European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Sex con suspect in 4 slayings monday August 27, 1990 the stars and stripes k k k Page 7 in Boulder Colo. Apr an escaped convict suspected in four slayings including an attack on a group of target shooters that killed two was wounded and captured saturday after an extensive manhunt authorities said Michael g. Bell was shot in the neck As he ran from a bar and attempted to escape in a car said Boulder sheriffs it. Joe gang. Officers who had been tipped off were waiting in the car. Bell was taken to Boulder Community Hospital where he was in serious condition a nursing super i so said. Bell 36, escaped from the four mile correctional Center in Canon City on aug. 5, he is suspected of being the Man who rounded up five men As they practice target shooting in the mountains Friday and then opened fire. Two men were killed and a third was seriously injured. Bell was also being sought for questioning in the fatal shootings of a 36-Ycar-old transient tuesday in Boulder Canyon and a 20-year-old convenience store clerk in Broomfield on aug. 15, gang said. After fridays attack roadblocks were set up in Boulder and on roads throughout the Pine covered mountains and Steep canyons Northwest of the City. It was described As Boulder county a largest manhunt in 15 years., authorities said Bell contacted someone he knew arid asked that person 19 provide a car so he could escape. Instead gang said the person tipped off a Tho ties. When Bell arrived at the Boulder City limits a bar deputies were waiting in the car he planned to take. Identities of the two men killed Friday were not immediately released. The wounded were Timothy Bendel described As in his 20s, who was shot in the head and was listed in serious condition at Boulder Community Hospital and Michael Victor 22, who was treated and released after a Bullet grazed his head a Hospital official said Matthew Hickey 19, who fell while trying to escape the shootings was treated for a knee injury and released said assistant Boulder county sheriff Dave Voorhis the five men were in an area of the mountains used for target shooting and motorcycle Riding when Bell drove up in a Blue car and represented himself As an off duty Park Ranger Voorhis said. He took the serial numbers of the victims weapons and began to March them Back Down to a Road Voorhis said. Quot As the five were going Down to the Road he began shooting them Quot he said. The car which was stolen near Canon City on aug. 6, was found abandoned in Boulder later Friday. Liz Mcdonough a spokeswoman for the state department of corrections said Bell was admitted to the state prison system in 1988 and was serving a 12-year sentence for Check fraud and theft. She said Bell had an Illinois record and had served time in prison in that state including a sentence fora conviction for attempted murder in 1972, train kills 4 Brothers Delano Calif. Apr a four Brothers ranging in age from 1 to 7 were killed saturday when a freight train going nearly 70 Mph smashed into their stalled car As their frantic Mother tried to Flag the Engineer and Stop the locomotive. The Mother Leonini lenses 32, of Delano Quot got out of the Way right at the last moment a said police sgt Don Callahan. Trapped inside the wreckage were her children aged 1, 4, 6 and 7. Wilif we Al. It or ,7 a i. A a a Quot / fid Hihi. A i family tradition Sylvia and Oliver Dade of Pensacola fla., Are proud of the five marines in the family whose pictures hang on the Wall behind them. Sons it. Col. Steve Dade and sgt. Robin Dade Are in or in route to the Middle East and son in Law Chi. Denick Fulton is on a ship off Liberia. Daughter Chi. Stacey Fulton remains in the United states and another son Chi. Jeff Dade is a reservist. Budget crunch May Force Parks to operate with reduced staffs Cody Wyo. Apr National Parks Are being warned that they May have to fire some employees put others on unpaid temporary leave or even shut Down completely because of the Federal budget crisis. Quot we be sent a memo to every Park superintendent telling them to dust off their contingency plans to reduce operations a said Harold Danz of Denver the National Park services associate regional director for administration. A that could come to even include closing of Yellowstone National Park managers said they have received the Teton National Park in Wyoming and Bighorn Canyon National recreation area and Glacier National Park both in Montana received similar memos and letters for employees the Billings Mont Gazette reported saturday. The Federal budget already bogged Down by a huge deficit is being further stretched by the mounting costs of the massive . Military buildup in the Middle East. A unless Congress and the White House Compromise on a budget by the end of next month $100 billion in automatic cuts would take effect. Federal agencies have therefore taken the unusual step of warning employees that they might have to take unpaid furloughs of up to 22 Days to keep costs Down. National Park service employees should receive the warning letters monday Yellowstone spokeswoman Marsha Karle said. . Forest service Bureau of land management and other agencies will distribute similar letters this week. All Federal workers arc expected to receive similar letters by the end of the month. The last time a furlough was threatened was in 1982, when several thousand employees were kept from work for a few Days. Cutbacks could hit Yellowstone especially hard. The summer staff is far smaller than in previous years and rangers Are struggling to keep up with a record number of visitors. A we have fewer people doing More with less a Karle said. A this is All going to be hard for folks to take with morale already Down. Congress is far behind this year in passing an appropriations Bill for the department of the Interior. A if there Are no funds there is no Legal Way to spend Money a Danz said. A but we have to look at an orderly during world War ii he said similar cutbacks were required because of military expenditures. National Parks kept Skeleton staffs in Parks but shut Down most of their Public services. Karle said if reductions come Only top Yellowstone Park administrators and Law enforcement rangers would probably continue working. A a we re going to keep the Park open As Long As we can a Karle said. A shut if we do run out of Money we May have to take hard Steps to Cut of convicted a. Judge denied seized Harrisburg a. Apr a judge who was convicted of corruption charges that included haranguing an aide into loaning him $500 has been denied his pension and has had More than $ 150,000 in his retirement fund seized. The state employees retirement Board announced Friday it was denying the pension for former Cambria county judge Joseph o Kicki. His ret rement fund from 17 years on the Bench staling $156,299. Also was seized. I he Money will be used to pay $50,000 in fines of Kicki owes and other costs the Board said. Stale attorney general Ernie Preate or. Has tiled a claim in county court asking that of Kicki be held liable for $96,351 in investigative costs and $42,725 in trial costs. Board counsel Abbott a. Leban said lie expects the attorney general will present those costs for payment from o Kicki s pension contributions. O Kicki 59, was convicted in december 1989 on charges of corruption and was sentenced in june to serve two to five years in prison. Prosecutors said the judge improperly solicited a lawyer for a $500 loan that never was repaid asked for $500 from an aide who was promised a promotion that was never granted and had court aides clerks and secretaries perform personal chores such As feeding his dogs and chopping Wood. Senior judge Richard Grifo of Northampton county has ordered o Kicki to reimburse the state for about $140,000 m salary he received while lie was sus Pended from the Bench. O Kicki who has been free on $10,000 Bond said he would Appeal his conviction. A his lawyer James Mclovich was not in his office Friday afternoon and could not be reached for comment. The Board said it had not calculated what o Kicki s pension would have been it he had been eligible for benefits. Of Kickin a salary was $80,000 a year and the state contributed an amount equal to 12.3 percent of that to his retirement fund. A
