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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Friday, July 5, 1991
Police beat
Baytown man
found hanged
Baytown police are treating
the death of a 19-year-old Bay-
town man as a suicide.
James Albert Nolan was
found hanged in the garage of
his home on Alabama Street
Thursday, police said. Police
believe he had been dead since
Monday night.
CRIME SCENE
During the 24 hours between
Thursday and Friday mornings,
Baytown police investigated
incidents that included 10 traffic
accidents with two related inju-
ries, seven burglaries, six thefts,
three auto thefts, ohe stolen auto
recovery, one criminal mischief
case, three cases qf family vio-
lence, several assaults and one
narcotics arrest.
BURGLARIES/THEFTS
—Police said three vehicles
were burglarized while parked
at an apartment complex at 3700
Garth Wednesday night. In each
case, stereo equipment was sto-
len. Combined loss is about
$2,100.
—An apartment resident at
1200 Missouri reported several
tools stolen from his patio
Thursday. Loss is estimated at
$250.
—A resident ip4he 500 block
of East Pearce reported more
than $4,300 in items were stolen
Wednesday night. Articles sto-
len included a shotgun, jewelry,
a keyboard and a telephone.
TRAFFIC
Police reported one non-criti-
cal injury when the operator of a
motorcycle lost control of his
vehicle in the 2700 block of
South Highway 146 early
Thursday.
No injuries were reported in
other traffic accidents which
included incidents on Garth at
Baker, Garth at South Road;
Garth at Rolhngbrook, in the
600 block of North Pruett; West
Main at Loop 201; Decker at
Rollingbrook; Huggins at Wis-
consin; in the 200 block of
North Alexander, North High-
way 146 at Massey-Tompkins
Road; and at the intersection of
Commerce and Sterling.
S
Goose Creek Federation of Teachers president Ron Morris reviews some literature at the
Texas Federation of Teachers biannual convention in Austin. He and his wife, Sue, attended
the convention last month.
Morrises attend convention
‘Gentleman Bandit’
suspect still in jail
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A prosecutor admits authorities
may have the wrong man wanted in the “Gentleman Bandit”
robberies, but Houston police are keeping the suspect in jail
anyway.
Harris County Assistant District Attorney Bill Hawkins con-
cedes that police likely had arrested the wrong man in connec-
tion with two June 27 robberies in Houston.
But another additional robbery charge in Louisiana hais kept
Michael David Harvey, 44, of Cibolo, a San Antonio suburb,
in jail since his arrest June 28.
Harvey has with no criminal record.
Hawkins said Harvey had barely been arrested when some-
one claiming to be the “Gentleman Bandit” telephoned offic-
ers and said he would surrender soon.
Officers have not heard from the caller since.
Harris County District Judge Mike McSpadden reduced Mi-
chael David Harvey’s bond in the Houston cases from
$200,000 to $20,000.
But Harvey is still being held pending the status of the Loui-
siana case that charges Harvey committed a Feb. 27 robbery in
Lafayette. ■
The so-called “Gentleman Bandit,” is believed responsible
for up to 100 robberies in Texas and Louisiana.
Harvey’s job involves checking major grocery stqjes in
Texas and Louisiana to see that shelves are restocked. His
work takes him to many of the places where the “Gentleman
Bandit” has struck.
The bandit is a polite, well-mannered man who lurks in
hotel hallways and elsewhere, helping people with their bags
or knocking on doors and asking to use patrons’ telephones,
police say.
Once inside the rooms, he pulls a gun and, apologetically,
robs his victims. So far, no one has been hurt in the robberies.
“Here, on the day we celebrate freedom and independence,
my guy’s lost his freedom for sometliing he didn’t do,” de-
fense lawyer Robert Hirschhom said Thursday. “I’m not ask-
ing them to dismiss the case at this point, all I’m asking them
to do is set a bond.” ■>
Hirschhom said he could prove Harvey’s innocence in that
case also, but Louisiana officials would not return his tele-
phone calls.
“It appears as if somebody is asleep at the switch in our
sister state,” said Hirschhom.
The case against Harvey is “the mother of all misidenfifica-
tion cases,” Hirschom said. ° -
Hirschhom said Harvey ’s wife told authorities she was with
him while people were being robbed at Houston hotels the day
before. A neighbor said he was drinking tea with Harvey on
the day the robberies were happening. A convenience store
cleric was gassing up Harvey’s car in Cibolo during the same
period.
Mobile home fire investigated
The Harris County Fire Mars-
hal’s office is investigating a
Thursday night fire in a mobile
home sties lot at 6202 Decker
Drive, according to a spokeswo-
man for the Baytown Fire
Department.
The spokeswoman said the in-
cident was a “suspicious fire.”
Two fire trucks from Station
Search continues for children
OCILLA, Ga. (AP) — Au-
thorities Friday continued their
around-the-clock search for two
missing El Paso children who
disappeared while playing in
their grandmother’s yard earlier
this week.
