European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday september 23, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 7 hostage Holder gives up after holding 9 in Hospital Sandy Utah apr a Man carrying dynamite and two guns shot and killed a nurse and took Over a Hospital maternity Ward saturday police said. He gave up More than 17 hours later and freed nine hostages including a baby born during the standoff. Police said Richard l. Worthington a 39-year-old father of eight said he went to Alta View Hospital to kill a doctor who had operated on his wife two years ago to prevent her from becoming pregnant again. Quot during initial negotiations he wanted his wife and the doctor and he wanted to kill the doctor Quot said Salt Lake police sgt. Don Bell part of a team of negotiators that talked with Worthington by Telephone during the standoff. The doctor obstetrician Glade Curtis said Worthington Worthington had threat ened him repeatedly since he performed surgery to tie the fallopian tubes of Worthington s wife Karen. Curtis fled As the siege began. Worthington was arrested and held without bail at the Salt Lake City county jail for investigation of aggravated murder eight counts of aggravated kidnapping and Quot Possession of an infernal machine Quot for possessing explosive materials. Sandy a Community of about 80,000, is i Miles South of Salt Lake City. Bell said Worthington maintained that he and his wife had t consented to the operation. Quot he said they were All liars they were All cheaters. He said a those doctors raped my wife a Quot Bell said his voice hoarse after hours of negotiations. In Curtis office near where Worthington held the hostages police found a foot Square package of dynamite that could be detonated by Remote control. It could have wiped out half a Block said Salt Lake county sheriff Aaron Kennard. Experts defused the dynamite authorities said. Kennard said officers also found a Shotgun and .337-caliber magnum handgun they believe was used to kill the nurse. Worthington held six adults and three infants on the top floor of a maternity Wing connected to the main building by an enclosed skywalk police said. One of the hostages gave birth about three hours into the standoff Hospital spokesman Jess Gomez said. Police said Worthington let nurses care for the infants. The siege began shortly after Midnight. Or. Brent Mabey an emergency room physician said a clerk ran into the Hospit afto say a Man with a Shotgun had blown out a window in the adjacent women a health Center. When police arrived they found a woman who had been shot in the Hospital s parking lot Mabey said. The victim Karla Roth 37, died in the emergency room. Roth who was married had been hired sept. 5 but had Only worked in he emergency room for two nights said Hospital administrator Douglas Fonnesbeck. A a it a just awful Quot he said. Quot a Hospital is supposed to be a Safe place in t it Quot Worthington began negotiating by Telephone with police surrounding the Hospital about 15 hours into the standoff police chief Gary Leonard said. He said Worthington gave himself up when authorities assured him he would be Safe. The freed hostages were shuttled into an ambulance and driven away. Several hugged each other. Some wept. Hundreds of Yards away members of Worthing an unidentified woman holds a baby that was released minutes after a hostage situation ended in a Sandy Utah Hospital. One nurse was killed. Tones family did the same. Worthington s older brother Allen said he was relieved. A i hoped it would end this Way because 1 love my brother a he said Jailhouse Rock not just a saying in w. Virginia huttonsv1lll, . A musicians who usually mean something else when they talk about their records have recorded an album a i penned up that is literally Jailhouse Rock. Release of the prison inmates album follows two years of recording said Mick Souter music director at Huttonsville correctional Center. All penned up Cost $4, k 0 to record with halt coming from the division of corrections and half coming from the state department of education and the arts. Proceeds of the $7 album go to the Huttonsville inmate Benefit fund. Souter said he got the idea after realizing the amount of musical Talent in West Virginia a various prisons. A a few years ago i began to notice some of the song writing that was going on and it was incredible. So in response the idea began to evolve to do an album that would be sort of an anthology Quot he said. Quot the Basic philosophy of the album is to have something that reflects the it Itic Side the other Side of the Coin of these men and woman who Are incarcerated a Souter said. The album was partly recorded in prison and partly at Souter a Advance concepts studio in nearby Elkins. Souter a consultant to the prison said he normally charges $50 to $75 an hour at the studio but estimates the work on the prison album Only brought him $10 an hour. All penned up contains Rock n Roll ballads heavy Metal Folk and a rap tune called i he gangster Cut. A the rap song talks about life and How people can mess up their lives by trying to outsmart the system Quot Souter said Quot its basically about the repercussions that can conic from crime. A another song. Destiny was written by the Guys in our heavy Iclal group alter 1 gave them a Challenge to do a song that was t All gloom and doom a he said. Quot its kind of our answer to we Are the world because almost All the vocalists on the album sing on the song. Its fondly referred to by the inmates As we Are the seminoles want Casino gambling allowed on tribal land in Florida fort Lauderdale Fla. A the seminoles Are asking a Federal court to allow Casino gambling on tribal land in Florida a move that challenges state gaming Laws. The suit filed thursday in . District court follows referendums in years past in which Florida voters rejected proposals to allow Casino gambling in the state. Quot this is a High Slakes lawsuit a said Bruce Rogow a lawyer for the sem Beaver Paap a a hip surgery patient died after receiving the wrong blood Type and two Hospital workers have been suspended Hospital officials said. Madly inc Hodil 74. Died at the medical Center on saturday hours after the operation to repair a fractured hip said Jack Simon a Hospital spokesman. Insoles. A a there a fantastic potential Here. Gambling is a multimillion Dollar a state official accused the seminoles who already operate popular Bingo Halls on the land of ignoring the wishes and Laws of Florida. Quot it is Clear from history that gambling is against the Public policy of the state of Florida a said Jonathan Glogau assistant attorney general and chief of special projects. Hodill a blood Type was o positive but she received one unit of b negative blood Simon said. On sept. 12, during preparation for Hodill a surgery a technician apparently accidentally a look a blood Sample from a patient in the bed next to Hodil said Walter Van Dyke the hospitals senior vice president. Quot the tribe has been thumbing its nose at us a Glogau said. A a there a illegal gambling going on at their t ampa Bingo the seminoles want to open casinos on tribal property in Tampa Immokalee and Hollywood. Quot my guess is that we would reflect what Las vegas has a said tribal Council member Max Osceola or. Quot we would t want to do anything based on the Sample the Hospital had blood available in Case Hodil needed a transfusion during or alter surgery. In recovery she started bleeding and received a transfusion. Beaver county Coroner wave Tatalo Vich said he should know by whether the death Wai criminal or litter runs the Gamut guns to screenplays los Angeles apr soap opera stars joined children and environmentalists on the states beaches saturday picking up litter including a loaded gun a soggy screenplay and a new age prism. Nearly 4,000 volunteers collected 16,000 pounds of rubbish of which 4,500 pounds were recyclable said organizers of Quot coastal cleanup Day. Held each year to highlight the liner problem. Quot i Wasny to surprised with the tilth we saw. I worked tins Beach last Sard Eric Christiansen 14, who Woie gloves As he helped Clear polio elders women s panties socks shoes a moldy Blanket and nude magazines along Malibu s Surl ruler Beach. Cleanup Al tools went on at 120 Sites in the san i Lar Cisto hav area said Jack of adopt a Bern h coastal i Lav patient Dies after getting wrong blood Type
