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2BR The Miami Herald Tuesday March 5 1985 Purvis appeal may stall murder trial thought if I told them I killed her let me go John Purvis comment on the effects ruling might have on his case Police are thought to have little or no physical evidence linking Purvis to the crime Taking the stand for the first time Monday with a jumpy but insistent delivery Purvis said he simply told detectives what he thought they wanted to hear said did it with a knife you did it with a knife you did it with a Purvis said hiding he quoted police as saying are you afraid of What are you holding back said Purvis his eyes darting toward the back of the courtroom where a dozen of his friends and relatives sat told them I killed why did you tell them Kirsch asked his client I thought if I told them I killed her they'd let me go he replied broke down I thought what they wanted to Asked if he thought be released if he confess Purvis grinned broadly and replied: By PATRICK MAY Herald Staff Writer The prosecution may have no confession The defense might be down one witness And the judge may have to postpone the trial even before a jury has been selected Eleventh-hour snags developed Monday that threatened to sidetrack the trial of John Purvis a 43-year-old Fort Lauderdale man charged with the 1983 first-degree murders of his neighbors Susan Hamwi and her baby daughter Police said that in early November 1983 Purvis raped Hamwi and then stabbed her to death with' a kitchen knife Her 18-month-old daughter Shane was found dead of dehydration when body was discovered four days later For more than six months both sides have wrestled over a defense motion to suppress confession Now on the verge of jury selection scheduled this morning the case may stall again Circuit Judge Thomas Coker Jr agreed late Monday to quash a subpoe court sides with Kirsch trial could be delayed indefinitely Kirsch claimed a partial victory earlier in the afternoon with ruling that the statements Purvis gave to police last January on the day of his arrest were not admissible in court However the judge said he would not rule until this morning on whether to allow jurors to hear testimony about a conversation Purvis had with a psychiatrist at the Fort Lauderdale police station moments before he confessed on tape to police Joel Klass the doctor called in by detectives to help with the interview said Monday that Purvis told him he killed Hamwi but also said other things contradicting what police had learned at the scene Prosecutor Rob Carney would not na for a newspaper reporter who according to attorney has information that could hamper the case against his client The attorney Richard Kirsch subpoenaed Ott Cefkin a reporter for the Fort Lauderdale News and Sun-Sentinel who was at the police station the night Purvis allegedly confessed After Purvis gave his statement to police Cefkin allegedly overheard Purvis say I go home Purvis contended on the witness stand Monday that he confessed only because he wanted police to stop questioning him Kirsch promised to take the subpoena issue before the Fourth District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach early this morning If the appellate WALTER MICHOT Miami Herald Staff John Purvis hugs his mother Emma Joe Bartlett after testifying Two Parkland candidates slip out of commission race 1 intention to withdraw Sunday night at a candidate forum In a letter to election officials McDermott wrote: to certain circumstances that have arisen in my recent campaign I feel that rather than split the vote together with business reasons I find it necessary at this time to withdraw from the race for Neither Doering nor McDermott had spent any money on their campaigns beyond the $35 filing fee McDermott when he announced his withdrawal threw his support behind Mary Jane Sexton a first-time candidate who runs a ceiling firm with her husband She is opposed in the District 5 race by lawyer Robert White a former commissioner of Parkland which has a population of 1 000 one more drops out we have no City Clerk Susan Armstrong said Monday By EMILIA ASKARI Herald Staff Writer Two of four candidates for a seat on the Parkland City Commission have dropped out of the March 12 election Neither Ernest Doering nor Michael McDermott could be reached for comment Monday on the letters of withdrawal they filed Thursday and Monday respectively must withdraw from being a candidate for medical reasons which have just Doering wrote In an interview two weeks earlier however the pharmacist indicated he had all but given up the race not going to he said in the interview "People like me because obnoxious most of the time just not the type of person that people would want to elect to city McDermott a Margatq firefighter announced fys SHERI GAYNOR FEINBERG Miami Herald Few takers for free measle shots By BEVERLY MILLS Herald Staff Writer Mary Ruth Fritz was one of the few college students on Fort strip Monday who worried about getting a measles shot Because of measles outbreaks at three universities that recessed for spring break this week the Broward County Public Health -Unit offered free inoculations to college students from 1 to 7 pm But as administrator Myra Lentz said: kids are all on the beach They worried about the The clinic for sexually transmitted diseases was doing a much more brisk business Monday afternoon' with eight out-of-state college-aged patients on hand Several students had called the health department to inquire about the measles shots by mid-afternoon but Fritz and three other students were the only ones who showed up to stick out an arm mom and I are down here staying on my boat for spring the Boston University sophomore said my records are at home and we know if I have the right kind of immunization or Wearing a T-shirt and shorts over a substantially sunburned body Fritz 19 even have to wait in line She brought along a form supplied by Boston University to be signed by a doctor as proof of her immunization Before spring break Boston -University reported 53 measles cases and school officials said students would have to present the forms when they returned to be allowed to attend classes Other measles outbreaks reported Monday by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta included Principia College a Christian Science college in Elsah 111 with Mary Ruth Fritz a Boston University student was among the few spring break revelers to take advantage of free measle shots Monday Where the Shots Arc Free