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arm i -xo?" w-v s. -T TK I By JOHN RANDAZZO and DON FLYNN The 38-year-old pastor of the Bedford Community Church was shot three times and critically wounded yesterday inside his church at 160 Bedford Center Road in northern Westchester County. The Rev. Robert Butler, who also serves as the local police chaplain, was There were no services being held at the time of the shooting. The sergeant said an unidentified person called police about 12:30 and told them that injured man was staggering around on the street" in front of the church.

Police said they notified the pastor's wife, Judy, at their home on Cottage Terrace in Bedford Hills. She was rushed to the hospital in a state of shock, police said. The couple have three daughters, police said. Police with dogs were searching the area around Bedford, a community known as "horse country." "We've got no leads at all," said Lt. Frank Thomas.

"Even with the bloodhounds, we've got nothing. Everybody's a suspect, as far as I'm concerned." The three-year-old church is nonde-nominational, police said, which is why its pastor was selected as the police chaplain. shot once in the head and twice in the stomach with a small-caliber weapon shortly before 12:30 p.m., police said. The pastor was in an office on the second floor when he was shot, police said. He staggered out of the church through a side door into the street, leaving a trail of blood and a bloody smear on the church door.

A passing motorist drove him to Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, two miles away. BUTLER WAS TAKEN first to the emergency room and then to the operating room, where a surgeon and two neurosurgeons operated for five hours. Last night, Butler was in the intensive care unit, listed in stable but critical condition. Sgt. Ted Wyskida of the Bedford Town police force said there was no known motive in the shooting.

Nothing appeared to have been stolen from the church. "BEDFORD COMMUNITY CHURCH I WELCOME CLARENCE DAVIS DAILY NEWS The Bedford Comunity Church in northern Westchester. The Rev. Robert Butler at a recent church function. uebeard By JERRY SCHMETTERER i 3.

cu ip I Anne, 44, was reported missing by her son, Pat, on March 19, 1980. Investigative sources said Blake apparently never obtained a divorce before marrying, the fourth woman, Maryann, seven months after Anne disappeared. Her son told police he suspected foul play when she disappeared on March 15, 1980. About 6 p.m. on that date, she left her job at a chic Fifth Ave.

salon, telling co-workers she was going to look for an apartment in Queens, then go home. However, she never arrived at home and did not return to work the next day. Four days later, the family received a telegram from "Anne Blake," saying that "she was under great pressure and needed to get her head together according to the son. "See you in a couple of weeks," the telegram concluded. But the family never believed the telegram was really from her.

"She would never leave like that, without telling us where she was going," the son told police. Shortly after the Missing: Persons. Bureau ibegan an investigation, Blake disappeared ile juilteti up last month A Manhattan man charged with strangling his wife was married to another woman who has been missing since 1980, and police believe she too was the victim of foul play, the Daily News learned yesterday. The man, Rick Blake, 48, was arrested outside his E. 65th St apartment at 9:30 a.m.

yesterday by Nassau County homicide Detective Robert Walford for the murder of his wife, Maryann. The 41-year-old woman's nude body was found in a shopping center parking lot in Valley Stream, L.I., on Aug. 5. At that time, Blake told police his wife had left their Long Beach apartment early in the morning of Aug. 2 without saying where she was going.

Later, Blake reportedly told police that he and Maryann had argued the night before she left Through relatives, it was determined that Blake had a history of marital difficulties, Walford said. Police said Blake actually to four different women. His first, wife; reprteJHf died of natural 'A to- Anne Blake missing since 1980. is living Canada, and the third. is during the investigation into the murderof tiis fourth wife.

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