Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 77, Ed. 1 Monday, November 28, 1988 Page: 1 of 8
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Peggy, who now lies in a coma, are shown in these
undated file photos.
store in Valley View about 2 p.m.
after Turner, driving a 1987
Chevrolet Camaro, drove off with-
sued Turner, Martin said, and
forced him from concealment.
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By BETH MILLER
City Editor
VALLEY VIEW — Valley View
residents aided law enforcement
officials Friday in capturing a
teen-ager who is charged with
stealing a motor vehicle.
The teen-ager, Ray Turner, 17, of
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foot into a wooded area of Spring
Creek, south of Valley View.
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Police and church officials first
theorized that the attempt on Peggy
Railey’s life was some kind of gro-
tesque retaliation for her husband’s
outspoken stance against racial
prejudice and injustice.
With his wife in critical condition,
Railey stationed himself outside
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days to Christmas
. “You’re going to die,” he said,
pointing his finger at the audience.
“You’re going to die,” he re-
peated, pointing to another section.
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out paying for gas. “Valley View authorized use of a motor vehicle,
Police Chief Tom Tatom gave chase evading arrest and theft over $5,000
on West Frontage Road, south of and under $20,000, Martin said. The
By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN
Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS — Arab dip-
lomats say they have enough votes
for an unprecedented measure to
move the U.N. General Assembly
from New York to Geneva so PLO
chief Yasset Arafat can address the
world body on the Palestinian issue.
U.N. Secretary-General Javier
Perez de Cuellar accused the
United States on Sunday of violating
its U.N. treaty by refusing to issue a
U.S. visa to Arafat to speak to the
General Assembly.
The Arab Group of U.N. member
states planned to meet today to rec-
ommend moving the General
Assembly.
The State Department denied a
visa to the Arafat on Saturday, say-
ing the Palestine Liberation Organ-
ization chairman “knows of,
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lieu of $40,500 bond. He was north on East Frontage Road where
arraigned Friday afternoon before A Turner lost control of the vehicle
Justice of the Peace Royce Martin, and it came to stop in a ditch.
who set his bond shortly after his
arrest by Department of Public
Safety Trooper David Jones.
Martin said a call was received
from an attendant at Lucky Lady
Chief Tatom, DPS Trooper Jones, chase and made the arrest pos-
Stabbing
probe still
under way
ByKARENTREAT
Register Staff Writer
McKinney police are still in-
vestigating the stabbing death
of a 12-year-old girl found by
her mother at approximately 11
p.m. Thursday.
The girl, Amanda Marie Mil-
ler, is the granddaughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Archie Hale of
Gainesville.
According to McKinney
Police Chief Ken Walker, police
are still interviewing people in
order to develop leads in the
case. He said there is not
enough information as yet to
name any suspects.
Nancy Brawner returned
home from work at ap-
proximately 11 p.m. Thursday
and found her daughter’s body
on the dining room floor. Police
said Miller had been stabbed
repeatedly in the chest. The
front door, which was usually
locked, was found unlocked and
there was no sign of forced en-
try, leading police to believe
the girl may have known her
attacker.
According to a story in The
Dallas Morning News Satur-
day, the girl’s stepgrand-
mother, Betty Brawner, said a
16-year-old boy had been “har-
assing” Miller over the last"
several weeks and had been
seen talking to the girl Thu-
rsday afternoon. Brawner said
Miller told her she was afraid of
the boy. According to Walker,
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formation to consider the boy a
suspect.
According to police, Miller
had stayed home alone several
times before, and her parents
said she was good about keep-
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A nearly one-year Palestinian up-
rising in the Israeli-occupied West
Bank and Gaza Strip has left more
than 300 Palestinians and 11 Israelis
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The policy-making Palestine
National Council, the PLO
parliament-in-exile, proclaimed an
independent Palestinian state dur-
ing its meeting in Algiers on Nov. 15.
More than 30 countries, most of
them Arab, have formally recog-
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condones and lends support to” ter-
rorist attacks.
President Reagan lauded the de-
cision. “I think the other way would
have sent out the wrong signal —
that we are patsies,” he said in
Santa Barbara, Calif.
Reaction from other nations was
largely negative. Arafat has not
commented on the decision.
Perez de Cuellar said the move to
deny Arafat a visa violates the 1947
agreement under which the United
States promises not to interfere in
U.N. matters.
