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West to Clash on Gridiron Friday / Insert $1 Mid-Week Edition Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Murder Suspect Caught A Napavine Toy Story Centralia Resident Tackles California Couple Celebrates One Year of Business for Man Who Is Suspected of Murder / Main 5 Let’s Play Something Storefront / Life 1 Assessor Multimillion Dollar Claims Filed Against Lashes Out County After Horse Injures Fair Attendees MORGAN FAMILY: Two Individuals Three individuals have filed tort claims Morgan family. at County with the Lewis County Risk Management The documents show that John Morgan, Injured by Horse and Carriage Department each seeking between $2.5 who goes by the name Jake, and his 4-year- Commission File Tort Claims; Wife, Mother of million and $5 million for damages sus- old daughter, Helen, were injured in the in- tained on Aug. 19 when a runaway horse cident, as were three other people who suf- EMAIL: Victims Also Files Claim and carriage injured several individuals at fered less substantial injuries. Morgan, his County Assessor the Southwest Washington Fair. daughter and his wife, Emily, have all filed Stops Processing 2016 By Justyna Tomtas The tort claims were filed separately on Orders Due to Errors [email protected] Sept. 28 on behalf of three members of the please see HORSE, page Main 16 by County Board of Equalization By Aaron Kunkler Coroner’s Office Digs in on Clandestine [email protected] The county assessor's office has threatened to stop process- Graves, Evidence Recovery With Course ing orders containing errors from the county commission- er-appointed Board of Equal- ization fol- lowing a 2016 state Depart- ment of Rev- enue review that found ev- ery document they analyzed contained er- Dianne Dorey rors. county assessor Assessor Dianne Dorey expressed her frustration in a letter to com- missioners Edna Fund and Gary Stamper obtained by The Chronicle this week. please see ASSESSOR, page Main 13 Attendees Voice Broad Support for Dam at First Meeting on Pete Caster / [email protected] Options Attendees of a course put on by the Lewis County Coroner's Oice dig up bones in a mock crime scene on Wednesday afternoon in Chehalis. The two-day class, which was attended by 29 people from 19 jurisdictions, covered subjects such as bone identiication, evidence collection, entomological evidence, warrants and other information. By Justyna Tomtas [email protected] A skull that COURSE: Officers always be the case. The first of two meetings was dug up in “You don’t want to learn on focused on garnering public a mock crime Learn About Legal an actual case,” State Forensic comment on the Department scene investiga- Chain Reaction That Anthropologist Dr. Kathy Taylor of Ecology’s Draft Program- tion sits on a said. matic Environmental Impact piece of paper Occurs When Remains Finding a bone sets off a legal Statement for the Chehalis Riv- next to the Are Found chain reaction, from the formal er Basin was held on Tuesday dig site during identification of the bone as hu- night at the Veterans Memorial an evidence By Natalie Johnson man or non-human, to the pro- gathering class Museum in Chehalis, where it [email protected] cess of writing a search warrant was standing room only. put on by the and of recovering remains and The skeletons law enforce- More than 200 local lead- Lewis County other evidence. Coroner's Oice ment officers dug up in a field ers and community members For the third time, the Lewis on Wednesday south of Chehalis this week please see DAM, page Main 13 afternoon. were plastic, but that might not please see DIGS, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Centralia Assault Suspect What’s in a Name? Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Bail Set at Chehalis Modrow, Ruth H., 94, Follow Us on Twitter Winlock @chronline $150,000 Schools to Conradi, Floyd, 82, for Man Be Named Winlock Find Us on Facebook Cited for for Longtime www.facebook.com/ ‘Pattern of Financial thecentraliachronicle Abuse’ Supporters / Main 7 / Main 4 LOCAL PEOPLE, LOCAL DECISIONS! CHEHALIS 714 W. Main Street HOW CAN 360.740.0770 WE HELP Also TOLEDO, You? WINLOCK, TUMWATER CH564688ca.do & OLYMPIA Keith Macy Matt DeBord HOME | CONSTRUCTION | BUSINESS NMLS# 539574 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016 PAGE TWO News Reason to Celebrate for W.F. West of the Weird Fisherman Reels In Video Shows Tussle Over Whopper of a Lobster Naked Hillary Clinton in Bermuda Statue in NYC HAMILTON, Bermuda NEW YORK (AP) — A stat- (AP) — Hurricane Nicole may ue of a topless, hoofed Hillary have brought more than wind Clinton appeared