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STATE NEWS 3A theithacajoumal.com Tuesday, September 19, 2006 Main Rt. 90. Genoa il 5 i i V-yv LTU-1. LOAF OF HOMEMADE BREAD I police following his arrest will be allowed at his trial, which is expected to last two weeks. Security inside the courtroom was tight on Monday, with a half dozen sheriffs deputies and several state troopers posted throughout the chamber.

Chemung County Sheriff Christopher Moss personally checked on security measures during the proceedings. Among those in the gallery were Sperr's parents, Andrew L. and Jean Sperr, who are staying at a home in Elmira and plan to be there for the duration of the trial. The Sperrs said they were surprised at how fast a jury was seated. "We had anticipated two days.

I think they did a great job. They asked all the right questions," Jean Sperr said. "(Trice) is very confident. I have great confidence in him and all the troopers and TROOPER CONTINUED FROM 1A Among the witnesses likely to testify against Horton are brothers Wayne and Bryan Adams. Both men were indicted on second-degree murder and robbery charges in connection with the bank robbery and Sperr's death.

They will be tried separately. One name that will not be called is Virginia Grace, the bank teller at Chemung Canal Trust Co. in Big Flats on MarchL Grace died from a medical condition about two months after the incident, Trice said. Investigators believe Horton and the Adams brothers took part in the bank robbery around noon March 1, and that Sperr approached Horton and Bryan Adams while they were switching cars on nearby Lowe Road. Police believe Sperr was unaware of the robbery when he approached the suspects' cars.

1 he Ithaca 1 1 JOURNAL lutrCi envoi par perm per mi MutiMMS. rem way wner inert tq. ibjimb Gannett News Service Accused murderer Anthony Horton, left, and his attorney, Richard W. Rich, listen Monday morning as a potential juror explains why she should be excused from jury duty at Horton's trial for his role in the death of Trooper Andrew J. Sperr.

CAYUGA FAMILY DENTAL New State Of The Art Facility Digital Radiography Emergencies Seen Same Day Mast Insurances Welcome Accepting New Patients (607) 257-6600 i Dr. looma Quota. DO able to return fire and shot both men as they fled to the escape vehicle, police said. Hayden ruled earlier that statements made by Horton to Horton is accused of shooting the trooper with a Ruger 357 magnum revolver, which was later recovered. Despite being seriously wounded, Sperr was PARKER Thursday, September 21, 9am-9pm CAyx JMt rnaay, aepiemoer jr Saturday, September 23, 9am-1pm Vt 1 1 wF" Dryden Fire Hall North street' Dryden He credits his experience and training, and is also thankful the health club had an emergency defibrillator.

"I was on a high for a few days, and particularly because it was a young person's life," he said. "What really saved her life was shocking her with the AED, but I think what I was able to offer was just recognizing that this was not just a simple seizure." Donna Parker said she just wrote a letter to Zwemer. "But how do you say thank you? It sounds so trivial compared to what happened," she said. "I finally got a thank-you note out to him, and it just said, 'I can't believe you were a blessing to her on that ret) To were the first ones to say she could do that, and it was like her spirits just rebounded. I guess it's her determination." Giving thanks The incision in Allison's chest is beginning to heaL She says she is feeling good and excited about being at school and the classes she is taking.

Allison said she thinks about what she has been through and the doctor who saved her life. She said she remembers when he came to visit her in the hospital. "You could tell he had tears in his eyes, and he told me that I was the first life he had saved," Allison said. "My mom had to help me talk to him because of the shock of him being there and saving my life. All I could do was Eke thank him a million times." For Zwemer, it was an emotional experience as wellIt was not the first life Zwemer had saved during his career, but it was the first life he had saved as a bystander outside a hospital.

Via mm, owy fl Oktoberfest on September 30th Friday fried or Broiled Hadiock $8.95 Pecan Crusted Trout $10.95 Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Qikken i Tenderloin i Shrimp and nrnntnrp Tine ni'r ilirpiin rt Saturday CALL THE JOURNAL News: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., 272-2321; before 8 and after 3, 274-9230 Ticket: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 274-9262 Circulation: 274-9290 i Queen Cut Prime Rib $llX $10.95. $10.95 1 Seafood Kabob V'4 UW5 1 "I was on a hike, and again within the first 10 minutes of hiking, I leaned up against a tree this is what I've been told because I don't remember any of this and then just fell," she said. "Luckily, there just happened to be a nurse on the hike, and she gave me CPR for about 20 minutes until an ambulance got there." Allison was unconscious for two days and spent nine days in the hospital.

Doctors, however, could not determine why her heart simply stopped beating. "We walked away scratching our heads, not knowing what it was, a mineral deficiency or something else," said Allison's mother. "It was very unsettling." Off to school The good thing to come from the recent attack was that it allowed doctors to finally pinpoint the cause. After Allison was revived at the health club, she was taken to Strong, where doctors determined after abattery of tests that her heart stopped because ofaconditioncalledhypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The disease is inherited and causes a thickening of the heart muscle.

Donna Parker also has hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.but she has never experienced attacks as severe as her daughter's. Allison left the hospital with a small automatic defibrillator implanted in her chest. It is not a cure, but the device is set to deliver a shock if the heart goes into cardiac arrest. "They said it willfeel like somebody punched me in the chest," said Allison. "They said if I pass out, I will wake up." The device is making it possible for Allison to go to school this fall Her parents were apprehensive about letting her go, but her determination and doctors' approvals changed their minds.

"She kept saying, 'I want to go to school, I want to go to her mother said. "(The doctors) mmmm. CONTINUED FROM 1A The music was loud, and Zwemer and his classmates were pedaling hard on their stationary bicycles. He said he saw some commotion in the workout room but did not know what was happening until his wife, Laura Brewer, came into the spinning class and told him club officials were calling over the public address system for a doctor. "I basically found this woman at the foot of an exercise machine, kind of in a pile with all these people around her," he said.

"She looked basically dead or near dead." Having Zwemer in the building wasastrokeofluckfor Allison. Not only is he an emergency room physician, but he is the clinical director of the Emergency Department at Strong Memorial Hospital. When he got to Allison, she was taking the kind of gasps that people take just before they die, he said. She had stopped breathing and had no pulse. "I was feeling for a pulse.

I was asking for help finding a pulse, and no one could find a pulse," Zwemer said. He said he told somebody to call 911 and he and another bystander started CPR. had no pulse. Zwemer said someone brought him the club's emergency defibrillator kit "Once we hooked her up to it and turned it on, it signaled for a shock and we shocked her," he said. "With that one shock, she had a pulse." The first lucky strike Allison survived a similar incident two years ago while hiking in the Adirondack Mountains with agroup of summer campers.

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