European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a the stars and stripes monday june 8, 1992 a a member of a police swat team motions to Fayette county jail guard Mark Steele after he was released saturday by two inmates in Connorsville ind. The inmates later surrendered. Think they got tired officer says after inmates surrender to police Connersville ind. Apr two inmates surrendered control of a county jail saturday after police swat teams entered the building where three fellow inmates were being held hostage. No one was harmed. A Secretary and three guards had been released earlier. Police shut off electricity at the Fayette county jail before crawling in through holes Cut in the windows of the one Story building. Sheriffs col. Claude Trent was among those who entered and he persuaded Dili Corn and John Purcell to give up the gun they used to begin the 17-hour standoff late Friday night. The pair also freed three hostage inmates a two women and a Man. A a we be got the gun in our Possession. We be got control of the jail a said state police sgt. John mull. Asked Why Corn and Purcell gave up mull said a i think they got prosecutor Cynthia Crisp Man said she expected the men would be charged with counts of kidnapping. As trustees Corn and Purcell had unlimited Access to most of the jail and mull said they used keys they found on a table to open a gun locker and take a .357-caliber magnum revolver. Trustees Are inmates Given special privileges because they Are considered trustworthy Quot we obviously Over trusted them a said sheriff Howard Case leads Hartford Conn. A More than a third of the City police department s patrol division called in sick saturday the third Day of a a Blue flu epidemic protesting the arrest of an officer accused of beating a suspect. Despite appeals from the police chief and the arrested officer absenteeism was about the same As Friday capt. Joseph Ward said. Quot three or four More called in today but three or four came Back a Ward said. More than 100 officers of the 270-member patrol division called in sick thursday and Friday. Detectives and officers working overtime manned patrol cars Ward said. He reported no problems or unusual delays in responding to Calls. However paperwork and ongoing criminal investigations were put on the Back Burner. Officials of the Hartford police Union who said they had not sanctioned the sick out apparently failed with a Corn said during a Telephone interview that the takeover was to protest the Way prisoners Are treated. A they think they re just wild animals running Loose and they lock Mem up like dogs a Corn said. About 80 inmates were held in the jail but most remained locked in their cells during the standoff Steele said. He said Purcell and Corn made hourly rounds of the jail and served breakfast and lunch to the inmates the usual jail routine. Guards Ron Zimmerman Brett Briscoe and Mark Steele the sheriffs son who were handcuffed in a bathroom at the beginning of the standoff were released saturday morning. A Secretary was released shortly after the standoff began. During the standoff Corn and Purcell demanded to see a correctional officer Theresa Riddell and then refused to speak to her. They also demanded whiskey for All the inmates but were refused. Despite corns general complaint about jail conditions mull said neither inmate had any specific complaints about the Fayette county jail. A they have no objections about the conditions in this jail. They re just tired of serving time a he said. At one Point Corn said a hell its Friday Quot in explaining the takeover. Corn 28, was serving two to five years for burglary. Purcell 24, was serving time for police sick out Telephone Campaign Friday to persuade officers to return. A we believe they be made their Point with the Public a said Dennis of Brien president of the Hartford police Union. A a let a get Back and protect and officer Sergio Ihno who was charged wednesday with assault and was suspended made a personal Appeal to end the sick out. A this act is in fact negatively impacting the Community a Inho said. Inho was accused of beating Edwin Cruz on feb. 8. Cruz suffered a broken jaw and needed More than 100 stitches to close a head Gash. Cruz said he was beaten after asking the officer Why he was being detained. Inho said he hit Cruz in self defense when the Man reached for a gun. Officers said the sick out signals deepening frustration in the department. They cited last months dismissal of another police officer and recent efforts by the City Council to toughen civilian oversight of complaints against police. ordered to ticket four speeders an hour from wire reports Baltimore a state police have been ordered to write four tickets an hour while working overtime to curb speeding on state highways a newspaper reported Friday. A this enforcement project will focus on monitoring All vehicle traffic to identify the Driver exceeding the Speed limit on 55 Mph highways. The objective is to increase the ratio of Speed citations on those highways As compared to the number of personal injury crashes which occur a said the order obtained by the Baltimore Sun. A five stops per hour at a minimum Are required. These will include four citations and one the troopers overtime pay comes from a Federal Grant Given to the state to enforce the 55 Mph Speed limit. The order was issued by capt. Raymond Cotton commander of the state police commercial vehicle enforcement division on april 15. A a they re being paid time and a half to go out and enforce the 55 mile an hour Speed limit. If you spend four hours on the Highway and done to see one violation you be got your eyes closed a Cotton priest Dies los Angeles a the Rev. Patrick Peyton a roman Catholic priest who was credited with coining the phrase Quot the family that prays together stays together a has died of kidney failure. He was 83. Peyton founded the family theater radio program in los Angeles in 1947 to further his crusade to encourage families to Pray daily. The program which ran for 22 years featured such celebrities As Frank Sinatra Natalie Wood Lucille Ball and James Stewart. Peyton a member of the congregation of the holy Cross order also produced to shows with religious themes such As his number one which starred Raymond Burr and James Dean and the triumphant hour dead Man found in Pool Taylor Mich. A a Homeowner who noticed a Bubble underneath the Winter cover of his swimming Pool Wasny to prepared for what he found when he removed the Tarp for summer. Jay Hunt took off the cover Over the Pool behind his House in the Detroit suburb of Taylor on Friday and found the decomposed body of a Large naked Man floating in the water. He said he did no to recognize the Man and did no to know of anyone in the neighbourhood who was missing. Taylor police said saturday that the Man had not been identified. There were no visible injuries on the body police said. Hunt is convinced that somebody placed the body in the Pool after he covered it last fall. The Tarp was held tight against the Edge of the Pool and a they had to shove it the body a neighbor whose lot abuts the Back of Hunts Yard said he had noticed an odor about a month ago. A i thought it was grass clippings a Bob Wisusik said. Hunt said a i saw a Bubble out there approximately a month ago but i thought it was just fire probed Yreka Calif. A firefighters have encircled a deliberately set Blaze that blackened almost 1,000 acres of Forest and hoped to have it under control by sunday evening. A we Are now mopping up and starting to release some personnel a Mike Johnson spokesman for the California department of forestry said saturday. He said the fire was contained Friday evening. Although authorities said the fire which started wednesday was the result of arson Johnson would not elaborate. A it is still under investigation a Johnson said. About 650 firefighters battled the Blaze in Steep rugged terrain in Garvey Gulch a watershed area about six Miles North of Yreka South of the Oregon state line. Officials said a combination of drought and insect infestation had left the Trees highly flammable
