March 21,1992 SATURDAY FORECAST: A good chance of snow today. ^lOWA TODAY, FINAL EDITION Highs 33-39; lows 21-27. Today's daylight: CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA 12hrs., 11 min. See 16D. • VOL 110 NO. 72 50 CENTS A regional newspaper ^ s e r v i n g Eastern Iowa Tax cut passed, vetoed Los Angeles Times and Gazette staff reports for any broad-scale tax relief for the rest of the year WASHINGTON — President Bush, carrying out a • Bush freezes "pork barrel" spending, 3A and turn the tax issue into a political football. vow he has repeated virtually every day for several and a special "millionaires' surtax." The vote in the House was 211-189, well short of t h e weeks, vetoed Democratic tax-cut legislation passed The bill included modified versions of six of the two-thirds majority needed to override Bush's veto. by both houses of Congress late Friday, complaining seven tax-cut provisions that Bush had proposed. Approval in the Senate came on a vote of 50-44. that it would raise taxes for wealthy Americans and "Congress could not resist their natural impulse to The Iowa congressional delegation split along party "stifle growth." raise taxes," the president said in a speech delivered lines. Democrats Sen. Tom Harkin and Reps. Dave Bush signed his veto message even before Congress in the White House East Room 10 minutes after the Nagle, Cedar Falls, and Neal Smith, Altoona, voted gave final approval to the bill, which contained a tax Senate completed work on the measure. for the tax bill. Republicans Sen. Charles Grassley credit for most Americans, a capital gains tax cut and Democrats charged Bush with using the White and Reps. Jim Leach, Davenport, Jim Nussle, Man- other reductions. They were financed by a higher top House to launch a purely partisan campaign. chester, Jim Ross Lightfoot, Shenandoah, and Fred TV VISION income tax rate for the richest 1 percent of taxpayers The president's action is expected to kill prospects Grandy, Sioux City, voted against the bill. 'Broadway Bound' Abortion headed for TV Page 1T 'gag rule' MURDERE modified MISSING^ From Associated Press SPORTS and Gazette staff reports WASHINGTON — The Bush Victim: Ron Novak, 24 Good, bad news administration said Friday that doctors in federally fund- Hometown: Rural Center Point for Iowa matmen ed clinics could give their pa- Page 1C tients advice on abortion even Classification of case: in situations where the life of the mother is not at risk. Murdered The decision provides an ex- Date of murder: BRIEFLY ception in the so-called "gag Dec. 23-24,1983 rule" that forbids the clinics Place of murder: from directing women to get abortions. Doctors would be Rolling Acres Rd. Slow lane able to refer women to facili- rural Center Point Country vs. city road work ties that provide abortions. Do you have information? Among city dwellers' top 10 reasons However, administration offi- Contact Dennis Fiser of the • for not living in the country: "Snow cials said, the doctor's advice Linn County Sheriff's Dept. doesn't get removed fast enough from must be based on medicine and L(319)398-352 1 the streets." Why doesn't it? Country not on social concerns. folks aren't in such a hurry for that ser- Planned Parenthood of vice, some county engineers say. De- America said the apparent pol- Victim: John Wall, 33 tails on page IB. icy shift was a smoke screen that merely bolsters the gag rule. Hometown: Cedar Rapids Women and church But "We feel that the doctors Classification of case: Theologian speaks at Coe are ungagged," insisted an offi- Murdered So what exactly is that "new world or- cial of the Department of Date of murder: der"? For feminist theologian Mary Health and Human Services. "What a physician does is Oct. 1-2,1986 Hunt, it's women and men finding ways AP photo to live and love together as equals. She not something that we're going to get involved in," said the Place of murder: spoke this week at Coe College. Details Betty Frieberg hugs her defense attorney after a Fairfield jury Dallas, Texas on page 6A. official who spoke to reporters found her not guilty of killing and dismembering her husband. on condition of anonymity. Story on page 5A. Fran Hansen, executive di- Do you have information? Going on furlough rector of Planned Parenthood Contact the Dallas Police Department's Homicide of East Central Iowa in Cedar Division (214)670-1633 Ag workers cope with deficit