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ff 4 1 STATE CITY Prosecutor: Goetz Wanted to Murder is expected to begin deliberations this afternoon Waples characterised Goetz as an emotional powder keg with a "superiority complex" and said he "is a perfect example of a person who should not be carrying a gun in New York As he did in his opening statement seven weeks ago Waples asked the Jury to pay dose attention to tape-recorded statements Goetz gave to police nine days after the shooting He said those tapes are a "gruesome blow-by-blow that destroy Goetz claim of self-defense by Goetz reasonably believed he was about to be robbed on the downtown IRT subway train on Dec 22 1984 and that it was necessary for him to fire his unlicensed gun at the four teens "Even if the defendant believed ha was to be robbed it doesn't give him carte blanche to do what he Waples told the eight men and four women of the Jury Goetz is charged with attempted murder and other crimes stemming from the subway shootings He claims he fired because he thought he was about to be robbed The Jury At one point in his four-hour summation Waples donned the bloodstained Jacket of one of the shooting victims Darrell Cabey to show the position of the bullet holes Defense attorney Barry Slotnick later called the action "deceitful" and asked Acting State Supreme Court Justice Stephen Crane for a mistrial saying Waples demonstration misstated the foots of the case The Judge denied the request During dramatic presentation the prosecutor sliced away at the major points of the defense: that Goetz on Myersoiis Actions manipulative scheming woman who abused her public office to successfully influence Gabel's handing of divorce Just weeks after Myerson met her "end of the by riving daughter Sukhreet a $21000-a-year job Gabel slashed Capaseo's alimony and child support payments in hair the report said It characterised Gabel's actions now under investigation by the state Commission on Judicial Conduct as "incredible and Judge Gabel did not return phone calls yesterday Rickman said that after he expressed his surprise to Myerson that she had hired Judge Gabel's daughter he said she told him that Sukhreet Gabel was hired on the merits and that other staff members recommended her By Anthonjr DeStefeno New York Bernhard Goetz exploded in self-righteous volcanic fury" when he fired at four teens on a Manhattan subway and should be convicted for their attempted murder Assistant District Attorney Gregory Waples told Jurors yesterday at the trim of the subway gunman "Bernhard Goetz by his own admission did everything in his power to murder the four young Waples told the Jury in the Manhattan courtroom Koch Aides By Jennifer Preston New York As Mayor Edward Koch defended his administration in the handling of the Bess Myerson affair yesterday two of his top aides said they were aware of possible wrongdoing but for different reasons had not revealed it to the mayor Kenneth Conboy who as commissioner for the Department of Investigation is the top corruption watchdog said he knew more than a year ago of a federal investigation involving Bess Myerson and her boyfriend Carl Capasso but since his office was involved in the probe federal rules preduded his telling the mayor Herbert WAmnn special assistant to the mayor said he suspected impropriety in hiring of Judge Hortense daughter in 1883 He said that even though he was at the hiring he dud not express Ids misgivings to the mayor at the time because 'Myerson had told him the hiring had been "cleared through City Hall" Conboy said federal laws requiring total eecrecy about grand Jury investigations prevented his sharing any information with the mayor about Myer-son's activities until it became public last January that she had roftised to testify before a grand Jury It was refusal to testify that led Koch to appoint former federal judge Harold Tyler to prepare a report on her activities That report con-duded that she had improperly influenced Judge Gabel to save bar boyfriend Carl Capasso millions of dollars in his divorce action Conboy said it was not until Tyler completed the report in April that the Kept Mum relationship between Myerson and Judge Gabel was "for the first time assembled in a comprehensive and coherent The report is now in the hands of federal investigators whose probe has already resulted in Capasso receiving a 4-year Jail term for tax evasion The investigators are looking to see what role if any Myerson may have played in his wrongdoing sources said They are also examining whether the "secret understanding" cited in the Tyler report between Myerson and Judge Gabel constituted bribery sources said In addition the repot recommended investigators examine wlnr Mver-son "caused large amounts or cash to be delivered to 919 Third "We have no good explanation for the origins of the cash out we credit the account that it was the report said "The Capasso divorce proceeding and Mr Capaseo's recent criminal tax prosecution have contained allegations that Mr Capasso has hidden assets and ftirther that he regularly deals in cash Given these allegations Ms Myerson's transactions