European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday May 9, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 7 a Boston firefighters and police officers stand beside the body of Joseph Bulens who died on april 27. Body beside Boston City Hall Lay ignored for up to 4 hours Boston apr while Joseph Bulens Lay on the Concrete next to City Hall no one checked to see if he was breathing or Felt for a pulse a neither the commuters who passed nor the Man who read a newspaper on a nearby Bench. After All Bulens was homeless. No one gave him a second glance. He Lay there dead for hours a in Busy City Hall Plaza in the heart of downtown. A this shows that As Long you have a roof Over your head who gives a Damn about the other Guy a David Solomon said. Solomon was the one person who gave Bulens a second look. He was in his office on the ninth floor of City Hall on april 27 when he saw a homeless Man splayed out on the Plaza below. Solomon was concerned until he saw a Well dressed Man sitting on a Bench just 10 feet away. A i thought a he must just be asleep or that Guy would do something a a Solomon said. But 45 minutes later the Man on the Bench was gone and the homeless Man remained. Solomon went to investigate. A this hands had no color. They were Pale a Solomon said. A this face was purplish Pink. He looked like head been there for a Solomon tried to get help from three passers by. No one would Stop. Finally he chased Down a police car. A a it a weird he would die on the Plaza a Solomon said. A a they re always having rallies for the homeless the Coroner said Bulens 49, died of natural causes and had been dead two to four hours when he was found. Friends said Bulens grew up in South Boston known As Southie a neighbourhood where Whites once battled Blacks Over school desegregation. He joined the air Force but after his 16-year-old sister died he returned by the new York times Washington a the Senate judiciary committee on thursday approved the nomination of an Alabama lawyer regarded As one of the nations leading prosecutors in death penalty cases to a Federal appeals court. Over the opposition of some Liberal democrats the committee voted 10-4 to Send the nomination of Edward e. Carnes to the full Senate. The Senate is expected to confirm Carnes nomination to the court of appeals for the 11th circuit which is based in Atlanta. The seat has been held for years by judge Frank m. Johnson or. Of Alabama revered As a judicial hero of the civil rights Era. Because of Carnes record As an advocate of the Home to help support his family. Later his marriage went bad and in the 1960s he began to drink and became homeless. Dirty dishevelled and drunk Bulens was still liked. A Joe Bulens would give you the shirt off his Back a said Ken Smith director of the new England shelter for homeless veterans where Bulens was often seen. A even when he was inebriated he was a pleasant Guy. A but he had a difficult time with his pain. He medicated himself with a 19-City Survey last year by the National coalition for the homeless counted the deaths of 750 homeless people. More than half died outdoors. Joan Alker assistant director of the Washington based coalition was there when a homeless person was found dead outside the Justice department last summer. A a it a a pretty chilling indictment when you have a dead body on a grate outside the Justice department a Alker said. A no one of any political stature is speaking out about the fact that people Are dying on our Boston mayor Raymond l. Flynn said he had seen Bulens. A i talked to him on the Street on a couple of occasions. I gave him a couple of dollars recently to buy a bowl of soup and a Sandwich a Flynn said. Flynn president of the . Conference of mayors said opening More temporary shelters Isnit the solution to homelessness. The homeless he said a need their medication. They need psychiatric evaluation and help. They need Job Solomon Isnit waiting for a government solution. He works for the Boston redevelopment authority trying to promote Low income housing projects. And once a week he gets a handful of is Bills to hand out to the homeless. Death penalty the nomination aroused the kind of passions for a judicial nomination that have not been seen since last fall when the Senate narrowly confirmed Clarence Thomas to the supreme court. But Carnes a 41-year-old Birmingham lawyer had the support of some influential liberals notably Morris Dees a civil rights lawyer and head of the Southern poverty Law Center in Atlanta. Deesy support disarmed much of the opposition As did the fact that Carnes chief Patron on the committee was sen. Howell Heflin a Ala. Dees had testified in favor of Carnes and written to several senators expressing his belief that Carnes had conducted his business fairly and that he also had a keen sense of racial Justice. beekeeper killed wife injured by stings from wire reports new Waverly Texas a Man died thursday after he and his wife were stung repeatedly by bees from two hives kept in their Yard. William Belnoske 77, was stunt several dozen times after he inadvertently ran his Awn Mower too close to the Honeybee hives said a sister in Law. Been Oskco a 70-year-old wife Ellie suffered More than 100 Bee stings and was released from the Hospital thursday. The attack took place wednesday night outside the couples Home near new Waverly about 40 Miles North of Houston. Ellie Belnoske was attacked when she ran outside to help her husband the sister in Law said. The bees weren t the so called a killer bees a which have been found in parts of South Texas said Patti Jones a Secretary with the agriculture Extension office in Montgomery county.$50,000 Bond contested Brownsville Texas a Federal prosecutor on thursday appealed the $50,000 Bond set for a former vice president of Al Salvador who was arrested at the mexican Border on charges of smuggling weapons. Assistant . Attorney Ricardo Lara said in a court document that Rodolfo Castillo Clara mount Al Salvador a second ranking official from 1984 to 1989, was a flight risk. Castillo his son and a family Friend were arrested last week at the Gateway International Bridge leading into Matamoros Mexico and charged with trying to Export 11 handguns without permits. They remained jailed recommended Ocala Fla. A a jury recommended thursday that Aileen Wuornos already sentenced to death in one murder be executed for three other slayings of men who picked her up hitchhiking. The panel deliberated four hours before returning its recommendation to circuit judge Thomas Sawaya who could sentence Wuornos to life in prison. A i waited a year and nine months for this a Shirley Humphreys widow of one of the slain men said after the jury a decision. Wuornos who waived her right to be present for the proceedings has admitted killing seven Middle aged men along Florida highways in 1989 and 1990. The Roadside prostitute claimed she killed them after the men became bomber sentenced Somerset a. A a teen Ager who bombed a car he thought belonged to his High school principal was sentenced to at least 11 months in prison. Jack Daniel Persuhn 17, of Fairhope had pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal mischief and one count of receiving stolen property. He was sentenced wednesday to a prison term ranging from 11 months to 23 months. Police said Persuhn who was sentenced As an adult used stolen dynamite to blow up the car in Berlin and a Mailbox in Allegheny township in april 1991. A witness testified that Persuhn was angry at High school principal Jack Prendergast for a getting on his cases and decided to blow up Prendergast a car. The bombed car however belonged to another Man. No one was guilty of slaying new York a an elderly Man whose four children died under suspicious circumstances was convicted thursday of killing his sister and stuffing her body in a Box. David Brushingham 66, who lived with his Mother in Manhattan was found guilty in the asphyxiation slaying of his sister no heed in the same building. The body of Marsha Brushingham 47, was found March 5, 1990. Her face was covered with a plastic bag and her body was so decomposed that she was difficult to identify. Her body was stuffed in a Box the defendant had made himself testimony showed. Execution advocate backed for court