Rapids, said the exception is L Iowa's agriculture secretary says he Abuse expert backs not a change. and his 502-employee department will be "The gag rule is not lifted," taking three unpaid days off to make up Hansen said. "This is a bone for a $200,000 budget deficit and avoid acquittal of Frieberg with no meat on it. A woman layoffs later. Details on p a g e 5B. Drugs, diamonds: the mind of the victim other who can afford to go to a pri- By Dick Hogan vate physician can still receive Gazette courts reporter than killing the person who is battering them to escape the information about abortion. A Plain silly Many people on the street poor woman who must go to a seem surprised that Betty Frie- violence and keep themselves Deadly motives Execs arm-wrestle for slogan safe. federally funded clinic cannot berg was not found guilty of receive information from the DALLAS (AP) — South Carolina avia- something in the shooting Killers missed Suspect never tion executive Kurt Herwald left South- "Our society does not work staff. To say that physicians death and dismembering of h e r very effectively as a whole in can give this information is west Airlines Chairman Herb Kelleher abusive husband. $32,000 in cash brought to trial coughing and wheezing Friday morning domestic abuse cases," Kin- saying nothing at all because in a best-of-three arm wrestling match But Cris Kinkead, Cedar kead said. Even if the court physicians are not the health Rapids YWCA Critical Services orders someone to stop abus- By Jeff Burnham By Jeff Burnham over an ad slogan the companies use. care providers in low-income Gazette staff writer Program coordinator, which ing a person or to have no con- federally funded family plan- iamonds are forever. Southwest began using "Just Plane t was one of those wintry Smart" last year. Stevens had been us- includes the domestic violence tact with them, there's seldom ning clinics." So, seemingly, is the program, thinks it was the much control over what that Iowa nights when going investigation into the ing "Plane Smart" to tout its Greens- Planned Parenthood in Ce- outside could be deadly. D boro-based airline service business. right verdict. person chooses to do, Kinkead dar Rapids does not receive I murder of a Cedar Rapids "Based on the information I said. Wind chills were plum- diamond trader. Afterward, Herwald said Southwest federal funds. Hansen said the meting to 100 degrees below read in the paper, I do believe "I think that I admire the clinic is not and never will be More than five years have could continue using the slogan. The zero. Like most people, Ron stunt saved the companies hundreds of that she should have gotten off jurors for taking a look at the affected by the gag rule. The elapsed since John Wall was thousands of dollars in legal costs. with an innocent verdict," Kin- whole issue of what it takes for clinic can continue to give Novak was staying home shot to death in Dallas, but kead said. battered women to survive. women complete medical infor- the night of Friday, Dec. 23, investigators have made lit- "I don't think it's a license to The verdict is a positive step mation about their health and 1983. tle progress. Go ahead, laugh kill. I don't condone violence for battered women in that it pregnancies. Unlike most, the rural acknowledges the battered Setting this case apart of any nature. But within that In guidelines that are to take Center Point man was being Humor helps deliver message women syndrome does exist." watched. Some think he from most unsolved mur- we have to recognize that there effect within three months, the ders is that an arrest was Playwright Tom Griffen knew well is the feeling of being trapped, Does the jury's decision of knew it and was worried, that we have to laugh at ourselves, even department said, "Referral to made practically right off thinking there are no other not convicting Frieberg of any- specialized medical care for even with two watchdogs if we're mentally disabled. The message choices of escape," Kinkead thing send the wrong message? and three guns. the bat. Tyrone Tyler, a Dal- hits home in "The Boys Next Door," medical conditions which may las accountant with a noto- added. "I don't think in this case complicate pregnancy still Any worries were tem- which is playing at Theatre Cedar Rap- that it does. I have enough pered by the anticipation of rious reputation, was ids. Review, page 