '-'s or explosions and i at a chemical processing i here, state police cl 1 Cl. The discovery brought to four number of persons killed while working on storage tanks at the Rollins Environmental Services Inc. a here One other construction worker 'was i listed missing, troopers said. if we find one more person we don't know if a the last one or not," said a rescue worker at the About 45 firemen and rescue workers were choked bv al nearb Folcroft man injured Sante Giorgi, 32, of Folcroft, is wheeled on by ambulance crew and hospital a into Medical Center Upland. Giorgi suffered burns in fire and Thursday afternoon in Bridgeport, NJ.

Nauss gui Ity in Londe hdnqinq MEDIA COURTHOUSE A rvpinwom rvuinKr 1. statements to the iurv or PIUM Delaware County jury found former Warlock Robert Nauss guilty of first degree murder shortly after noon today in the hanging death of 21-year-old Elizabeth Lande in a Folcroft garage on Dec. 13,1971. The jury of eight men and four women reached its verdict after four hours of deliberations. By MARLENE DIGIACOMO Daily Times Staff Writer MEDIA COURTHOUSE Was Elizabeth Lande "a walking suicidal bomb" or did Robert Nauss deliberately snuff out the 21-year-old woman's life by hanging her? Those were the arguments advanced by Defense Attorny Edward Savastio and Asst.

Disf. Atty. James DelBello in closing statements to the jury of eight men and four woman Thursday DelBello charged there' was sufficient evidence to find Nauss 2G, of Aston, guilty of first degree murder in the death of Ms Lande. Savastio argued the woman "did not met her death at the hands of Nauss" but took her own life. He also hammered away at the fact no motive for the killing was advanced during the trial.

He said there was no reason given why Nauss would want the woman dead. "The reason is not here because it didn't exist, does not exist and never existed," the attorney told the jury. DelBello argued" Nauss admittedly beat the woman on several occasions and once flung a padlock in her face. Nauss, a convicted rapist and drug dealer, is a former treasurer and vice president of the Warlock Motorcycle Club. DelBello referred to testimony given by several prosecution witnesses in which Nauss complained that Elizabeth Lande was bothering him.

"William Standen also testified he (Nauss) said he could kill her because she got on his nerves I submit he could hang her." De- lBello said. Standen, the prosecution's key witness, testified during the trial he saw Nauss standing near the dangling body of the woman, after he hanged her in the loft of a Folcroft garage on Dec. 1971. THERE WAS no immediate i i i a i of the two men ound today. The bodies of Danny Simons.

56 of Philadelphia and Robert Sharer. 23 of Glendora were found at the plant Thursday. The dead were employes of outside contractors that had a combined total of 24 men work ins; in the Rollins plant when the blasts occurred, police said. A spokesman for Rollins said this moraine the cause of the explosions and fire "was unknown at this point Lmwood Dixon, the firm's treasurer-controller today said, We are researching at this time, trying to determine the cause." He said the firm, whose corporate headquarters are in Wilmington, would release its findings as sbon'-as they are known. EIGHT PERSONS were initially hospitalized for injuries at area hospitals but four of them were released Uixon said.

He said two of those hospitalized are still in serious condition and were "members of the construction companies working at the plant site." None of the four still- hospitalized are Rollins emnloves but are employes of either Joseph Trofe and Sons. Mount Laurel, N. or Monarch Boiler Systems, Blackwood contracting companies that had been erecting a Cement-block building as part of the chemical plant's All of the Rollins employes working at the time of the explosions and fire have been accounted for, Dixon said I he three persons still missing are not Rollins IlC ScilQ. ALSO investigating the cause of the explosion are the New Jersey and U. S.

Environmental Protection Agency and the Delaware River Basin Commission Dixon said An employe of Joseph Trofe Sons, Mount Laurel when asked earlier this morning if any of three persons reported missing shortly after the blasts were employes of the i replied, "Yes', they are A spokesman for Monarch Boiler Construction Co Blenheim, N. today confirmed a one of its employes' was among the missing persons. Sante Giorgi, 33, of 528 Willows Ave. in Folcroft is being treated for severe burns at Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Upland, after having been transferred there from Sacred Heart Hospital in Chester late yesterday afternoon. GIORGI, who suffered 25 per cent burns, was listed as See COUNTY, Page 3 TM sm This was the scene after fire and explosion hit chemical plant in Bridgeport, N.J., Thursday afternoon SUdPTBttbyStHTHOOCE.