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mm FRIDAY August 6, mi Tampa, Florida Today's News Today" 108 Pages 15 Cents 90th Year No. 155 Detective: Convicted killer is really innocent By ANDY TAYLOR Staff Writer i Tubing like I a I living it ij A -A I I up with I f. Tom, Huck L- suj. -Seepage 1E y- JLf I jjj 1 1 I Israel rejects cells fo ease fighting 1 See page 7E Millwee said the woman told him how she and two male companions took a motorboat to a spoil bank about a mile from Honeymoon Island the night of April 16, 1978, and shot Freddie L. Douberley and Mary Lu Holmes to death out of vengeance over a money and drug rip-off.

She told him how they removed the couple's clothes to make the murders appear to have been sexually motivated, he said. "The way she described what they did with the bodies, the pathways, the kinds of trees, were things that only someone who had been on the island would have known," Millwee said. The woman confessed that she and the two men fired on the couple, and she remembers shooting Douberley in the upper left side of the See CONSAGRA, page 9A If private investigator Steven Millwee is right, Glenn Consagra has spent four years in a state prison for two murders he didn't commit A videotaped confession obtained from a 30-year-old woman four years after the Honeymoon Island murders and "other new evidence" should be enough to clear the 42-year-old Lutz man, Millwee believes. Public defenders representing Consagra were so impressed with Millwee's findings In the yearlong investigation that they filed a motion in Pinellas Circuit Court Thursday asking that the case be reopened. It was filed in the civil division incorrectly and was to be moved to criminal today, a court official said.

Glenn Consagra i rus raft 4 IT UlfiS ure of 7.5 percent, state officials said today. Paul Trela, spokesman for the Department of Labor and Employment Security, said Florida's reduction contrasted with a nationwide increase from 9.5 percent in June to'. 9.8 percent in July. In July, the Labor report said, about 10.8 million Americans were officially unemployed actively looking for jobs but not finding them about 360,000 more than in June. About 1.5 million more have given up, the government reported last month.

WASHINGTON (AP) The nation's unemployment rate pushed closer to the 10 percent level in July, hitting a 9.8 percent rate, the highest in 41 years, the government reported today. The jobless rate had held nearly steady as the recession continued through the spring rising only from 9.4 percent in April to 9.5 percent in May and June. But today's Labor Department report was filled with newly discouraging figures. In Tallahassee, Florida's unemployment rate dropped slightly, in July to 7.3 percent from a June fig July's jobless rate for adult males, who make up the bulk of the nation's blue-collar workers, rose to 8.8 percent, a post-World War II record. Unemployment for blacks held steady at 18.5 percent, although the jobless rate for black teen-agers declined slightly to 49.7 percent from June's 52.6 percent Unemployment rates rose 0.3 percentage point to 8.7 percent for whites and to 8.4 percent for adult women of all races.

The current overall jobless rate is already the highest since the 9.9 percent for all of 1941 at the end of the Great Depression. Unemployment hasn't been over 10 percent since the 14.6 percent of 1940. In the last 13 months alone, the unemployment rate has risen from 7.2 percent to 9.8 percent, said the government's commissioner of labor statistics, Janet Norwood. In that period, she said in testimony before the congressional Joint Economic Committee, unemployment rose by 2.9 million as 1.8 million people joined the labor force and the number of available jobs fell by 1.1 million. Summing up the newest figures, she said simply, "The employment situation data released today show little labor market strength in July." In advance of today's report, economists cautioned that unemployment could well climb even higher, despite some encouraging signs that a modest recovery from the recesion is beginning or is about to begin.

Employers, the economists noted, are typically slow to rehire laid-off workers until a recovery is well under way. At the White House, presidential spokesman Larry Speakes noted that the unemployment report amounts to a "lagging indicator" of economic recovery. Speakes also said President Reagan "is sympathetic, deeply concerned and he believes his program, once fully enacted will provide a permanent solution to unemployment problems." The number of people who involuntarily accepted part-time work for lack of full-time jobs rose by 48,000 to 5.5 million. The number of such workers rose sharply earlier in the recession, which set in last summer. See UNEMPLOYMENT, page 9A Steve Otto pistil Robin ShieldsTAMPA TIMES Asphalt scrubbing Mopping up a parking lot may age girls aren't really trying to seem a peculiar pursuit even for sanitize the asphalt They were at-the most fastidious.

