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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday May 23, 19bb the stars and stripes Paga 5 school killer also poisoned snacks arsenic found in children s juice fraternities food Winnetka. Iii. A the 30-year-old woman who shot seven people before killing herself Friday had earlier delivered arsenic lain cd juice to at least six names and poisoned snacks to two College fraternities police said saturday. Afler students began getting sick from the snacks police investigators discovered the new acts Commil cd by Laurie Dann on Friday before she opened fire in an elementary Schun classroom killing one child and mounding five others. As details emerged about the bizarre final hours of Darin s life hundreds a parents and children touched Bilio tragedy gathered at the school o discuss the shootings and Pray for the victims and Dann. Social workers talked privately with some of them. While they prayed and talked police continued their investigation. The situation with Laurie has not ended/1 Vinni a police chief Herbert Timm said he said police believe Dunn dropped off the con laminated snacks before going tin a so aging spree in the Lubbard Woods elementary school and then shoaling and wounding a 20-year-old Man in a nearby Home. Dann ended the rampage by shooting and kill ing herself. Before the shooting began she dropped off fruit juice laced with arsenic Al the doors of us Homes where she once worked As a baby Siller in the Chicago suburbs of Glencoe Highland Park and unincorporated  said. One Glencoe girl became ill after sipping he juice but was never taken to a Hospital Timm said. A High land Park child was taken to Highland Park Hosp Al As a precaution. Laboratory tests showed the juice contained arsenic Winn Lka police sgt. Gene Kalvaitis said. But he said he did t know How much arsenic was in the juice. At one of inc Homes the juice carried a note that read love your Little Sisters.  Timm said police Don t know Why Dann delivered arsenic tainted Rice Kris pies snacks to the Alpha Tau Omega and Psi Upsilon fraternities Al Northwestern University in nearby Evanston. Though he added thai she did have a Friend at the Northwestern  a Northwestern spokesman. Ken wilds said a Laboratory analysis conducted by inc University confirmed the presence of arsenic. A subsequent analysis by a police Laboratory showed the snacks contained a very heavy concentration of  Kalvo Ilis hid. Timm said police found o syringe at an apartment where Dann stayed and investigators believed she used that to inject arsenic into inc snacks. Evanston in spinal said it treated is people linked to the snacks delivered 10 the fraternities. In addition a Northwestern athlete who reported becoming queasy after eating the snacks at his fraternity House was treated saturday Al the University of Michigan medi Cal Center in Ann Arbor while his team was playing in the big ten track and Field championships. At Dann s Madison wis., apartment authorities said they found a list of people who received inc drink deliveries and also recovered two vials of powdered substances one Black and one White Timm said thai on Friday Dann walked into in Hubbard Woods school shot one Bay in a Ball room and then entered a classroom where she shot and killed an 8-year-old boy and wounded four other Chil Dren. She later wounded the 20-year-old Man As he wrestled a gun away from her Al a nearby Home where she holed up before killing herself. Four of the wounded children were listed in critical condition saturday. On saturday.  Tom Sawyer said he and Many of his friends were freaked when they heard the shots inside the school. Scared no. Now thai 1 know Dann is dead i m Fine. A couple of my friends Are still scared. A lot of them Are sad he said. I just think it i sad for such a Lille kid he added referring to the slain youngster Nicholas Corwin who was a soccer pal of his. Police believe Dann became distraught when a family Hal hired her to baby sit said they were leaving Illinois. Before the shootings she tried to set fire to the family s Home and another school police said. They also believe she tried to serve contaminated milk to the family s children. Dann s unexplained spree of violence and the siege that followed were a nine hour Nightmare for residents of this affluent suburb just North of Chicago. Winn Lka is a very quiet sedate bedroom Community said sgt. Jim Brewer a 22-year police Veteran. No one Ever thinks  this would occur  the last murder he said occurred 31 Yean Ngo when a police officer was shot. It s disconcerting but it s an Odd  said Irene Kerr 38, who lives across the str Cal from the school. I will never happen  the discussions Al the school were closed to the news Media bul some of the people leaving said participants had prayed for the victims and Dan n. Or. Ira Sloan chairman of the psychiatry depart Mem at Evans Lon Hospital said there was a wide Range of reactions nning those at the meeting. There were children who were crying Sloan said. There were children helping each other hugging each other and handing kleenex to each other. There were children who were  Liz Dickey 37, will she was trying to allay inc fears of her 6-year-old son by telling him that Dann was a sick person it s something Hal usually does t happen Dickey said. The children Lack a certain amount of safely Al this Point. We have to help them realize that it s an isolated incident at Evans Lon Hospital on saturday. Lindsay Fisher 8, was in crib real bul unstable condition As doctors performed More surgery a spokesman said Mark to Bourck. 8, Robert Trossman 6, and Kathryn Miller 7, were listed in critical bul stable condition. At Highland Park Hospital Peter Munro 8. And Philip Andrew 20, were in serious bul stable Condi Tion according 10 a spokeswoman. Graduation exercise Scott Mcnemry Caps  ceremonies at the University of California at Berkeley by attempting � Burup on n slalom skit nearby aquatic Park. Mormon official Romney Dies at his Home at 90 recently appointed the a Cal most senior a Oslic Howard w. Hunter As acting president of the twelve. Romney was one of the architects of the Church s Cylc Sivc welfare system which was created in 1936. He was called to general leadership in the Church in april 1941 As an assistant to the Council of the twelve. He was named in october 1951 to the twelve which helps the governing i rec member first presidency and became a member of the first presidency in 1972. Romney is survived by two sons and eight grandchildren. His wife Ida Jensen Romney died in 1979. Salt Lake City a Marion g. Romney president of the mormon Church s Council of the twelve Apo sulcs and one of the Faith s Genera authorities for 47 years died Here. He was 90. Church spokesman Don life arc said Romney died at his Home of causes Inci Dent to age. As the most senior member of inc twelve Romney was Neil in line let be come president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lailur Day saints. However be cause of his advanced age and railing health. Romney had Noi been Active in Church leadership for several Yean. Church president Ezra tuft Benson Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 23, 1948 semantic isl James b. 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