Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, March 10, 1982, Section A, Page 5, Image 5

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    Belushi, 33, laid to rest
, ' Wk ' life 9mm
Source says
overdose
caused death
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mats.
AP — With Dan Aykroyd riding
to the gravesite on a motorcy
cle and James Taylor mourn
fully singing "That Lonesome j
Road." comedian John Belu- j
shi was buried Tuesday in a
gentle snow on an island off
Cape Cod
Meanwhile in Los Angeles,
where Belushi died last Friday,
reports surfaced that his
death may have been caused
by a cocaine overdose
We can hear the call of his
solitary warning Wise up!' "
the Rev Ilia Katre of Boston’s
Holy Trimly Church told the
200 friends and relatives who
gathered at a church on
Martha s Vineyard for a
45-minute requiem service
and brief eulogy
The phrase "Wise up1' was
a trademark of the 33-year-old
Belushi whose manic comedy
made him a star of TV's "Sa
turday Night Live" and then
such motion pictures as
Animal House, filmed in
Eugene and on the University
campus
Among the mourners who
gathered on the overcasi
chilly morning at the Con
gregational church were
Belushi s wife Judith his par
ents comedian Bill Murray
and producer Lome Michaels
who worked with Belushi on
the hit NBC late-night comedy
show
Lee Salters Belushi s New
York publicist said the
comedian chose to oe buned
on the island where he owned
a summer home because it
was the one place he really
slept well.'
Seriously, he's always
really loved it here ” said
Salter
The funeral service was
performed by two Albanian
Orthodox priests with sott or
gan music and the smell of
mcense m the small tradition
al New England church
Belusht's parents emigrated
from Albania
The Los Angeles Times
reported Tuesday that a
source in the coroner s office
said Belushi died of complica
tions from a cocame over
dose ABC News also reported
that sources said a drug over
dose kitted him and said the
drug was 'probably cocaine
The Los Angeles coroner s
office declined to comment on
{he reports saying only that
the autopsy and other tests
have been inconclusive
Belusht s nude body was
found Friday on a bed in a
S200-a-day bungalow he had
rented at the Chateau Mar
mont Hotel in Los Angeles He
was in California to film a
comedy Noble Rot
ABC also said Beiushi a
heavy smoker was believed to
have been suffering from a
respiratory disease
Boyce faces robbery charges
Seattle AP — Convicted spy Christropher
Boyce was indicted Tuesday by a tederal grand
jury on five counts of bank robbery and six counts
of unlawful possession of a firearm
Boyce is accused of robbing five banks in
Western Washington between January and July
of 1981, said Gene Anderson, U S attorney for
Western Washington
Almost $25,000 was taken in the bank rob
beries in Bremerton, Everett, Bellingham,
Bellevue, and Seattle, Anderson said
In January, Boyce was indicted by a federal
grand jury in Boise on charges of conspiracy to
rob eight banks in Idaho, Montana and eastern
Washington.
Boyce, 29, was convicted in 1977 of selling
CIA spy satellite information to the Soviet Union.
He was sentenced to 40 years in prison, but
escaped from the medium-security Federal
Correctional Institution in Lompoc, Calif. He
remained at large for 19 months until his capture
in Port Angeles, Wash, on Aug. 21, 1981
Federal officials have said Boyce used the
money from the bank robberies to support himself
during his freedom.
Boyce received an additional three-year sen
tence late last month in Los Angeles for the
escape
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