FRANCIS PERLMUTTER, who
had inadvertently confessed to
murder in St. Paul, Minnesota, in
June when he left a message on an
answering machine, told reporters
who were questioning him just
after his arrest: ‘‘I don’t know
what’s going to happen now. This
is my first murder.’’

Actor Charles Peyton, who ap-
pears in X-rated films under the
name Jeff Stryker, filed a lawsuit
in Los Angeles this summer

charging infringement of the ‘‘in-

teHlectual property” rights he owns
-on his name and his body. The

lawsuit is’ against two companies
that manufacture ‘“‘Doc Johnson’’
marital aids; Peyton accused thern
of selling rubber replicas of his
peais without permission.

Last October, in, Maidenhead,
England, the Society for the

. Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

brought charges of pet: abandon-
Ment. against David Sharod, who
‘had Jeft his two fish — a South
American. sucking loach and
“sucking plec — alone in their tank
for three days white he was away.

It cost. the government’ the
equivalent of $12,000 to conduct a...
trial, and Sharod $3,000 to defend
“himself, ‘

- He was acquitted i in June when he

. Cited the society’s: own literature

to show. that: fish could tive com-
fortably on. Algae i in the tank up to
"two weeks.

A 17-year-old boy was hospital-

ized: in Southington, | Ohio. in
March after he ‘placed a 0.22-.
‘¢alibre bullet ina vise at his home:
and tightened it to see what would:

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metal fragments in his fingers.

In Gastonia, North Carolina in
August, defendant Donaid Eugene
Murray, 52, fearful of “being
found guilty of sexual assault, fled
..the courtroom jusi.as jury delibes-
ations began.

' The jurors — unaware of the
escape —- found him not guilty.
An arrest warrant for the escape
was issued,

A 48-year-old cosivicted sex of-

fender in Mesa, Arizona invited

his probation officer to join him
at a.sex offenders’ support group
meeting in June so he could dan-
‘onstrate how much progress
toward rehabilitation he bad

-was brought

During the mecting, the man ad-
mitted to the group that he had

-_ recently broken into the homes of

three women and stolen underwear
from them.

Those. break-ins were new infor-
mation to tie probation officer
and to local police.

The man’s probation was revoked,
and he was returned to prison,

A February issuc of the Journal of
the American Medical Association
reported that a 23-year-old Israeli
man required surgery to repair his
smal! intestine after it muptured
following a competition with his
brother in which he ate 25 chili
peppers in 12 minutes.

Capsaicin, the burning agent in
chili peppers, had eaten through
the intestinal wail.

Testifying in Conway,
Carolina in April on behalf of her
brother, who was ultimately con-
victed of- criminal ucgligence in the
drowaing death of a woman
despite his being severely intox-
icated at the tinie, Janet
Kolbasook told the court her
trother was dear to her: “We're a
tight . family. We're all alcohol-
ics.””

In Aprii, Edward 2. Blagelen, 64,
before taxicab
regulators in Fon Lauderdaic,
Fiorida on a customer’s compiaint
that Blagden had tocked him in
the teank~ of the taxi when he
did't pay the fare.

Blagden ultimately lost his licence,
but not before he begged tie
hearing board: ‘‘] promise you, I
won't put anybody in the trunk.”

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