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Testimony is given against Alonzo ReedLITTLE ROCK .API -Emanuel Thomas. 23. of Little Rock testified Thursday that Alonzo Clay Reed told him of his plans to kill a Pine Bluff couple and steal a large cache of illegal drugs from them Reed. 29. is on trial in Pulaski County Circuit Court on capital murder charges stemming from the shooting deaths of Carmen Sue Margrave. 18. and Ernest Dean “Lanny Landrum. 21, of Pine Bluff The couple’s bodies were found in a car trunk Feb 12, 1974, in Little Rock’s Reservoir Park Testimony in the trial was to continue today.Thomas has been granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for his testimony against Reed He gave his account in court Thursday of events leading to the slayings in Reservoir Park the night of Feb 11.1974'A C. came in one day and told me to watch the papers. There’s going to be a murder related to drugs,’ Thomas said Reed told him. That was three days to a week before the murders.Reed told me to find someone I could trust to go along with us They (Miss Margrave and Landrum i were supposed to have some weed (marijuana) and some other drugs He said we were going to take it. and he said we were going to kill them At the time, I didn't think he was serious about the killing part.”Thomas said he went with Reed Randolph Wallace and Phillip Herndon to the park the night of the slayings He said he was positioned as a lookout and the other three drove in Reed's rented car to the parked car containing Miss Margrave and LandrumThomas said he walked down the park road to see what was happening He said he could not see everything, but that he heard loud voices followed bv a gunshotHe said he heard the woman scream and heard Herndon shout, Catch her.”Thomas said he saw Wallace catch the woman and moments later heard another gunshot Herndon, 28. of Little Rock also has been charged with two counts of capital murder His trial is set for July.Later, Thomas said, his three companions picked him up in their rented car, and Reed let him keep and sell 60 pounds of marijuana taken from Landrum Thomas said the marijuana was dumped in a ditch outside Little Rock He said he sent Stanley Frost, a former Little Rock fireman, to pick up the marijuana the next day Accessory to capital murder charges against Frost were dropped last week Defense attorneys were expected to challenge the credibility of Thomas’ testimony by referring to previous statements he has made to police about the murders.R Wayne Lee. chief defense counsel, has said Thomas and Wallace, who also is expected to testify for the state, have bragged that they were the murderers.SenateJfrom brineLITTLE ROCK (AP) -Legislative action was completed Thursday on a bill to regulate the brine industry in south Arkansas when the Senate backed away from an amendmentThe amendment by Sen. J A Womack of Camden had been added to the bill, HB831, earlier in the week, but the House had refused to accept it The amendment would have stripped from the bill a formula for computing the royal ty payment or payment in lieuof rovaltv to owners of the
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Benton Courier
Benton, Arkansas, US
Fri, Mar 30, 1979
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