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Petaluma Argus-Courier from Petaluma, California • Page 10

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0 ARGUS-COUKltR, Pfoumo, Co. Saturday, Nov. 13, 1971 tVM -WW-WW vWJ Wowl JuaV look. Widow Tells Events At Murder Trial went back outside. We moved to the other side of the porch and listened for sounds.

I went Into the house and laid down and went to sleep," she said. She recalled sleeping until the next morning. "I don't remember anything. The next morning we left the house for Yulupa Ave" (She maintained another atVUHO'S SUM DAY To Reserve Space Call 762-4541 TCfiMi) rz KM TA ROSA OPEN SUNDAY 9:30 Till 4 4055 Santa Rs Ave. 542-4535 I ppre I Formes! Hardware 2 Petaluma IM.N.

763-2459 Point lUcltk 2 Plumbing HordwM WE WILL HELP YOU "DO-ITVOURSELP" SUNDAY, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Daily 8:00 a.m. to 3.30 p.m.' 0 1 0 I SANDERSON Ford Mercury Sales OPEN SUNDAYS 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The Big Sanderson Block Between on Petaluma Blvd. South Phone 762-6671 "In The Center of Everything" SUNDAY Mon't Hair Styling to 4:30 p. where we put if 4i MARK'S CROWN OF BEAUTY 620 East Washington St. Phone 763-6867 OPEN Open 7 Dayi Eves 9:30 a.m. $25.00 Reg.

Permanent $15.00 Good Sunday and Monday the eggery it all together farm fresh eggs smoked meats salmon fresh poultry home-made candy arts and crafts 44S0 bodega petaluma 3 miles west downtown 9 to 6, seven days a week, call 762-7228 'Melo-Grammar' At Liberty I WfifB UHIR0YAL Fifth Graders Present Operetta ummi OPEN SUNDAY 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. tn-i PETALUMA NORTH CQAST TIRETO. 140PtaluiMllvd.N. By JACKIE WITSCH Staff Writer SANTA ROSA Dee Manclnl Wilson testified Friday that she ran home and went to sleep shortly after witnessing the July 1970 murder of her husband Clay on rural Wake Robin Lane near Glen Ellen.

A key witness in the murder trial of Wilson's alleged killer, Joseph Barboza Baron, Mrs. Wilson was questioned for four hours Friday by Ronald Fahey, assistant district attorney. She calmly and nearly emo-: tionless described the events leading up to and the actual shooting of her husband of three months. Then suddenly, almost on cue, she choked up and tears prevented her from continuing testimony. Describing the actual shooting she said she and a friend Paul-ette Ramos accompanied the two men on a walk from their Lakeside Drive home up Wake Robin Lane.

She estimated she and Miss Ramos were walking about 10 feet behind the men. "All of a sudden there was a gunshot, there was a flash of light. It was coming directly from the area Clay and Joe were at," she recalled. "I saw what appeared to be Joe, although I didn't see his face. He was the only one standing," Mrs.

Wilson continued. "Eefore the first shot I heard struggling noises. The sound wasn't separated, It was very close. It didn't last very long. It was like somebody slipped and fell, on rocks, dirt and leaves.

It was a quick rustling sound," she recalled. "I screamed and turned and ran towards the house," she continued. She said there were at least two shots after the first flash of light. "Paul ette and I sat on the porch (of the house). It was very dark and we could hardly breathe from running," she explained.

"I went into the house and took some headache pills and then Girl Hurt In Accident Judy Kirkland, 19, a foreign exchange student from Tomales High School to Puerto Rico four years ago, was seriously injured Friday night in an automobile accident at Northbridge, accoring to word received by her grandmother, Mrs. Lois Kirkland of Bloomfield. Judy, a passenger in her roommate's car when it was involved in a collision, suffered fractures of both arms, her hip and her lower right leg and is in intensive care at Northbridge Hospital, her grandmother was told. Judy, a graduate of Tomales High School and of Santa Rosa Junior College, is attending San Fernando State College on a scholarship. She is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Kirkland, 5898 Carroll Road, Petaluma. unit, omm (aiendar SATURDAY BOUTIQUE DE NOEL will be held by Petaluma Business and Professional Women's Club Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. at Woman's Clubhouse, 518 St. Public invited.

ST. JAMES LADIES GUILD will hold bazaar Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at parish hall, 1650 Ely Road. Public invited.

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Charity Ball will be held Saturday at Herzog Hall, Petaluma Fairgrounds. Cocktails 7 p.m, steak dinner at 8 p.m. Music by Tia Sonoma Brass. CHICKEN LITTLE CHAP-TER, Children's Home Society, will hold dance Saturday, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

at Veterans Memorial Building. Advance ticket purchase required. NORTH BAY DAIRY WOMEN will hold fun night dinner dance Saturday at Cotati Veterans Memorial Building. Cocktails 7:30 p.m. followed by dinner.

