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Defendanttakes lengthy sprintNEW YORK (UP1) — A suspect in a rape case leaped from a police car, ran for several blocks along Non York City streets, ducked into a building, ran up 15 flights ot stairs, then climbed a water-tower on the roof “I was only running to make a phone call to my lawyer,*' said the suspect, cable television personality Martin Evans.From the top of a water-tower* ’ asked Justice Edward Greenfield at Evans trial Wednesday Yes, sir‘ Did you see any attorneys on top of the watertower?No. sir.Detective Hugh Kelleher said it was his impression that Evans was trying to escape Evans. 33. had been arrested on a complaint from Beth Peterson, a 21-year-old Wellesley College junior. She said Evans lured her to a West Side apartment on July 16, 1974, and raped her.‘ She’s bananas, said Evans, who maintains it was seduction and not rape.Kelleher said he arrested Evans, but that on the way to the precinct for questioning Evans leaped from the police car and began to run * What if anything did thedefendant say to you? Assistant Prosecutor Jeffrey Robins asked Kelleher.* He said, Goodbye Hugh-le *M‘ You weren't willing to accept that? the judge askedNo sir.”You wanted to continue theacquaintance?Yes sir.”Kelleher said he was badly-winded by the time he spotted Evans hiding on top of a watertower on the roof Robins: What did you do thenA: 1 said ‘Marty get the-downW: ' What happened then0A He came down and 1 grabbed him by the belt and hit him on top of the head two times.”Q What happened then0A: He fell down and I fell on top of him Q What happened then0A: We rested for a while.” The trial is not expected to go to the jury before Friday.
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Ontario Daily Report
Ontario, California, US
Thu, May 01, 1975
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