Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 12

4B Henwood found incompetent to stand trial for shootings By DICK FRAZIER 'Lansing State Journal Melville N. Henwood, the 79- year-old grandfather charged in the June 9 shooting spree in which two family members were killed and four wounded, has been found incompetent to stand trial. Henwood, who lived at 911 Clark Road in Delta Township, was found with a self-inflicted "gunshot wound after the incident One source said the elderly man, who was in critical condition for several weeks, now weighs less than 100 pounds. Prosecutor G. Michael Hocking of Eaton County confirmed that forensic psychiatrists at the Michigan Forensic Center in Ypsilanti this week found Henwood incapable of participating in his own defense.

He is charged with 12 felonies in the slaying of his daughter and son-in-law and wounding of his wife and three grandchildren. Hocking said he is still awaiting a written report before petitioning for a district court competency hearing. If the court rules Henwood incompetent Hocking said, the accused man probably would be sent back to the forensic center for treatment for a maximum of 36 months, but then would have to be discharged if he was still incompetent "I don't know what we'd do then," Hocking said. Meanwhile, Henwood remains under guard by a deputy sheriff 24 hours a day in the Eaton County Medical Facility in Charlotte. He guarded around the clock for nearly three months at St Lawrence Hospital at a cost to the county that Hocking estimated at over $20,000.

Henwood was arraigned in his hospital room on 12 felony charges, including open murder in the deaths of Elizabeth Flory, 43, and her husband, John Flory, 47. Other charges against him are assault with intent to murder his wife, Edna, 78, and grandchildren Michael Flory, 9, Christine Flory, 12, and Gail Scott, 15, -and six counts of felony firearm possession. The grandchildren and their grandmother have since recovered from their wounds. Henwood was arrested, the day after the shooting when he was found a mile from the Delta Township shooting scene in his car, suffer- ing from the self-inflicted wounds. He only recently was released from the hospital.

Neighbors said Christopher Scott, a U.S. Marine and Elizabeth Flory's son by a previous marriage, has been transferred from Hawaii to Lansing and is caring for his younger brothers and sisters in the Flory home. They attended schools in the area. Edna Henwood has been release from, the hospital but is not living with grandchildren. MetroMichigan Lansing State Journal Saturday, Aug.

30, 1 986 Tornado hit before Mystery surrounds death of Eaton man a.m. the next morning, a mile from the distribution center and about three miles from Walters' home. 1 But his bicycle was. located at his apartment. Hocking said, indicating Walters wentiiome after work.

The autopsy revealed his blood contained .17 percent alcohol nearly twice the legal drunkenness level but there was no indication of drugs, Hocking said. No wounds or marks from blows were found on the body only indications it had been dragged to the spot off the shoulder of the road near Woldumar Nature Center. Hocking said the victim who had been treated for a minor heart problem was known to have frequented a bar in the area near where the body was found. But how he died and who dumped the body in the field remains a mystery. By DICK FRAZIER Lansing State Journal Eaton County authorities are still puzzled over circumstances in the death of Dennis Robin Walters, 39, whose body was found a week ago along Wardell Road off Old Charlotte Road.

Prosecutor G. Michael Hocking said the death is not being treated as a homicide, although sheriffs officers still wonder what caused the death and why someone apparently dragged the body from a vehicle into a weedy area along the isolated road. Hocking said forensic pathologists failed to come up with a cause of death for Walters, who lived at 3952 Hartford SL and usually rode a bicycle to his job at the Meijer Distribution Center on CreytsRoad. Fellow workers told investigators they last saw Walters just before midnight on Friday, Aug. 22.

His. body was found about 9:40 1 St 1 1 I Jefferson trial begins in Eaton on Sept. 15 Greetings at the gate Lansing State JournalGREG DeRUITER William Lucas brought his campaign for governor to Lansing's B-O-C plant to meet workers leaving the Division Street exit. The Wayne County Executive, a Republican, and Democratic Gov. James Blanchard both plan to take part Monday in the the traditional Labor Day walk across the Mackinac Bridge.