3B. "Women who are battered must be made, even if the ulti- charged with first-degree very seriously may feel there faith in the court system to mate result may be the termi- his girlfriend and best work effectively in situations friend stopping by later in murder less than two is no other way. There may be months after Wall's body absolutely no other choice in like this." • Turn to page 5A: Abortion the evening. Such anticipa- INDEX tion was uncommon for a was found Oct. .2, 1986. Abby 7B Legals 4B 24-year-old bachelor who There has been no trial. Births 2B Legislature 5B thrived on privacy — "se- Tyler has never been asked verely anti-social" as a to plead guilty or not guilty. City Briefs 14D Log 3B Nagle learns 4 checks bounced brother puts it. A judge has set and resched- Classified D Money 8C By David Lynch check-bouncers last fall and has proposed a But car troubles would uled 47 court dates for the Comics 6B Movies 7B Gazette Washington reporter series of stringent congressional reform mea- keep both visitors away. No- two sides to discuss the Deaths 2B Religion 6A WASHINGTON — Rep. Dave Nagle, D-Iowa, sures. vak never knew that. case. Editorial 4A Royko 2A Friday learned he wrote four checks that ex- Nussle, who has ad- At some point, a vehicle All along, Tyler has been Farm 8C Stocks 9-10C ceeded his balance at the House bank between mitted that one of his drove up. Footprints in the free to go on with his life, Horoscope .... 14D TV 7B November 1989 through June 1991, for a total of checks was returned by snow showed someone got apparently unhindered by $610. the House bank because out and went to the back the accusation that he end- TODAY'S CHUCKLE He said he had an explanation — deposits he forgot to sign it, is- door, while a second person ed Wall's life. were not immediately posted by the bank — but sued a press release Fri- may have also gotten out John Wall was born in What you use to play "Go Fish": a "no excuses." day taking credit for and waited behind a tree. Mechanicsville and graduat- deck of cods. The bank, which was closed last fall after the House Speaker Thomas Detectives and relatives ed from Lincoln-Stanwood congressional check-bouncing scandal broke, Foley's decision to end have spent the last eight High School in 1971. He never notified Nagle that he was overdrawn, free prescription drug years trying to figure out moved to Iowa City, where TOMORROW and it never returned any of the checks for lack service for members, to what happened next. When he got married and ran a Breaking the silence of funds. All four checks were written for raise fees at the House found the next afternoon, vacuum cleaner distributor- "cash." gym and to scrutinize all ship in the late 1970s. perks for House mem- Novak's frozen body was Domestic abuse on the farm "I accept responsibility, and I apologize," \1 face down near the back That's when Wall started Nagle said. bers (Story, 3A). Domestic abuse in isolated rural ar- Dave Nagle door in an unheated store- using drugs, his first wife eas often goes unnoticed. And victims Nagle, the 3rd District congressman, is expec- "I apologize" Nussle said his omni- room. says, which is why she di- ted to be locked in a heated race for the newly are often reluctant to come forward be- bus congressional re- His hands had been bound vorced him. "He got into cause of small-town grapevines. The Io- redrawn 2nd District next fall with 2nd District form bill calls for an end to the free prescrip- wa City Domestic Violence Intervention Rep. Jim Nussle, R-Iowa. Nussle was among the tion drugs service and closing the House gym. Turn to page 5A: Novak • Turn to page 5A: Wall group of seven freshmen Republican House Program hopes to change all that. Iowa , members who demanded full disclosure of the . • Turn to page 5A: Checks Today in Sunday's Gazette. ' 7 The Cedar Rapids Gazette: Sat,, March 21,1992 *5A

