The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 145, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 1998 Page: 1 of 71
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In a wide ranging discussion Tuesday the Bastrop City
Council worried about winning voter approval later this
year to borrow $1.5 million for a new police headquarters
building.
Council Member Clara Maynard said she fears voters
may not approve additional borrowing before seeing some
results from bonds approved last year for drainage and
utility improvements as well as rebuilding Main and Pecan
Street.
The police building, as proposed by a study group
including Police Chief Bill Anderson, City Manager
■Randall Holly and Council Members Jimmy Mathison and
Willie De La Rosa, is designed to meet the city’s needs for
20 years.
Mathison said the long range plan will avoid criticism
recently aimed at the school district for adding new build-
ings which are already overcrowded by the time they are
occupies.
“I don’t think we can sell a building this big to the pub-
lic,” said Maynard. “The problem is its size and scope.”
“Of the people who talk to me,” said Mayor David
Lock, “no one’s in favor of a $2 million police building.”
Holly has suggested financing the cost with a $1.5 mil-
lion bond issue plus $600,000 in cash reserves.
Bastrop and Smithville will
both be searching for new animal
control officers, as Smithville’s
Rosie Young has decided to join
»Betty Wade and take on the coun-
’ty’s stray animal problem.
Wade, presently the animal
control officer for the city of
Bastrop, was hired Monday by
county officials. She has spent
the last 11 years with the city of
Bastrop.
She will officially begin her
new position on April 16.
Currently, she is busy formulat-
ing plans for the county’s new
animal shelter.
up her duties with the Smithville
Police Department on April 14
and start her new job shortly
Smithville’s
jYoung
leaving for
post
"She was a good one,” said
Smithville Police Chief Lee
Nusbaum. ”We sure do hate to
loose her.”
Wade said she is working with
Texas Department of Health
Officials and trying to come up
’Smithville looking
ffor new animal
^control officers ,
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Jury selection
picks up steam
The tedious process of picking a jury to hear evi-
dence in the capital murder trial of Rodney Reed for
the 1996 death of Sfecey Stites picked up steam this
week with the number of qualified jury prospects ris-
ing to 18.
District Judge Harold Towslee said he hopes to
qualify a panel of 48 prospective jurors before allow-
ing prosecution and defense attorneys to strike up to
10 names each. The first 12 remaining on the panel
will serve on the jury to determine whether Reed is
Arson suspected in weekend blaze
Four juveniles seen
mooue homes and
three mobile homes
destroyed
home on the left. As I was on the
phone to 911, I heard another
explosion,” said Hartwick.
“I could see four juveniles
running from fire just after the
destroyed three unoccupied
mobile homes and damaged a
fourth on River Road, just off
County Road 214. The possible
arson occurred about 3 p.m.
Saturday on a mobile home stor-
age lot in Travis County, adjacent
to the Bastrop County line.
Firefighters from Bluebonnet
and Southeast Travis County
fought the blaze for more than an
hour and prevented the fire from
spreading to four occupied
homes nearby.
Bill Hartwick of Lockhart was
visiting friends at a house on
River Road and called 911 to
report the fire.
*T heard a loud explosion that
sounded like it came from the
first explosion. I didn’t actually
see them start the fire, but they
were right there when it hap-
pened and took off running pret-
ty fast. I didn’t see their faces too
well, but I was able to give
Sheriff’s Deputies a description
of the boys’ general size and
clothing,” said Hartwick.
No one was injured in the fire.
Travis County Fire Marshall
Richard Gaston said the fire will
likely be investigated as an arson,
smoke coming from the mobile Travis County Sheriff’s Deputies
said they planned to question
neighborhood residents about
possibly identifying the four
boys suspected of starting the
blaze.
CorWibuttrai Writer
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Jury to decide mental competence of alleged throat-slasher
Sixth suspect arrested on armed robbery charges
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cash and a pocket knife, then
returned to their vehicles and
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Paul Haymes, who called Moms
a “cross-dressing devil wor-
shiper,” said the cemetery attack
was foiled because the intended
victim fought back, walked away
from the rural cemetery and
attracted the aid of a passing
motorist.
Bastrop. ’
The two had known each
other about two months before
the incident in which the young
woman was stabbed in the back
and before having her throat
slashed, according to Bastrop
County sheriff’s department
A jury in Bastrop was set to be
seated Wednesday to determine
the fitness of a 19-year-old Cedar
Creek man to stand trial for stab-
bing and slashing a teen-age girt
last fall with a hunting knife in
what police are calling a satanic
ritual.
an unnamed 16-year-old. All
five were Bastrop High School
students.
Police believe the incident
may be gang related.
Board said the suspects that
have been arrested have been
referred to on many occasions as
the North End Posse. The name
could, signify gang activity, offi-
cials'said.
All five males were charged
with aggravated robbery with a
deadly weapon, a first-degree
felony. If convicted, the four
adults could face up to 99 years
in prison and a $10,000 fine.
A second car then pulled up
and boxed the victim’s vehicle
in, police said.
’ Five suspects jumped out of
the two vehicles and one had a
vacant.
The city is also looking to
move forward on its passenger
depot restoration. Funding is
being supplied by the state high-
investigators.
The Wednesday hearing is
expected to feature contrasting
reports from psychological
experts. Defense attorneys are
suggesting that Morris is unable
to assist in his own defense.
Assistant District Attorney
with a facility that will best suit
then county’s needs.
If everything goes smoothly,
she said, the new shelter could be
up and running by the end of
June.
| County officials are going to
make a budget amendment to pay
The jury to be selected
Wednesday will determine
whether Robert Kyle Morris, 19,
is mentally competent to stand
trial for the knife attack on a 17-
year-old woman last September.
24 at Colorado Chapel Cemetery
near FM 969 northwest of
In February, two companies
that were awarded bids
expressed concerns over the tim-
ing of the restoration.
According to City Manager
Jim Dunaway, the companies felt
drove off.
All five males suspects were
taken in last week.
A warrant was obtained for
Davilla after evidence surfaced
suggesting she helped set up the
victims, Investigator Paul
Alexander said.
The five suspects charged last
week were 17-year-old Terry
Taylor, 17-year-old Gary Taylor,
17-year-old Dana Lamont Piper,
17-year old Edwin Williams and
By Jaaon Suchomte heritage of Elgin,” said
SMRWrtter Economic and Community
' Development Director Amy
The City of Elgin has decided
to go ahead with the renovation
A sixth Bastrop teen has been
charged in connection with the
armed robbery last week in
which two Bastrop High School
students were robbed at gun-
point.
Seventeen-year-old Sharon
Davilla was charged with con-
spiracy for her alleged role in last
Wednesday’s heist. The suspect
turned herself in to police on
The alleged crime occurred gun. Sergeant David Board said,
when two victims, along with C According to police, the sus-
Davilla. were driving near Farm ' pects stole a small amount of
and Wilson Streets.
Police officials said the vic-
Police say evidence suggests she
had a hand in setting victims up
tims were abruptly cut off by
another vehicle, causing them to
Elgin to restore historic freight depot
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