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Newspaper
Delaware County Daily Times
Location
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1985
Page
10
An AP report details a Des Moines IRS worker’s charity act toward Jarrod Taylor, a Dickens sixth grader who wants farming or auto racing. The article notes his family’s struggles with diabetes, kidney disease, farm losses, and looming bankruptcy as aid funds and communications are arranged to ease bills.
Police identify two of three gunmen in the Dec 16 Castellano Bilotti killing on a busy New York street. A Gambino and a Genovese member are tentatively named by a Daily News source. Claus von Bulow says he will move to Europe and seek permanent residence after his acquittal.
Three inmates who fled a South Carolina prison by helicopter with help from a woman hijacked a car at gunpoint in Mobile, bragging of the escape and saying they would not be taken alive. FBI said the four, including a convicted murderer, were last seen at a Mobile motel after commandeering a driver’s car. Authorities collected items from the abandoned car and the motel room as they pursued the fugitives, who remain armed and dangerous though not believed to be in the Mobile area. Joyce Bailey Mattox is identified as the helicopter hijacker who ferried the three inmates to Perry Correctional Institution vicinity to pick them up. The men are Jesse Glenn Smith, William Ballew, and James, with the latter a convicted murderer.
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