European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday november 26, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 master of disguise held in 20 robberies from coast to coast Detroit a a Man accused of pulling off More than 20 Bank robberies Over 2vi years from coast to coast by using various disguises has been ordered held in a Federal prison. Antonio Johnson 26, was ordered held in the Federal corrections Institute in Milan on Bank robbery charges said assistant . Attorney Mike Lavoie. In issuing the order . Magistrate Lynn Hooe said Johnson was a danger to the Community. Evidence presented at a detention hearing showed that he confessed to robbing More than 20 Banks and savings and Loans according to Lavoie. Johnson surrendered nov. 15 to the Fri in Detroit offering information about a robbery two Days earlier of a com Erica Bank Branch near Detroit police Headquarters said Kenneth Walton special agent in charge of the Detroit Fri office. If indicted and convicted of Bank Rob Bery Lavoie said Johnson faces a Maxi mum 20 years in prison and a $5,000 Fine. Lavoie said Johnson also May face Simi Lar charges in states where other Bank robberies occurred. After several Days of interrogation the Fri linked him to up to 22 robberies committed from new York to san Francisco citing Back to 1982, Fri special agent John Anthony said. Before his surrender authorities said they were unaware a single person masterminded the robbery spree because of Johnson s use of disguises to change his race sex and age. To put it simply he was a master of disguise Walton said. The suspect used Superb makeup work wigs false beards mustaches eyelashes and rubber inserts to alter the shape of his nose a whole bag of  Johnson allegedly began the robbery spree after he was released in february 1982 from the Michigan reformatory in Ionia where he was serving time on a state armed robbery conviction Walton said. Suspect used Superb makeup work to carry out his coast to coast robbery spree. Cops acquitted in death of subway Graffiti Crawler new York a six White transit police officers have been acquitted of All charges in the death of a Black Man who died after being arrested for scrawling Graffiti on a subway station Wall. The jury which did not include tiny Blacks reached its decision sunday in the death of Michael Stewart in its seventh Day of deliberations. Three of the officers had been charged with criminally negligent homicide assault and perjury and three with perjury. Stewart 25, was arrested in september 1983 for writing on a subway Wall in Manhattan was taken bruised and comatose about half an hour later to a Hospital where he died after Days without having regained consciousness. Prosecutors said Stewart had been kicked clubbed and choked. Defense lawyers said the Brooklyn Man was drunk and died of a heart attack while violently resisting arrest. Or. Elliott Gross the City s chief medical examiner had Texas a makers want Gorbachev to be Good Guy fort Worth Texas up a Hal maker s plan to Send soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev a White hat for sitting Down with president Reagan has sparked a Small scale cold War Between Dallas and fort Worth. It All started when Irving Joel president of resistor hats in the Dallas suburb of Garland announced he would Send Gorbachev a hat. The Only Snag was he did not have Gorbachev s size. Resistor s rival Peters Brothers hatters of fort Worth jumped into the publicity stunt saying Gorbachev should have the Best hat Texas has to offer one of theirs. While resistor was Busy looking for Gorbachev s hat size Petera Brothers designed a $500 hat called the Lenin to Send to Gorbachev. But they ran into the same problem that has slowed the plans of resistor just How big is Gorbachev s head so William Lightfoot a Friend of Tom Peters sr., the 94-year-old president of Peters Brothers contacted House democratic Leader Jim Wright of fort Worth and asked him to Call Gorbachev to get his size. I d like for Jim to take the hat to Russia and give it to him Light fool said. And if Wright won t do it Light foot says he will Send someone else. Just As soon As we gel the hat size Well be on our Way he said and that should be the end of the great Texas hat. Race. Testified that Stewart died from the effects of acute intoxication being under police restraint and injuries that caused Blunt Force  or. Thomas Graboys an expert in sudden cardiac death testified that blows to Stewart s upper body could have disrupted his heart rhythm and resulted in heart failure. He also said that alcohol might not have played a role in the death. Stewart s father Millard and his Mother Carrie sat quietly As the jury verdict was read. With tears in her eyes mrs. Stewart declined comment on the verdict. Her husband said nothing to reporters. None of the jurors the defendants or their lawyers would talk to reporters after the verdict was returned. About 20 supporters of the Stewart family stood outside the courthouse and shouted murderers Louis Clayton Jones the stewarts lawyer said he was t surprised at All. This Case was carefully tailored to achieve the results we see Here today he said. Judge Jeffrey Atlas had told the jurors they could con vict three of the six police officers on trial of criminally negligent homicide or assault even if the defendants never touched Stewart. He explained that a crime could be committed by not doing something when a person has a duty to act and is Able to  although some of the prosecution s 25 eyewitnesses said they saw police hit and kick Stewart none could identify any defendant As having done so. Three of the defendants officers John Kostick 26, Anthony Piscola 50, and Henry Boerner 42, had been charged with criminally negligent homicide assault and perjury. The other three sgt. Henry Hassler 41, sgt. James Barry 41, and officer Susan Techky 33, had been charged with perjury lying when they told a grand jury they saw no one kick Stewart. Big Joe Turner blues great Turner Dies of heart attack Inglewood Calif. Up blues and jazz Singer big Joe Turner the original performer of the Rock classic shake rattle and Roll who also appeared with count Basic and Duke Ellington in a Ca reer that spanned five decades died sunday. He was 74 years old. Turner had been ill for the past two months and died at Daniel Freeman Hospital of a heart attack a Hospi Tal spokesman said. He also suffered kidney failure and complications from a stroke two years ago. Turner was perhaps Best known for shake rattle and  the song later became a hit record for Bill Haley and the comets in the Early Days of the Rock Era and is now a Rock v Roll classic. Turner followed with another rhythm and blues classic flip Flop and  the rotund blues great was born Joseph Vernon Turner in Kansas City mo., in 1911. He started his career in the 1930s As part of the Early Kansas City jazz scene that also launched Basic. Mary Katherine Aldin a Friend of Turner s and Host of a local blues radio show said he was the most re corded blues artist in history with nearly 200 albums to his credit. He had been nominated for several Gram mys most recently this year for have no fear big Joe Turner is  an inexhaustible performer Turner appeared at such famed jazz and blues venues As the Apollo Thea Ter in Harlem. He was a regular at the Newport and Monterey jazz festivals. His last club appearance was at tramps in new York about two months ago Aldin said