The Yazoo Herald from Yazoo City, Mississippi • 7

THE YAZOO DAILY HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 28, 1978, A-7 Body found in Louisiana septic tank may be former Yazoo City teenager 1 EDITOR'S NOTE: Fourteen-year-old Bertha Gould, who has been missing from her Morgan City, La. home since May 11 and whose body, officials fear, is the unidentified body found Friday in a septic tank near Morgan City, is a former Yazoo City resident and a student in the public school system here. She lived with her sister, Mrs. Pat Bennett of Yazoo City until earlier this year, when she moved to Morgan City to live with her parents. combed nearby waterways and surrounding areas.

"A farmer reported smelling a strong smell in his field and then saw an arm or a leg sticking out," St. Mary Parish Sheriff's Deputy Paul Kenzie said. "We found the body at the edge of his field." Cannella and Bridget Sons, 19, were abducted at gunpoint last month during a robbery of a Bayou Vista convenience store. Mrs. Sons' body and that of another, as yet unidentified teenager, was found stuffed in an industrial septic tank In 1971, he was charged with kidnapping two girls in Laguna Beach, and was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon.

He escaped from prison while on a furlough in 1974 but was later caught and returned on additional charges. He was paroled in August, 1977, Mullen said, and left California in January of this year. Prior to his first conviction, he was a volunteer sheriffs deputy in Riverside, Calif. The Welding where Hohenberger worked under the alias of Green, had been idle for some time. When there was work going on, Hohenberger worked as a sandblaster, the sheriff's-department said.

However, when the plant shut down, Hohenberger stayed on as a caretaker, living in a storeroom behind the office. On the sandy, weeded lot on which the tin welding shed stood were two septic tanks with covers about the size of a 55-gallon drum. The bodies were found in one of those. Hohenberger, who worked and lived at the welding shop where the bodies were found on Thursday. A murder warrant is out for him in St.

Mary's Parish in connection with the bodies while the FBI wants him on an unlawful flight charge. Morgan City police said Friday that they arrested Sidney Harris, 38, with being an accessory after the fact of a felony. But they wouldn't say more than that his arrest was linked to the kidnap-slayings and that he was accused of aiding and abetting. Hohenberger, who worked here under the alias Frank-Henry Green, also is wanted in California for kidnapping, rape, sexual perversion and interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle. FBI Special Agent Francis Mullen said Hohenberger allegedly abducted a Palm Desert, woman and sexually assaulted her last October.

Hohenberger's record dates back to 1966, when he was convicted of an assault with a deadly weapon on a California woman. He served time on those charges in 1968. Thursday. Officials say they suspect that the unidentified body is either Judy Adams, 15, or Bertha Gould, 14, who disappeared after getting in a car with a man on May U. A fifth teenager, Mary Rodermund, 16, was kidnapped in January.

A ransom demand of $5,000 was made on her family, but the kidnapper never set a place the money could be paid. Cannella's body was found about five miles west of the septic tank, which brought expansion of the already intensive search. "We are now going down as many field and levee roads as we can," Kenzie said. "Boat dragging operations are, of course, still going on. "We think he (the killer) had to get rid of the boy right away but that he weighted down the girls and they are buried or in water.

But we have to search on the presumption that he threw them away too." Meanwhile, a man is being held on $250,000 bond on charges of being an accessory after the fact of a felony and a nationwide hunt continues for Robert Carl Taunya Hatchett Photo by presents a gift of appreciation to Mrs. Jevonne McCoy. IN APPRECIATION Mrs. Joseph Thomas right) of the Business and Professional Women's Club Judge Wise hears juvenile court cases MORGAN CITY, La. (AP) The land and sea search for the bodies of two missing teenagers expanded to a 20-mile radius Saturday following the discovery of a murdered 17-year-old boy in a Calumet sugar cane field, the third corpse found in the area in as many days.