Members and guests. SUNDAY PETALUMA MOOSE LODGE will hold monthly breakfast Sunday, 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Moose Hall, 300 English St. TWO ROCK CHURCH will bold annual turkey dinner Sunday at church hall.

Advance reservations required. a a at to of THE HUNT IS ON Jay Anderson as Detective Har-graves and Sharon Hawkins, (in photo to left) serving as "Hector, the trusty bloodhound," are looking into "The Case of the Missing Parts of Speech" at the Liberty School. It's an operetta in which Robin Wade, seated next to the "Eye," sings "Ouch" The picture above shows the chorus "line" as "adjectives" Diane Turner, front, and Jerry Causbrook, Troy Austin and Troy Soiland sing a number. (Argus-Courier Photos.) around," her sign said. Arthur Mark Alexander, "preposition, against;" and Bill Goodanetz," preposition, beyond." And Laura Camozzi as the "adverb, too much" got a lot of use, as in: "Do you sing an awful lot? "Too much! "Do you work an awful lot? "Not enough!" At about that point, Jay Anderson took the song's advice and got to work.

After all the operetta was entitled "The Case of the Missing Parts of Speech" and he was the case detective. of seven women and five men found the 23-year-old defendant guilty Friday of murdering Yablonski, his wife, Margaret, and daughter Charlotte, on Dec. 31, 1969. Martin was named trigger man in the slayings allegedly committed by three persons for $5,200. Special prosecutor Richard Sprague told the juros they must perform their responsibilities.

"Let the people who set the assassination in motion start worrying," he said. "Let them know we are going to get them all," one by one, until we get to the people who instigated the whole dastardly deed." The jury then retired to deliberate the penalty. The signs were important. You had to know whether Eddie Smith or Beth Prevost was "Herb, the Verb," at any given moment, and, goodness, Robin Wade wasn't always an interjection. Sometimes she was a proper "noun of person" and she switched signs to let you know.

And until you saw the signs and heard the clever songs in solo and in chorus you never realized just how many variable parts of speech go to make a sentence and "a sentence must be complete," the chorus sang. Just take a preposition, for example. Cute Cheri Mc-Knieht was "a preposition, WHY PAY MORE WHEN YOU PAY LESS AT WIDE WORLD OF residence in Santa Rosa). At that point she began to cry and Fahey and defense attorney Marteen Miller agreed to adjourn until Tuesday morning. Prior to describing the events of the murder Itself, Mrs.

Wilson thoroughly explained the relationship between her husband and Baron. She said the pair conversed daily and the relationship was based on stocks and bonds stolen from the Petaluma home of Victor DeCarli. Wilson and another man Ray Pinole had the securities estimated to be worth $200,000 to $300,000, she told the jury. "Clay had these negotiable bonds and in June started to set it up for Joe to take the bonds and cash them in, "she recalled. Baron apparently told Wilson he could cash the bonds in New York.

During other testimony Friday, DeCarli said he was notified by a New York stockbroker that someone posing as himself attempted to cash the bonds. Continuing, Mrs. Wilson said her husband gave the bonds to Baron and became dissatisfied when the money was not available. "Clay wanted the bonds back," she recalled. "They weren't getting along toward the end.

It was a very bad relationship," she asserted. She indicated Baron was upset with Wilson because Wilson would not go along with plans for other illegal activities. "Joe said Clay was very undepend-able, not trustworthy, sneaky and didn't follow through with anything," Mrs. Wilson continued. She identified the other illegal activities she had referred to as breaking into a military supply house and killing Ken (Mrs.

Wilson's former husband). A third activity was not thoroughly explained but she alluded to getting an insurance policy for an unidentified woman. Miller is expected to begin cross examination of the witness Tuesday. Another witness, Friday, was special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fred erick Wallace. Because of a busy schedule Wallace was called out of order.

Working in the FBI laboratory in Washington D.C., Wallace compared hairs found on one of the bullets at the murder scene with hair found at the grave-site. "All hairs could have originated from the same source," he concluded. Warning On Salesman, Credit Card Petaluma police today warned against a "street salesman" selling cheap jewelry in Petaluma at overvalued prices far below their purported price tags and against a young man with long hair reportedly using a stolen Standard Oil credit card. McLaughlin Jewelry Co. on Kentucky Street told police that growing number of people were bringing in cheap jewelry they had bought from salesman" for valuation.

