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July 24, 2015 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com • 3A ,QPDWHVDWWHPSWWRÀHH Men use drain grate to try to shatter window By Kyle Spurr EO Media Group A Seaside man accused of attempted murder in a hammer attack and another inmate attempted to escape from Clatsop County Jail early Sunday morning, July 12. Kevin Michael Burnham and Anthony Craig Osborne broke off a shower drain grate, tied it to a bedsheet and swung it against a win- dow until the window shat- tered. 7he inmates then Àooded a toilet in the cellblock and added soap to make the Àoor slippery for any responding corrections of¿cers. Their plan was foiled once a corrections of¿cer started hearing the mufÀed thumping sound of the grate hitting the window. “They put soapy water all over the Àoor,´ Clatsop County Sheriff Tom Ber- gin said. “Had the correc- tions of¿cers gone in they KEVIN MICHAEL BURNHAM ANTHONY CRAIG OSBORNE could have slipped and fell. Our corrections of¿cers are smart enough not to rush into something like that.´ The of¿cers detained Burnham and Osborne at about 1 a.m. Sunday and placed them back into a dif- ferent part of the jail. They are both being charged with ¿rst-degree attempted es- cape and ¿rst-degree crim- inal mischief. Burnham, 25, of Seaside, is in custody for attempted murder after allegedly as- saulting another man with a hammer in February. His de- fense attorney and the pros- ecution are trying to reach a plea deal on the case. Prosecutor Dawn Buz- zard said she is not budging from her offer of 70 months, or about six years, in prison for Burnham to plead to a lesser charge of second-de- gree robbery. Burnham reportedly told of¿cers the reason he tried to escape was because the District Attorney¶s Of¿ce gave him such a bad deal on the attempted murder case. Osborne, 24, of Seaside, is in custody on theft, bur- glary and drug charges. The new charges could add about 30 months, or more than two years, to their sentences. “They conceived a scheme to break out and fortunately the staff was far too attentive for that to oc- cur,´ Bergin said. The two inmates shared a cellblock with 13 other inmates when they made the attempted escape. The JOSHUA BESSEX/THE DAILY ASTORIAN A shattered window is shown from the outside of Clatsop County Jail. Kevin Michael Burnham and Anthony Craig Osborne attempted to escape from Clatsop County Jail around 1 a.m. Sun- day, July 12, by swinging a shower drain grate tied to a bedsheet against the window. other inmates had to be re- moved from the cellblock and held in a library space, while maintenance crews temporarily ¿xed the bro- ken window shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday. Burnham and Osborne took about 20 swings against the window. A cou- ple of more swings and they could have broken through the window, which is large enough for them to get through. The estimated damage could cost between $4,000 and $5,000 to ¿x, according to the jail. “They were actually able to shatter the window,´ Ber- gin said. “,t was de¿nitely weakened enough it was getting close.´ Escape attempts are rare at the jail, Bergin said. The last one he remembers is be- fore his time as sheriff, when an inmate jumped from the roof of a recreation area, and was caught a day later. Burnham and Osborne are scheduled to appear in Clatsop County Circuit Court next week for arraign- ment on the new charges. Judge grants request for separate trials for accused toddler killers By Kyle Spurr EO Media Group The Seaside mother and live-in boyfriend accused of murdering the woman’s 2-year-old daughter last December will be tried at separate trials next year. Dorothy Ann Wing, 25, and Randy Lee Roden, 27, were co-defendants set to face trial next April. After a hearing in ear- ly July in Clatsop County Circuit Court, Judge Paula Brownhill granted a request from the couple’s defense lawyers to sever the cases. Wing is now scheduled for trial in March, one month before Roden, whose trial remains in April. Clatsop County Chief Deputy District Attorney Ron Brown said an obsta- cle to keeping the couple as co-defendants was the fact that Wing and Roden have different charges. Roden’s charges have the possibility of the death penalty, while Wing’s charges do not. Two different juries would have been needed, one for the death-penalty case and one for Wing’s case. “Since we were not able to ¿gure out a way to have two juries at the same time at the same courtroom, we need to reset one of these cases,´ Judge Brownhill said. Roden was indicted on 15 counts. The charges in- clude four counts of aggra- vated murder, two counts of murder by abuse, fel- ony murder, ¿rst-degree unlawful sexual penetra- tion, ¿rst-degree sex abuse, three counts of ¿rst-degree assault and three counts of PUBLISHER Steve Forrester EDITOR R.J. Marx REPORTER Katherine Lacaze ADVERTISING MANAGER Betty Smith PRODUCTION MANAGER John D. Bruijn CIRCULATION MANAGER Samantha McLaren SYSTEMS MANAGER Carl Earl CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Claire Lovell John Rahl Darren Gooch Esther Moberg ADVERTISING SALES Laura Kaim Wendy Richardson For online updates: www.seasidesignal.com Seaside Signal The Seaside Signal is published every other week by EO Media Group, 1555 N. Roosevelt, Seaside Oregon 97138. 503-738- 5561. www.seasidesignal. com Letter policy The Seaside Signal welcomes letters to the editor. The deadline is noon Monday prior to publication. Letters must be 400 words or less and must be signed by the author and include a phone number Ior veri¿cation. :e also request that submissions be limited to one letter per month. Send to 1555 N. Roosevelt Drive, Seaside, OR 97138, drop them off at 1555 N. Roosevelt Drive or fax to 503-738-9285. Or email nmccarthy@ seasidesignal.com SUBSCRIPTIONS Annually: $40.50 in county • $58.00 in and criminal mistreatment. The sex-abuse charges relate to Roden allegedly subjecting the girl to sexual contact by touching. Wing was in- dicted on counts of mur- der by abuse from neglect and maltreatment, ¿rst-de- gree manslaughter and six counts of criminal mistreat- ment. The alleged crimes oc- curred Oct. 31 to Dec. 20 of last year. An autopsy found Wing’s daughter, Evangelina Wing, was the victim of homicide and apparently died from blunt force trauma. She would have turned 3 on Jan. 22. In their motions to sever, Roden’s defense lawyer, Conor Huseby, and Wing’s defense lawyer, John Gut- bezahl, argue the couple made incriminating state- ments about the events and both implicate the other. The couple told investiga- tors about incidents where the 2-year-old girl fell com- ing from a bus stop, fell off of a toilet and got in tussles with Wing’s two sons, ages 5 and 2, who were found in- jured the same day Wing’s daughter was found dead. The boys were hospitalized and placed in state protec- tive custody. Wing remains in custody without the pos- sibility of bail. Please join us for a Celebration of Life honoring Martha Anita Daniels J ULY 26, 2015 2 TO 5 P M 125 3 7 TH S TR EET S EAS ID E out of county • e-Edition: only $30.00 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Seaside Signal, P.O. Box 210, Astoria, OR 97103. Postage Paid at Seaside, OR 97138 and at additional mailing of¿ces. &opyright 2015 © by the Seaside Signal. 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