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The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 46

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THE DAILY OKLAUOMAN Wednesday, March 25, 1981 13 Killers Missed Cache Of Jewelry, Court Told vejoy was found neai the doorway of her bed scribed, the ransacked home where the bodies were found by Swin-ford's brother, John Swinford, who went there to see why his brother was late for work at a sandblasting firm. Investigators testified they found emptied dresser drawers and clothing and papers scattered on the floor of the home. OSBI agent Jim Avance said the door to the bedroom where Swinford and Miss were Julia Sheila Per-clval Lovejoy, ,38, of Greensway, England and Robert Swinford, 41, of Velma. Mrs. Bourque, of South Wales, and Mrs.

Love-joy were on an extended visit in southern Oklahoma where one of them had relatives. Robison is the first of three defendants charged with the slay-Ings. Officials say a trial for Johnny Glenn Gil-lum, 28, will be held following Robison's trial. A preliminary hearing is set on April 13 for the third suspect, William Starr Jordan, 25, of Wichita Falls, Texas. Law enforcement officers Tuesday de room, he testified.

In prosecution test! mony late Tuesday afternoon Sharor Briscoe, a one-tlnVe girlfriend of Robison testified Robison some of her other friends were involved in trying to set up an amphetamine laboratory. At a drunken party at her Healdton aparN ment June 12, she said, she saw Robison and Gillum load some guns into her car. She 'recalled that the third defendant, Jordan, was also at her apartment that night. Bourque, 42, were found "appeared to be kicked or knocked in from the hallway." The body of Mrs. Lo Photo by Din Proctw Preparing stacks of protest letters are, from left, Lisa Lowden, Mary Burch, Tod Hunter, Ronnie Hunter and Polly Martin.

WJIsTake Licking From Pupils DUNCAN The killers of two British women and a Stephens County man apparently missed a valuable collection of gold jewelry because it was hidden under the legs of one of the slain women, testimony revealed Tuesday in the first-degree murder trial here. The state wiJl seek the death penalty if the eight-man, four-woman panel finds defendant Olan Randle Robison, 35, guilty. District Judge George Lindley has sequestered the jury during the trial, which is expected to last into the weekend. Stephens County Sheriff Bill Alexander told the panel he found the jewelry in Joan Bourque's purse the day after the three bodies were discovered. The jewelry was valued in excess of $6,000 in Averll.

"It was at the foot of the bed, with the bedspread found over it where it couldn't be seen," Alexander said. He said the gold jewelry container was also shielded by the dead woman's legs, which were hanging off the bed. Also discovered shot to death in the farm house two miles cast of Vclma last June 13 State Moving for Dismissal Of Ex-Agent Firing Protest "If we bombard those senators with letters maybe we can sway their opinions and maybe we can change their votes," Mrs. Hunter said. Witt said House Bills 1236 and 1296 could, threaten the future of such small districts as Fort Supply.

"It could easily close this school in three years," he said. "Even with the hold harmless clause (which ensures that no school will receive less funds than it does now) it would force us to consolidate. And we really don't want to be consolidated," Witt said. Under the proposal, funds presently earmarked for local schools, such as oil and gas gross production taxes, auto tag revenues and property taxes on public service companies, would be pooled in a commmon school fund and appropriated to school districts statewide through a formula based on need. By Dan Procter FORT SUPPLY Prompted by their teachers and parents, the students at Fort Supply School have been deluging state legislators with letters protesting two school funding bills being considered.

The students have mailed more 600 letters to state senators at the Capitol asking the lawmakers to defeat the two bills which were passed recently by the state House. The bills would redistribute school revenues throughout the state. The idea for the letter-writing campaign came from teachers and parents, said Fort Supply Principal Jess Witt. But the letters are being written by the students themselves. 'They're not form letters," said kindergarten teacher Joyce Hunter.

"They're really writing the letter." Lyons filed a petition in January against the ABC and the state Personnel Board seeking a hearing to review his firing last December. Haney said he will argue Tulsa district court lacks jurisdiction because the official residences of both the ABC and the Personnel Board are in Oklahoma County. At Friday's hearing, Lyons' attorneys also will present a motionifor release of state personnel records records about Lyons, Haney said. Lyons was fired Dec. 11, reportedly for failing to report for duty after a transfer from Tulsa to Woodward.

TULSA The state Attorney General's office will ask for dismissal of an action seeking a hearing for a former Alcoholic Beverage Control agent who claims he was forced out of the agency after testifying ABC director Richard Crisp wouldn't let agents arrest customers who purchase mixed drinks. Assistant Attorney General Brent Haney said Tuesday a hearing has been scheduled Friday in Tulsa County district court to hear a state motion to dismiss fired Tulsa agent William J. Lyons' petition on the grounds the Tulsa court lacks jurisdiction in the case. The campaign was devised after a meeting of parents and teachers in the school auditorium to talk about the bills. Teachers used class time to teach students how to write and address the letters, and the rest was left up to the kids.

