European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 Dick Tracy creator Chester Gould Dies at 84 a Chester pick Tracy comic in the crime filled has died at sat Jean Oconnell of ill health for some a heart attack in who created the strip from ideas spawned streets of depression Era at the age of Gould died at Home said his he had been in time and had suffered Tracy was born in the Days of the de prohibition and in the celebrated cases of Dick published in Gould was quoted As saying i decided that if the police  catch the id create a fellow who he was very fascinated with crime and the idea of the strip came from Oconnell said in a Telephone Gould created the character while a Young struggling he had worked for five Chicago newspapers and had tried to sell a variety of comic strip ideas since born in Gould wanted to come to Chicago to make a Success of himself and his goal was the Chicago Oconnell in May he sent drawings of Dick Tracy to a new York but the strip want published until March Dick Tracy was the first strip to depart from the funnies delighting in graphic details such As bullets passing through Heads and pools of Tracy battled no Ordinary villains the a faceless Man whose name was Frank re drum murder spelled Jerome Short spelled backward a midget who was scalded to death in a Shower the a miser who lived under a photo cartoonist Chester Gould in studio i wanted my villains to stand out definitely ground a world War ii Bootleg Ger a killer for hire prune face Haman deaf Angelton and i wanted my villains to stand out definitely so that there would be no mistake who the villain Gould once tracks friends were no less there was gravel who married who begat sparkle plenty Junior the adopted Street Urchin who be came a police artist diet inventor of the two Way wrist to and the space Coupe the lunar Princess who married Junior but was killed by the bad Guys Vita min the and Sam tracks Tracy proposed to Tess Truehart in and married her on Christmas daughter Bonnie braids was born two years later and Joseph Flint heart Tracy 24 years after in and later in saturday matinee movie serials and on the Tracy was the Tough Dick who could gun Down a gangster and then deliver a Little Sermon Johnny min Worth paid the Price for living a careless he made his first mistake when he kept company with a girl who was a perfume he thought she was Dick Tracy brought a complaint in when the Patriot news dropped the strip and one saying these strips Are not violence is the sole reason for their terrorism is grist for their Gould had lived in a town of about residents located 40 Miles Northwest of since he worked on the strip from his Home for Many his daughter he retired in the strip is now done by Dick Locher and Max in addition to his Gould is sur Vived by his and several grand services Are pending in Woods we lost a giant Locher said in a Telephone interview saturday from Orlan where he was attending a meeting of the association of american editorial theres going to be a moment of silence tonight at our Locher who said the strip ran in almost newspaper at its Peak and is run by More than 500 newspapers started working with Gould in Dick Tracy was totally to tally believable and totally he was my Locher Radical sought in armoured car heist arrested in new York up Marilyn Jean a member of the liberation army wanted in the 1981 brinks armoured car Holdup in new York state that left two policemen and a guard was arrested the Fri Fri director William Webster said in a statement from Washington that arrested shortly after 10 in Dobbs about 40 Miles from the she had been a fugitive since she escaped from a Federal prison in West Virginia in june 1977 where she was serving a sentence on weapons she was arrested with Linda sue who was indicted in new up Nam in March on charges she has harboured Buck As a Webster said the two were arrested without even though they were armed with Webster said Buck had been harboured in Safe houses during her years As a she was indicted in the Holdup of a brinks armoured car in near Dobbs on Federal Bank robbery conspiracy charges and on state charges of murder and armed remnants of the Radical weather underground and Black liberation army ambushed the killing a brinks guard and wounding two two police offi cers were killed in a subsequent shootout As the robbers tried to escape with a White member of the Black liberation army and one of several radicals still wanted in the Nanuet left Federal prison in in june 1977 on a furlough to meet with her lawyer and did not she had been serving a sentence on Federal weapons charges stemming from convictions in California and an Fri spokesman said Buck was being taken to Fri Headquarters in new York and was scheduled to appear monday before a five other radicals Are serving prison sentences in the Nanuet four of those convicted Are weather underground Kathy Boudin pleaded guilty to murder and robbery charges and is serving 20 Samuel is serving 75 years to life for murder and Judith Clark and David Loudins Are both serving 75 years to life for murder and Bla member Kumasi Balagon is serving 75 years to life for murder and Boudin had been sought for More than 10 years in a bomb factory explosion that destroyed a townhouse in new Yorks Greenwich Village on March three people were killed in the blast Diana Theodore and an unidentified Surprise witness at Dotson hearing Chicago a the Man identified by Cathleen Crowell Webb As a teenage sex partner testified saturday that the two never completed the sex contradicting her account of Why she fabricated the Story that Gary Dotson raped David said in testimony during the final Day of a clemency hearing called by James Thompson that he and the former Cathleen Crowell had sex anywhere from five to 30 times in but said he always interrupted the of has said that her fear of pregnancy prompted her to fabricate the Story she was raped july a saturday now an air Force senior airman stationed at was a Surprise witness at the which began thurs Day and wound up saturday after testimony by More than two dozen the final witness saturday was Barbara who urged that her son be i just know my son is she i think a Mother senses when a child is Thompson presided Over the hearing of the Illinois prisoner review which will recommend whether to Grant clemency for Dot the Board met privately after the hear ing under state its recommendation is not made Thompson has said he hoped to act on the recommendation within of suburban country club has served six years of a 25to 50 year sentence for the rape of for Merly of suburban he is free on Bond pending in Webb came Forward and said Dotson did not rape and she wanted him at a hearing on april judge Richard Samuels said be didst believe Webb and ordered Dotson returned to who had refused to testify at the court testified that he was not with Webb any later than the weekend before the alleged because they customarily had sex on it was never at any time during the week Thompson replied could the last time that you had inter course with Cathy Crowell Webb have been on july 8 Thompson because it was usually on week Beirne Ray an assistant Cook county states attorney who was one of two prosecutors at the said Webb did not have enough time with a transcript from the preliminary hearing in the Case to have memorized it for her trial Webb has said that her credibility As a witness was in part because she memorized a transcript of the preliminary theres no doubt in my mind that at the 1979 trial that woman was telling me the and other said Anna a former police officer who saw Webb at the Homewood police station after the alleged said she was crying she was holding her clothes i sat with my Arm around and she leaned against and she told me she was ashamed of what had happened to she adding that Webb had volunteered information about the alleged rape and was not pressed for dog team steals 8 canines from research Kennel a a group calling itself the dog team has claimed it snatched eight dogs from a Man who Sells animals for research the sheriffs office said a woman who telephoned the sheriffs office anonymously said dog team Mem Bers placed the canines in new she said the dogs were taken May 4 from a Kennel run by Morris Hippert of new who she claimed had illegally acquired the animals and was mistreating Hippert is licensed by the department of agriculture to acquire dogs for Sale to re search including the University of he reported the theft last according to records kept by Hippert As required by the the eight dogs were acquired the sheriffs office a spokeswoman for the sheriff said authorities know the woman identity and that three to six people were thought to belong to the dog