Newsday (Suffolk Edition) from Melville, New York • 17

Slayer Arouses Wrath of 2 Families case gone to trial to show he acted under extreme emotional Spitznagel said can understand the emotion and involvement but perhaps they understand the circumstances this was the result maybe one in a million of the interplay of that culture drugs a first love all coming together with disastrous results" Spitznagel added was remorseful the minute after it happened and has been ever since I ask the court not to throw away a third life but give him a chance for In anr'uncing his decision Signorelli told the two families have a great deal of sympathy for you and this is no spur-of-the-moment decision I want you to know But Bernd seemed dissatisfied should have made the sentences consecutive keep him off the streets he said Outside the courtroom Ross Simmons father of the dead woman walked over to Spitznagel and said wish the same for you sometime I really mean and walked away By Don Smith and James Bernstein Riverhead Trembling to control himself Bert Bernd looked over at George Walsh in County Court here yesterday: cannot begin to express the revulsion the horror I feel standing face to faoe with this creature who murdered my Walsh 27 who pleadod guilty to two counts of first-degree manslaughter in the stabbings Sept 9 of his girl friend Kathy Kurz 19 and Michael A Bernd 21 stood with bowed head as the parents argued for a maximum sentence attorney Carl Spitznagel said the families were seeking "vengeance and retribution something our law does not and urged that Walsh be given chance for Walsh an unemployed house painter who lives at 84 Pine SL Southampton was sentenced by Judge Ernest Signorelli to concurrent terms of up to 25 years in prison on each count No minimum sentence was set Walsh could apply for parole after two years but legal experts said he probably would have to serve at least eight years and four months of his term W'alsh had been held without bail in Suffolk County Jail here where he had undergone a psychiatric examination for the knife-slayings of Mrs Kurz also of Southampton and Bernd of Flushing Walsh reportedly knifed the two when he found them in the apartment he rented at 84 Pine St last June for himself Mrs Kurz and Mrs two-year old son Philip Bert Bernd his hands shaking said the double slaying was but an impulse and urged that Walsh be jailed for life Mrs Evelyn Simmons the dead mother had said immediately after the killings that her daughter and Walsh lived together after Mrs divorce and that Walsh had begged Mrs Kurz to marry him Yesterday Mrs Simmons told Signorelli have loved my daughter Nat the way lie brutally stabbed her to death not Spitznagel who occasionally fidgeted as the parents spoke said in reply that Walsh was under emotional at the time of the killings have psychiatric testimony had this Door Sequel: Another Confiscation By A Carter Coram in the Sex the film which replaced the Green at a theater here was seized yesterday by county officials who said they would ask a grand jury to investigate the possibility that the film was made in Suffolk Arthur Strolio owner of the Pine Cinema was charged with two counts of promoting obscenity one for showing and one for showing excerpts of the next attraction Ever Happened to Miss The film was by rackets squad detectives after District Court Judge Joseph viewed the 3:30 PM showing and signed a warrant authorizing the arrest and seizures Strolio 27 of 27 Whitmore Lane Coram was taken to the Sixth Precinct stationhouse Coram where he was released in $25 bail and told to appear at First District Court Haup-pauge for arraignment today Saverio Fierro chief of the rackets bureau said charges would also be filed against company AMS Enterprises Ltd Both Strolio and the firm were convicted of obscenity charges Jan 18 after a six-man jury found obscene Fierro said the 83-minute film which is about a weekend family reunion includes usual debasement of the human body and explicit acts of sodomy The dialogue that accompanied the filth that was depicted on the screen was nothing more than a series of sophomoric banalities which were clear evidence of the depraved mind that conceived and produced this Fierro pointed to two scenes which he said led him to believe at least parts of the film were made in Suffolk One shows the marquee for the Paichogue Sunrise All-Weather Drive-In theater he said and the other scene takes place at what appears to be a Long Island Railroad station The manager of the drive-in could not be reached for comment Going to Grand Jury As a result Fierro said Assistant District Attorney Ira Simon would conduct a grand jury investigation into possible felony charges Under state law promoting ohsenity is a misdemeanor while manufacturing and distributing it on a wholesale basis is a felony' are very much Fierro said this blatant attempt by the smut peddlers -to not only show their filth in Suffolk County but now to further our county by filming their depraved acts of perversion However he said he did not know who made the film: film had no credits no he said starts like an old stag film dees Right Arthur Strolio left owner of the Pine Cinema leaves police headquarters in Coram yesterday after being charged with promoting obscenrty for showing the film "All in the Sex Family" A Clear-Cut Case of Brine vs Brawn fishing he said no reason in hell why we get some of the justice due us because of what Koltz said the trawler destroyed or damaged $35000 in fishing equipment and cost him $30000 in profits His suit asks that the Bulgarian trawler Limoza which was captured in US territorial waters Saturday remain in US control until the Bulgarian government satisfies his claim for damages In a separate action against the Limoza yesterday US Attorney Paul Curran filed a suit in Manhattan asking forfeiture of the ship its tackle and other fishing equipment and its cargo of 132 tons of mackerel He said that his suit if successful would put tlie vessel under Justice Department jurisdiction Hie Limoza is being held by the Coast Guard at Governors Island in New York Harbor Ashing about 10 miles off Fire Island when the 270-foot Bulgarian trawler Chikoniya and crossed his fixed lobster lines transmitted several to the captain Koltz told Judge Orrin Judd despite the warning he crossed through our field cf markers and Koltz said he and his crew took photographs of the incident and the damage to his gear He said he reported the incident to the Coast Guard the Bureau of Fisheries and the State Department and during the past two-and-a-half years even went to congressional hearings all of which was to no He tried unsuccessfully to get a lien on same Bulgarian property in the US but was told by lawyers and government officials that all such property buildings cars eta was protected by dimplomatic agreement no diplomatic immunity on a By Sam Washington It has taken more thin two and a half yeans but Kevin Koltz of Brentwood may finally get some satisfaction from the Bulgarian government Koltz the president of Trans-Atlantic Seafood Corp of Manhattan went to UJS District Court in Brooklyn yesterday and filed a daim for $65000 that he said the Bulgarian government owes him for damages caused by a run-in with a Bulgarian fishing trawler on May 2 1971 He hopes that another Bulgarian trawler seized in US waters Saturday will provide a basis for his claim In the suit Koltz 35 said that he was commanding the 62-foot lobster-fishing vessel Great Eastern when the incident occurred He said his vessel wa3.