““ Jamie Price, 9, of Fitzgerald,
and Jessie Price, 7, of El Paso
were last seen about 12:45 p.m.
Wednesday by their grand-
mother when she went into her
home to prepare lunch, said
Ocilla police officer George
Hester.
Clara Price contacted police
about 45 minutes later, when she
called the children for lunch and
found them gone, he said.
A cashier at a grocery store
about seven blocks from the
house told authorities two boys
fitting tire description of the
children came into the store ab-
out 4, p.m. and bought candy,
said Irwin County Sheriff Leo-
nard Pope.
“The trail ended at the yard
fen for yesteryears?
See daily feature
From Sun Files .
Goose Creek Federation of Teachers members
Ron and Sue Morris attended the biannual 1991
Texas Federation of Teachers convention in
Austin in early June.
Convention workshops included “Contracting
Out: Can we stop privitization?” “Year Round
Schools: Is this the answer to overcrowding?”
‘Collective Bargaining: What is it and how do we
People.”
Ron Morris, local Federation president, was
presented with two publication awards for his
work in the Baytown school district last year.
Samples of his work were shown in Austin and
are now displayed with the awards in the
Federation’s office at 809 E. James Street in
Baytown.
Both Ron and Sue said they enjoyed discussing
school issues at the awards banquet with Texas
asur-
Walter
Hinojosa, as well as State Board of Education
chairman Dr. Carolyn Crawford.
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SUNSPOTS
Leisure ride
Bayou Cycling Society will
meet at 4 p.m. July 7 at
Grandy’s restaurant parking lot,
Highway 146 at East Texas Av-
enue, and ride over the Spur 55
bridge into southwest Chambers
County. i
Men’s Fellowship
Full Gospel Business Men’s
Fellowship International will
have dinner at 6 p.m. and fel-
lowship at 7 p.m. July 7 at the
Holiday Inn on Highway 146.
Thomas Meekins and family
will be die special speakers.
K. of C. dance 1
Knights of Columbus will
have a dance from 8:30 p.m. to
12:30 a.m. July 6 at the K. of C.
Hall, 2600 W. Main, with coun-
try and western music by
Toxic compound found
by marine researchists
5 were dispatched at 9:45 p.m.
to fight the blaze in a reftnb-
ished mobile home at America’s
Acceptance Mobile Home. No
injuries were involved, the
spokeswoman said,
Firefighters battled the blaze
for almost three hours. The dam-
age was listed at $15,000, the
spokeswoman said.
and outside of that statement the
lady gave us, we don’t have
anything,” he said.
Up to 150 people, including
volunteers and authorities from
surrounding counties, have
searched around the clock for
the boys since they were discov-
ered missing Wednesday, Hester
said.
A pond near the house was
searched Thursday and a Geor-
gia State Patrol helicopter also
was brought in to assist authori-
ties, but no traces of the children
have been found, Pope said.
GALVESTON (AP) —
Texas’ ailing shrimp industty
got some more bad news with
die discoveiy of a toxic com-
pound that is suspected of wip-
ing out shrimp larvae and steril-
izing female shrimp, scientists
say.
Scientists say the solvent
2-butoxy ethanol has identified
in experiments "by a marine re-
search group after it was found
in the Gulf of Mexico. But they
say it is believed to be coming
from the bay.
The discovery comes as grim
news to Texas’ ailing shrimping
industry, which could suffer a
serious blow if the conditions
that caused the larvae kill in the
tests are allowed to continue or
worsen, Texas Shrimp Associa-
tion Director Lucy Gibbs says.
Shrimping season is to open
Saturday, 30 minutes after
sunset.
“It could have very severe
consequences,” Ms. Gibbs said.
Experiments conducted in
May at'the facilities of DREAM
Inc;, a non-profit marine re-
search group that occupies die
defunct SeaArama Marineworld
site resulted in the d&covcry of
the compound. The larvae were
grown under controlled condi-
tions in water taken from the
Gulf off Galveston Island.
“We’ve lost $60,000 worth of
animals; that’s no big deal,” said
Roland Laramor, a biologist
specializing in shrimp diseases.
“What’s important is what’s
happening in the bay. There is
no room for shrimp larvae and
pollutants.”
Chapparrel.
RSS reunion
The Ross S. Sterling High
School class of 1971 will hold
its 20-year reunion July 6.
Classmates and their families
will meet at the school from 11
a.m.-l p.m., followed by an
evening at the Goose Creek
Country Club from 6:30
p.m.-midnight. For additional
information, call 424-8947 or
422-4081.
SOS brunch
Singles Outreach Service will
have brunch at 10:30 a.m. July 6
at The Kettle restaurant, 4915 E.
Interstate 10. For more informa-
tion, call 4224778.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 212, Ed. 1 Friday, July 5, 1991, newspaper, July 5, 1991; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1052333/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.