But these teen- tending a drill team camp this week at the University of South Florida and were working on a dance routine in which mops were used as props. Local drill team members from around the area attended the camp. See more photos, 4A. Mansfield refuses jail break-out offer Florida happens to include Tampa It wasn't so much that they decided to run a picture of my neighbor shaving in this month's issue of "National Geographic" instead of me as it was the nature of the article itself that was disturbing. Actually, Wilbur K.

Neuman and I are only neighbors in a very general geographical sense. The former can company executive owns and remodeled the historic Stovall-Lee mansion on the Bayshore, while my house is a block or so away in middle-class stucco city. I do pass by on jogging missions with Buttercup the dog, but he's never asked us to stop in for lemonade or anything. The story in the Geographic included a picture of Neuman standing on a small balcony that juts out from the house where he was shaving. "I sometimes shave out here just to watch the ships in Hillsborough Bay," he is quoted assaying.

I suppose that's more impressive than my own view of the doghouse out back. But the story itself is not a typical Geographic portrait of happy natives enjoying the good life. It's titled "Florida A Time for Reckoning" and the picture it paints is of a state on the brink of disaster. The focus of the article is on the plethora of environmental and social problems that infest south Florida, although Tampa at least rates a few paragraphs. a city from which phosphate fertilizer is shipped to all parts of the world, a city where sophisticated medical instruments are manufactured in plants sitting in seas of parking lot macadam, a city tending to its core by drilling out the rot and capping the stumps with high-rise office buildings." What the story neglects to say and what Tampans seem to forget is that the problems of south Florida are Tampa's problems as well.

The social confusion of thousands of refugees, whether they are fleeing political repression from the South or industrial depression from the North, is one that is having an impact in the Tampa Bay region, and like a sinkhole, it's going to keep on growing. See OTTO, page 8A ing a woman in California. Henderson left his cell but Mansfield stayed put, for reasons not yet clear. But by this time, other jailers and deputies were arriving to force everyone back into their cells. Boone said the escapade was over with in about 10 minutes.

Inmates Dale Lee Mitchell, 20, Ernest Mike Jannuzzi '20, Terry Earl Crossman, 24, and Peter James Wilkinson, 20, were charged with aggravated battery on a corrections officer and with attempted escape, said Boone. Jannuzzi was identified as the inmate who originally complained of sickness, and Mitchell and Crossman as the two who had hidden inside the shower stall. Mitchell was the one who let "Henderson out and offered to free Mansfield, deputies said. BROOKSVILLE (AP) Several inmates overpowered a jailer at the Hernando County Jail early today and freed confessed mass-murderer Robert Dale Henderson from his cell, but other officers thwarted the attempted escape before anyone got free, sheriff's deputies said. Billy Mansfield who was sentenced just Wednesday to four life terms after he admitted killing four women, was invited to join the attempt but declined for unknown reasons, said Sgt.

Nancy Boone. Boone gave this account of the short-lived breakout attempt: Jailer Steve Farrell was jumped by two inmates in an eight-man cell on the jail's third floor at 12:40 a.m. when he entered the cell to give some medicine to a complaining inmate. Farrell was beaten with fists and boots, choked with a bed sheet and tied by the neck to the cell bars. Two other inmates who had been hiding in a shower stall joined the first two.

Farrell was striped of his keys, giving the inmates access to the interior of the jail but not to the outside doors. While the four inmates took the elevator to the basement, still looking for a way out, Farrell somehow managed to get free. He apparently was telephoning for help when the four returned and jumped him again. The four then used the keys to open a cell containing Henderson, who has confessed to 12 killings in five states, and the cell of Mansfield, who has also been convicted of kill Avh tv Ax vAtViA. i SxtA sx VS'A s1'Aixx A xA vx AS XO 1 Ia xvx VVa Inside The Times Boutique Section Editorials Local Focus IE WeekEnder Section Bridge 5B DearAbby 6B Business 5C Deaths 9A Classifieds 8E HomeLife Comics Movies SecD County Television 4B AP photo Well I'll be, a wallaby Amelia, an orphaned baby wallaby, peers from a zoo keeper's hand at the Beardsley Park Zoo in Bridgeport, Conn.

Wednesday. Since Amelia's mother died, the young wallaby has been spending most of its time in an improvised pouch made of flannel. Wallabies are marsupials related to kangaroos and carry their young in an external pouch..

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