The boy, Gordon Mark Cannella, was one of five persons who had disappeared from the area since January. His body was found in the early morning by a farmer as dozens of law enforcement officials suspended sentence. Four teenagers were accused of stealing bottles from Patenotte's Grocery on April 26. Two of the boys, both first offenders, confessed on the stand and were given suspended sentences to Oakley Training School, with five months strict probation, curfew and supervision. The other two accused of was shot once in the stomach and once in the head.

The Juvenile Court Judge Louis Wise gave suspended sentences to five first-time juvenile offenders this week and took another case, involving two repeat offenders, under advisement. A 17-year-old girl, accused of stabbing a teenage neighbor during an argument involving members of both families, was tried for aggravated assault with a butcher knife. Judge Wise seek judgeship For Oklahoma families Tragedies shadow Memorial weekend (Continued from page 1) history from Jackson State University. He is vice president of the Community Improvement Club, a Mason, president of the Shady Lane Tenant Council, a member of the NAACP, and the Welfare Rights Committee. He is married to the former Dorothy Vann of Yazoo City and is the father of a five year old son, John Jr.

ROBINSON has lived in Yazoo County for the past 30 years, moving here from Fordyce, Ark. Robinson was "employed at Delta Implement pany for 20 years as a salesman and 10 years by Southland Oil Company as fleet manager. He is presently associated with Weathertite Installation and Supply Company. A veteran who served with the U.S. Army Engineers, Robinson is married to the former Evelyn Hearst of Benton.

They are the parents of three children, Billy, Randy and Linda. The Robinsons are members of the Baptist church. SPIARS has been an employee of Mississippi Chemical Corporation for (he past 13 years. A native of Yazoo County, Spiars is a graduate of Anding High School and a member of Concord Baptist Church. His wife, the former Patsy Hood, also a native Yazooan, works for Yazoo Insurance Company.

They have three children, Cindy, 15; Kim, 11; and David, all students at Benton Academy. victim's visiting granddaughter, Cherie Miller, 20, Codding said the younger told authorities she was woman managed to flee in ordered to accompany Bartlesville and call police, Pennington in her grand- who arrested Pennington mother's car, said without incident. Local attends meet Company and to Frank Hope for money taken during a burglary at the Cold Spot Cafe. The boy was adjudged delinquent for these two burglaries and for a third burglary, of the City-Country Music Store. All the burglaries occurred in March and April.

In addition to the restitution. Judge Wise also gave the young burglar a talking to some people, but we -don't have any specific suspects right now. Everybody is a suspect." Robert Gates, investigator for the Muskogee County district attorney's office, said authorities have likewise not ruled out anyone in the shooting deaths of the two Warner men whose bodies were discovered Tuesday. Officials first learned of the slayings after a witness reported seeing a woman attempting to dump a body into the Arkansas River near Muskogee. Police found Mrs.

Turner in a car and Turner's body in the trunk. Mabray's body was found at the Turner's disheveled residence. Turner had been shot four times, Mabray twice. Investigators said Mrs. Turner told officers a man she confronted at the house May 18 warned her not to say anything about what she found inside or to identify him.

Gary Ray Pennington, 21, of Claremore, was ordered to undergo 60 days of psychiatric observation at Eastern State Hospital after he was charged with first-degree murder in the Bartlesville slaying. Police said Mrs. Miller stealing the bottles are repeat offenders. Judge Wise took this part of the hearing under advisement for rendition of his order on Tuesday. EDITOR'S NOTE: Under the terms of the Mississippi law regarding juvenile offenders, names are not released for publication unless the juvenile has been adjudged delinquent on two separate occasions for separate offenses.

Washington County Sheriff Glen Codding. president, Clara Woodson of Shaker Heights, Ohio. The sponsors were the Coca Cola Company of Atlanta, Prudential Life Insurance Company, and the Census Bureau of Georgia. The next annual conference will be hosted by the Phoenix, Columbus Clubs in Columbus, Ga. LITTLETON PRICES GOOD MONDAY.

