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Burglary Trial Of Oil Heir IsContinuingDALLAS — The burglary trial of oil heir James F. Lebus ...accused in connection with the so-called Country Club burglaries in Wichita Falls ..continues in Dallas today. Jury selection began yesterday after Judge Stanley Kirk denied defense motions to delay the trial. Prosecutors have denied accusations that they had made deals with two key prosecution witnesses. The 37-year-old Lebus...an active and popular figure in the country club set and a well known amateur golfer...is being tried on a charge of burglarizing MetallicDevelopment Corporation of Wichita Falls Gold and silver bars valued at about 24 thousand dollars were taken in the burglary The heir to an east Texas oil . fortune who now lives in Dallas, Lebus was one of three wealthy, respected residents of Wichita Falls indicted on criminal charges June 26th. The others were 59-year-old Adam S. Nacol, a Wichita Falls jeweler; and 36-year-old Barry Donnell, president of a Wichita Falls manufacturing firm. Nacol is to be tried in Dallas in September.Defense lawyer Jack Banner of Wichita Falls sought to delay the trial yesterday in a 10-page motion which claimed among other things that prosecutors had fa !cd to give the defense a list of witnesses and had failed to supply information the judge ordered them to turn over. Banner called District Attorney Tim Eyssen and Special Prosecutor Howard Martin to the stand in an attempt to prove that prosecutors had made a deal” for the testimony of keyprosecution witnesses Clyde T. Burns and Alton WoodruffFanchier. Burns had beencharged in 1975 withburglarizing a home at WichitaFalls, but the charge wasdismissed.
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Ennis Daily News
Ennis, Texas, US
Tue, Aug 31, 1976
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