European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday july 9, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 74 killed when plane crashes on Illinois farm the associated press three Small planes flying in formation collided shortly after Takeoff sunday causing one to crash on an Illinois farm killing All four persons aboard an official said. It was one of five crashes involving Small planes Over the weekend. A in Washington three persons were killed late saturday when a plane crashed shortly after Takeoff from an Airstrip at Roche Harbor about 80 Miles Northwest of Seattle. The three died when their Small plane crashed and burst into flames near a Home outside the san Juan Island town. The amp a a single engine Beechraft Bonanza had just taken off from Roche Harbor air strip and was turning when it struck Trees and crashed. A in Denver a single engine piano crashed into a tree on a residential Street near Stapleton International Airport on sunday. No one on the ground was Hurt and the Pilot and a passenger suffered Only minor injuries. A in Pennsylvania a plane crash killed a bridegroom and his Best Man As they travelled to the wedding in Elmira . The bodies of Alan Pedersen 34, of Elmira and or. Scott Weitzel 33, of Lititz were found in the wreckage saturday. W Pedersen was to have been married saturday. A and in los Angeles a Small plane crashed into a storage tank a mile Short of the Pacoima Airport saturday killing both persons aboard. The planes in the Illinois collision were part of a five plane formation that had just taken off from Quincy municipal Airport said Adams county sheriff Robert Nall. Nall said the pilots were in the habit of flying in formation but he provided no other details about Why they flew together. One plane apparently got blown into the two others he said. One of the other planes flew 100 Miles South with a part of a Wing missing and landed safely at an Airport near St. Louis. The other Craft which May have sustained Only superficial damage landed at Mexico mo., Nall said. Persons in the planes saw the fourth spiral to the ground but did not report the crash Nall said. A they did no to bother calling Back a Nall said of the surviving pilots. A it was weird. Its like a  no one on the ground was Hurt. Two men and two women died. Their names were not released pending notification of relatives. 10 years later this town won t discuss bully s killing by Josh Lemieux the associated press Skidmore to. A key Rex Mcelroy a hulking Man with Long Black sideburns blew into town for the last time 10 years ago this week. Dozens of residents stood within Stone tossing distance outside the town s Only tavern when shots from two rifles rang out across the main Street and pierced the town bully a Skull. In the 100-degree heat Mcelroye a 250-Pound body bled in his pickup for More than 30 minutes before anyone called police. A me Elroy never saw his killers. Police done to believe that any of those residents saw them either. But 10 years two books two television movies and several police investigations later no one has been charged. Residents of the Northwestern Missouri farming Community of 400 done to like to talk about the killing. Many believe Mcelroy had it coming. A a it a time i think everybody ought to leave it Lay a said Dave Dunbar a Friend of Mcelroye a until folks persuaded him to become town marshal. Dunbar said Many Farmers accused Mcelroy of stealing livestock farm equipment and the hearts of their wives and daughters. Mcelroy 47, could empty the Pool Hall just by walking in. Even the police feared him Dunbar said. Mcelroy would come into town from his nearby farm heavily armed leading a caravan of pickups driven by his wife and his girlfriends. State Highway patrol sgt. Richard Stratton who had run ins with Mcelroy for 18 years said Mcelroy stalked those who planned to testify against him for hog stealing assault rape and attempted murder. On the Day he died a july 10, 1981 a Mcelroy was out on an Appeal Bond after being convicted of shooting 70-year-old Ernest Bowenkamp who ran a grocery store. About 50 men gathered in the american legion Hall that morning and complained that Mcelroy was getting away with too  several met Mcelroy in the tavern then followed him outside and watched him get in his truck with his wife Trena. What happened next  concern outsiders a decade later said Lois Bowenkamp whose husband died this year following an illness unrelated to the earlier gunshot wound. But Richard Gene Mcfadin the lawyer who successfully defended Mcelroy against 20 of 21 felony charges Ken Rex Mcelroy show i Here with his son was shot to death near a crowd of residents in july 1981. Over several years said Tolje Case should t be forgotten. A not Only was it a vigilante killing but the code of silence after the killing was highly unusual Quot Mcfadin said. A i think