Hawley Hemlock News (Newspaper) - May 1, 1984, Hawley, Pennsylvania RATE U.S. Postage Paid PA. 18428 Permit PUBLICATION OF THE HEMLOCK FARMS COMMUNITY 1984 93 Plot Judge Harold Thomson is considering a motion to have her certified as a juvenile attorneys for each of the other defendants asked unsuccessfully that charges be questioned Betsy's credibility as a witness because she was also a and her competency as one she remembers things that are County District Attorney Michael Weinstein said that Betsy's testimony came in exchange for a promise to be as a juvenile rather than an and for other considerations that he refused to reveal Burke also testified at the but his questioning was limited to events inside the security barracks from Pocono Record April 25, 1984 By David A 13-year-old Honesdale girl testified Tuesday that she accompanied a carload of family and friends on a nighttime trip to murder her father because her stepmother told her she had to come and other testimony about an alleged plot came during a 2 Vx preliminary hearing after which District Justice Dore James ruled that three other defendants will have their cases heard in Pike County 13, testified that her Sharon 30, hired 18-year-old Barry Gibbs of Honesdale to kill her husband Wayne to collect on a life insurance Burke as a said Mehl had he killed instantly by a in other rooms about in a conversation in their living room either on the day of the murder or the day Betsy said her mother talked openly about killing Mr. Burke either while he slept or by poisoning his 13-year-old said her mother asked her if she would like to kill her father in his Betsy said she added that she was skeptical of what was being planned until the evening of the when her and Dean sought out Gibbs in downtown Honesdale and brought him to their I did I would have called the she Gibbs was at their Mrs. Burke showed him a pistol she kept under her mattress for volunteer assistant with beary babies that were found in a rock cave off of Maple Ridge Road at Hemlock At least twice a year the Science Outdoor Club of Area High School accompany Gary Alt of The Pennsylvania Game Commission in gathering vital information from the brown bears that inhabit Pike County for scientific pictures 3) (Pholo by Florence March 27. His partner that George 32, was shot to and Mrs. Burke are charged with criminal attempted ' criminal aggravated assault and two counts of criminal conspiracy to commit 15, who is Mrs. Burke's daughter and Burke's was also charged with criminal She is currently being charged as a but BOARD Al Gold noted that road maintenance was the largest expenditure rise in the budget over last Manager Barbara Daoust said that the new Recreation Supervisor Elizabeth Comando and newly hired Division Coordinators Manager's Update for list of participated in the hiring of Recreation Department personnel and in developing Supplies have been and video machines for the Teen juke box for the Steer Barn arid T-shirts for the staff and teams will be here Solotoff commended Daoust and Manager Chuck Graziano for getting The Recreation Program off to a good Sheila Bloom but cautioned that letters regarding employment should be sent immediately because many who had applied may have taken other Letters will go out the first week in according to Board accepted approved minutes From the Architectural and finance to be paid dated April 27, 1984, were approved for from the General Fund and from the Water Fund for a grand total of In bills paid as of April 27, 1984,. were approved for from the General Fund and from the Fund for a grand total of and from Manager's this with a proposal price of over B. Road Paving Pothole A motion was passed The paving portion of this bid will be awarded to Keystone Paving at a cost of per ton for an anticipated aggregate cost of 1111,704; the pothole repair portion will be to Paving at a cost of per ton anticipated cost The total project cost will approximate allows for at Elm Line motion was passed unanimously to award this to with a proposal price of 12 cents a foot under Court Repairs and Color A motion was passed wound in the told the court that her mother hired Gibbs to shoot Mr. Burke for a payment package of and the Burke family testified that her parents had had neither financial nor marital difficulties before the just wanted asked Doug Gibb's Betsy have said that Mehl was killed was only to have been But Betsy said that on the drive to the Mrs. told Gibbs he should kill both men if he felt it was said that in the two days before the her who has not been charged and two men of was discussed their plans in the Honesdale trailer They initially refused Betsy's requests for an explanation of what they were and spoke only in showed him the that's the one he wanted to Betsy had insisted that he not be told the of his intended Betsy But Betsy said she was asked to retrieve a photo of her father so Gibbs more easily identify and kill the Bonnie and ready to Betsy said her stepmother told her she had to go with him even though she did not want to you have to come Betsy had to go added my belief you obey your five then drove to Hemlock dropped Gibbs off at a stop sign near the community drove around a corner and waited for him to she She testified that she heard one followed by a then five more Gibbs returned to the he told them he had shot one of the two security Betsy i m with award this contract a proposal James this specially Pike County Court of ruled in favor of and Jean on behalf of Hemlock Farms sued The School System for removing bus service from the Route 402 entrance to Hemlock V ' ' The Board of Directors of Rules For have already allocated for net posts that be re set in conjunction Second Readings A mi tMt the timely advise President presence of all security measures and the whereabouts of any and all keys and codes relating to the Hemlock Farms motion was passed to the Finance Committee and postpone the following Second on Page 7) had appropriated from Line Item 400.29 towards the cost of this court School District had asked the Court to deny the Writ of Mandamus submitted by the but Marsh upheld the demand of the preliminary objections were can continue in cordance with Rules of Civil MaKes Final month now owns all final exception