European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday november 17, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7 friends play on after Man Dies on Green a couple of golfers jumped into a cart and drove to the pro shop to Call for help. A nurse who was play Winter Haven Fla. A officials at a Golf course covered Donald Degreve a body with a Sheet right where he died on the 16th Green. And the body stayed there two hours while friends and neighbors played through. A it was a real Shock to All of us but there really was nothing we could do a said golfer Robert Alexander. A we All thought to ourselves a gee that a a Good Way to he did t Degreve 65, suffered a heart attack and collapsed last month while playing on the City owned Willowbrook Golf course. A nurse and Rescue workers were unable to revive him. The body remained on the Green and golfers skipped the Hole until after police reached a family member authorities said. A time just got away from the officers on the scene a police chief Ron Martin said Friday. A what occurred was that in an Effort to Contact the widow time just got by. A some people May consider that an unusual amount of time and 1 guess you could say that. But our officers were trying to do the right Degreve a three Golf partners abandoned their game but the rest of their group played on. A we told them they had to skip from 15 to 17," said Bob Sheffield. Winter Haven s director of Leisure services. A it was kind of obvious Why. If they did no to understand it by the 16th tee they understood it by the time they got to the Degreve was playing with about 40 neighbors from a Mobile Home Park on oct. 15. He was a member of the Parks Golf league which plays every tuesday and Friday at Willowbrook. A the was feeling pretty Good in the morning. 1 talked to him a said Alexander who coordinates the league. A the said he Felt a Little tired but. You know we get that Degreve was on the Green at the Par-4 16th when he collapsed w Hile putting. A they thought maybe first he tripped or fell or got hit a said Alexander who was playing the sixth Hole. A it was very ing the course ran to assist. Degreve died before an ambulance Crew arrived and since Rescue Crews Are not allowed to transport bodies police officers tried to Contact family members to find out which funeral Home to Call. Degreve a wife was shopping so police waited. Time slipped by. Willowbrook officials closed the 16th Hole As players walked around the Green a and the Sheet covered body. a wife. Anne finally w As contacted and a funeral Home was called. L ast week the police chief explained the delay to the cite commission and promised that it would t happen again. Alexander said he and Degreve s other friends reacted philosophically like True gaiters. A life goes on a he said. A Psi we had to keep indicted in Gainesville student killings Gainesville Fla. A Louisiana drifter Danny Harold rolling was indicted Friday in the killings of five College students stabbed in their off Campus apartments in August 1990. After 30 minutes i of deliberations the grand jury indicted rolling on five i counts of first degree murder three counts of sexual Battery and three counts of armed burglary. The 17-member i grand jury heard rolling nine Days of often gruesome testimony from 43 witnesses. The jury viewed photos and videotapes of the three bloody apartments where the students were stabbed and some mutilated. In one Case a decapitated head was placed on a bookshelf. Grand jurors were told that Dan evidence links rolling a semen to two crime scenes. Rolling 37, also is a suspect in a triple slaying in his Hometown of Shreveport la., that has similarities to the Gainesville slayings. He is serving four life terms As a habitual offender for a series of burglaries and robberies in Tampa and Ocala in the Days after the killings. The victims bodies were found within three Days during the opening week of school at the University of Florida. Four were University students a fifth attended a local Community College. The victims were Christina Powell 17, of Jacksonville Sonya Larson 18, of Deerfield Beach Christa Hoyt 18, of Archer Manuel Taboada 23, of suburban Miami and tray Paules 23 of Pembroke Pines. The three counts of sexual Battery came in connection with assaults on Powell Hoyt and Paules. During the past 15 months investigators have checked about 6,600 leads and Analysed about 1,500 pieces of evidence state attorney Len Register said. He said it could be two years or More before the Case comes to trial. State attorney Len Register hands grand jury indictments to judge Stan r. incidents soared 31 % in 90, Fri officials report Washington apr bombing incidents increased 31 percent nationwide in 1990 and the number of deaths caused by explosive or incendiary devices nearly tripled the Fri said Friday. But Fri director William s. Sessions said the Sharp increase a May be due in part to improved reporting practices by Public safety the Fri said there were 1,582 bombing incidents reported last year including 384 that either were prevented or the device was not detonated the Fri said. In 1989, the Fri said there were 1,208 reported bombing incidents. There were 27 deaths resulting from bombings in 1990, up from 11 fatalities in 1989, the Fri said bombings injured 222 people in 1990, up from 202 victims the previous year the Fri said. Homes or apartments were the targets of 43 percent of the bombing incidents while 16 percent involved vehicles and 9 percent commercial establishments. The rest of the incidents involved a variety of targets. The statistics Are compiled by the Fri bomb data enter. The report said explosive devices were found in 73 percent of the reported incidents and 25 percent involved incendiary bombs. The other 2 percent involved devices that both exploded and burned. Transit police round up homeless residing in new York subways new York apr the Dank dark subway tunnels that crisscross new York City Are filled with rats garbage and fees a and hundreds of people who Call the tunnels Home. But Many subway residents a who live in what some Call shelters of last resort a were Back above ground saturday As police carried out the latest efforts to get thousands of homeless people into government run shelters. The first evictions took place Friday night As police officers picking their Way carefully around the rats and garbage a and the subways electrified third rail a began Clearing out tunnels in Manhattan. Efforts to get the homeless to leave their Public nesting places for shelters have drawn objections from homeless advocates who said the shelters Are often More dangerous than subways streets and Parks. Advocates opposed the june eviction of about 100 homeless people from Tompkins Square Park on Manhattan slower East Side. The Park a Haven for the homeless for years was then closed for renovations. Homeless advocates also have protested plans to evict people from the City sport authority bus terminal. But it. John Romero commanding officer of the transit police a homeless outreach program said no shelter could be worse than life in the tunnels. A the tunnels Are the Bottom of the homeless per songs spiral a Romero said. A first they Start sleeping on the trains then they go into stations and finally they live in the tunnels. These people Are in the worst police said 800 to 1,200 people live in the City a sprawling subway system making their Homes in trains tunnels and on subway platforms. Seventy nine homeless people died in the subways in 1989, according to police records. That number was reduced to 49 last year when the transit police began its outreach program. This year there have been about 40 deaths Romero said. The number of people removed from the subways Friday Wasny to immediately available. One of the first people evicted was Eddy who officers found sleeping on the floor of a Concrete Alcove with a dirty comforter pulled Over him. Officer Anthony scuotto asked a Why done to you come to the shelter or at least come with us and get some food a an obviously aggravated Eddy pulled his sneakers on and trudged off stopping Only to yell Back i got my own thirty Yards Down the line a Man known As Larry was lying in a stupor on an old mattress bags of clothes old sneakers and Couch pillows surrounding him. Again the police asked a want to give it a try at a shelter a Larry Shook his head a a not and left
