European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april 6, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 5police chief s trial told of Cash stash gifts Detroit apr a retired patrolman who did some remodelling work at his police chiefs Home said a package containing $20,000 in Cash fell through a ceiling and hit him on the head. A woman claiming she had a 13-year affair with police chief William Hart a now on paid leave from the department a described expensive gifts he bestowed and said she feared for her safety after telling him she would cooperate with an investigation into his spending habits. Over the last 11 weeks Federal prosecutors have called 89 witnesses in Harts embezzlement and fraud trial As they tried to document lavish personal spending they say he financed with police Money. Prosecutors allege that Over seven years Hart stole $2.6 million from a secret fund in the department he headed for 13 years. Today Harts lawyer was to begin trying to prove that stashes of Cash resulted from decades of frugal living. The secret fund Hart has said was used to finance undercover work and pay informants. Hart 68, is charged in the disappearance of $1.3 million in Cash Between 1982 and 1989. He also is accused of authorizing $1.3 million in payments to phony corporations controlled by a former Deputy chief who was a business partner to mayor Coleman a. Young in the 1980s. . Attorney Stephen Markman has said Young had no role in the alleged thefts. In addition Hart is charged with income tax evasion for 1985 to 1987 and with witness tampering. If convicted he faces up to 10 years in prison. Young placed Hart on leave feb. 13, 1991, two Days after the police chief was indicted but Hart continues to receive his $95,000-plus annual salary. Police officers and officials called by the prosecution have testified about special units in the police department that Hart said consumed much of the Money in the secret fund. The units activities included Security for visiting dignitaries investigations of drug dealing families internal department investigations and witness Protection according to court records. But police officials who headed the projects said they did not receive Cash from Hart for the work. Retired patrolman Robert Cudini said he did remodelling work on Harts House in 1986. As he was removing insulation Cudini said a package wrapped m aluminium foil tumbled through the ceiling. A it hit me on the head a he said. Cudini said he opened the package and found $20,000 in $100 Bills. A you found my poker stash a he quoted Hart As saying. Three women testified about affairs with Hart that they said included expensive trips and gifts. Andrea Henry said that during a 13-year Romance Hart gave her $1,000 a month eight television sets a stereo system lottery tickets and trips to Germany and several . Cities. When authorities began investigating Hart she said the chief told her to say that they were just friends and that he had Given her Only Small gifts and grocery Money. The prosecutions final witness internal Revenue service agent Wesley Bulik testified thursday that from 1982 to 1984, Hart spent $100,000 More than he earned. Harts attorney Thomas Cranmer said his client did no to steal. A there Are Many possible explanations for spending More in a Given year than what you be earned a he said. A one possible explanation is that you be saved Money in prior  hot prosecutors said that even if Hart stole no Money he did a poor Job in keeping track of it. Several department officials have said that at Harts direction they issued checks for Cash from the Covert fund and either gave the Money to Hart or put it in his office Safe. They said there was no log of Money placed in the Safe. The stars and stripes10 years ago april 6,1982 a the aircraft carriers invincible and Hermes headed for the occupied Falkland islands spearheading the mightiest Armada Britain had sent onto the High seas since the Suez crisis of 1956.20 years ago april 6,1972 the North vietnamese broadened their seventh offensive threatening the provincial capital of Quang Tri in the North and opening a new front 60 to 75 Miles North of Saigon with infantry assaults led by tanks.30 years ago april 6,1962 a president Kennedy proposed a tax on pleasure boats and other new Revenue measures to finance the Purchase of land and water areas for Public recreation and the creation of a land conservation fund to a expand existing recreational resources to meet our present and future needs."40 years ago april 6,1952 the United nations said there was increasing evidence that epidemics sweeping China had claimed 50,000 lives and stricken As Many 400,000 people. Class action suit by alleged victims seeks $3 million against Uncle de Philadelphia up a a lawyer has filed a $3 million class action lawsuit against Edward a Uncle eds Savitz an aids infected Man accused of having sexual relations with teenage males. Philadelphia attorney Val Pleet Savitz Wilson accuses Sav Itz with negligence for not telling his two clients and an undetermined number of others that