Novak: Detectives wonder whether intruders meant to kill 'System works,' Frieberg • From page 1A behind his back. He had been around 8 the night of the mur- the phone when he let the per- says after verdict given shot once in the upper right arm der. son in, or perhaps the person FAIRFIELD (AP) — Betty Frie- Jefferson County Attorney with a .22-caliber handgun, But she told detectives that pretended to be a stranded mo- berg, who said she shot her hus- Ann Taylor said the verdict which was never recovered. He her car wouldn't start, keeping torist and Novak took the phone band in self-defense and then meant the jury felt the abuse in had been beaten about the head her away. On the other side of to them. dismembered his body in rage, Frieberg's background justified and body with two hammers and town, battery problems had per- was acquitted of a murder the shooting. a golf club found nearby, where Whether aware of it or not, the suaded Laver to cancel a killers did not have to contend charge Friday and burst into "I'm deeply disappointed," his cordless telephone was also planned trip out to Ron Novak's tears. found. with Novak's protective dogs be- Taylor said at a news conference house that night. cause the storeroom was isolated "Praise the Lord, the system after the verdict. "I don't think Missing was his wallet and When both tried to call Ron from the rest of the house. Those works," she said. her actions were appropriate." several hundred dollars of Novak to tell him they couldn't who knew the dogs say the ani- Taylor said she's frustrated "walking around money" he mals would have attacked any- The farm wife, 43, confessed to come, his phone went unan- shooting her husband Harold, 59, with abused wives who keep go- usually kept in it, says brother swered. Laver says it was no lat- one who laid a finger on Novak. Don Novak. That there had been on Sept. 30 and to cutting up his ing back to their husbands when er than 9 p.m. — an hour after The presence of the dogs, which they have better options. a violent struggle was indicated probably were barking up a body with knives and a circular Ron had spoken with his girlf- saw. Parts of the body were by blood that was splattered riend. storm by that time, may also Defense witnesses had testified throughout the room. Detectives have kept the killers from found spread across the farm- that Frieberg, as a child, was wondered if some of it was from , Laver and Novak's girlfriend looking for the drugs and cash. stead near Libertyville, in south- frightened of her mentally ill the killer or killers, but lab tests became worried when repeated east Iowa. mother, was raped by a hired were inconclusive. calls went unanswered. Ron No- As for suspects, Fiser says de- She testified her husband was worker and saw her father hav- vak rarely left the house for tectives interviewed some of No- pointing a gun at her. She said ing sex with his girlfriend. As an Gazette map long. Troubled, both figured vak's known associates and she was afraid he would kill her. adult, they said, she was abused IN THE adjacent kitchen, a they'd reach him the next day. came up with a list of "good" by Harold and her first husband. window on a door had been bro- The defense's psychiatrists noted Cedar Rapids, Novak graduated They also knew that Ron No- suspects. "A few, we feel, were years of abuse as a child and as Frieberg's daughter, Heather, ken, apparently in an attempt to from Jefferson High School in vak — 6 feet tall, weighing more capable of doing it, but we never open that door — which was a wife and said she may have 14, testified that Harold yelled 1978. He bought a farmhouse a than 200 pounds and nicknamed got enough physical evidence to re-enacted that abuse while cut- and complained about the clean- near one of Novak's loaded shot- few years later on Rolling Acres Tarzan — could fend for himself. charge anybody," he says, add- ting up her husband's body. guns. But Novak kept that door ing, the cooking and the chores Road about three miles north of If things got out of hand, he had ing that each suspect has passed and threatened to kill them both. locked, and it stayed shut that Center Point. The move was a lie detector test. "Betty has from the outset, three guns and two "protective" and I have in my opening state- She said she watched more than night. made in search of solitude, ac- golden retrievers, Rough and once when he kicked and shook Outside, strong winds were ments, acknowledged that she cording to friends and relatives Candy. THE LIST OF suspects even shot Harold. There's no question her mother. blowing snow over the footprints who say Novak had no inten- Shortly after noon the next includes one of the brothers, of Ron Novak's killer or killers. about that. Did she shoot Harold The jury got the case at 5:25 tions of farming. "He loved it out day, John Novak, another broth- Don Novak. While claiming that with justification, acting in