The Daily Journal from Franklin, Indiana • Page 7

Til never understand' Evansville mourns murdered family Officers testified the Madison girl told them that when her EVANSVTLLE, Ind. (UPI) -A doll and a worn teddy bear lay next to the little girl and boy in their caskets. Beside them, -their grandmother stood weeping and wondering why they and their parents had to die at a burglar's hands. "I'll never understand, never," Mrs. Lawrence Sahm sobbed.

"They were so good. They had so much love." All Evansville wept with her Thursday at the funerals of Patrick and Theresa Gilligan, both 30, and their children, Lisa, and Gregory, 4. The Gilligans went shopping Monday night to spend money the children received for Christmas. Then they stopped to visit the Sahms, Mrs. Gilligan parents.

On their return borne they surprised a burglar who panicked and shot them all, police say. Sobs punctuated the funeral at St. Theresa's Roman Catholic church. Men and women stood in the streets and wept as four hearses slowly bore the victims' bodies to St Joseph cemetery. "The Gilligan family was a beautiful family, filled with faith and love," said the Rev.

Ted Tempel. "We sometimes Lake family life for granted, and not until tragedies like this do we realize with greater appreciation what we have." "We must remember the kind of people they were, and the kind of love they shared, and the God they had faith in. And that is where we will find hope," Tempel told mourners. Police said the burglar who killed the Gilligans taped windows to avoid a loud noise Monday night, and told her he had done "something awful." County Detective Gary O'Risky quoted her as saying Wallace told her, "They caught me in the act and could have identified me." Police said Mrs. Durham's 14-year-old sister, Donna Madison, told them Wallace asked for matches, was given a cigarette lighter, and went into the yard to burn the Army jacket he was wearing.

Rings believed to come from the Gilligan home were found in the jacket's charred remains. Police said Miss Madison also told them Wallace asked her to take pictures of himself and Mrs. Durham, holding guns, money and jewelry, so that he could send photographs to "friends of his at the joint (prison)." when be broke in through them. Officers who had seen the same method used before issued a warrant for Donald Wallace, 24, Evansville. He was arrested Tuesday night when football coach Robert Ashworth of Reitz High School saw a man climbing in someone's attic window.

Officers said be was listening on a police radio to city police calls, as county police closed in on him. Wallace apparently went to his girl friend's home after the murders, police said. The girl friend, Debbie Ann Durham, was held in lieu of $40,000 bond on a charge of receiving stolen property, a diamond ring. Officers who testified at a preliminary hearing for Wallace Wednesday said Ms. Durham, 22, told them Wallace arrived at her house very upset sister ana wauace ten tor a nightclub, Ms.

Durham asked her younger sister to look after the older sister's seven-year-old son, saying "You may never see me again." ROYAL When Princess Caroline of Monaco was quoted in the French magazine Elle as saving her private ambition is to be a rock singer, Shep Gordon was quick to respond. He's cabled her! from Los Angeles wants to know if she really means it. Gordon says he has just the spot for her opposite a client' of his. Gordon manages Alice Cooper and figures there's a spot onstage with bis garish ghoul even for a Mediterranean princess. 3r a Wi i mm amp Invest In A Barcalounger Recliner! Now Sale Priced As Low As $249 Soil conservation awards Merrill Clark (left), Trafalgar route one, and Joe Schmidt, Morgantown route one, were honored for conservation work during the 30th annual meeting of the Johnson County Soil and Water Conservation District, Thursday night at the county fairgrounds.

Clark received the district's distinguished service award for his efforts as a member of the district board of supervisors. Schmidt was named the county's outstanding conservation farmer for 1979 for his use of conservation practices on his Union Township farm, i (Daily Journal photo) Lawyer attempts to show drownings were accidental MARtlNSVILLE, Ind. (UPI) The Lawyer defending Steven Judy in his trial for the murder of a young woman and her three children has attempted to show the children's drownings could have been accidental. Terry Lee Chasteen, 23, of Indianapolis, was abducted, raped, strangled and thrown into White Lick Creek near Mooresville last April 28. Toe bodies of her children were found a short way down the creek.

iDefenfe attorney Steven Harris Thursday stipulated the children died of drowning, but did not say his client had anything to do with the drownings. He asked Kenneth Hicks of Mooresville, a diver for state police, if the depth and current of the water in White Lick Creek were such that a child could walk into the water and drown. Hicks replied, "In my opinion, yes." Harris objected to the introduction of colored slides, taken at the autopsies by Sgt. Gary Hood, an Indiana State Police technician, but Judge Jeffrey Boles ruled they could be shown. He also allowed the jury to see a picture showing the ligature which strangled Mrs.

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