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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1977
Page
19
San Quentin corrections officer Robert G. Kiefer aged 36 was arrested at the prison by FBI agents and Sonoma County deputies in connection with a 1976 Walnut Creek bank robbery. Accomplice Bruce W. Cassasa, 38 from Glen Ellen, was also arrested on armed robbery charges.
A 6?year-old La Puente man Johan Vanderheyden was killed at 6 30 a.m. when his motorhome was struck by an eastbound Southern Pacific freight train at California Avenue and Valley Boulevard. A separate incident Wednesday left driver Andrew Jackson Evans Jr. injured after a Union Pacific freight train struck a truck trailer carrying a smelting furnace at No gales and Railroad streets.
The SS Catalina faced arrest threats over docking charges as owner Hymie Singer, in place for seven months, agreed to pay under protest nearly 18 000 in back charges. The 30 foot 2 200 passenger steamer has faced seizure before to cover 158 per day docking fees.
Orange County grand jury charged Dr Sarah Ali with involuntary manslaughter in two deaths from 1971 to 1975 in county hospitals. Loma Tumner, 45, died July 28 1975 at La Palma Intercommunity Hospital after septic shock. Wayne Wollweber, 4, died October 24 1971 at Good Samaritan Hospital Anaheim from peritonitis and bronchopneumonia. Judge Warren Knight set arraignment for November 10 on recognizance.
A shoeshine stand operator once labeled a central figure in a 3.5 million check theft plot was acquitted after a six day jury verdict. Johnny James Williams, 33, faced 12 felony charges including conspiracy and grand theft. Prosecutors described him as a key man who handled seven checks, with one cashed overseas.
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