A local grocery store donated the envelopes, and homeroom funds were used to pay postage, Superintendent Doug Spillman said. Judge Orders Trials Sun Photo by JH I Tjeifiac Famllv members of slaying de- of 9-year-old Carrie Kendall. Sister Edith Massey, left, and ter-in-law Thelma Hayes told of being pressured to protect rumiiy I GbTIIies fendant Roger Dale Hayes brother Don, second from right, recounted incriminating Roger. Medical examiner Dr. Allan Jones, right, shows the dominated testimony Tuesday at his trial in the sex slaying statements Hayes allegedly made around them, while sis- length ol the girl's throat wound.

Story, photo on Page ,1., For Wagoner Trio In Drugs-Sex Case By Judy Fossett Staff Writer WAGONER A 20-year-old Wagoner man was ordered Tuesday to stand trial on charges of distributing marijuana to a "cult-like" following of junior high school girls who testified they went to his home near the school for drugs and sex. Robert Bogle's 41-year-old mother, Sylvia Bogle, was bound over on a charge of maintaining a place frequented by drug users, and a third defendant, Danny Charboneau, 20, was also ordered to be tried on marijuana distribution charges. Arraignment of all three was scheduled for April 28 by Wagoner County Associate District Judge Paul Simmons. Bogle is being held in jail in lieu of $200,000 bond. Simmons refused a defense request to reduce the bond, noting he had watched how Bogle had-stared at the dozen young witnesses against him and the visible effect his presence seemed to have.

Assistant District Attorney Keith Whiteley said the teen-age witnesses, all still in junior high school, cried or were close to tears when questioned during their testimony against Bogle. "If seems like they're all in love with him," Whiteley said. "They've tried to see him in jail. He'sbecome a cult hero to these adolescents." Not all of the youngsters were involved in the alleged "drugs for sex" activity. The prosecutor said the investigation into the allegations against Bogle showed that most of the girls and the few boys who say they went to Bogle's home for drugs either have no fathers or there is domestic strife at home.

The charges against the Bogles and Charboneau were filed after a Wagoner man said he learned from his two young stepdaughters that they were using drugs and were involved with Bogle and Charboneau. The older girl, who says she became pregnant by Bogle while under the Influence of drugs, agreed to make controlled buys for police after the father took the girls to Whiteley office. was testimony during the six-day preliminary hearing that some of the students allegedly sold drugs for Sogle and Charboneau. Mrs. Bogle and Charboneau are free on $25,000 bond each.

Shidler Woman Accused in Mate's Beating Death "In my opinion, he couldn't even whip a 12-year-old boy Eddlngs said of the approximately. 6-foot, 140 pound victim. "In my personal opinion he was no match for her (Mrs. Davis), She was pretty husky." Eddlngs said Davis had previously told acquaintances that his wife "had beaten him with a frying pan." The couple's 5-year-old daughter was at home the night of the slaying, authorities said. Eddings said Davis carried a card saying' he took medicine that might make it appear he was intoxicated.

"Everybody was always saying he didn't have but six months to live. And he took Valium pills like they were going out of style," the officer said; ByJImEtter Staff Writer PAWHUSKA A 38-year-old woman has been charged in the beating death of her 48-year-old husband who was discovered dead In their home In Shidler after the woman reportedly angrily ordered him home from a local tavern, authorities said. Virginia Mahan Davis was arrested and taken to the Osage County jail here after her husband, J.L. Herbert Davis, a disabled veteran who reportedly was in failing health, was found fatally bruised about the head and body about 4 a.m. last Thursday, the authorities said.

Mrs. Davis has been set for a preliminary hearing April 10 on. a charge of first-degree man slaughter, court officials said Tuesday. She is free on bond. Witnesses said that Mrs.

Davis several times came into a Shidler bar where Davis was playing pool the night before his death and insisted that he come home, said Shidler Police Chief Earl Edd-ings. According to witnesses, "She came up behind him and just threw him on the floor," Eddlngs said. The witnesses also said the woman "poured a beer on his head," the officer added. Eddlngs described Davis as a former insect exterminator who suffered from cirrhosis of the liver and diabetes. He regularly took medication and had said numerous times that he did not have long to live, investigators said.

