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41009 3 33195 SW MI CROP IJB FISHING 7 YANPFll ORIVF F. I. PASO, rx 79903 I 0 Museum moves beyond its walls SEE PAGE 2 Volume 49, No. 149 Serving Flagstaff and northern Arizona since 1883 January 12, 1995 At a Glance Simpson a stalker, attorneys contend By MICHAEL FLEEMAN Allocated Pren Writer LOS ANGELES Prosecutors in the O.J. Simpson case today withdrew several accusations of abuse against Simpson from the court record, including a witness account that Simpson threatened to cut off the heads of his ex-wifes boyfriends.

The news media was ablaze last night with this particular incident, Superior Court Judge Lance Ito said. I think it should be clear on the record and to the news media that the prosecution is withdrawing this particular incident, Ito said as a domestic violence hearing got under way. Prosecutors also deleted from explosive documents, released Wednesdsay, allegations that Simpson beat his wife at the start of their relationship, and another in which he allegedly beat her and threw her in a wine cellar. Deputy District Attorney Lydia Bodin said the prosecution wanted to reserve the right to reintroduce the allegations at a later time. The judge didnt immediately say if he would allow that.

Prosecutors, seeking permission to present domestic violence evidence at Simpsons double-murder trial, did keep on the court record other evidence, including Ms. Simpsons call to a battered womens shelter five days before her murder. A person would not call a shelter because they were having a good relationship with their husband or their ex-hushand, Bodin said. The documents unleashed Wednesday by prosecutors, including entries from Nicole Brown Simpsons diary and letters Simpson wrote her, were part of a hearing on whether to let the jury at Simpsons murder trial hear evidence of domestic violence. Ms.

Simpson and a friend, Ronald Goldman, were stabbed and slashed to death June 12. The documents portrayed Simpson as as a fiercely jealous man who beat and stalked his ex-wife. Prosecutors said she was murdered in a final attempt by Simpson to con-trol her. Deputy District Attorney Scott See SIMPSON, Page 3 Stephen HillSpeclal to the Arizona Daily Sun Flagstaff resident Stephen Hill was the first on the scene of a plane crash near Pulliam Airport, and this is what he found. Hill flagged down a DPS helicopter.

FedEx plane down, pilot dead (I 1 4 pilot as Joseph Kirby, 59, of Camp Verde. The victims family was in a room at the airports administration office, but did not wish to speak to the media. It was shortly after 6 jn. Wednesday when a. tower operator at Pulliam Airport reportedly lost contact with the plane, said Flagstaff Police Sgt.

Dennis Connell. Connell said the plane took off from Pulliam at 5:30 p.m., but shortly after take-off, the pilot told the tower that he was having trouble. The plane had been en route to Phoenix, but the pilot told the tower crew he would come back. The pilot turned east, then lost control of the aircraft. It was snowing when the aircraft left Pulliam Airport, which is about 7 miles south of downtown Flagstaff.

Hill found the wreckage at about 8:30 but he said the woods were so dense it took me a half-hour to wave By DAILY SUN STAFF The smell of fuel led Stephen Hill to the site of a plane crash a few hundred yards from the runway of Flagstaff Pulliam Airport this morning. The crash of the aircraft Wednesday evening killed the pilot, the only person on board! The plane is owned by Federal Express and leased by Empire Airlines of Coeur DAlene, Idaho, said Federal Express spokesman Armand Schneider. Rescue crews searched a three-square-mile area through the night for the plane, but it was Hill who spotted the wreckage. Hill was walking his dog while looking for the plane on his own, and had searched Wednesday night as well. LL Jim Driscoll of the Coconino County Sheriffs Department confirmed that the pilot was killed, and was the planes only occupant.

Unofficial police reports identify the 'W' 'MW Ik Ice thawed Itll be shorter than usual, but there will be an NHL season. PAGE 8 Murder plot MINNEAPOLIS (AP) A daughter of the late Malcolm was indicted today in a murder-for-hire plot to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, a federal prosecutor said. A federal grand jury indicted Qubilah Shabazz on charges of using the telephone and crossing state lines in the course of trying to hire someone to kill Farrakhan, U.S. Attorney David Lillehaug said. Shabazz, 34, formerly of New York City, has lived in Minneapolis since September.

The nine-count indictment follows a seven-month investigation by the Minneapolis bureau of the FBI. The indictment said eight phone conversations occurred in July and August 1994 and that Shabazz traveled from New York to Minnesota. After arriving in Minnesota, she made a partial payment to the person she hired to kill Farrakhan, the indictment said. The indictment said the killing was to occur in Illinois, where Farrakhan lives. The identity of the person allegedly hired to kill Farrakhan is not disclosed in the indictment.