MAY 31, 1971 thru FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1971 6 Cyl Models Reg. Price Labor Parts NOW LABOR PARTS 2o $g24 1 if Jf: YAZOO CITY'S BANKS WILL NOT BE OPEN Bonnie C. Littleton, president of the local Business and Professional Womens' Club, recently attended the Southeast District Conference of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Womens' Clubs, Inc. The conference was held at the Sheraton Inn, in West Palm Beach, Fla. The annual conference was hosted by the Westboro Senior Club, with Mrs.

Annie L. Motley serving as president. Other Mississippi clubs attending the conference were Meridian, Vicksburg, Alcorn State University and Pass Point Clubs from Moss Point. The national officers attending the conference were the first-vicepresident; Mrs. Mary L.

Singletarry of Montclair, N.J.; the second vice-president, Frankie J. Gillette of San Francisco, and the third vice- acquitted the girl. A fourteen-year-old, a first offender, was adjudged delinquent and given a suspended sentence with strict probation for the burglary of Sutton's Garage and Pool Hall on April 23. The judge ordered one of the first-timers, a 17-year-old, to make restitution to Joe Hendrix for a guitar stolen from Hendrix Lumber motor vehicle division. Claude Eugene Dennis, 35, serving 35 years for manslaughter prior to his escape from the Oklahoma State Prison April 23.

Michael Lancaster, 25, serving 25 years for robbery before his escape along with Dennis. R.L. Patterson, 57, of Big Cedar, service station worker. Mamie Gaines, 68, also of Big Cedar. Dr.

E.E. Turner, 57, of Warner, retired. Jack "Pink" Mabray, about 60, also of Warner, who had lived with the Turners about three weeks. Mrs. Nan P.

Miller, 67, of Bartlesville, who lived on a farm east of Bartlesville. Gov. David Boren called the deaths of the three state troopers "the worst single tragedy" in the history of the patrol. He offered the "heartfelt sympathy" of Oklahomans to the families of the slain troopers and ordered a week-long period of mourning. The troopers were slain as a patrol helicopter guided pursuing officers to the fleeing inmates, who died in a hail of gunfire outside a Caddo house Dennis and Lancaster were wanted in connection with four murders in Texas and one in Alabama since their escape from the state prison at McAlester.

Tragedy struck early Monday at a service station in Big Cedar, nestled between the Ouachita National Forest and the Kiamichi Mountains of eastern Oklahoma. A passerby found the bodies of a man and a woman in the burning remains of a service station-residence. A fire investigator said gasoline had been spread throughout the house and a gasoline pump was still running when authorities came upon the scene in the predawn hours. The state medical examiner's office in Tulsa reported that the two victims had died from puncture wounds to the heart before they were left in the hallway of the building, which was set afire. "We've got four men out beating the bushes right now," Kirkland said.

"We're By Gil Broyles Associated Press Writer A pall darkened Oklahoma this Memorial Day weekend as the state reeled from news of the violent deaths of at least 10 persons, including three state troopers, in four shooting or stabbing incidents. Flags flew at half staff for three Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers who were killed in a shootout with two escaped prisoners near Durant on Friday. The two escapees also were killed. LeFlore County authorities were still "beating the bushes" for suspects in the stabbing deaths of two county residents found in a burning service station-residence Monday morning, said Sheriff Ray Kirkland. A Warner woman remained hospitalized, suffering from malnutrition.

Authorities said she told them she went without food for five days while staying in a house with the bodies of her husband, E. E. Turner, and a family friend. Ruth Turner told authorities she found the bodies May 18 moments after she returned home and saw a man she didn't know leaving the house carrying a rifle. Authorities said Mrs.

Turner told them the man threatened to kill her, too, if she notified police, so she spent five days with the bodies before deciding to try to dispose of them. Officers discovered her sitting in a car near a river with one body in the And, the 10th victim, a 67-year-old Bartlesville woman, was shot to death in a field as she and a granddaughter were taking care of horses early Wednesday. Claremore man was charged with first-degree murder and ordered to undergo psychiatric observation. The dead: Pat Grimes, 36, of Moore, a member of the OHP's internal affairs division. Houston F.

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