self- p.m. Thursday and quit for the By the time detectives got there, there," recalls Dale Laver, who er, went to the house. A medical doesn't bother him, the ex-con- they say, it was too late to recov- defense?" defense attorney Tom night about three hours later. met Novak in first grade and examiner was soon there, and vict says what angers him is Walter said in his closing argu- They deliberated about four er any useful evidence from the became his best friend. the murder investigation began. that he has the names of the snow. ments. hours Friday. Laver says he knew Novak Fiser suspects the killer or murderers but can't get Fiser to No fingerprints were to be sold marijuana but never knew killers went there either to rob act on the information. found. The few neighbors nearby to what extent. After the mur- Novak or to collect on an old Among Ron Novak's relatives, had not seen or heard anything. der, detectives told Laver they debt. Brother Don Novak be- Don has taken it on his shoul- Abortion: 'Double talk' charged Of all the evidence, perhaps had been watching Novak for lieves another drug dealer did it ders to bring the killers to jus- most puzzling was what was several months because they "to eliminate the competition." tice — ever since sending his • From page 1A found in Novak^ bedroom: A considered him Linn County's Whoever it was, Fiser thinks brother off in style by "stuffing biggest marijuana dealer. Fiser nation of . . . pregnancy." Bush's veto of that measure was small suitcase holding $32,000 in they did not realize Ron Novak four joints" in Ron's shirt pocket Doctors in the clinics can refer sustained when the House fell a cash and $7,650 worth of mari- would say only that Novak was a would die, which may explain just before the body was cremat- suspected drug dealer who had patients to get abortions based dozen votes short of the two- juana in a green duffel bag. why his hands were bound be- ed. on medical judgment, and the thirds majority necessary to been convicted of possession and hind his back with a cord from "At first, we thought the mo- possession with intent to deliver. Don figures the easiest way to government will not second- override. tive probably was robbery," re- the house. solve the murder would be "to guess that judgment, the health Novak apparently knew he In his veto message in Novem- calls Capt. Dennis Fiser of the put a big ad in The Gazette, say- and human services official said. ber, Bush maintained the policy Linn County Sheriffs Depart- was being watched from time to FISER ALSO notes it's possi- ing 'AH the friends of Ron No- "We don't intend to try to in- time. Laver recalls Novak being was not meant to restrict doctors ment. "But then when we found ble Novak was still alive when vak, please send in five bucks terfere with physicians' speech," from offering the best possible the drugs and cash out in the concerned about six months be- his killers left, as the autopsy apiece for a reward fund to find the official said. fore about a car that had been medical advice to pregnant wom- open like that, we weren't sure." found three causes of death: the the killers,'" he says. "That's However, the rules for other en. He said a memo he had sent Among all the uncertainties, parked overnight near his beating, the gunshot and the the only reason it's never been clinic staffers remained another house. to Health Secretary Louis Sulli- Fiser says there is little doubt cold. solved, these people won't sell matter. They can talk about van "makes clear that there is the murder was drug-related. Fiser chalks up the presence of themselves out for free." abortion only if asked, and then no 'gag rule' to interfere with Novak was among the county's DON NOVAK says his brother the cash and drugs in a conspic- If that doesn't happen, Don No- they are to refer the patient else- the doctor-patient relationship. I biggest dealers of marijuana, ac- was concerned about someone uous location by saying either it vak threatens he'll have to take where. have directed that in implement- cording to his best friend. That watching him in the days before was overlooked or they "got justice into his own hands some- "We're not in the business of ing these regulations, nothing apparently was how a 24-year-old his murder, during which time scared off by a passing motor- day. "There's some people who providing counseling on abor- prevents a woman from receiv- man