The Leaf-Chronicle from Clarksville, Tennessee • 9

June 3, 1984 The Leaf-Chronicle, Clarksville, Tenn. Page 9A Police Stalk Killer Through Vintage Trains WARRENTON, N.C. (AP) Police hunted through a railyard of antique trains Saturday for a fugitive killer believed to have abducted a cabbie at gunpoint, while officers looked -for three other death row escapees over hundreds of square miles of North Carolina countryside. Authorities were also on alert in Portsmouth, after a detective thought he sighted two of the escapees and a shot was fired at police. However, a search in the area was called off.

The four were among six death row inmates who pulled a grand charade Thursday night by dressing as guards and driving out of the Mecklenburg, Maximum Security Prison in a prison van. Two were caught the next day as they ate wine and cheese in the corner of a coin. laundry. The rest were being pursued by bands of police, 40 FBI agents, helicopters and dogs in areas of North Carolina 160 miles apart from the railroad town of Spencer in the piedmont of western North Carolina to Warren County on the Virginia border. It was the first escape from the sophisticated Mecklenburg prison in southern Virginia.

And there "are: an awful lot of people out there who are armed vigilante types," said Robert Pence, FBI agent in charge in Charlotte, "a lot. who are out roaming around." The convicts had been planning the breakout for months, down to minute details such as the size of the guards' uniforms they would need, said Heman Clark, secretary of Crime Control and Public Safety for North Carolina. Police searched in Portsmouth after officers said they chased and were fired at by one of two men believed to have been escapees Linwood and James Briley. But the search for the brothers was called off after officers failed to find them Friday night. The Briley brothers were in a gang that killed 11 people in a 1970s rape-robbery spree in Richmond, Va.

The other two fugitives had been convicted of murder as well, and like the Briley brothers had been sentenced to death. "They are dangerous, desperate characters," said 1 Russ Edmonston, a spokesman for the North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. "We have reason to believe that they are capable of doing anything." The convicts had left the prison armed only with knives. But on Saturday morning, authorities questioned a cabbie who reported he was forced to drive 100) miles from Durham to Salisbury lay an armed man who fit the description of escapee Lem Davis Tuggle 32. The cab was found seven hours later in Spencer, about 50 miles north of Charlotte.

Eight officers and a dog searched through a collection of old train equipment at sitate historic site called Spencer Historic Shops. a whole bunch of old abandoned cars and engines and building after building after building," said Capt. MEd Haupt of the Rowan County she riff's department. "They're checking all of them with the dog." Another escape was believed to. have remained in1 Warren County, Edmonston said.

I More than 200 officers searched the county. Edmonton said! officials believed the split up after abandoning their stolen van at a school in Warrenton, about 30 miles from the Boydton, prison. The "ingeniously planned" escape, as Virginia Corrections Department spokesman Gilbert Miller put it, began Thursday evening when dinner for the state's 24 death row inmates was over. E'rison officials said the inmates created a disturbance in the common room, and when the guards responded the prisoners overpowered them with homemade knives and took command of a glass control booth, freeing themselves from the cellblock. The inmates took some guards hostage and stripped their uniforms from them.

They then ordered one hostage guard to call the prison's transportation officer requesting that a van be brought out to remove a bomb. The inmates, dressed as guards, disguised a fire extinguisher to look like a bomb, put it on a stretcher and walked out to the van. The inmates activated the chemical fire extinguisher as they approached the van and told other; guards to stay away. They hoisted the stretcher into the white van, a guard in a watchtower opened two electronic gates and the convicts drove away at 10:47 p.m. Officials discovered the ruse a half-hour later.

"They took advantage of the situa tion," Miller said. "Once they had" one hostage, they were able to get another, and so on and so on." None of the hostages was hurt. AP One For The Road Rodeo comedy performer Bunkie Boger and his trick horse Kawliga toast the crowd after performing during the First Annual Cajun Wild West Rodeo in New Orleans. Some 200 contestants are competing for $10,000 in prizes during the three day event. Alexander Hopes No More Cabinet Losses NASHVILLE (AP) Gov.

Lamar Alexander will meet with several members of his cabinet Monday to determine how many will be with his administration through its closing days in 1987, he said Saturday. Alexander said he is making plans for the rest of his term and has met with about half of the commissionere pleased to say that almost all of them have told me that they look forward to staying for the rest of the administration," Alexander told reporters during a break in an organizational meeting here of the Tennessee delegation to the Republican Natonal Convention, can't make them (commissioners) do that, but I want to know what their plans are, and I plan to meet with the rest on Monday." Alexander announced Friday. that Obituaries Vernon Bryant Vernon Bryant, 73, of Route 8, Clarksville, died Saturday at Memorial Hospital. He was a farmer a World War II veteran. Bryant was born Feb.

