Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 13, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba J 3 Whf Tieg free May 1985 Dotson sentence for rape lifted Over feeling Chicago a Jiffies Thompson freed Gay Dotson commuting his Seri Tencic after Botson served years if prison for a rape his former accuser says never who refused to Grant Dotson a Pardon proclaiming his said he was acting to do Justice and mercy and that no Good purpose would be served by returning Dotson to where he was serving a 25to 50year sen acting a Day after the end of a clemency said he did not believe key aspects of Cath Leen Crowell webbs Story that she fabricated the but he noted the length of time Dotson that Webb wants Dotson freed and that Dotson behaved Well in i have to decide this Case As my gut tells me to decide said free on watched the televised proceedings at his family Home and smiled briefly when Thompson announced the commute he said he planned to continue to try to Clear his either through a new trial or by continuing an Carol webbs Foster Moth said she believes Thompson made a very Wise we have no objection to Dotson getting out of said who has said she finds it hard to believe Webb was not i think he has world served Long the commutation was contingent on Good behaviour by said the governor also could have granted Dotson a Pardon on grounds of innocence or returned him to was convicted in 1979 of kidnapping and raping for Merly of he was re leased on bail May the Illinois prisoner review which conducted the three Day clemency hearing at which Thompson made its recommendation to the governor Satur by the recommendation was kept of told the Board she fabricated the Story that Dotson raped her in 1977 because she feared she was pregnant after hav ing sex with a teenage David Dotson Barbara had told Thompson and the Board saturday that i just know my son is innocent i think a Mother senses when a child is Beirne contradicted webbs account of Why she fabricated the rape Story at the Webb said she made up the Story that Dotson raped her on july because she had completed Intercourse for the first time with third death linked to police custody Dotson sports free at badge with Mother Barbara but an airman in testified saturday that he and the former Cathleen Crowell had never completed the sex act because he always interrupted he also said he was not with her any later than the weekend before the alleged Mark a state crime lab testified that in his opinion it was improbable that semen in a stain on webbs under Wear on the night of the alleged rape could have resulted from sex More than 24 hours Stolorow said his recent reexamination of the evidence indicated the semen could have come from Dotson or Beirne and there was no Way to be he said a pubic hair found on webbs body could have come from Dotson but it was impossible to be testifying thursday on the first Day of the said her Story of the rape was a big Dotson proclaimed his innocence and urged Thompson to free saying that the Nightmare Doest seem to Dotson asked for a new trial after judge Richard who Origi Nally sentenced him to re fused last month to overturn the saying he did not believe webbs Johannesburg a newspaper reported yesterday that a third person in less than a week had died either in South african police custody or hours after being re leased from the sunday Star was reporting on the Case of Moham Dailie who was shot in the head thurs Day night and died it was not known whether Rasiak was involved in As were two Black activists who died last week of brain Haemorrhages after being freed from police wanted on suspicion of theft and impersonating an was arrested thursday night and taken to a police station outside Johannesburg for police said they seized a gun in the House where Razak was they said that while he was being questioned at the Razak snatched the gun off a table and shot himself in the the Star said Razak was seized at the Home of his it quoted the woman Les As saying the arresting officers re moved the bullets from the weapon before they left the the newspaper said police did not explain How a loaded gun was left within reach of a suspect undergoing police said there will be an whose racial classification in South Africa was not was a Quality control inspector for a Johannesburg he would never take his own his Mother fifty six people have died in police custody since police began detentions without charges in the an organizer for the Congress of South Ashcan Sipho died May the Day after being taken into police a pathologist hired by the family lawyer said death was caused by a blew to the top of the police said Tutsi began convulsing prior to in Union Leader Andries who died of head injuries hours after being released from police Cus Tody May will be buried tomorrow in a funeral expected to attract thousands of neither police nor the Hospital in which he died have explained the cause of death or How he was treated by an Independent pathologist who attended the government autopsy said Radits Ela died of a brain Haemorrhage on the right Side of his the federation of South african Trade in which Radits Ela worked As a Steward for the Chemi Cal workers Industrial said yesterday that All workers in trans Vaal South Africa Indus trial should be Given tomorrow off to attend the funeral outside previously the representing Black warned that if the White employers refused to allow workers to Lay Down their tools for two hours tomorrow in Radtse Las it would Lead to further the federation says it represents workers most of them in the Gas winning ticket just got better Gas on a whole new lineup Chevy Cavalier Pontia sunbird Pontia sunbird financing Gas Best Selling subcompact Fri Terai 8louazfr guts fun machines Chevy so Blazer gmcs15jimmy cars Sis we Canadas biggest and Best dealer network see your participating Gumc dealer before May 311985 at hit on full amount financed Lor the Mil term of the contract maximum 49 you could be making the Deal of the take retail 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hotel on a police spokesman Nineteen people were injured and 71 arrested in the violence that broke out on the Square in front of the police spokesman Helmut Urbanczyk police fired water Cannon and tear Gas at the who shouted nazis out As they shattered All of the two Storey hotels windows and spattered its facade with eggs and the mostly Youthful Many of them masked and dressed in Black fought for half an hour in an attempt to break through police lines around the the Street Battles stopped Only when participants from a peaceful Antinazi demonstration nearby walked Between police and the riot pleading through megaphones for a halt to the fighting broke out again Between demonstrators and about 20 and police charged the crowd with clubs to break it the is veterans remained in the hotel through out the fifteen of those injured were one of them was in Hospital with a foot Urbanc Zyk he said police believe the actual number of injured demonstrators was higher than fifty six of those arrested have been the remaining 15 will face charges of damage to property and disturbance of the Urbanczyk car bomb kills injures 50 in Market Tehran Reuter the iranian state radio said 15 people were killed and at least 50 injured yesterday when a car bomb exploded in a Busy Tehran Street near the Bazaar Central Market during the morning Rush no one claimed responsibility for the estimated by police to have contained 50 kilo Grams of the National news Agency Irna blamed lackeys of Many of the victims were blown to Irna said human flesh was spattered on the Walls of the blast started fires which destroyed eight shops and a Twenty buildings were damaged and windows 250 metres away were police the last major bomb attack in Tehran was in when a suicide bomber killed himself and 13 worshippers at the weekly open air prayer gathering on the Campus of Tehran witnesses said they saw plastic tags containing parts of human bodies being taken away after yesterdays which occurred it the bomb ripped through toe Maze of store lined streets in and around the bustling close to Imam Khomeini where bomb killed dozens of people three years the a poor is one of the oldest in the iranian most of the victims of the attack were people on foot but Al people on a bus were among those it was the biggest car bomb attack in Tehran since last when 18 people were killed i if explosion outside Tine cites railway ;