bear further Koch said that he did not know about "serious until after the report was completed Finding her behavior and he said he told attorney that she would have to either resign or be fired The 4-page report finally made public on Wednesday after it was first disclosed in the Village Voice shatters the image of the former Miss America who became the unofficial first lady The report portrays Myerson as a Judicial Charges Readied hiring He said she told him that Judge Gabel had already made most of the decisions in the Capasso divorce action "I think you have to look at it in the context of he said "I believe my behavior was correct There were no scandals in this administration We prided ourselves that we had instituted all sorts of processes including the inspector general system to protect against this kind of situation so there was no reason not to rely on the good feith and word of a distinguished commissioner of this Koch said that he believed Rickman did the right thing The mayor added however that "obviously we would have been better off had he told me I assume that he is sorry that he didn't do that but I think it is understandable why he didn't do that at the not to remove from office censure or dismiss charges against the individual Tembeckjian refused to discuss the specifics of the Gabel case Criticism of conduct came to light earlier this week with the disclosure of a report to Mayor Edward Koch by retired federal Judge Harold Tyler The report concluded that a aecret understanding existed between Gabel and Myerson about her handling of the Capasso divorce and hiring of her daughter The Tyler report identified one witness before the commission as Herb Rickman a mayoral aide Rickman did not return a telephone call to his office yesterday Lardner George Kaufman and Hey-wood Broun The New Yorker magazine which has offices across the street was founded in 1925 by editor Harold Ross another habitue and New Yorker writers have ever since made a habit of lunching at the Algonquin on His Farm from Page 2 ethical standards by reducing alimony payments to his wife from $1500 to $500 a week two weeks after Myerson hired Sukhreet Gabel ruling was later overturned by the Appellate Division According to Bob Tembeckjian deputy administrator of the Commission on Judicial Conduct a hearing or trial by the commission occurs only after at least six commission members have determined that it is warranted by evidence developed The case is then heard by an appointed referee who makes a recommendation to the commission on whether the law or ethical standards have been violated The commission then rules on whether or A New Page Turns at the Algonquin Hotel NEWSDAY FRIDAY JUNE 12 1967 who first gave the Algonquin its literary patina In the 1920s a group of critics including Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley lunched regularly at a large round table in the Oak Room and a legend was born Others who regularly Joined the Round Table were Edna Ferber Ring FDR Jr Hurt By Barbara Selvin New York Andrew Anapach rested on a green settee hands folded in his lap surveying the oak-paneled lob-by had been his domain for the past 30 yean He looked tired a little melancholy etui a little relieved Tne Algonquin Hotel where he had long been managing director had Just become the property of the Brazilian ho- tel subsidiary of a Japanese conglomerate "Mixed emotions I must Anapach said with a half-smile at his siirrrsenr rtniimr Wr v-g-1-- man "At least we feel entrusted the hotel into caring The 85-yearold Algonquin home of the legendary literary lunching companions collectively known as the Round Table entered a new era yee-- terday its first day as one of five ho tels owned by Caesar Park Hotels a subsidiary of the Aoki Corp Caesar Park's other hotels are in Brazil Taiwan and Shanghai The new owners who paid $29 million for the 200-room hotel at 69 44th St insist they change the traditions and the atmosphere that have attracted people of the arts and letters and kept guests feithftil for decades Anapach is to remain with the hotel as a consultant The previous owners Ben and Mary Bodne Anspach's father-and mother-in-law will continue to live at the hotel they owned and ran for 41 years The Algonquin opened in 1902 as the Puritan Hotel and was renamed by employee Frank CaaeCase bought the hotel in 1907 and ran it until Ms death in 1948 A lover of the arts he attracted the writers acton and playwrights if Hospital a hospital spokesman said yesterday Roosevelt's wife Linda 47 broke her left ankle in the accident which occurred Wednesday morning at the family's horse farm in Millbrook She and the son Jack 9 were treated and released by the hospital Officials said they understood that the two horses pulling the cart bolted I I 1 Poughkeepsie (AP) Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr the son of the 32nd president was reported in critical but stable condition yesterday after he his wife and their son were iqjured while riding in a horse drawn cart on their farm Rooeevelt 73 was being treated for a severe concussion in the intensive care unit of Vassar Brothers A 4 4 -J S''.