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Tulsa Hospital\Questions JudgementTULSA, Okla. (AP) Dist.TulsaAtty. S. M. Fallis Jr., says he is shocked that a state hospital didn’t notify officials that a teen-ager implicated in a strangulation death two yearsago had been allowed to visit home.Fallis has ordered that Wayne Henry Garrison, 14. be held until an investigation into the two deaths is completed.“It would be unjust to the citizens of this community that we not do all within our power to insure he not be released.” Fallis said.Fallis commented after learning that an autopsy of the bodyof 3-vear-old Craig iNeal determined he died of suffocation “either from a substance covering his nose and mouth orfrom being confined in an airtight bag.The bov w^asvneath a house across the street from his residence after a police detective learned that Garrison lived there and was visiting his mother.More than 500 persons had searched two davs for the Neal boy since he disappeared Monday afternoon.Garrison was arrested after the Oct. 31, 1972, strangulation death of his 4-year-old cousin, Dana Dean.When Detective Martin Vann learned that the Dean girl had been found underneath herhouse he w'ent to the residence of the teen-ager's mother, JulieB. Lowe,The body of the Neal boy was in a plastic garbage bag* in a box under the crawl space.Fallis criticized state mentalhealth officials for not notifying police here that Garrison had been released. He said it hadhappened three times previously that the boy was returned to Tulsa for visits with his family but police had not been notified.Garrison was on a 10-day visit when the Neal boy disappeared.Dr. Hayden Donahue, state mental health director, said Central State Hospital in Norman, where the boy has been staving, is obligated to notify authorities only when a patient is discharged.The notification doesn't apply when a patient is allowed to visit home, he said.He added there was no other reason to inform Tulsa authorities because the boy had been found under- progressing in his treatments.Fallis said that Garrison had been charged with murder inthe death of the little girl butthe charge had been mysteriously amended to mean that the boy was ordered sent to Central State Hospital instead of being prosecuted.
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Ada Sunday News
Ada, Oklahoma, US
Sun, Jun 09, 1974
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