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Spradling trial to begin Monday in GalvestonHubert Richard Spradling of Orange will face a jury trial beginning Monday in Galveston on a charge of felony driving while intoxicated.If he is found guilty, it would be the fourth DWI conviction for the owner of Sprad’s Boat Town here.The trial will be held in Galveston because of a change of venue granted Spradling by 260th District Court Judge Buddie Hahn.The trial will be held in the 212th District Courtroom with Hahn presiding. Orange County has contracted with a court reporter and bailiff for the trial. Spradling will be defended by local attorney Louis Dugas while County Attorney Steve Howard will prosecute the case.In addition to three previous DWI convictions, Spradling also has two felony convictions for failure to stop and render aid in connection with an early morning hit and run accident in September 1980 in which two Orange women were killed.The women, Vickie Rash Norvell, 24, and Bobby Folks Rash, 18, were walking along the 2500 block of the Interstate 10 frontage road when they were struck and killed by an automobile Spradling was driving.Norvell’s body was thrown some 99 feet after being struck while Rash’s was thrown 32 feet.The women’s bodies were discovered at about 3:40 a.m. by two motorists, one of whom struck one of the bodies already lying in the roadway.Rash was pronounced dead at the scene while Norvell was transported to Orange Memorial Hospital by ambulance where she soon died.Spradling turned himself in to police some nine hours after the accident and was accompanied by Dugas, his attorney in that case, also.He reportedly told police he saw the two women in the roadway just before he hit them. After the accident, he reportedly got out of his car, looked around, didn’t sec anything and went home.Spradling went to trial on the first of the failure to stop and render aid charges and was placed on five years’ probation. He failed to serve out that probation successfully and was sentenced to four years in the Texas Department of Corrections, along with a concurrent four-year sentence for DWI, according to official sources.He was paroled from prison on that sentence, but his parole later was revoked and he was returned toTDC.Spradling also served nine months in Orange County Jail in connection with the second failure to stop and render aid charge stemming from the deaths of Norvell and Rash.PoliceReturning to the vehicle, he found that the stereo and speakers had beenFire destroys busBy UNDA B. FARRISStaff ReporterSABINE BRIDGE, La. — AGreyhound bus carrying an estimated 42 passengers caught fire and burned at the foot of the Interstate 10 Sabine River Bridge at approximately 12:30 a.m. Saturday.According to a Louisiana State Police spokesman, the bus air-conditioning compressor froze up, causing the engine to overheat and catch fire as the bus was crossing the bridge easlbound from Texas.He said several passengers received minor injuries when they were shoved while exiting the burning bus.A Ward 7 Toomcy-Starks Volunteer Fire Department spokeswoman said one of the injured was an infant. The injured were reportedly treated and released at West Calcasieu-Cameron Hospital in Sulphur. She said most passengers were shoeless and had left purses and belongings on the burning bus.The VFD dispatcher said many of the passengers did not speak English, but the driver told firefighters that the engine started blowing up as he crossed the bridge.She said, “The whole bus was an inferno. We were there. . . well, I got home to bed about 5:30 a.m.” Firefighters were able to save all mail, packages and luggage from theremoved and the passenger side of the truck was damaged. The truck was towed and held for owner pickup.The truck, owned by Frank Folks of Orange, was reported missing by Folks when he exited Tress Machine Shop in the 1900 block of Strickland Drive shortly before 1 a.m., a Pinc-hurst dispatcher said. He had last seen the pickup when he parked itthere at about 7:45 p.m.At 8:49 p.m. Friday, Boudreaux was called to the 800 block of Coo-lidgc Street in Vidor by Thomas Wilson. Boudreaux’s report states Wilson said he and a friend had been riding around and had spotted apickup truck which had been stolen from him.Boudreaux accompanied the man to the truck, which was parked near the tennis courts at the rear of the American Village Apartments. A check of the vehicle proved it did belong to Wilson and he was given possession at the scene.Death ruled suicideThe gunshot death of a 54-ycar-old Main Street resident has beenruled suicide by Precinct 3 Justice of the Peace Sherry Smith.Orange Police Sgt. Carol Frederick and Patrol Officer C.W. Powell were dispatched to the 200 block of
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Orange Leader
Orange, Texas, US
Sun, Jul 07, 1991
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