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charges, Martin said. The Nissan
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Perkins, 17, of 4600 Miller, Fort
Worth, was traveling with Turner in “I want to commend the mem-
a stolen 1988 Nissan pick-up truck, bers of the Valley View Crime
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EDITOR 'S NOTE: On a spring He was alive but unconscious and in described it as an apparent suicide
night in 1987, a bright, pretty, re- critical condition. note. And they redoubled their
markably talented housewife and Empty bottles of prescription efforts to review with a con-
mother was brutally attacked at her drugs and his long, rambling letter valescing Railey what happened on
home in a fashionable Dallas sub- lay nearby. It began with instruc- the night Peggy was attacked.
urb. There were no arrests and no tions for his funeral and ended thu- A fellow pastor, the Rev. David
suspects and only the darkest hint of sly: Shawyer of Plymouth Park Method-
a motive. But a series of shattering “I have finally made the decision ist Church, said, “I’m praying that
events and revelations that fol- to take care of myself. I have grown it is not what it looks like. I’m
lowed her attempted murder only weak. God has remained strong, praying that what the police are
deepened the mystery in which Therein lies your hope. I have none, suggesting could never be true.
things were not always what they “WalkerL. Railey.” “I’m praying this will all come
seemed. Here is an introduction to ----- out some other way.”
thetragicsaga °f WaIker and The vicious attack on Walker
Beggyrtauey. Railey’s wife and his ensuing
By MIKE COCHRAN suicide attempt devastated three
Associated Press Writer families, split a church and out-
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her hospital room, interrupting his the garage floor, writhing in con-
grim vigil only long enough for a vulsions. Her face was puffy and
trip downtown to give investigators discolored and she was frothing at
an initial account of his activities the mouth.
the night of April 21. He said the children, Ryan, 5, and
He said he Spent the evening do- Megan, 2, were inside and un
ing research at the Fondren and harmed.
Bridwell libraries at Southern Railey telephoned police and then
Methodist University. Returning a church friend. After help arrived,
home about 12:40 a.m., he said, he he accompanied Peggy to Presby-
noticed that a door to the darkened terian Hospital, where he appeared
two-car garage was partially open. at her side in the emergency room.
Driving inside, and with his car- Following the interview that
lights on, he found Peggy lying on (Continued on page 2)
Walker Railey’s attempt on his | I
own life was only the latest bizarre
development in what would be I
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DALLAS — Bewildered friends ragedacity. . - sensational mystery in a decade. |
and followers would recall he For Peggy Railey was by no One unrestrained commentator
looked tired and depressed, still means an ordinary homemaker, called the attempted murder of his
grief-stricken and mystified over and her husband was perhaps Dal- wife the citv’s most extraordinary I
thesavageassaultonhiswife. las’most dynamic and socially con- “rime since the Kennedy
Little more than a week had scious young minister. At 39, assassination,
passed since he found her comatose Walker Railey reigned as the senior Peggy survived but only barely
on the garage floor of their stylish pastor of the city’s 6,000-member so. Comatose, she could not identify
North Dallas home. She had been United Methodist Church and her assailant,
choked senseless and left for dead. loomed as the rising star of his A series of anonymous, type-
She had not regained con- mainstream protestant denomi- written death threats preceded the |
sciousness. nation. . attack, but friends said Peggy did
Now, in the early evening hours of The news of the suicide attempt not frighten easily. She encouraged
April 30, 1987, the intense, balding swept through town like a mon- her husband not to soften his stand,
young man excused himself and strous tidal wave. And nowhere was The last and most ominous letter
disappeared into his private hos- it more devastating than at First was slipped under the door of a
pital suite. Methodist, where Railey s flock church office just prior to the
He locked and chained the door already was reeling from the at- Easter Sunday services. It said:
from the inside, sat down with pen tempted murder of Peggy. “EASTER IS WHEN CHRIST
and paper and began composing a Railey’s chief assistant, the Rev. AROSE, BUT YOU ARE GOING
chilling letter. Gordon Casad, told the con- DOWN. ”
“There is a demon inside my gregation the next Sunday, “We
soul, ’ ’ he wrote. ‘ ‘It has always been must remember our pastor and the Under the cold scrutiny of secur-
there. My demon tries to lead me troubling of his mind and spirit and ity officers, Railey delivered the
down paths I do not want to follow, keep him in our prayers.” Easter service wearing a bull-
At times that demon has lured me Asked if Railey was now a suspect etproof vest beneath his robes. -
into doing things I do not want to do. in his wife’s attack, Park Stearns, It would be his last appearance in
“...My demon has finally gotten supervisor in the Dallas office of the the pulpit of the historic old sanc-
the upper hand.” FBI, replied: “This is a big no tuary of First Methodist. He ham-
When security officers broke into comment.” mered the congregation with a
the room the next morning, they Though police refused to reveal theme of death and ressurection
found him sprawled across his bed. the contents of Railey’s letter, they that morning.
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Williams, Eric. Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 77, Ed. 1 Monday, November 28, 1988, newspaper, November 28, 1988; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1569892/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cooke County Library.