Later Monday, Lucas is to march in the AFL-CIO parade in Detroit and Blanchard is to address the Labor Day rally at noon on Detroit's Woodward Avenue. U.P. eatery passes inspection tomers. In an advertisement placed Friday in the Escanaba Daily Press, the Great Wok said it has 160 different Chinese dishes on its menu, none of which contain cat dog, monkey or snake meat. By DICK FRAZIER Lansing State Journal CHARLOTTE The first-degree murder trial of Gregory Jefferson in the 1984 beating death of Janice Reck will begin in Eaton County Circuit Court on Sept 15, before Circuit Judge Hudson E.

Deming. Eaton Prosecutor G. Michael Hocking said Friday he has found new witnesses he feels will be able to help the prosecution back up its contention that Jefferson found the 23-year-old mother at her home at 3979 Burneway Drive with Ernest Norris, 24, of Lansing and then beat her to death and seriously injured Norris. Jefferson, arrested hours after the March 26, 1984, incident, was released three months later when District Judge Kenneth Hansen dismissed the murder charge when the prosecutor's office concluded standard blood tests on stains on Jefferson's clothing produced conflicting evidence. Then, earlier this year, the state Court of Appeals ruled that the sophisticated electrophoresis method of testing blood may be used as court evidence.

Hocking, who had been forced Associated Press BARK RIVER The marquee at The Great Wok restaurant says: "We serve neither cats, nor fools." Public Health inspectors in this Upper Peninsula town say that's the truth. The restaurant has been given a clean bill of health by the Delta-Menominee District Health Department in an inspection prompted by a persistent rumor that the eatery was using cat meat. The restaurant was inspected Wednesday by John Chickering and Jim Dyer Hurden, environmental health specialists in charge of regulating food service establishments. Chickering said the inspection was prompted because the department had received calls about the cat-meat rumor and another rumor that the restaurant had been ordered closed because officials found cat carcasses or Obituaries sirens By DEDRIA BARKER Lansing State Journal Lansing's emergency sirens were silent during Tuesday's tornado because the storm bypassed the city before any decision to sound the alarm could be made. The tornado was on Okemos and Willoughby roads when city emergency services director James Holcomb decided not to activate the sirens, which warn residents of a threatening situation, his administrative aide said.

"Holcomb decided there was no point in sounding the siren after the fact and told the fire department not to sound (the sirens) for the city," Kathy Forbes said. Forbes said the city's procedure is to wait for the National Weather Service to issue a tor-nad6 warning for the county before sounding the emergency: sirens. The weather service did not consider the tornado a threat to the city, meteorologist Bill Bunt-ingsaid. Neither a tornado warning nor a tornado watch was issued for Ingham County until after the tornado touched down in Holt and was moving at 35 miles per hour in a southeasterly direction away from the city of Lansing, Bunting, reported. The counties to the south of Ingham were under a severe storm and tornado watch from 4 to 10 p.m., Bunting said.

The tornado warning was issued at 6:42 p.m., he said. In the future, everybody who is near an area that has a severe weather bulletin issued should stay aware of conditions. Bunting said. 1B Potterville and dickered with him to help unload a truck in Barry County. Once they got out of Eaton County, according to the testimony, Hill stopped his pickup, asked Fancher to help him move a heavy tool box so he could get at some marijuana hidden beheath it and blasted him as he got out of the truck.

Chief Assistant Prosecutor Jeffrey Sauter will handle the case for the State. Thomas Eveland represents Stevens. HOLMES FLORAL FOR YOUR FUNERAL FLOWERS I TERRARIUMS, SILK FLOWERS, PLANTERS AND FRESH CUT FLOW ERS ARE WELL RECEIVED OPEN 7 DAYS M-Th. 9-6 9-9 San. 11-3 3912 S.

Logan 393-0120 sing for 60 years and was a member of Union Baptist Church. Surviving are his son, Edward A Jr. and daughter, Ms. Barbara Moore, both of Lansing; 2 foster sons, Wayne Woods of Lansing and Ricky Moore of AK; 6 grandchildren; 6 great grandchildren; several nieces and nephews; and a dear friend, Mrs. Juanita Burtley.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, September 2, 1986 at Union Baptist Church with Rev. Charles Green officiating. Interment in Mt. Hope Cemetery.

The family will receive friends Monday night at the Riley Funeral Home from 7-8 p.m. Funerals RICHARDSON, HAROLD W. (BUTCH) 2926 Alfred Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at the Gorsline-Runciman Lansing Chapel. Stevens From Upset by Brian's sudden liking for Fancher, Peggy Stevens testified, her mother suggested that "something could be done" with Fancher.