Initialed engagement rings supposedly of 18 carat gold predominated. Maser's Chevron Station of 860 Petaluma Boulevard North reported that a long haired youth driving a wooden maroon camper had obtained a tank full of gasoline using a credit card reported stolen by Robert Brenner. Early Schooling Needed, Expert Tells Educators SACRAMENTO (AP) A report presented to the State Board of Education says children must start going to school age 4 if social problems are be solved. By the time a child Is 4, be has developed about half his Intellectual potential i said Don Moore of Los Angeles, manager educational programs for be Times Mirror Corp, OPEN SUNDAY IK 3 Death Penalty Levied In Yablonski Murder By DEL MILLER Staff Writer An interjection comes in handy. If you bite your finger eating candy, just say, "Ouch." In that spirit if not in just those words, Robin Wade sang of one of the more interesting oddities of English grammar Friday as Jay Anderson (in boots, long coat and paraphrase of a Sherlock Holmes cap) investigated "The Case of the Missing Parts of Speech" at Liberty School.

Sharon Hawkins, in calico tail and colored nose, sniffed along the trail of the lonesome line as "Hector, the Lumber Stolen At Subdivision Ninety-six eight-foot 2 by 4 studs were stolen Friday from a Monarch Manor subdivision, Petaluma police were told. Investigators had tire marks in the mud to aid their search for the culprits. PARENT FUNERAL CHAPEL Thoughtful, Efficient Service SEBASTIAN In Petaluma November 11, 1971 Robert R. Sebastian beloved husband of Eertha Sebastian of Petaluma; devoted father of Carolyn Baker and Barbara Bar-ano of Santa Rosa and Bill Sebastian of Petaluma; son of Tom and Elsie Newland of Petaluma and brother of Lee Sebastian of Petaluma. A native of Elvins, Missouri.

42. Friends are invited to attend the funeral services Monday November 15, 1971 at 11 a.m. at the Parent Funeral Chapel Magnolia and Keokuk. Interment Cypress Hill Memorial Park. trusty bloodhound" and Margaret Silva (or was it Linda Mossi: they alternated in the role.) came from behind the piano in black mustache and black coat to take the part of Professor McMartrue.

In case you are mystified, the 26 boys and girls in Barbara Veronda's fifth grade class put on an operetta billed as a "melo-gram-mar" immediately after the lunch hour Friday, while their parents filled every inch of room that wasn't needed for the chorus. Mary Akey was music director, Larry Cox did the signs and Dennis Scarpeta was tape recorder maestro. School Menus School lunch officials at the La Tercera, Bernard Eldredge and Old Adobe Elementary schools have announced the following menus for the coming week: Monday Tomale pie, broccoli, green salad, peach and apple crisp, bread andbutter and milk. Tuesday Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, peas, bread and butter, jello and milk. Wednesday Hot dog on a bun, green beans, carrot sticks, cookies and milk.

Thursday Tuna casserole, cole slaw, corn and peas, biscuits and butter, cake and milk. Friday Manager's choice. Bomb Threat A threat to bomb the Bank of Marin was reported Friday by president Phil Talamantes. Police searched the bank but found no explosive. "The bank is going to blow up at a youthful voice told Talamantes when he answered the phone at 3:20 p.m.

WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) -Aubran W. "Buddy" Martin was sentenced to the electric chair today after being convicted of murder in the slay-ings of United Mine Workers insurgent Joseph A. "Jock" Yablonski and his wife and daughter. The sentencing had gone to the jury after the defense had pleaded for Martin's life and the prosecutor had demanded the electric chair.

Defense lawyer Mark Goldberg had asked for "mercy and compassion." "Buddy Martin will never, ever, get out of jail," Goldberg said. "Don't take away from him all that he has left-his life." The Washington County jury 743-038 Ft" 145 PETALUMA IIVD. NORTH PETALUMA 762-4101 7 P.M. Tel. 762-73711 1 10 A.M.

JJtoay i Vital Statistics i It INTERLOCUTORY DECREES GRANTED HUGHES Hamilton Jr. and Lydia ODEEN Sherry and Johnny ALMON Pamela and Richard NORWOOD Maureen and Richard FINAL DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE SHEA Barbara and Neil BEEBE Pauline and Robert HIRSCH Sandra and Richard JOHNSON Elva and Melville BEGGIO Sheron and James LINDSAY Marjorie and Richard MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED WILSON MCKIL LOP Thomas G. Wilson, 24, and Sharon A. McKiiiop, 20, both of Petaluma PETITIONS FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE CLINE James and Kathern YOUNG Carlton and Beverly FISHER -Janette and Ronald KASTAN Linda and Richard LOY John and Mary MCINTOSH Tara and Brian TREMEROLI John and Lynda COLEMAN David and Elisa WELCH Clyde and Candelaria BEAL Alice and Lawrence MORSE Victor and Irene RIDDLE Lorey and James TOTUM Juanita and George RINALDI Alivilda and Stephen BASSFTT Joe and Frances BREWER Jan and William SPANN Ronnee and George CAVEN Patricia and Robert "Petaluma's Finest" ROLLINS, Dolores Mondoy Mass 930 AM St. Vincent Church Rosary Sunday, 8 00 PM Interment Calvary Cemetery mam mm CiltWlClHl FUNERAL HOME PtUluma North For Information Phone 763-1963 132 Keller St..

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