Lawyer to argue devil guided killer Thursday in Danbury to decide state'of despair, horribly confused," went public with the claim Johnson WATERBURY (UPI) - The case convinced Minnella his client was the church rites at the boy's home whether to indict Arne Johnson for said I psychic researcher Lorraine was possessed by demons. is likely to summon Catholic priests possessed. Johnson ‘unwittingly challenged and ghost hunters to the witness murder. Warren. “He can’t remember Brookfield Police Chief John “We’re dealing with something Johnson is accused of stabbing to anything about the ..." what was within the boy, " said Mrs. stand. Murder is the charge and an Anderson said police focused “on that is not cultist,” said Minnella. Warren. attorney is prepared to argue it was death Alan Bono, 40, outside the Bono died from multiple stab evidence at the scene” and their in­ “We're dealing with the beliefs of kennel in Brookfield that Bono wounds. At the scene police “When it was hurting him, the devil’s work. vestigation “did not involve the millions of people, not only Catholics bothering him, making him violent, managed. Johnson’s two teen-aged recovered a knife with a five-inch supernatural.” "This is unprecedented in the but (all) Christians. And that is the Arne said, 'Whatever is in him let it sisters and his girlfriend, Deborah blade, belonging to Johnson. Miss American jurisprudence system," “But we’re not ignoring that existence of God, the existence of the take me on," she .said attorney Martin Minella said Glatzel, 26, witnessed the knifing Glatzel says she stood between the either,” he added. devil.” Thursday. 'after a gathering at Johnson's apart­ two men and never saw Johnson The Warrens have earned a He will try to prove in court that an ment above the kennel. holding a knife. national reputation for their work in Mrs. Warren told UPI she and her Minnella, a rotund 33-year-old with "unassuming, average 19-year-old, a ’The two men are said to have ’The case had all the aspects of an psychic research with a Long Island husband were called “ in a a moustache and Dutch boy-haircut, superb atMete who has never been in argued and scuffled after Bono made uncomplicated tragedy involving a family, who claimed to be terrorized professional capacity” to rid the boy said his client is “still possessed and trouble before” was possessed by a an obscene remark about the three lanky youth with curly blonde hair by supernatural forces in their homff. of “invisible forces” that produced he is suicidal.*" demon that “actually manipulated women, enraging Johnson. and a middle-aged man who had TTiat case produced the chilling novel strange behavior, including “It seems the ultimate a demon his body" when his landlord was The young man has no recollection befriended him two months earlier and film “The Amityville Horror.” growling. can do is to make you take your own slashed to death on Feb. 16.. of events leading to the slaying, said and paid him to do some odd jobs. It was the Warrens’ story of Johnson lived with the boy's family life," he said. “The devil made him do it," said those who have spoken to him in a The two, said those who knew them, deliverance rituals, or “minor exor­ at the time. Minnella plans a trip to England to Minnella. “It's more frightening than Bridgeport jail, where he is held on were “the best of friends.” cisms,” performed last summer by The Warrens, both practicing research a 1971 arson trial in which 'The Ebeorcist.'” $125,000 bond. The case drew little attention until five Catholic priests for an 11-year- Catholics, sought help from priests in lawyers won acquittal by using a A grand jury convenes next “I found a young man in a terrible Ed and Lorraine Warren of Monroe old boy identified only as David that the Bridgeport diocese. During one of devil-made-me-do-it defense Cops nab Friday March 13, 1981 Manchester, Conn. 25 Cents escapee She% in chase Serving the Greater Manchester Area for 100 Years By MARTIN KEARNS garage of a home in Lancaster when Herald Reporter they were spotted by a neighbor, but LEOMINSTER, Mass. — Escaped not until they had tied up a couple convict William K. Hamilton, a living there and stole their car. Manchester native, was arrested this State police next made contact morning along with two other with the escapees as they headed prisoners who had escaped from a south along Interstate 495. The car Massachusetts prison Tuesday night left the highway at a Marlboro exit after a dramatic chase ended when and police said the convicts fired their stolen car rammed a police shots at the troopers as the chase cruiser in a neighboring town. continued through that town. Hamilton, who was injured in the The car again entered 1-495, this crash with a Harvard police cruiser, time headed north, where it again was being treated in an area