European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 05, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes . Wednesday january. 1994 merry Christmas Honey Here s $15.7 million from wire reports Tallahassee Fla. It was a $15 million Christmas for Charles Mosley after his wife handed him her winning lottery ticket and said this is the Best i can do this i did t put it under the tree Johnnie Mosley told lottery officials monday when she and her family turned in the winning ticket in the sept. 4 lotto Jackpot drawing. I kept it hidden and then walked up and handed it to him and said this is the Best lean do this year. Hove you " mostly a Salon manager and hairstylist had kept the $15.7 million ticket in a Safe Deposit Box. On Christmas morning the Melbourne woman showed her husband and children the ticket and a collection of newspaper clippings detailing a search for the Winner. The Mosley will receive $789,000 annually for 20 be irs. Missing $650,000 Trenton . A bag containing $650,000 was reported missing by two employees of an armoured car company who said it tumbled out an open door As they drove along the new Jersey Turnpike. The Princeton armoured car service employees said they noticed the sack was missing dec. 29 and told state police they thought they lost the Money near Newark International Airport. Troopers searched the route without Success. , Opal ski executive vice president of Princeton armoured said the truck was Brand new but he would not Rule out mechanical failure. He would not disclose where the Money originated. Student arrested in blasts Sandy Utah a science major who police say was trying to liven Boring week was arrested in three bombings at his College Campus. Nathan Mecham 19, was charged monday with destruction of property Between thanksgiving and dec. 16 at Snow College in Ephraim. The explosions were set off in a trash can on a playing Field and in a driveway. No one was Hurt. Damage was put at $1,200. Police raided the Home of Mecham s parents in Sandy about 100 Miles away and removed several pipe bombs blasting Caps detonation Cord and 5 Gallons of an explosive mixture of fertilizer and i Csc fuel in a bucket in the garage. I Don t think he realized just How serious it was said Ephraim police chief Ronald Rasmussen. What he told my investigator was that he was just trying to liven up a Boring landlord held in slaying Cleveland a landlord has been arrested in the shooting death of a tenant who dropped her pants and mooned him during an argument Edward Drew cry was in jail monday on $25,000 Bond. He was charged with murder in the saturday shooting of Shirley Mccool. Police said Mccool dropped her pants and mooned Drewery when he threatened to evict her Friend. Mccool who was standing in the Street was shot once in the head. Man s nose reattached Denver a Man s nose was reattached by a surgeon after it was bitten off during a bar fight but the Man will need More plastic surgery and risks infection. Bill Shannon a 29-year-old Iron worker was released from University Hospital on saturday. His Mother Fern Shannon said he told her he was jumped from behind Early saturday when he left a bar in Bennett about 3u Miles East of Denver. She said the men who attacked him were upset at his Pool table winnings. He just looked terrible said Adam county sheriffs Deputy Karl or. Conrad Terry who said he reattached Shannon s nose in Little More than 10 minutes in the Hospital s emergency room said infection is always a danger in bite wounds. And the nose like ears contains much cartilage and could have problems with circulation he said. The initial surgery was no big Deal he said but it is possible the nose won t no arrests were made. Goods for guns Swap spreading to los Angeles los Angeles a the organizer of new York City s toys for guns Swap and the a act will bring the Campaign to los Angeles the head of the civil rights organization said monday. Benjamin f. Chavisjr. And new York Fernando Mateo planned a news conference on thai re named goods for guns program tuesday at los an Geles City Hall. This is really spreading Chavis said in a Telephone interview from his Pasadena hotel. Every gun taken off the Street represents a life potentially saved. Una very practical solution to a very complicated in new York City 1,024 guns had been surrendered to the police department s 34th precinct in the crime Ridden Washington Heights area by monday afternoon officer Maria Galarza said. The program began there dec. 22. Chavis also in town for wednesday s taping of the 26th annual a act image awards said the Campaign was being renamed goods for guns because businesses including computer and clothing firms were interested in participating. He said he planned to meet this week with police chief Willie l. Williams representatives of mayor Richard Riordan s office City Council members activists and residents to organize the Campaign in los an Geles. " local chapters of the National association for the advancement of coloured people also were organizing the program he said. 2 charged with Trepl Falls City neb. A two men accused of attacking a woman who posed As a Man were charged monday with murdering her and two other people at a farmhouse near this Rural town. John loiter and Marvin Nissen both of Falls City were charged with three counts each of first degree murder in Friday s slayings of Teena Brandon Lisa Lambert and Phillip Devine. Brandon had posed As a Man named Brandon Teena and dated women in this town of about 1,000 residents until her sexual identity became known after she was arrested on alcohol and forgery charges. She was killed two weeks later. Richardson county attorney Douglas Merz has declined to comment on a pos sible motive. Lisa Tisdel right of Falls City neb., dated Teena Brandon left for a Short time last year thinking Brandon was a Man. Brandon was one of three people found shot to death in a farmhouse. Also was arraigned on charges of kidnapping and sexually assaulting Brandon on Christmas Day. Nis sen 21, was arraigned on one count of aiding and abetting first degree sexual assault and one count of kidnapping in that Case. Both men were ordered held without Bond. Brandon 21, moved to the area about three months ago from Lincoln and lived with Lambert 23, and Lambert s infant son Tanner at the farmhouse. The baby was at the farmhouse during the killings but was not Hurt. Devine 22, of Fairfield Iowa was a Friend of Lambert s sister House vets Applegate Lewis to retire Washington a two congressmen with combined service in the House of nearly 30 years announced their plans to retire and one urged other old timers to do the same. Rep. Douglas Applegate an Ohio Democrat who has served 17 years in the House said older lawmakers need to step aside for a younger generation headers. I think a lot of these Guys who Are Over there right now ought to take heed to what i m saying and get the hell out Applegate said monday from Steubenville Ohio. Also announcing his retirement monday was Republican rep. Tom Lewis of Florida who has served 11 years in the House. Lewis 69, said in a letter to supporters that it is time to leave the Public world in which i have lived and worked so Many years and rejoin my family and friends in the private lives we look Forward to Lewis was elected in 1982 and serves on the House agriculture and science space and technology committees. Applegate 65, said his Only regret was that he will be stepping Down before Congress resolves some controversial issues he became Active in Only last year when he assumed chairmanship of the House Public works and transportation committee s water resources and environment subcommittee. Judge orders offenders to do write thing Baton Rouge la. A one Way to right a wrong is to write a lot one judge believes. District judge Mike Erwin sentenced an admitted shoplifter to write 10,000 times i will not steal other people s another woman who pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to a burglary had to write 10,000 times i will not do anything stupid the judge who has issued dozens of such sentences said he Hopes forcing defendants to write about their crimes will make them think about what they have done. I just figure it May sink in and it can t Hurt them anyway Erwin said. The punishment usually surprises defendants he said. But nobody s Ever questioned it he added. Public defender Randy Buckley who handles cases in Erwin s court said he supports the unusual sentences. Erwin tries to do anything he can to get these peo ple s attention Buckley said. A. H