Harold said he could "thump him," according to police testimony at a preliminary examination, but Anna persisted in hiring Hill to murder him. Peggy testified Hill said the family would have to come up with $1,000 and her mother agreed to pay it But all Hill ever got she said, was $100 that her husband gave him at a Potterville bar and a used motorcycle. Hill, according to testimony at his trial, met Fancher at a bar in THOUSANDS OF MEMORIALS FOR YOUR VIEWING YUMKER MEMORIALS Memorials Specialist Since 1915 1116 E. Mt. Hope.

Lansing Visit Our Showroom Ph. 484-1433 parts of cats in the restaurant's dumpster. "The rumor has to be classified as false from the start because we never closed the restaurant" Chickering said. "The inspection was routine. There was no imminent health hazard or no sign of a meat product coming from an unapproved source." Chickering said meat products are regulated by the U.S.

Department of Agriculture. Frank Bezine, owner of the restaurant, said the rumor that the Great Wok was serving cat has been circulating in the area for quite a while. "I have no idea where the rumor started," Bezine said. "It could be injurious to us, except -for the fact that anyone who knows us knows this is an impossi-bity." He said one theory on the rumor's origin is the television show "Hill Street Blues," which had a segment about a restaurant serving cat meat to unsuspecting cus Shumaker was commander of Greenawalt-Flaherty American Legion Post 42 in Charlotte. Survivors are his wife, Patricia; sons, David and Edward, of Olivet and Thomas, of Florida; and daughters Lonnie of Lansing, Norma McCIoud of Charlotte, and Lisa Fox of California.

Services will be 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Pray Funeral Home in Charlotte. to move for dismissal of the murder charge, instigated new proceedings and Jefferson voluntarily returned from Phoenix, to face the new charge. He was bound over for trial after a preliminary examination in May on charges of assaulting, with intent to murder, Reek's boyfriend. The judicial winds shifted again, however, and on Aug.

5 the Michigan Supreme, court outlawed the electrophoresis test as not sophisticated enough. Norris testified at the preliminary hearing that all he remembered was falling asleep at Reek's home and waking up in Sparrow Hospital. Jefferson, then 25, turned himself in to Lansing police the day after the slaying was discovered by police after Reek's 3-year-old son went to a neighbor's house to play and the neighbor noticed he was covered with blood. Police found the victims in separate rooms. Reck, the daughter of a Lansing fire department deputy chief, was a laboratory technician at Sparrow Hospital.

Jefferson was the father of her soil and a then-infant daughter, who were not injured. running, Hilbert said. Suddenly, as guards noticed a puddle of fuel under the car and were walking toward the vehicle to check the driver, the underside of the car burst into flames. One of the guards, Hilbert said, got Wilkins' attention, faked a hand shake and pulled him from the car. When Hilbert arrived before the first fire truck, the car was engulfed in flames.

The vehicle was totally destroyed. Hilbert said he was told the victim "made absolutely no effort to exit the burning car." Eaton County sheriffs deputies said they had not determined whether Wilkins was ill or disoriented. Hilbert said after the fire was extinguished, firefighters, determined the fuel line had broken near the engine, igniting the fire under the hood. Lansing man suffers burns after car bursts into flames Don Shumaker, demolition expert Deaths And Funerals Lansing State Journal OLIVET Donald Shumaker, 54, a demolition expert and owner of an oil well drilling business, died Thursday. Shumaker, of Olivet traveled the state for to carry out precision demolition assignments.

He got his introduction to explosives in Navy ordnance school in the early 1950s. Emma Bissinger, well known early florists in Lansing. Memorial services will be held 7 p.m. Monday in the Estes-Leadley Greater Lansing Chapel. The family will receive friends following the service.

By DICK FRAZIER Lansing State Journal A Lansing man suffered second- and third-degree burns Friday afternoon when his car caught fire in the Lansing Mall parking lot while he remained inside the vehicle. Lawrence G. Wilkins, 66, of 3615 Tecumseh River Drive, was treated at Sparrow Hospital for burns on his face, head and leg, Delta Township Fire Chief Victor Hilbert said. Hilbert said security guards at the mall told him they saw the car drive into the parking area between Penney's and Montgomery Ward on the mall's north side and come to a stop across the yellow parking lines. The car's engine was racing and smoking.

