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gh schoolsbetween inion had efore the jdonWed-»tentative s are with-e contract ict’s 1.200 pril 11. the im Easterover in the gh schools act. said 3erardelli, ?nt in the sides had sss in talks i federal strike, school dis-cher unionAlla way's Wife Knew Two HusbandsBy DORIS BYRON Register Staff WriterFULLERTON - For the wife of mass murder suspect Edward Charles Allaway, there are two Eds There is “my Ed,“ and there is the man who allegedly killed seven people and wounded two others in the Cal State Fullerton library on a bright summer morning last July 12.“My Ed was warm nice.” 22-year-old Bonnie Lou Allaway recalled on a recent chilly afternoon “He wasn’t like any other guy I ever dated He knew a lot about the Bible, and he used to read it to me. And you’veJealousy Drove Him To Crime, She Saysheard of someone who is a jack of all trades but master of none? Well, that was Ed. I liked it.”But, said the attractive young woman with luminous green eyes, there was another Ed. too That was the Ed who didn’t trust her, who demanded an account of her every moment away from him, who was gradually consumed by a jealousy so complete that in the end. she says, it drove him to the Cal State library on that fatal day.According to Bonnie Allaway, the young couple faced problems from the beginning of their four-year relationship There was Allaway’s insec urity, she says, an insecurity that made him deeply depen dent on her although she was 15 years younger than he And there was his rejection of her keen desire to have children, she adds.But most serious, says Mrs. Allaway, was her husband's aversion to people. It was a problem, she said, that grew from a minor irritation into arift that finally drove her to seek a divorce, which she never actually obtained.“Ed was a loner, a real loner.” Mrs. Allaway says. “He didn’t have any friends But me - I grew up in a home with six kids I love people I love being around people.“I’d want to go see somebody, and Ed wouldn't want to go Or we’d go somewhere, and he’d want to leave as soon as we got there.“If I went to see somebody without him, he wanted to know exactly when I'd beback And if I was late he'd say I'd probably been with somebody else, another man.” Eventually, said Mrs Allaway. ter marriage became a prison without bars ”1 began to look forward to going to work, just to get away,” she recalls.“He saw otter men everywhere. He wanted me to quit my job at the Hilton (Inn) and get another job, something where 1 couldn’t meet people. He said the hotel was too ‘convenient, ”’And Bonnie Allaway says she worried about her husband. “Ed was never violent.” she (CeatiMetf Ob Page 14)
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Sat, Apr 02, 1977
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