Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, May 17, 1993, Page 7, Image 7

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    ‘Dr. Death’ arrested in Michigan
NATIONAL
DETROIT IAP) - Dr |a< k
Kevorkian \v,is arrested ifter
ln> assisted in .1 suicide Sun
day fur the first turn* since the
practii e was outlawed in
Michigan in February, his
attorney said
A 54-year-old man committed suicide in
Kevorkian's present e al a real estate ofTu e h\ breath
ing rarhon monoxide through a mask, said
Kevorkian's attormn Geoffrey Finger.
Ron Mansur, who suffered from lung and hone
cancer. was the 16th pinson to die with Kevorkian's
help. Finger said
Kevorkian was arrested on nil open ( harge and
released into his attorney s custody, Finger said
There's no wav they < an find any jury that will
convict him. it's not a crime to he present when
someone commits suicide." Finger said
Assistant Wavne County Frosts utorGeorge Ward
said Kevorkian would lie prosit uted under the new
law against ussisted suicide il homicide investi
gators del ided to seek < barges
"Dr Kevorkiun proceeds at his ow n risk or own
peril m Way no Counts. Ward told W WI AM radio
Kevorkian had said he would wait until a t on
stitutional challenge to the stale law lianning assist
ed sun ide was de< ided fie fore helping mother per
son to die
Fiegerdid not know win Kevorkian went ahead
w itfi Mansur's siiii ide. hut the judge hearing the
i ase had iieen expei ted to rule by last Friday
"Knowing lack, he t ares about suffering people
and believes suffering people hove the right to
det ide their own destinies. F’ieger said
In ,i departure from earlier suicides, none of
Kevorkian's assistants worn present. fii'ffr'-fid
Before Sinul.iv. Kevorkian had assistixl in I e> sui
c ities sou « |un« lo*io The last two o* * urrvd Feb
1H A week Idler. (>ov John Kngler signed legisla
lion making it a felons punishable In up to four
years in prison to assist in a suicide
Kevorkian. M, a retired pathologist, vv as c h.irged
with murder in his first three assisted sun ides Hut
charges were drop pod bet ause Mil higan liad no
law against the prat tit n
Finger said tie did know how long Kevorkian had
Imsmi counseling Mansur, or whether Kevorkian It.id
supplied the gas and apparatus usetl in his death
Tile suicide was reported it) the medit al exagi
intir's offit e before Kevorkian left, investigator Allen
Brandeau saiti
Kevorkian and Fieger left the building al«iut tvvo
hours later and went to polti e headquarters to f>e
questioned by homit ide investigators
l'elephtme numbers for Mansur and Ins mother
were unpublished
Mouii a Arnold, who bought her home from Ford
Mansur (.0 vv here Mansur tiled, saiti he hatl t>eeii
working there vv ith Ills mother for about one and
,i-half years' She knew he was sic k but I never
thought he'll tin anything like this
California suspended Kev orkian s lit ruse April
27, meaning he ■ annot pr.u tn e any " here in the
l billed States tbs In wnse to prai tu e in Mu htgun
was suspentted ill 1*I‘H
‘Kojak’ cop
says killer
another man
FORT l.AUDFRDAl.F. Fla
(AP) An ex-New York police
detective viho inspired the ka/nk
television series s.t\s .1 man he
arrested tn 1963 committed some
of the infamous 'Boston Stran
gler" killings the previous sum
mer
"I don't know it vve 1 an prove
it. hut morally. I know that Fin
right." said Thomas Cavanagh.
who has assembled retired dotei
livis to researt.fi the ease
Cavanagh. 70. said lie lielieves
Charles F Terry. who died in
1961, committed four to SIX of the
Boston stranglings Hi' said
Boston authorities may have fieen
relm taut to admit tftal New York
polii e solved their biggest i ase
Albert DeSaIvo confessed to
the 1 t Boston strangulations and
died in prison in the !‘l70s His
lawyer, famed defense expert I
Fee Bailey, said police had the
right man
Bailey characterized frequent
spot ulatiou otherwise us atten
tion-seeking efforts exploiting
one of the nation’s most sensa
tional crime sprees. "As time goes
by, it het omes easier to stir tire
pot." fie said last week
John Donovan, former Boston
1 hief homicide detective who
consulted with Cavanagh in
1963, agreed with Hailey.
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Actor joins migrant march
HAKKISUUKO. Pa. (API \i.tor Martin Sliwn on Saturday
joined the Inst stag*1 of a 100 mile man h organized In migrant
workers seeking belter working conditions and union repre
sentation
About r»0 Mesit.uii and Puerto Ku an workers walked all or
part of the trek from Philadelphia to the state t apitol in liar
risburg to r ail attention to their union •organizing on Pennsy I
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Workers t amed II S Menu an and Puerto Ku an flags, and
large pictures of the late (.esar t .hat ez, w hose t tniteil I arm
workers Union w aged lioyi oils in efforts to will Iletter pat and
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Sheen, w ho was born Kamun Kstesez. said fie led a i atldy
strike when lie was t^
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