26, 1911, in Stewart County, son of Richard West and Eddie Smith Bryant. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the McReynolds Allison Nave Chapel with the Rev. Virgil officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery.

Visitation will be after 2 p.m. Sunday, Survivors include a brother, Delbert Bryant, Clarksville; and two sisters, Ina Bryant and Mattie Rich, both of Clarksville. Pallbearers will be Frank Heflin, Thomas Wilson, Charlie Walker, Larry Byard, William D. Bryant and Dudley Williams. Laura Barker Laura Barker, 59, Sampson Street, died Friday at Veterans Adminstration Hospital in Nashville.

The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Foston Memorial Chapel with the Rev. G.E. Norman officiating. Burial will be in Edgefield Cemetery.

Barker was born June 22, 1924, in County, son of William Montgomery Barker and Addie Mason Barker. He was the widower of Willie Mae Economic Development Commissioner John L. Parish has resignedto return to his Tullahoma sporting goods business. Parish joined the administration in 1982. He will be replaced by William H.

Long, a former deputy commissioner in the department who has been chief of Alexander's administrative staff, "I expect there to be a good deal of stability," Alexander said Saturday. He said he has had private meetings with Long, Education Commissioner Robert McElrath and Finance Commissioner Hubert McCullough, all of whom have told him they will stay. "I suspect that there won't be many changes in the top part of the government during the next two and a half years," Alexander said. Vance. He was a service station attend.

ant and a member of Ebenezer AME Church. Survivors include one daughter, Shernova Barker Gilliam, Evansville, two brothers, Charles Barker, Louisville, and Coleman Barker, Memphis; two sisters, Martha Barker and Helen Waller, both of Clarksville; and seven grandchildren. George Cummings Retired Lt. Col. George Bradley Cummings, 71, Germantown, died Thursday at St.

Francis Hospital in Memphis after an extended illness. The funeral was held held Saturday in Memphis, with burial at Cummings was the son of the Elizabeth Martin Knox, a native of the Dotsonville community in Montgomery County, and grandson of Bradley and Etha Jones Martin of Dotsonville. He is survived by his wife, Renee Cummings; three sons and one daughter, all of Memphis. Raymond Ramey Raymond Ramey, 83, Route 6, Box 568, died Friday at home. The funeral will be at 2 p.m.

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"Think about the (Florida) Keys for example. One road, no place to turn around. With the wind rising, water coming up to the cars, people start running on foot to the next island, trying to get off the causeway. Chaos, confusion and panic. A terrible scenario, terrible," Frank told Weatherwise magazine: With only four tropical storms large enough to be given names, last year was the least active since 1930, weather officials noted.

Even so, hurricanes killed 22 Americans. There is no guarantee that this year will not see an increase in the tropical storms. June 1 marks the the family plot at the church cemetery, Ramey was born June 19, 1900, in Montgomery County, son of James and Maggie Fletcher Ramey. He was retired from an Indianapolis, paper factory and was a member of Mount Zion Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, Jennie Burton Ramey; three sons, Rufus Ramey, Cornelius Ramey and Norman Ramey, all of Clarksville; three daughters, Sarah Jordan and Lottie Thornton, both of Clarksville, and Margaret Smith, Worchester, four sisters, Darlene Coleman, Clarksville, Savannah Freeman and Eva Harris, both of Nashville, and Lula Hunt, Chicago, and 17 grandchildren.

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warning of the approach of a hurricane and with coastal population growth in recent years that may not be. enough, the officials said. Byrne noted a study has estimated it would take as much as 38 hours to evacuate the Galveston, Texas, area in the face of gale force winds and rising water levels. Galveston attracts particular attention because it was the site of the nation's worst hurricane disaster in 1900 when a storm inundated the island, killing 6,000 people. Galveston also was affected by last year's strongest hurricane, Alicia, which came ashore about 20 miles south of the city.

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5, 1931, in Tennessee, daughter of Daisy Lule Ewing, Clarksville, and the late William Ewing. She was the widow of Douglas Holmes. A domestic, she was a member of Mount Pisgah Baptist Church. Survivors in addition to her mother include five sons, William, Kenny, Eddie, Michael and Donald Holmes, all of Clarksville; three daughters, Wanda, Marion and Gloria Holmes, all of Clarksville; two brothers, Wayne and William Ewing, both of Clarksville; and two sisters, Julia Porter, Evansville, and Annie Watson, Clarksville. as much as two (lays would be re- Noting that most of these new quired to evacuatie the Florida Keys coastal residents have never experiin the event of a storm.

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