hospital, exited at the town of Harvard. Police while the two other men with whom said the three were apprehended he had escaped are being held in a when their car slammed into a Har­ jail in this northeastern vard police cruiser, injuring Massachusetts town. Hamilton. The morning’s events unfolded Police said no one was injured in when the three men reportedly the shooting. jumped a Lancaster police officer Also apprehended were 25-year-old and made off with his cruiser and George Douglas of Clntpn and 20- gun. The vehicle in which the three year-old William J. Griffith of were travelling then slipped away Worcester. from state and local police. - Police said the three drove into the Earlier^slory on pa^ 4. Green Berets go to Salvador SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador U.S. military advisers in El Salvador (UPI) — Salvadoran troops battled to “about 60” by April 1. The State guerrillas in four provinces in Department disputed the figure, stepped-up assaults and the United claiming the total would not exceed Gordon Lassow, Eighth Utilities District president, and Although Lassow noted if it were a true compromise States said it will send 15 Green the previously announced 54 Berets to raise the number of U.S. American military advisers. Mayor Stephen Penny expressed satisfaction with the between the district and town, neither would be wholly military advisers in El Salvador to ^The announcement came as the agreement settling two lawsuits they announced yesterday. satisfied. “about 60.” Salvadoran government threw a In Washington, the Pentagon said 1,000-man force into battles againsb Thursday it was sending 15 of the g u errillas in the province of U.S. Army’s elite Green Beret com­ Morazon, a major rebel stronghold Era of good feeling starts... mandos to El Salvador to train along the northeastern border with government forces in “com­ Honduras, a military spokesman By MARY KITZMANN Related story on page 4. The Liaison Committee and the district soured throughout two major compromise on sewer rates, and munications, logistics and in- said. 'The number of battlefield Herald Reporter legal battles over fire service rights teiligence.” casualites was not disclosed. agreed to begin joint meetings to revenue sharing funds are somewhat to the Buckland area, and whether A Pentagon spokesman said the In the province of Cuscatlan, MANCHESTER - With settle­ sidetrack and settle issues before interelated. Although the committee the wholeWown or the district Green Berets would up the number of helicopter gunships pounded the ment of three delicate issues and the they erupt into lawsuits. was formed after the negotiations residents could vote to join the town. slopes of the guerrilla-held Guazapa solid establishment of a Liaison Com­ “That’s progress,” says Deputy between attorneys began, both were In lenghty court battles, the state volcano 16 miles north of San mittee, the relationship between the Mayor Stephen Cassano, who sits on aware of the discussions. Supreme Court decided onl^' district Herald offers Salvador as government troops town and the Eighth Utilities District the Liaison Committee for the town. They tried to steer clear ot the residents should vote on consolida­ fought guerrillas in surrounding is the friendliest in years. He speaks of more cooperation topics in their meetings, Cassano tion. The district also won the right villages for the sixth straight day, The compromise announced between the sections to come, on said, knowing the sensitivity of the to fire service in Buckland free service military spokesmen said. yesterday in which the district areas such as establishing the issues. The disputes over the town charges A new Herald service, designed Several hundred guerrillas agrees to drop two lawsuits, settles Emergency Medical Services, and "We had enough issues already, " to the district for sewer service and to stimulate reader interest and besieged the provincial capital of the last pending litigation between further discussion of establishing Cassano said, “We didn’t want to the revenue sharing for funding the the two sections of Manchester. Last joint tax collection systems and jeopardize the talks.” provide subscribers with a free op­ Chalatenango, 35 miles north of San I’leune turn lo page 12 portunity to sell unneeded personal Salvador early ’Thursday but were year the two Board of Directors sharing a fire marshal. Relations between the town and the items, starts Monday. beaten back by government troops, All home-delivered subscribers an army commander said. He did not to The Herald will be able to adver­ disclose casualty figures. ...but boundary still unclear tise an item priced at $99 or less Leftist guerrillas used dynamite to free in the classified pages’ “ Items blast a train loaded with export for sale classification.