it made the town  Trena Mcelroy consistently testified that she saw Damp a tavern co owner Del Clement fire a Rifle at Mcelroy said Mcfadin. Clement has maintained his innocence. A coroners jury a county grand jury and a Federal grand jury heard Trena Mcelroy testify but none returned indictments said Nodaway county prosecutor David Baird. A it is not my impression that it was a vigilante killing a Baird said. A vigilante gives the idea that the town got together and decided to assassinate this Guy. 1 done to think that is supported by the  Trena Mcelroy moved to Southern Missouri and remarried. Mcfadin said she did no to want to be interviewed. July Days Are still scorchers in Skidmore. The tavern has changed hands a few times. More people arc dying or moving away than being born or settling in this town but no one has been slain since Mcelroy. A a there a no cold ice blooded killers in that town a said Stratton. A it was a Spur of the moment thing i  of Maryland solidifies ties to British founder a the new York times College Park my. University of Maryland students will participate in an overseas program Over the next five years that officials say will solidify a jink Between the University and its 17th-Century founding family in Britain. A five year $75,000 contract signed this month will enable University students and researchers to use the buildings and grounds of Kiplin Hall a country Manor built in the 1620s by George Calvert the first lord Baltimore. Lord Baltimore established the Colony that would later become Maryland. A great grandson Charles Benedict Calvert secured the 1856 land Grant that eventually became the University. A a that a the tie we try to make a said Davi Dodg 1 a the associate professor of architecture who directs the program. A a it a the University recognizing its  Fogle left last week for Kiplin Hall in North Yorkshire known As Rich  Shire in lord Baltimore a time. He is travelling with two 1957 Maryland graduates David and Sarah Bourne of the Prince Georges county historical society and two current students Joseph to Querin a masters candidate in architecture from Clinton md., and Scott Guenther a senior Urban studies major from Pittsburgh. Their main goal on the six week trip is to compile a tour program for everything within a 100-mile radius of the Manor. This Way a groups that come will have sort of a ready made guide to the Region a Fogle said. The group will begin work on restoration of the third floor in the jacobean Manor House. A a unique feature of the program is doing real hands on preservation work a Fogle said. The first and second floors have been remodeler and open to the Public but the third is mostly empty. James Shetler who received his architecture degree from the University of Maryland in May accompanied Fogle on his two previous trips to Kiplin Hall. The first trip in 1986, did not offer students the Opportunity to work on the House. A the second year we actually did restoring with plaster and so Forth the hands on work a shelter said. On one of Fogles trips a crude Model of the Dove one of two ships that brought settlers to Maryland in 1634, was discovered. The Manor was the Calvert family House for 100 years. George Calvert had the main House built in the Early 1620s, and it remained in the family until Charles Calvert the fifth lord Baltimore sold it in 1722. A generally the culverts were in London a Fogle said. A the culverts were never Farmers. They were always politicians and courtiers. But the ladies Baltimore lived at Kiplin and brought up the children  the estate encompassed some 20,000 acres untrm900, but currently sits on 100 acres. Previous trips were financed by the sole american on the Manors nine member Board of trustees Leonard Crewe. He owns an Interior design firm and is former president of the Maryland historical society for whom Crewe cottage an other building on the grounds was renamed according to a University spokesman. The University was forced to sign a contract for the use of the Manor earlier this year or risk losing it to another american University. A they had an Opportunity to rent the Crewe cottage that we were using to somebody else for 10 years a Fogle said. A it was time to make a commitment or this whole thing is wiped  to recoup some of its $15,000 annual outlay on the program the University subleased its portion of the 100-acre Manor to the University of South Carolina for two weeks in May while researchers completed an inventory of the Manors main Library Fogle said. Under the agreement the University of Maryland will use Crewe cottage for lodging year round and will have Access to the main building and grounds for academic programs. Describing How he Felt about returning to the area Fogle quoted the first lord Baltimore on his return from Ireland �?o1 go Back to Richmon Shire the fairest land that Ever god had  Quot