Wilkins apparently was having difficulty keeping the engine JAMESON, HELEN Lansing Age 94, passed away August 28, 1986. She was a lifelong resident of the Lansing area. She was member of First Church of Christ Scientist of Lansing and the Mother Church of Boston, MA. She was a graduate of Lansing High School, attended Michigan State University and graduated from Lake Forest College, Lake Forest IL-She was a former public high school teacher in Portland and Lansing, and was employed with the State of Michigan as a Claims Examiner with the Michigan State Employment Securities Commission, retiring in 1961 after 16 years of service. Surviving are I son, J.

Daniel of Fountain Hills, AZ; 2 daughters, Mrs. Robert (Phyllis Gay of Rockwood, MI and Carol J. Smith of Ev-anston, IL; 3 grandchildren; 6 great grandchildren; She was preceded in death by her parents, John and CHAPPLE, THEODORE J. (TED) Lansing Age 64, died August 29, 1986 in Lansing. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, 2:30 p.m.

in the Gorsline-Runciman Lansing Chapel. The family will receive friends at the Funeral Home, Sunday and Monday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Complete arrangements will be Bridgeport teachers settle; Harbor Beach still on strike CAESAR, JUDITH, 51, of Lansing, died Friday. Arrangements by Tiffany Funeral Home. CHAPPLE, THEODORE J.

(TED), 64, of Lansing.idied Friday. Services 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Gorsline-Runciman Lansing Chapel. COREY, PAUL 65, of Lansing, died Thursday. Arrangements by Palmer-Bush Funeral Home.

GREEN, EDNA 77, of 208 12 Prairie Charlotte, died Friday. Arrangements by Burkhead-Green Funeral Home. JAMESON, HELEN, 94, of Lansing, retired state claims examiner and former high school teacher in Lansing ad Portland, died Thursday. Memorial services 7 p.m. Monday at Estes-Leadley Greater Lansing Chapel.

KOERNER, FLOYD, 75, of 6360 Brewer Road, Laingsburg, died Thursday. Services 1 p.m. Sunday at Nelson House-McDougall Chapel, Laingsburg. MILBOURN, LAWRENCE, 69, of 10329 Millerdale Road, Stanwood, formerly of Charlotte, died Tuesday. Arrangements by Pray Funeral Home, Charlotte.

MOORE, EDWARD A. 86, of 1111 Regent died Friday. Services 2 p.m. Tuesday at Union Baptist Church. Arrangements by Riley Funeral Home.

'V( MOSSER, ESTHER 76, of 6301 Peck Lake Road; Portland, died Friday. Services 1 p.m. Tuesday, at Neller Funeral Home, Portland. OSTROM, ROBERT, 53, of 13801 Lawson Road, Grand Ledge, died Friday. Arrangements by Peters and Murray Funeral Home, Grand Ledge.

PHILLIPS, REBA, 82, of Lansing, died Friday. Arrangements by Gorsline-Runciman De Witt Chapel. SCHNEPP, AUDLEY A. (BUSTER), of Holt former Lansing grocer, died Arrangements by Estes-Leadley Holt Chapel. SHUMAKER, DONALD, 54.

of 3768 Griffin Highway, Olivet died Thursday. Arrangements by Pray Funeral Home. -y Associated Press The Michigan teacher picture began to brighten Friday with agreement on a tentative contract in Bridgeport and marked improvement in some Thumb-area districts where unrest had been highest Gasses will open on schedule in Bridgeport as the result of an agreement reached Friday, said Assistant Superintendent Marvin Houk. The district's 177 teachers will vote on the pact next week, Houk said. Bridgeport has 3,600 students.

Teachers remained on strike at Harbor Beach, but teachers who had stayed off the job in Vassar MOORE, EDWARD SR. 1111 Regent Age 86, died August 29, 1986. Mr. Moore had been a resident of Lan agreed to return next week without a contract. State-mediated talks continued in Port Huron where officials were optimistic that a settlement was near.

William Teller, superintendent at Vassar, said teachers would report for an in-service program Tuesday and that classes would begin Wednesday. The next round of bargaining is set for Sept. 11, Teller said. Bargaining was expected to continue during the Labor Day weekend in most of the districts listed as critical by both the Michigan Education Association and the Michigan Federation of Teachers, union spokesmen said. For Paid Obituary Notices.

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