The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 14

Pag 14 8.F. EXAMINER May 3, 1978 GuuLZGo Du 7j0Wj0. Classmate testifies Tarn readied plans to flee By Raul Ramirez Golden Dragon massacre defendant Curtis Tam and the youth who is now a key police informant In the case made plans to flee from San Francisco within days of the Sept 4 shootings, according to a former classmate of the two. Jen Mun Lew, 20, testified at a Municipal Court hearing before Judge Robert Dossee yesterday that he had lunch last September with Tam and Gan Wah Woo, both 18, in a Fisherman's Wharf restaurant at which Woo asked him to leave town with them. Lew testified that Tam said nothing during the talk, which he said was in Cantonese and between Woo and himself.

Lew Insisted that Tam could understand the Cantonese dialect Both Woo and Tam were his friends at the time, he said. Glancing repeatedly from his witness chair at Tam a few feet away, Lew said under questioning from Assistant District Attorney Edward Ludlof "(Woo) said that Curtis was in big trouble and they had to run away from California. I forgot the place. It's near Canada. Gan Wah Woo said that Curtis took the shotgun in Golden Dragon restaurant shooting.

Gan Wah Woo said, 'Would you go with I said, "No, I can't I want to go to Lew later testified that Woo had said that Tam "had used the shotgun at the Golden Dragon." Lew's testimony delivered in halting English and over objections from Tarn's lawyer, Douglas Schmidt was the first link to Tam in two days of a preliminary hearing on the massacre. Tam is accused of being one of several masked gunmen who burst into the restaurant at 2:40 a.m. last Sept. 4 and blasted away at dozens of diners, killing five persons and wounding 11 others. Tam is alleged to have carried a shotgun in the attack.

He faces murder, assault and weapons charges. -xl udLuLCjuucjilo Depart daily at 3:45 PM. arrive at 7:20 PM. United Press International It't dinner time for three llamas on Andrea Pierre's ranch in Madera County Llamas find new home in the Sierra i Their wool sells for about $24 a pound. And demand is high, as shown by the Pierres' list of waiting customers.

But it's their lovability that has endeared the llamas to the Pierres. "We felt bad when we sold three of them a while back," Andrea says. "It's like losing a favorite pet, but sometimes you just have to bear down and do things you don't like." Andrea, who handles most of the feeding, says she and her husband will take their time before deciding to sell more of the llamas we've become so attached to them and they are such a pleasure to have around." -From Page 1 qualities as pack animals with gentle dispositions, small appetites and the ability to adapt to almost any climate. Since starting their herd with four females and a male in 1974, they have also found that llamas make great pets. "When they are treated right, they are as gentle as lambs," Andrea says.

"They are odorless and just perfect pets because they're so loving. If a llama, which is related to the camel is mistreated, however, it can turn nasty. "The ones with bad dispositions can and will spit and have been known to bite on occasion," Peter says. One of the beasts, in fact, is deservedly named Spitter. Since there are only about 3,000 llamas in the United States and the amimals' qualities have been well publicized in recent years, the Pierres find selves pleasantly in a seller's market.

They are still building their herd, which includes 11 females and six males, but they recently sold three of the animals, which bring from $500 to $2,500 each, depending on their sex, disposition and size. Llama importation was halted by the government during a 1934 outbreak of hoof-and mouth disease and has been banned since. The llamas are valuable not only as pack animals and pets. jljV no jJCjljl33 Woo, who Is said to be cooperating with police, is under stringent custody in a Peninsula jail. He faces assault charges in connection with an unrelated Chinatown shooting in which two youngsters were wounded.

Lew said he met Tam during a 1976 summer session at Galileo High School and that he met Woo at Galileo in the fall of the same year. Lew, a tutor at Horace Mann Junior High School and a City College student, testified he could not remember the name or exact location of the Chinese-American restaurant where he said he met with Woo and Tam. Under questioning from Schmidt, he said he could not remember the date of the meeting or what he ate. He said Tam looked scared during the talk. Lew said he was picked up at bis home by San Francisco police March 29 Jnd taken to a police facility where he was interviewed in Cantonese by gang task force leader Fred Lau.

The exchange was taped and what was said to be a translation of the tape was made. Dossee rejected Schmidt's argument that Lew's testimony was "hearsay." Earlier, San Francisco's chief medical examiner. Dr. Boyd Stephens, identified photographs of five dead persons as those of the massacre victims on whom he performed autopsies within hours of the shootings. The preliminary hearing, held to determine If Tam should stand trial In Superior Court, will resume this morning.

Six other young Chinese have been arrested in connection with the incident, which authorities have said resulted from hostilities among warring Chinatown gangs. Depart daily at 3:45 PM. arrive at 1 1:00 PM. Big nursing home is back in court ture, Rubin said. eThat a receiver be appointed to manage the center on an interim basis in the hopes it could be built up to "standards" so San Francisco would not lose a sorely needed nursing facility.

Weigel said he doubted an interim receiver could operate the center without getting actual costs from the state. He did not appoint a receiver, saying he wanted to hear more about whether the state would come up with more money. That a preliminary injunction be modified so that Low would not be enjoined from approving a relocation plan. Weigel did modify his injunction so that it now says there will be no mass relocations unless there is an emergency, without 48 hours notice to Wolinsky. The judge emphasized that the state had not show that an A preliminary hearing for Melvin Yu, 18, also accused of being one of the gunmen, is scheduled for lSCjuuQo May 10.

Both Tam and Vu have been ordered to face charges as adults although they were juveniles at the Depart daily time of the massacre. Other youths in custody face related charges, Including being accessories to a crime. By Tom Hall The continuing legal battle over how to handle the problems of the San Franciscan Center nursing home returned today to Superior Court. Today's hearing before Superior Court Judge Harry Low followed a four-hour hearing yesterday before U.S. District Judge Stanley Weigel in which there was a lot of wrangling but little decisive action.

Low's hearing is on a proposed state Department of Health plan to transfer the remaining 123 patients from the Post Steet facility. The state has been trying for months to decertify the nursing home because of alleged substandard care and conditions. Weigel had three motions before him yesterday, all brought by Sidney Wolinsky, attorney with Public Advocates representing the elderly and disabled residents. Wolinsky wants to ensure that the patients get "fair hearings" to ensure their orderly and humane relocation and thus avoid 'transfer trauma" that might result in Injury or death. The state wants the patients relocated as soon as possible in view of the continuing deterioration of the home.

The motions before Weigel: That Edwin Beach, acting director of the Health Department, be held in contempt for violating Welgel's order on state payments to the center. Action on the motion was shelved when Beach agreed to write letters to the Legislature spelling out Welgel's order. Beach, according to deputy state attorney general Asher Rubin, has no authority to pay the extra money demanded by Weigel. It must come from the Legisla emergency exisis, uui ne notea: "It seems not unreasonable that continued deterioration of conditions could lead to a genuine emergency situation." OR 10RE How To Stop Smoking June 4 at 3:00 On 6unday afternoon, June 4, group o( men tnd women will arrive on by on at th St. Helena Health Center.

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