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June1 2 1989 -v 'ii DAILY iilEWS nn aiDQ DOQ fpttS MP fclGl lmj But he's still charged with attacking visitor 32, of 10th said he is a victim of mistaken identity and is happy to be out of jail even though he is still charged in the rape. "I just happened to cross the wrong path at the wrong time," said Conner, who spent five days in jail before being freed. "It was a nightmare. I feel sorry for anybody who has to go through that" Conner was arrested about 4 a.m. last Friday 15 minutes after a 27-year-old Alabama woman reported being raped at gunpoint in Central Park.

Police said he fit the description of the rapist Followed pack rape The rape came five weeks after a 28-year-old investment banker was raped and- beaten by a pack of teens as she jogged in the park. Assistant District Attorney John Fried said Conner was freed Wednesday under a state law that says a person must be released if not indicted within six days of being arrested. "We consented to his release because we think the case needed more investiga- By RUTH LANDA and STUART MARQUES Daily News Staff Writers A Manhattan man accused of raping a woman in Central Park five weeks after the "wilding" attack on a jogger has been released because prosecutors need more time to investigate the case, authorities said yesterday. The man, George tion," Fried said, adding that-no decision has been made on whether to send the case to a grand jury. Conner lives and works in garage where a hot-dog vending business stores its carts.

Picking up cart He said he was at the southwest end of the park near Columbus Circle, on his way to pick up a cart, when he was arrested. The woman, who arrived in the city that day from North Carolina, told police she went to Columbus Circle to meet a friend. She said a man fitting Conner's description asked her for a cigaret then pulled a gun and forced her into the park. She said the man raped and sodomized her near Wollman Rink. Police never found the gun.

Conner was sitting on a bench when cops rushed him. "I sat down for a second just to catch a breather," he said. 'They drove up on me, pulled a gun and told me to get down. I was wondering, 'What's going They said, 'It's a rape and you fit the Conner said he thought police wanted to make a quick arrest in his case because of the rape of the jogger. "I guess there's been a big rash of rapes," he said.

"I guess they really wanted to come down hard on it I just thank God everything worked out for the best" Good skeeter crop NEW HAVEN Thanks to record rains in May, unusually large broods of mosquitoes millions of 45 species of the saltwater and freshwater types are alighting and biting in Connecticut, experts said 1 1,1 111 JACK SMITH DAJLY NEWS "without bail pending trial on charges of income tax evasion, perjury and distributing cocaine in his law office. See page 26 INDICTED BRONX SUPREME COURT JUSTICE William CTeddy) Martin enters Federal Court where he was freed yesterday A Harlem street corner was named yesterday in memory of boxing champ Sugar Ray Robinson. Mayor Koch signed a bill designating the southwest corner of W. 124th St and Powell Blvd. in honor of the man often was described as the world's greatest fighter, pound for pound.

Robinson, 68, died in April in Culver City, Calif. The bill was introduced by City Councilman Hilton Clark of Harlem who said, "We hope the kids for years to come will look up and see Sugar Ray Robinson Corner and remember the positive impact he had on the world." rrm Aocttad Press By MARCIA KRAMER City Hail Bureau Chief Some 300 angry protesters carrying tombstone-shaped signs drove Mayor Koch oft the stage last night at a huge open-air Greenwich Village ceremony that was part of gay-pride month. Koch was there to read a proclamation and to participate in a ceremony adding the name "Stonewall Place" to the section of Christopher St. between Waverly Place and Seventh Ave. The name is derived from the Stonewall Inn, which was the scene of riots 20 years ago that started the modern lesbian and gay- rights movement The -mayor was drowned out by furious members of ACTUP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) chanting "Just go away" again and again.

"There's a lot of anger in the gay community toward Koch," said ACTUP member Charles Franchino. He charged the mayor had not devoted enough money and resources to the war against AIDS. Koch refused to attack his attackers. "I suppose," he said, "that earlier in my 12 years as mayor, to be treated so rudely and crudely and angrily when there's been no better friend and supporter of gay rights in the city (than me) would have gotten me angry. "Now, I simply perceive part of the job of being mayor to understand the frustrations of people and to allow them to vent their anger." Sugar Ray Robinson.