The U.S. attorney said he expects that person to be a trial witness. Shabazz surrendered today. Earth saverS SMOKE DETECTION Use the following recipe to remove the odor of stale smoke from a car or room Lightly sponge all surfaces with a solution of half w.ter and half liquid fabric softener Source Woman Day magame Feb 1992 Bridge Business Classifieds Comics Dear Abby Editorial Horoscope Movies Sports Stock Market TV Weather Page 1 1 4 14-18 v- 12 .1 11 6 11 11 8-9 4 11 7 Teen didnt die easily, tape reveals down a helicopter. An Arizona Department of Public Safety helicopter spotted Hill.

The plane crashed into the side of a gully after tearing through about 100 yards of forest. Hill said. He found the plane almost straight up," he said. Since the plane had just taken off, there was a lot of fuel at the crash site, said Hill. Thats how I even found it, he said.

I smelled the fuel. Hill said it appeared the pilot died on impact. Although the fuselage was mostly intact," Hill said wreckage was spread over a 50- to 75-foot radius. Flagstaff Police Department Capt. Bob White said it crashed about 400 yards from the Pulliam runway, in 1 to 2 feet of snow.

About 40 people from FPD, the Coconino County Sheriffs Department See PLANE, Page 3 something was wrong, the slain New Mexico teens father, Larry Francia, said Wednesday. Jonathans parents were in Flagstaff yesterday for a two-day hearing connected with the trial of one of their sons See SON, Page 3 Coconino County Superior Court Judge Fred Newton expects to finish it Jan. 24 and 25. A badly burned body, which investigators believe was Francia, was discovered Jan. 17 near Winslow in the trunk of a car owned by Francias mother.

The car was in the Castle Butte area, south of Dilcon on the Navajo Reservation. Yellowhair has told law enforcement officials she believes her husband and a man named Jason kidnapped Francia from the parking lot of an Albuquerque restaurant. Throughout the taped interview with Moreno, Yellowhair repeatedly denies ever seeing Jonathan alive. She admits driving her husband to Castle Butte to dispose of the body, but says she didnt know there was a body in the car until they were nearly there. And her husband forced her to drive him, she added.

I havent done nothing wrong, she screamed at Moreno after he read her Miranda Rights. 1 cant go to jail, I cant. Yellowhairs pleas with Moreno became louder and more desperate. I think (Paul) was trying to make me the bad guy. I think we need to find Jason, Yellowhair said on tape.

I didnt do anything. I honestly didnt do anything. Im telling you everything I know. I didnt do anything. Yellowhair was waiting for Richardson at a Winslow bus station Jan.

12, but her husband never arrived, she told Moreno. It turns out that Richardson, on his way home from Alabama, stopped in Albuquerque but missed his bus to Winslow. Somewhere along the line he hooked up with Jason and the two men stole Francias car and kidnapped Francia, Yellowhair has told law enforcement officials. Court documents show Richardson allegedly tried to steal an Albuquerque womans car before kidnapping Francia. Yellowhair said that when Richardson failed to turn up by bus, she returned to a friends trailer, but was awakened in the middle of the night by Richardson, who See TEEN, Page 3 By STEPHANIE INNES Sun Staff Reporter There were three attempts to kill New Mexico teen-ager Jonathan Francia before he finally died, a Flagstaff courtroom heard Wednesday.

Jason just started sticking this poor guy. He got a belt and started strangling him, said Trena Yellowhair, also known as Trena Richardson, in a taped interview played in Coconino County Superior Court yesterday. Jason put him in the trunk, thought he was dead. The 22-year-old Winslow woman said that three times it appeared Francia was dead, but then the teen came up fighting again. The mother of three said on tape that her late husband, Paul Richardson, completed the murder by stabbing the teen.

Jonathans parents, Betty and Larry Francia, quickly left the courtroom after listening to the description of their sons death. They did not return for the remainder of yesterdays court session. Yellowhairs comments to Coconino County Sheriffs Department Det. Gil Moreno were recorded April 19, 1994, the day she was arrested in connection with Francias death. Chief Deputy County Attorney Camille Bibles played the court a tape of Yellowhairs interview with Moreno yesterday.

The County Attorneys Office is seeking the death penalty against Yellowhair for allegedly helping to kill Francia. Bibles to date has not publicly theorized any motive for the murder, other than a random kidnapping that turned violent. Paul Richardsfm hanged himself in prison last year and later died. Jason may still be at large, authorities say. Bibles is trying to convince the court that the interviews should be admitted as evidence when Yellowhairs case goes to Jonathan Francia, 16, with his girlfriend Roberta Garza, now 18, on Christmas Day 1993.

Francias charred body was found less than a month later near Winslow. Son vanished 1 year ago By STEPHANIE INNES Sun Staff Reporter When Jonathan Francia didnt return home from a visit with friends one year ago today, his family was instantly scared. He was always home with us, so when he came up missing we knew trial. The trial is expected to start either March 26 or May 16. The purpose of yesterdays hearing was for the state to argue the admissibility of interviews Yellowhair held with the sheriffs department.

The hearing is not yet complete. mm.