who worked odd jobs had his house was broken into, ist." simply ain't going to be here tion," the official said. ing complete medical informa- accumulated what the IRS later though nothing was taken. As to whether Novak knew his anymore, and I'll be right behind The Planned Parenthood of tion about her condition from a said was a net worth upwards of Ron Novak's girlfriend told de- killers, Fiser isn't leaning either them because I ain't going back America Federation denounced physician." $100,000 or more at the time of tectives that Ron was particular- way. Regarding the presence of to jail," Don Novak says. "And the guidelines, saying that they his murder. ly anxious for her to visit him the telephone near the body, Fis- Ronnie's going to be saying, actually solidified the gag policy ABORTION RIGHTS advo- Born and raised in southwest when they talked on the phone er thinks either Novak was on 'Right on!'" instead of relaxing it. cates called that double talk and "With the gag rule in place, said the policy remained de- speech about abortion and abor- signed to keep health workers tion-related referrals will be cen- from advising women about Wall: Expected diamond deal to mean good Christmas sored," said David Andrews, ex- abortion. ecutive vice president of the • From page 1A organization. The abortion counseling ban drugs and it was downhill from know Tyler, including his moth- When told that the administra- was imposed by the Reagan ad- there." She says she was not sur- er and a half-brother. tion was calling this a lifting of ministration in 1988 and contin- prised when she learned of his the gag rule, Andrews replied: "I ued by Bush. It was propelled * 3^ I * Moore said Tyler has no crimi- into the congressional wars last murder. 7L nal record in Dallas. However, don't care what they said. This is more administration double year after the Supreme Court up- He moved to Cedar Rapids and The Gazette learned by tele- held it in May. started selling real estate, join- phone that Tyler pleaded guilty talk." ing Equity Associates Realtors to assault with intent to commit The ban on abortion counsel- Since 1981, the federal govern- and marrying again in 1981. A murder in 1972. He was sen- ing in federally supported clinics ment has financed abortions on- business associate described tenced to seven years' probation. has stirred heated opposition ly when a woman's life is endan- Wall as outgoing and likable, the from abortion rights groups and gered by continued pregnancy. Moore, the fourth prosecutor in Congress. The Senate and the Bush has repeatedly vetoed bills kind of person who doesn't go assigned to the case, said it's unnoticed in a crowd. House passed legislation last to expand the federal role in pay- among 18 murder cases she's year to override the policy, but ing for abortions. Wall was using and dealing co- working on. She's one of 50 pros- caine, according to testimony in ecutors handling murder cases. the 1989 drug trial of three prom- Tyler's mother and half-broth- inent Eastern Iowa businessmen. er Roger Claxton, a Dallas law- Wall also started dabbling as a yer, declined to comment. Re- diamond jobber, going from ac- John Wall peated attempts by The Gazette quaintance to acquaintance, to locate Tyler were unsuccess- TORQ store to store, town to town, try- murdered ful, as were repeated attempts to ing to sell diamonds. reach: 11 E "There's a risk in working the Gazette map • His attorney, Doug Mulder; a way he did," a jewelry store well-known, high-priced defense worker later said. "Some people he had met Tyler at the airport Breading, one of several people lawyer who used to be the top will kill you for $100. And a job- and had made his hotel reserva- to handle the case against Tyler. assistant in the District Attor- SALE ber often carries $50,000, $100,000 tions. Wall was to be the middle- "It's not like they can go on ney's Office. ^ • LOWEST PRICES EVER! worth of stuff on him." man, buying diamonds from a with their lives, so we owe it to • Judge Pat McDowell, who re- • WHILE THEY LAST! k%> Dallas broker and selling them them to try their case before the scheduled the hearings 47 times. # IT'S UNCLEAR WHEN or to Tyler. case of someone who's out on ^ • LIMITED MODELMODFI S fi <5j^ how Wall met Tyrone Tyler. "It must have been premedi- bond." RICK SILVA, the Dallas po- • EXAMPLES BELOW Wall's second wife said Wall tated murder," Wall's wife said Prosecutor Terri Moore says lice detective who conducted the $ s first sold diamonds to Tyler in after Tyler was arrested. "They it's the oldest active murder case initial investigation leading to Regular 369.95 Regular 679.95 July 1986 and talked of Tyler as knew when John was coming. on the docket, but nothing to be Tyler's arrest, told The Gazette 95 a man who conspicuously They knew what he would have. alarmed about. he thought the case was dismiss- NOW s 95 flashed wealth. It was like it was all mapped out Perhaps contributing to the de- ed long ago. NOW $239 and planned." 