measles immunizations will be available for college students from 1 to 4 pm today through Thursday at the following locations: TODAY at the HallandaleHepburn Public Health Unit 800 NW Eighth Ave Hallandale WEDNESDAY at the Sunrise Public Health Unit in the Edgar -i Mills Multipurpose Building 900 NW 31st Ave Fort Lauderdale THURSDAY at the South Broward Public Health Unit 7999 Pembroke Rd West Hollywood Model of interstate to pack up hit road By MARK PLATTE Herald Staff Writer Ridge condominium Thursday for use as a visual 108 cases and at least two deaths Ohio State University reportedly had 12 cases When a similar measles threat occurred during spring break two years ago health department officials toyed with the idea of setting up a mobile immunization unit on the beach Lentz said we abandoned the idea because it was not Lentz said not sure we should be worried at this particular time Two years ago not a single measles case was reported in Broward County as a result of spring Tho Schedule March 5 and 6 Pembroke Pines City Hall 10211 Taft St March 7 Pine Island Ridge Country Club 9400 Pine Ridge Dr Davie March 8 to 31 Da- vieCooper City Branch Library 4600 SW 82nd Ave Davie In April the model will be updated Port Everglades and Miramar have asked to display it but no decisions have been made on the requests Police: Man kills wife to end suffering A 75-year-old Broward man killed his wife of 51 years Monday to end her suffering from disease a mental condition marked by memory loss police said Roswell Ward Gilbert shot his wife Emily 73 two times in the head while she lay on the sofa in their Sea Ranch Club condominium 5100 Ocean Blvd Broward Office spokesman Matt Weissing said Gilbert a retired electronic engineer then called the office he called he said that he had killed Weissing said Emily Gilbert had been suffering from the disease for the past seven years Weissing said Gilbert who has served on the board of directors for Sea Ranch Lakes Condominiums was charged with first-degree murder He is in Broward County Jail without bond complex aid in a fight between state transportation officials and residents there over a proposed underpass Scheduled for completion by 1990 the real 1-595 will extend 134 miles connecting the port with US 1 Interstate 95 US 441 Turnpike and Interstate 75 At $12 billion 1-595 is the largest public works construction project in history Built by two architectural firms the detailed model complete with tiny cars and multitiered highway levels made its debut during the 1984 legislative session in Tallahassee Since then it has been displayed at the main Broward County library and the city halls of Davie Dania Sunrise and Pembroke Pines It even picked up a gold ribbon for the best display at the Broward County Fair Sherman said the verti- Interstate 595 will one day connect Port Everglades with Interstate 75 For now it links Pembroke Pines Mayor Chuck Flanagan with the people in the back For the last three weeks a $70000 scale model of 1-595 30 feet long and 12 feet wide has taken up half of the Pembroke Pines City Commission chambers It extends from the back of the room to seat on the commission dais takes up the whole City Commissioner Rose Price complained Monday told City Manager Woody Hampton to get it the hell out of here Nobody can get into the Price will get her wish this week Mike Sherman a spokesman for the engineers said professional movers will dismantle the model Wednesday Then on to South Pine Island 10 cities Robbery in Broward The chart shows the number of robberies reported in January 1984 and the numbers reported for January 1985 The following cities reported no January robberies for either year: Cooper City Hillsboro Beach Lauderdale-by-the-Sea Lighthouse Point Parkland cal scale is not the same as its horizontal scale so the cloverleaf sections and bridges sit at impossible heights "People look at the model and say going to fall or looks like a roller Sherman said to make it less exaggerated have to have a Swiss watchmaker design report rise in robberies Lawyer not disbarred for drug charge pleading guilty in federal court to the drug charge He was sentenced to four probation Carbonaro now working in an administrative job as director of special projects for the Legal Services of Miami a nonprofit agency said Monday he plans to apply for reinstatement to the Florida Bar Carbonaro said he voluntarily stopped practicing law after his arrest in March 1982 bilitation nor would it result in' any greater protection of the public than would a three-year Adkins wrote in a Feb 21 decision Two other justices supported a dissent written by Justice Raymond Ehrlich that called for disbarment Carbonaro was automatically suspended from the practice of law in September 1982 after ROBBERIES from IBR nience stores and gas stations a large percentage of the robberies are committed by people who use physical force rather than weapons police said of our robberies are snatch-and-grab and quite a few of our victims are tourists from out of said Sgt Roosevelt Bynes of the Broward Office But local residents are feeling the effects too Sunday Plantation resident Ka-ryn Mulroney 19 was robbed after her car broke down in the 2200 block of West Broward Boulevard One man ripped costly gold chains from her neck while she was trying to telephone for help Mulroney tried to chase him but was thwarted by another man who ripped her Gucci pocketbook from her arm and ran in another direction Fort Lauderdale police spokesman Rich Martin said Police caught one of the robbers The Florida Supreme Court has decided not to disbar a suspended Fort Lauderdale lawyer who was convicted in 1982 of conspiracy to possess cocaine with the intent to distribute it In a 4-3 vote the court ordered instead that Joseph Carbonaro remain suspended from practicing law until August 1986 The Florida Bar which investigates complaints against the state's lawyers had recommended that Carbonaro 36 of Fort Lauderdale be disbarred But in a decision supported by three other justices Justice James Adkins disagreed stigma of disbarment would be a burden on Carbonaro which is not necessary in this case to encourage reformation or reha Setting the ilecsid Straight A photograph in Miami Herald was incorrectly identified as that of Daniel Lee Doyle Daniel Lee Doyle left was sentenced in 1982 to die for the murder of Pamela Kipp S(k iffiami Herald Drovsrd II ran Section Mailing address: PO Box 14638 Fort Lauderdale 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