Journal Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 2

(ZOJomalGaaatat Hoijsg smelled Dike dead rats He has spirit her well at the start of their marriage. "He swept me off my feet," she said. Then she found a couple of wallets belonging to youths in the car. And be showed his temper. "He would throw furniture," she said.

"He broke a lot of my furniture." boy. Then be was charged with hiring someone to beat a boy who was scheduled to testify against him. He pleaded guilty to the sodomy charge and the other charge was dropped. He went to the Iowa State Men's reformatory, served 18 months of a 10-year sentence, was paroled in 1971 and returned to Chicago. stayed overnight at the bouse but neighbors never beard any suspicious noise.

Grexa said his son, Ronald, worked for Gacy a short time and quit after Gacy propositioned him. Two men in thei 20s who worked for Rignall said Gacy made it clear to many of his employees he wanted more than physical labor. Arthur Peterson, 2fi, said Gacy hired him, then tried to molest him. "He said he had a gun. He said, 'Do you know how easy it would be to get one of my guns and kill you and how easy it would be to get rid of the body? with his second wife.

Most said be was gregarious, threw a party for 400 every summer and was a precinct captain. He liked to dress up as a down and said he performed for children at parties and at area hospitals. He showed one picture of himself dressed as a clown standing next to the late Mayor Richard Daley Gacy's living room was adorned with a large picture of a clown, one neighbor, Mrs Lillian Grexa, said. Neighbors did see many young men go to the bouse Gacy used as an office for his business. Edward Grexa, who lives nearby, said young boys who worked for Gacy sometimes "I think now, if there were He worked for a Northwest Side remodeline company' murders, some must have before founding his own com- taken place when I was in that VANCOUVER, British Columbia (UPI) -Hoot people will be oatidf Christmas dinner at bmm wttn tuaihr and friends, but or Vu-comer youth bat decided to have his drum sticks In a Bhooeboota.

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But MwUtateattttklorethougBt. A University of Colorado pharmacy researcher sa ys the heMbtiieth(kospiriabeioredrinian akohottc beverage can reduce the chances of a thamptaf headache the next day has scientific basis. Dr. Allan C. Coffins, associate professor of pharmacy at CU, Friday said his laboratory work which started a year ago, represented a major breakthrough ia the study of aspirin and bouse.

nany, PDM (Painting, Decorat always a strange odor, "like dead rats," she said. Gacy fTpiinx to her that stagnant water was trapped the crawl space. Goer's first wife, Marilyn, obtained a divorce and custody of their two children after he pleaded guilty to a sodomy charge. She (fid not want her present name made public. Mrs.

Lofgren, who was divorced from him in 1976 and remarried, accused him of seeing other woman. After their divorce he talked to her about being a bisexual, she said. They had met about 1958 while students at Shun High School and bad one date, she said. They did not see other tor years afterward. During those years, he moved to Springfield, sold shoes and met his first wife, then to Waterloo where be worked for a fried chicken franchise owned by his first father-in-law.

Gacy was named outstanding vice president of the Waterloo chapter of the Jaycees. His life as an upstanding citizen of Waterloo ended when be was indicted on a sodomy charge involving a teen-age CHICAGO (UPI) John Wayne Gacy, successful contractor, friendly neighbor, Democratic precinct captain, down at children's parties, father and stepfather of four hadadarkstde. He had an erratic temper, was twice-divorced, had a record of sex crimes, sometimes kept the wallets of youths his car and had a crawl space under his bouse that smelted like "dead rats" and contained bodies. Police investigating the disappearance of a teen-ager who had said be planned to apply tor a Job with Gacy began finding bodies at the house in an unincorporated area northwest of the dty Thursday night They found more in the crawl mace and beneath the garage Friday and searched again today. "I remember that crawl space," said Gacy's second wife.

Carol Lofgrec "It smelled bad. It smelled worse than dead rats. John said it smelled because rt was dark and wet" Her mother, who lived the bouse briefly with Gacy and her daughter, agreed. There was But, she said, "I would never think John would murder I was a nervous wreck when 1 lived with him, but I cannot comprehend murder." Gacy's neighbors knew nothing about his marital trouble ing and Maintenance) Contractors. His first wife described him as "a likeable salesman who could charm it right out of you." But during a trip she made to her parents' home in Springfield in 1967, be engaged in homosexual acts at their house.

"None of those things ever went on when I was around," she said. Gacy's second wife, who had two children from her first marriage, said Gacy treated 0 oo 'LWt Crazy mouse CELEBRATE CHRISTT.1AS WITH US Joy fo the world! the Lord is come, MnOON. ILLINOIS nURXAL GAZETTE wbtiKd dotty eaiepi Sdoys georol (9ol hoi. day by Cale Publish') Uh oi 1 00 I' oodvo Aeioo 0 So 559 Mo'toor Kimoj 6138 Sod das pot'ag pa-d a' Aoltoor Illinois Home di- 'ctes Mattoop ord A(o 52 80 26 $230 3 1 Of 90 Mo-isub-. T-on iQs nc hom sutf 'P' ur 'i wipape' vocf oue Police refused to investigate BIRMINGHAM.

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CHURCH SCHOOL 10:30 A.M. 7:30 P.M. -Family Candle Lighting Service Christmas Story to Children 1 1 :00 P.M. -Community Candle Lighting Service Buffet following service Special Invitation to all College Students Nurseries Provided during oil services. Kev Westminster Ctair tKig Station fUH flhoh triefs him for treatment at St.

Joseph's Hospital, but they refused to try to help him find Gacy. Rignall said he rented a car, drove to the approximate area be thought the assault look place and found the house. He then sat outside in the car until he recognized Gacy as the man who raped him, he said. "I called the police department and said he was home and they should arrest him, but they wouldn't do anything. They wouldn't cooperate at all.

"They (police) say they're going to pursue it now," he said. "They could have saved some fives if they would have done it earlier." Rignall said he suffered liver damage because of the length of time he was under the influence of chloroform and "I almost died injury." He could offer no explanation as to why he wasn't killed. "I have no idea," he said. "I just thank God that I'm here." CHICAGO (UPI) A 27-year-old man Friday said he told police John Gacy, suspected of killing as many as 32 teen-agers, forced him to inhale chloroform and raped him last March, but authorities refused to investigate. Jeff Rignall pressed both criminal and civil charges against Gacy after the March 21 incident.

Both cases are pending Rignall said be was on the Near North Side when "a very clean-cut looking person pulled up in a car and offered to share a Joint (marijuana) with me." "I got in the car and then he suddenly placed a rag (soaked with chloroform) over my face and everytime I would start to come to, he would place the rag over my face again. "I would catch glimpses of things. I remembered being carried into his house. "The next thing I knew I was waking up in Lincoln Park early the next morning with bruises on my face and rectal bleeding." Rignall said police took YJP urns i Saturday, Dec. 23 7:05 P.M.

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Ignoring flesh CHICAGO UPI State Rep. Eugema Chapman sa ys Illinois school facials are obeying the tetter of sex dtscrimica-tion laws hut are ignoring "the Oesh onthe bones." Mrs. Chapman, D-Arlington Heights, ttriotnmbenW the Blare Commtewiaa the Status of Women released results Friday of a survey of state school districts No contempt CHICAGO (IT! I A federal judge has refused kt bold state correctional officials in contempt oa charges of disobeying court orders to ease the deadlock at PonUac Correctional Center S. District Judge John Powers Crowley Friday also re-instated a Nov preliminary injimrtioa granting prisoners some privffleges, but he reduced tome of the privileges. The MS.

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