outside a sub- and rain to Bermuda. Two fish- way station Tuesday, prompt- ermen are crediting the storm ing a tussle after one woman with bringing in an enormous purposely knocked it down and 14-pound spiny lobster. sat on it to prevent others from Charter boat captain Mat- picking it back up. thew Jones told The Associated The display marked the sec- Press he and one of his work- ond time a life-size, exaggerated ers, Tristan Loescher, were fish- depiction of a naked presidential ing off the shoreline on Friday, nominee has surfaced outside a Manhattan subway stop during the day after the storm blew Matt Baide / [email protected] through the island. Jones says the general election campaign. In W.F. West’s Shasta Lofgren celebrates with Ashlee Vadala (10) after scoring a point during an Evergreen 2A Conference Loescher thought he had a snap- August, an artist’s statue of an un- match against Aberdeen on Tuesday in Chehalis. The story and additional photos are in today’s Sports section per on the line after it somehow clothed Donald Trump was even- and online at www.lewiscountysports.com. got wrapped around a mooring. tually hauled away by city workers. When Loescher went in closer to But the crowd’s reaction to investigate, he instead spotted the naked Clinton was markedly Notable Quote the huge crustacean. different from that to the Trump statue, when a largely jovial Jones says it’s one of the group of onlookers took photos biggest lobsters he’s ever seen. of it and posed for selfies. Some Loescher held up the lobster for parts of the portly Trump’s geni- “These guys, I get it, they’re protecting their property … Little pictures before releasing it back talia were visible in that statue. into the water. On Tuesday, a woman can be did they know they were tackling a wanted murder suspect. Jones says spiny lobsters are seen on video taken by a report- You never know who you’re going to tangle with and how known to head to shore before er for the New York Daily News storms. dragging the life-size structure desperately they don’t want to get caught.” of the Democratic presidential nominee to the ground, stomp- Dave Clary Police: Bandit With ing on it and even sitting on Taste For Fancy Cookies, top of it to prevent a man from Centralia Police Department standing it back up again. (see page Main 5 for the full story) Espresso Nabbed “We shouldn’t be treated this STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — way. Period,” another woman Police say a bandit with a taste can be heard saying in the video. for espresso and fancy cook- It wasn’t immediately clear Today in History ies has been nabbed because he who created the Clinton statue. An activist collective called IN- Today’s Highlight in History: turn.” A series of gas storage tank Watergate prosecutor Archibald asked an officer for directions to DECLINE was behind the naked explosions and fires in Cleveland Cox was dismissed and Attor- a Connecticut pastry shop. On Oct. 20, 1976, 78 people Trump statue but said in a state- killed 130 people. ney General Elliot L. Richard- were killed when the Norwegian Stamford police Lt. Thomas ment that it had no role in the In 1947, the House Un-Amer- son and Deputy Attorney Gen- Barcello told the Stamford Ad- Clinton one. tanker Frosta rammed the com- ican Activities Committee eral William B. Ruckelshaus vocate that Donald Newman- A police spokesman said the muter ferry George Prince on opened hearings into alleged resigned. Smith’s face was covered with Clinton statue was eventually re- the Mississippi River. Communist influence and in- In 1981, a bungled armored a bandanna when he robbed a moved by whoever brought it to On this date: filtration in the U.S. motion pic- truck robbery carried out by convenience store on Monday, lower Manhattan, and no sum- In 1714, the coronation of Brit- ture industry. members of radical groups in getting away with around $800. In 1964, the 31st president of the Nanuet, New York, left a guard monses or tickets were issued. ain’s King George I took place in Police say an investigator was United States, Herbert C. Hoover, and two police officers dead. Representatives for Demo- Westminster Abbey. responding to the convenience cratic Mayor Bill de Blasio, a died in New York at age 90. In 1994, actor Burt Lancaster In 1803, the U.S. Senate rati- store later when Newman-Smith Clinton supporter, haven’t re- In 1965, in one of the more col- died in Los Angeles at age 80. fied the Louisiana Purchase. asked him how to get to the pas- sponded to questions about the orful moments of his presidency, Ten years ago: President In 1914, try shop. They say the investiga- statue.