549 Tyler called several times in lay is that the case against Tyler "That's what (original prose- the weeks after the sale to talk of Tyler, 38 at the time, surren- is weak, the evidence against cutor) Heidi Akins told me, that SAVE buying 10 carats a month. On dered to Dallas police after him circumstantial. "There were she'd decided not to take it to $130.00 Sept. 30, Tyler called for the last learning of a warrant for his ar- no eyewitnesses to the (murder) trial," he says. "Sure, jail cases time. Model 26622 rest about seven weeks after and we don't have a murder take priority, but I've never Guaranteed to start 5 years "All I can tell you is that it Wall's murder. Tyler was re- weapon," she says. heard of a case on bond taking Tom' 5 hp 4-cycle GTS was immediate," Wall's wife said leased from jail the same day on When contacted by The Ga- five years." OHV engine $10,000 bond. 21" sell-propelled shortly after the murder. "John zette in December, Moore said But Akins, a prosecutor in rear bagger with all of a sudden said he was leav- she had been assigned the case a nearby Denton, says she doesn't Blade Brake Clutch ing for Dallas. 'We've got the HAD TYLER NOT made few months before and had not even remember the case. deal put together,' he told me. bond, prosecutors say, the case had time to read through the file Moore says she'll probably ask 'This is going to be a great would have gone to trial long yet. By late January, Moore said to have the murder charge Christmas.'" ago. With overcrowded jails and she had read the file but wasn't against Tyler dropped unless Two days later, Wall's fully several hundred murders a year, sure how to continue the investi- some new information is uncov- clothed body was found under a the Dallas District Attorney's Of- gation — especially in finding ered soon. fice has been forced to prioritize anyone who knows Tyler, in- bridge, face down in a shallow cluding his family. "You always hate to dismiss a creek. He had been shot once in murder cases based on whether murder case," she says. "You al- the right cheek. An autopsy re- a defendant is in jail. "I have to have some kind of ways hope that there will be a vealed no other injuries, but "You have to understand, lead on who to talk to, but the breakthrough because with a Wall, 33, was "acutely intoxicat- there are quite a few murder de- file is rather sketchy on where murder, you don't dismiss light- ed" when he was killed. fendants sitting in jail waiting to start," she said. ly. I'm a perpetual optimist. But The day before, police learned, for their case to go to trial," says But The Gazette had already I can't say it's looking any bet- Wall had called his wife to say former Dallas prosecutor LeAnn talked with several people who ter." • Sorry, No Trade-Ins • 2 Year Warranties • No Interest or Payments until October* Checks: Nagle balks at revealing private accounts 'With Qualified Credit • From page 1A FRIDAY • SATURDAY • SUNDAY ONLY Nagle said in a telephone in- drafts at the credit union and his private checking accounts, make mistakes." 8:30-5 8:30-5 12-4 terview Friday afternoon he be- two at the Waterloo bank. He saying it was an unfair question. He said there are major differ- lieved in full disclosure and so said he didn't have a record of In one instance, he told a report- ences between the taxpayer-fi- Mon. & Thurs, er it was like asking people if 8:30-7 had looked into his private the amount of money involved in nanced House bank and private Sat 8:30-5 checking accounts at the House the overdrafts. they picked their nose. banks, and he branded Nagle's Sun. 12-4 Credit Union and at the Water- Nussle said Friday he would disclosures on his private check- Other Days have no comment beyond his ing accounts as "damage con- 8:30-5 loo Savings Bank. NUSSLE HAS BRISTLED at 803 .