European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 7, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A Pago 8 the stars and stripes killing of Little Polly overwhelms quiet town Petaluma Calif. A pvt gloom fell Over this quiet town when the news hit Pou Klaas was dead. The body of the 12-Yeal-old was found in a Roadside Thicket two months after a knife wielding stranger snatched her from her bedroom during a slumber party. Townsfolk walked around sunday with reddened eyes and sober faces their Hopes crushed. Churchgoers hugged and cried on Street Corners. Dozens of candles it was like Boom Polly s dead. We went from getting the suspect and we were so elated and then to hear that. A Volunteer Connie Taylor flickered in a chill wind outside the Headquarters volunteers had established to help in the search. A we did everything that was possible to humanly do to find our Little Polly a said resident Dalton Sellinger his eyes bleary. Prime suspect Richard alien Davis 39, was held with the Quot mapping arraignment was scheduled for today. Out bail in the Sonoma county fail after being booked sunday for investigation of kidnapping and murder. An a there Are a lot of broken hearts Here a said Gay Judd one of the people who helped organize the Volunteer search Ana distribute handbills that showed the photograph of a fragile girl with a dimpled smile. Fri agents searched the area 30 Miles North of town where Polly a body was found late saturday. They looked for clues to How she was killed who did it and whether she was still alive when Davis was briefly confronted by deputies about an hour after her abduction. Polly a body was removed from the scene sunday afternoon and taken to the Sonoma county coroners of fice for an autopsy police said. A Palm print found in Polly a room that matched Davis print apparently persuaded him to help authorities locate the body Fri agent Rick Smith said. Davis a convicted kidnapper was arrested last tuesday for violating parole. He was serving a 30-Day sentence for Drunken driving before being booked sunday the exact manner and timing of Polly a death remains to be determined. The girls who were with Polly the night of her Kidnap Ping estimate that the intruder first came into the bedroom at 10 35 . He left with Polly about 10 minutes later. Polly smother called police to report her daughters abduction at 11 03 . In Petaluma. At 11 27 . A woman living in a Rural wooded area 20 Miles North of Petaluma called police to report a trespasser on her property police records show. Sonoma county sheriffs officers responded at 12 08 a.m., and found Davis with his car stuck in a ditch. They searched the car thoroughly questioned him and checked to see if he was wanted. Finding nothing they let him go minutes later. The deputies did hot know that an abduction had taken place because they were on an alternate radio Channel. Polly a body was found near Cloverdale about 40 Miles North of the site where Dayish ran his car into the ditch. The press Democrat of Santa Rosa reported monday that Davis confessed to kidnapping and murdering Polly. _ d atone and guided them to the Cree bed where Polly a body was discovered the he told investigators he acted paper reported citing Law enforcement sources. The arrest had cheered volunteers who thought that they might be closer to getting Polly Back. But saturday night the tragic news flashed around town. A it was like Boom Polly a dead a Volunteer Connie Taylor said. A we went from getting the suspect and we were so elated a and then to hear  tuesday december 7,1993boston May owe Drivers on front wire reports bost6n a in other cities officials complain about trying to get people to pay parking tickets. Here the City collected so much it has to give a couple of million dollars Back the Boston Herald reported monday that the City owes about $2.2 million to motorists who overpaid on tickets Over the past several years. The City owes More than 60,000 businesses and motorists around the country refunds ranging from $1 to $61,392, according to the newspapers computer analysis of 3.5 million parking ticket records. Assistant parking clerk Bruce Graubart said the City will pay up. A if we owe people Money we want them to Contact us a Graubart said. Quot we want them to get their Money  in most cases motorists paid late fines on tickets that had actually been Paraon time or paid for the same ticket twice or inadvertently paid for someone else a ticket a perhaps tucked under the Windshield wiper by the real culprit. A Maryland car rental company . Peterson Trust is owed the most $61,392. Tickets written for rented and leased cars Are often paid twice once by the customer and once by the company the newspaper  ribbon float crashes Beckley . A a tractor carrying a Christmas float with senior citizens Slid out of control on a rain slicked Hill and slammed into a Telephone pole injuring 10 people. Most of the injured were in their 70s. They were treated at hospitals and released. The crash occurred moments after the float had been awarded the Blue ribbon in the City a Christmas Parade saturday afternoon said Cpl Al Gray. The weight of the 20 people on the float from the Pinecrest Hospital for convalescent caused the tractor to slide authorities said. No passengers were thrown from the float when it hit the Polei the float called a giving a carried a Christmas tree and was adorned with decorations. Its passengers were dressed in Green and red. Poll has 58% Public support Detroit a jailed suicide doctor Jack Kevorkian stepped up his hunger strike sunday and a poll showed his pub lie support has grown since he first went behind bars. Fifty eight percent of the respondents in a Harris poll conducted nov 11-15 supported Kevorkian up Froni 50 percent in a March poll. And 73 percent of those surveyed agreed that a the Law should allow doctors to comply with the wishes of a dying patient in severe distress who asks to have his or her life  that s up 10 percentage Points from March when Louis Harris and associates inc. Conducted a similar Survey. A Cdr. Kevorkian a willingness to go to prison. Has caught the nations attention and helped to swing opinion his Way a Louis Harris president Humphrey Taylor said in a news release. The Telephone Survey of 1,254 people nationwide has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage Points. It was to be released monday. Kevorkian was first jailed nov. 5 on a charge of assisting a suicide. 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