European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday. January 1. 1988 the stabs and stripes Page 7 got everybody gunman quoted russellv1lle. Ark. A a Man accused of killing 14 relatives and two other people in one of the worst mass slaying this decade said after he fired his last shot that i got everybody who wanted to Hurt a witness said wednesday. I be come to do what i wanted to s All Over r. Gene Simmons or. Told a woman he held hostage at Wood line motor freight inc. According to Robert Wood president of the trucking company. Shortly thereafter. Simmons released the woman and surrendered to police. Police say the arrest ended a rampage that began monday morning when a Secretary who reportedly had a pumped Sim Mons advances was shot to death in the Law office where she worked. One other person was killed and four wounded at three other businesses in this Small a Kansas River Valley City before Simmons put Down his two .22-Calibcr handguns police say. Authorities then discovered the bodies of five family members at Simmons Home near Dover an Ozark Mountain Foothills town about 13 Miles North of Russellville. On tuesday the bodies of nine More relatives including his wife. Becky were found outside the Home seven in a shallow grave and two in car trunks. Prosecutor John Bynum on wednes Day filed two counts of capital murder and four of attempted murder against the 47-year-old Simmons. Bynum said he would seek to have Simmons executed if he is convicted. It was a cruel and senseless act that was committed and the death penalty would certainly be Bynum said. Fie also said he would eventually file charges against Simmons in the deaths of the 14 family members. Simmons was being held in the county jail at Kussel Vilie pending a psychiatric examination at a state Hospital. The first victim monday was Legal Sec David Saylor. A i Cairn of the Russel Hifle. Ark shootings talks la reporter in Little Rock from his Hospital bed. Rotary Kathy Kendrick. 24, shot to death at her desk. The gunman then killed . Chaffin. 33. And wounded Rusty Taylor.38, a former employer of Simmons at Taylor Oil co. At Sinclair mini Man also owned by Taylor he wounded Man Ager David Salyer 38, and employee Roberta Wool cry 46. Simmons then went to Wood inc motor freight and wounded office manager Joyce Butts. 35. Wood said Kendrick had spurned Simmons More than a year ago. When both worked at the trucking company. She reported the advances to Butts Anat that Point everything did Wood said. When Simmons entered the trucking company monday and did t see bulls he made it a Point to look around. He found her Wood said. Wood said he did t realize what was happening at first. My first impression tvs this is a joke because it was such a bizarre Wood said. But Simmons sister in Law. Edith Nesby of Briggsdale. Colo., said she was not surprised at the rampage. You Don t want to think he would do something like that but you Kleiv he was capable of doing Nesby told the a Kansas Gazelle. Nosby said her sister it Simmons. Now a retired air Force master sergeant. Al a United service organization dance. She was a Beautiful girl she had her pick and she picked that said Nesby. She said mrs. Simmons was abused Buher husband but would not leave him. Neighbors said the Simmons children seemed afraid of their father. In new Mexico where the family for Merly lived court records show that Sim Mons was charged with incest six years ago. The charges were dropped but Nesby and other Rabi Ives said Simmons was believed to have fathered a 6-Ycar-old granddaughter who was among the dead. Mix up causes a patient death Philadelphia a veterans administration officials wednesday recommended disciplinary action against 11 Hospital workers in the death of a Man who was Given the wrong lest because of an identity mix up. The death of John w. Martin. 39. Of Philadelphia was an Accident that should have been prevented a officials said. We Don t plan to said John Lee. Director of the a s mid allanic Region. He declined to say exactly what action might be taken against the employees who had some part in Themi up. Martin died nov. 5 at the Philadelphia a medical Center of an All Cujic reaction to the Dye used in a cat scan he received the Day before. The cat scan a computerized a Ray of Trie brain was intended for another patient of the same name. Said Lee and or. Herbert Baganz. Lee and Baganz said the identity mix up began at the Coates Villa a Hospital where both men were treated before Martin was transferred to Philadelphia. He had been in an alcohol rehabilitation program in Coates Ville. The wrong patient s request for a cat scan was placed on the wrong patient s said Baganz. Nurses and staff failed to proc Rev identify the he said there were safeguards built into the patient record system that should have either prevented the mix up or brought it 10 Light before Martin had Theca scan. This was a tragic in each he said. The episode that occurred was due to an improper Transfer and there were deficiencies in identification of the patient and deficiencies in the performance of pair acquitted in $3.3 million robbery Tucson. Ariz. Map two men have been cleared of Bank robbery charges in what officials Call the richest Bank heist in . History a 1981 theft of $3.3 million. Jurors in . District coun deliberated about three hours tuesday before acquitting David grands Alt. 44, and Douglas Brown. 41, both of pcs Moines. Iowa. The trial included 120 exhibits and 75 witnesses but the key prosecution witness was described by chief assistant . Attorney Daniel Knauss As a Low life not the kind of person you d want your daughter to Knauss asked the jury to ignore the past of his wit Ness. Douglas Bruce Finimore of pcs Moines who earlier pleaded guilty in use Case and to concentrate on the evidence. Thai s the Way the system works and i be got to accept the jury s verdict he said afterwards. Or a of not Brown had been charted in the april 22. 1981. Robbery of the Tucson Cash repository of first National Bank now first interstate Bank of Arizona. Less than is million has been recovered. Finimore became a government witness after pleading guilty in a plea bargain under which his 20 year sentence could be reduced to receiving parole i february. Finimore also turned Over s962.i67 to the govern ment when he was arrested in july i9s1 in Iowa. Brown now serving 22 years for 1980 jewel robberies in Phoenix and Walnut Creek calif., and Grandstaff serving 17 years for the same robberies were arrested in Denver in september 1981. During closing arguments defense attorney Jeffrey Minker said Fenimore had perjured himself before grand jury in 1977 and practice turning Back odometers at his used car business in pcs Moines. The prosecution had a Tough Lime with its Minker said. They came with a lot of excess she was a Good Mold with 1 flow Glendale. Calif. A during the past year police said. Ana Rubidia Guevara look More than 500 items including 60 sweaters a pair of Contact lenses and 16 packages of denial floss from the Home where she worked for 4 v years. "1 know it sounds Jean Simp son a teacher and author said. She said she had been so Busy that it was a year before she got around to investigating the mysterious doings inner Home. Her husband. James is a Deputy District attorney for los Angeles county. Guevara is scheduled to be arraigned Jan. 11 in Glendale municipal court on two counts of grand in Chi. If convicted she faces up to three years and eight months in prison. I be been terribly said mrs. Mother s been ill and we be had to sell her House and move everything but after More than a year of disappearing items the Simpsons finally called the police. I had no reason to think she was taking mrs. Simpson said of her maid. She was the mos responsible reliable housekeeper i Ever had. I mean even the Day she was being arrested she looked me in the Eye and said to me. Mrs. Simpson. I would t do this i would t take any thing so you could imagine my devastation two or three hours later when the police look me Down to her apartment with a search warrant to identify the merchandise. I was absolutely the search of Guevara s apartment turned up about $40.000 Worth of clothing jewelry an trinkets. Mrs. Simpson said she shares clothes with her two College age daughters and had believe some of the sweaters and other items missing from her closet had simply been borrowed