Box Found In Razing Of YWCA TULSA (AP) -Workmen razing the former Young Womens' Christian Association Building in downtown Tulsa found a sealed metal box nearly 63 years old In the structure's cornerstone Tuesday Cities Service which will build a new corporate headquarters in the block, will open it today at a news conference. Police Officer Killed During Mission to Apprehend Suspect Dollar Takes Dip Politician Dies cer in the head. Police said a neighbor, Donna GilkeyKr.e-ported seeing Rector leave the house via the back door and w'alit about 40 yards into'an open field. Officers later found Rector In'a field, with a gunsh'ot wound In the head. He was taken to -a hospital, where his condition was not knowiu-.

Martin originally was to be accompanied by another officer, but Martin wanted to go alone. Police said Rector's mother, Mrs. Clyde Lee Rector, told them that Martin sat on the sofa in the front room for 10 to 15 minutes before her son walked out the back door, said hello and then shot the offi were injured. Police said an argument started after some party-goers said they didn't want to pay for admission. Criswell was collecting the admission fee, police said.

Hufflnes said police received a phone call that Rector could be found at his mother's house. Huffines said and two counts of first-degree battery. The warrants were issued in the death of Arthur Criswell, 34, of Morrllton and the injuring of two other men. Criswell died after shooting broke out early Sunday at a private party at a Conway restaurant. William C.

Hervey, 52, and his son, Charles V. Hervey, 23, both of Plumervllle, CONWAY, Ark. (AP) A policeman was shot and killed Tuesday while on a mission to apprehend a man believed Involved in a weekend shooting at a private party in Conway. The victim was identified as patrolman Bob Martin. Conway police Investigator Haskell Huf-fines said Martin was shot in the head while at a Conway house about 3 p.m.

The patrolman died as he was being transferred from Conway Memorial Hospital to University Hospital In Little Rock. Police had said earlier Tuesday that they were seeking Ricky Rector, 28, of Conway on arrest warrants charging him with first-degree murder (AP) The dollar opened at 208.90 the Tokyo foreign exchange market today, down from the day's close of .209.15. SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland (AP) -Walter Brlngolf, former president of the Swiss Social Democratic Party, died Tuesday after a long illness. He was 85, "We can hear something rattling in it," said John Singleton, public relations spokesman for the company. The box, which had a date of May 8, 1918, on the outside, was described as "worn and beat up" by Singleton.

It is rusty and will have to be opened with a soldering iron, he The box will be presented to an official of the Tulsa YWCA chapter at the press conference, then opened. Singleton said the is about 11 inches long, 9 inches wide, and 4 Inches deep. Livestock Judging Results Compiled $1000 Reward Casts Wide Net of Suspicion in Burglary- 4-H; 2. Mi Hrrtl, Lejdy 4-H: Knl Umt, Vwon FFA. Cm fc 1.

Onoa Long. Nokdi tic FFA; 2. H-udttn. Uy Following are Tuesday's results from the 66th' annual Oklahoma 4-H and Future Farmers America Junior Livestock Show at the State Fairgrounds. iff's Investigators have suspects lrC the case.

Although Frederick police orlgl-" nally responded to the burglary call, sheriff's deputies were called" in to investigate at the request of Longacre. "We've had break-Ins beforej" and not very many of them's solved," he said. "1 think the SherTl) Iff's Department maybe has had. more experience in investlga" lions." can add to your work load." The break-in was discovered when owner Chris Longacre arrived to open his store Thursday morning. Burglars who entered the store through the front door got away with $300 in cash and about $16,000 worth of jackets, blazers, jeans and boots, Including a pair of crocodile cowboy boots valued at $900, Overstrect said.

Callers have provided some solid leads, Overstreet said, and sher has been great a little too great, in fact, as a flood of callers point suspicious fingers at everything from rummage sales to traveling salesmen. "This reward Is driving us era-zy," Tillman County Undershcriff Steve Overstrect said Tuesday. "We really appreciate every lend we get," said Overstrect, who Is overseeing the Investigation of last Thursday's break-in at Red River Western Wear; on Main Street in Frederick. "But It sure 1. DrM Wood, amour FFA; 1.

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KMlt Hirr.1. Laadoy 4-H; 3. 8lv Jwun. Bono 4-H. By Bob Drnmmond Staff Writer FREDERICK' Although It's great for turning up valuable leads, a reward for Information concerning a crime can sure keep investigators busy, authorities here have found.

A $1,000 reward was posted by the owner of a local western wear -store after cash and merchandise valued at more than $16,000 were taken during a break-in last week. The response, local officials say, CtnOv OhwLbB cf.Cnld4-H,croMbrad. The YWCA building is the last structure to be torn down on the square block where the "hew Cities Service structure will be built. ffT.

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