he had aids. Savitz was found last june to have the disease. Wilson said there could be hundreds of boys and Young men who need aids testing and counselling because of their Contact with Savitz. The plaintiffs were identified in court papers filed Friday As John Doe 1 and Johnl Doe 2. Both Are 18. They Are not related. The two allegedly visited Savitz at least 50 times in the last two years. A Many of these sexual contacts happened when they were 16 and 17 years old a Wilson said. Lawyer Barnaby Wittel who is defending Savitz could not be reached for comment saturday. Wilson said the Contact with Savitz was of a High risk nature. A it certainly was activity that could result in their contracting the aids virus a he said. Experts say unprotected sex Between homosexual males is a High risk activity. Savitz a downtown Philadelphia actuary is charged with multiple counts of involuntary deviate sexual Intercourse sexual abuse of children indecent assault corrupting the morals of a minor and promoting prostitution. Wittel has said Savitz is innocent of any crime. Savitz is being held in lieu of $20 million bail although another bail reduction hearing is scheduled this week. Doctors say Savitz will die within six to 18 months. Savitz 50, waived a preliminary hearing wednesday and will be arraigned april 22. Pair probed in poker party deaths Memphis Tenn. A two men who said they left a Cabin poker party before a fire that killed six players were charged saturday with robbing a card game in Mississippi last month. Investigators looked for any connection Between the incidents. A a we re still following lots of leads a said John mehr a Tennessee Bureau of investigation agent. A a it a going to take a lot of time. Nothing happens  Dennis Harris and Jamie Adams were charged with six counts each of armed robbery at a Cabin card game near Senatobia in Northern Mississippi authorities said. Three masked men armed with shotguns robbed five players there. Tate county miss., authorities issued arrest warrants for Harris and Adams after a search Friday of Harris Home in Bolivar mehr said. A the two men jailed in Memphis said they were at a clubhouse in Bolivar during the High stakes card game the night of March 30, but left before the clubhouse burned. The remains of six people were found the next Day. Harris and Adams contacted authorities when they heard about the fire said a lawyer for the pair Jim Sanderson. A a they be tried to be As obliging As they can As cooperative As they can a another lawyer for the pair Steve Hale said. No one has been charged in the Tennessee fire which authorities believe was set to cover up a robbery. World War 50 years ago today 6 april1. 9 4 2 the . And philippine defenders of the Bataan Peninsula launch fruitless counterattacks against the japanese and Are forced to Retreat again. A Small japanese naval Force in the Bay of Bengal Hunts Down freighters that fled Ceylon and causes extensive shipping losses japanese troops land on Bougainville in the Solomons increasing the threat to Australia. Chicago suburbs skunked by smelly visitors.   a round in a n a 219-1 Days of War w h Smith a ire ii Lac. World almanac Book of world i.  i docks cd p. 19b1 Lincolnwood 111. Up skunks Are stinking up the suburbs of Chicago. Officials in Lincolnwood and Skokie said Friday that they Are desperately searching for a Way to rid the area of the critters. Residents say the done to care whether the towns hire a commando animal Warden or the teenage mutant ninja turtles a they just want the problem solved. Patty Anderson said she thought the animals were cute at first but after a polecat lunged at her and her Puppy one afternoon she changed her mind. A i was never so Shook up in my life a she said. Naturalist Garon Fyffe said the prob Lem is rampant throughout northeastern Illinois. Some 2,535 skunks were trapped in an eight county area last year compared with 1,737 in 1990. Of the 1991 total As Many As 300 were caught in Skokie and 64 were caught in Lincolnwood. Serious problems also have been reported in Northbrook West Chicago Elmhurst and Matteson. Lawns Are the attraction. A in a More Urban setting like the suburbs where you have a Good mixture of nature and people you have lots of food a said Bob Bluett the states nuisance wildlife management coordinator. A a it a a lot easier for the skunks to dig up grubs and other insects in the soft freshly watered lawns of the suburbs than in some hard packed ground in a Rural  the problem Isnit just a nuisance Bluett said. Its a health threat. Skunks can carry rabies. A skunks live on an epidemic Cycle that runs about six to 10 years a he said. A was the population builds the Chance for the spread of rabies goes  Northbrook animal control Warden Garry Nanes said that when he goes to a Home to Deal with a Skunk he does no to want help from the residents. A one time i had a Homeowner. Try to help me by throwing rocks at the Skunk to get it out from his window Well a Nanes said. A Well that Skunk just let Loose and sprayed everything. Naturally we both needed showers Long ones a