The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 182, Ed. 1 Friday, May 13, 1977 Page: 2 of 24
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McMANUS IDENTIFIED AS DRIVER OF RENTAL AUTOMOBILE - -
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DENIM KNIT
white shot
•tay alter
courts three or lour tuneT
while he and Hughe* played ten-
lie raid he didn't get a food
• » , ik. -■ -n—■ ..a --.a fau*
Ifo (0 Ulf glfunrtw inu two
renting the nr. rite testified, and
added that he did very bttlt talk-
the «nu charted la ronoectk»
to the home at a
with the July M murders at her
lor
m
in* that da*.
Ml nMHdM
parenu, Paul and Mary CM-
QSIrQ NTRHB MEN
dunnt June and July, aa the
ullrnwtm
testimony, while the murdered
tretl, at their Baytown home
The story called her 'the apple
five thu latwnen^
He qurttiuned her about when
now u a
couple's daughter,
ol her daddy's eye
Water Safety
Course Set
By Red Cross
she derided to plead fuitly to
Hughes
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took him home
Cantrell Dense, was on the Prosecutor 1 H. (Stul Stew-
el
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two leisei chargra ol murder in
oo a legal taMit. as he hm dose retoni hr her pnsaiw to mttfy
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le,” ol Ml trial, aa haMb reqeee- she made the decision the weak
BuHuniham, a Hem
a|ent at Houston Intercontinen
tal Airport, told the court she
art bolted from his chair to ob
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Don Smith implied Mrs Decree
ject to the statement and said,
her
1"
"Paula, if you're a|
don't know what thu
to
■I nun, bwe a pew.
rented a white IW Chevrolet
Mn
HIGHLANDS FABRICS
mm * W0m
end br-forr her trul was set to
Monte Carlo to McManus al 1:40
p m JulyM
dant in the case and has pleaded
guilty She volunteered to testify
a------a a* -
pomoM lowiru in*
u-
when she found her
blr
eou and the days following the
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been made for the car the day
defendant, Vernon Oiney, who is
charted with conspiracy to com-
mit murder
Smith called Mrs Derese "the
maggot in the cure of the apple
of your daddy's eye" aa be con-
eluded his cross-furmnation ol
fiiony a bout con variations sht*
anything other than the reduced
brlorc she wul. and McManus,
b,
ing at a picture of her claim
who she told the jury had a full
■February «
mg the planned murders
Hod Qnm for
pirtHUS Of JhHifig t nikifftl. win
be taught from 10 am until
the
■true you had bun
dtrds of dollars in hot chacha in
of her
she told Smith the picture (bow-
ed the way die found her moth-
credit card and ha drivers
license as identification for the
and a mention by Mr
pircnts
Manus
noon May 1TB at the MaBoy
moot a kn itted) and those were
held up because of the influence
of Mike Hinton and Stu Stewart
Phula had testified McManus
When the car was returned at her
1:8 am. July B. 206 nulci had
Smith spent moat of the day
been put on it, the said
■ - -a- aa- aa - - no- —- - - -
Jofly .MjiKjy, Niy iron
uuet of the dead couple to their
onb child
loid her he and Vernon Oiney,
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AAM
(proaecMtora) if you would tao-
who was indicted on charges of
i
pointing out discrepancies in her
said she didn t testimony Tuesday afternoon
check the car ui Sunday morning !ind Wednesday, which be said
W she didn't know whether he wu -oh-, the mos, incredible
,t^ hoi Uw beard on Sunday unbehevable lie, or the greutest'
Stewart asked her if it were injustice in the world had been
unusual for a person to walk into done " to her
the airport to rent a car. He made the comment about
About B per cent of those who the apple aa he showed Mrs De-
rent cars at the airport come ui me who appeared »»bg"gt<i
oo flights, she said during cross-examination, a
McManus pve no reason for newspaper story about her after
tify agauwi Vernon?" Smith
conspiracy *6 commit capital
murder in connection with the
Cantrell deaths, were gob* to
meet with Ben Tabor, who Mr
and aha turned her head away
■h h Be
bom the pictures and began to
of w.ltml Mrs
Paula raid she did not know of
any hot checks in her
and said she pleaded guilty be-
cause "I just (eh it was time for
the truth to come out"
Manus told her hr
paid to
family
lion cabin in Austin She
for the count may call «B
•a a py .. waMaevaeMSaa^ nne^
||. iH JWUTUIUn# fipnlnitT
killers, at Tabor s
the day after the rnur
den, he oo huger had a beard he
Hand Ims (act
to fuvr what
r~r~7TrriKTrTtLut nni««is
looEfa uif wniif inoe pousn on
a necessary Oaas is free of
IMW INN (mM Aa
Before the dose of Thun
said she saw a picture of Mr
i wearing
appeared
day 's court
I
prosecutors
I I
sunwd it was taken at Tabor's
Tennis Tournament
BAYTOWN TENNIS Aaocis-
dence," or scraps of paper Me-
But Smith questioned the ret- She said McManus
son she concluded the picture to "keep my mouth shut and not
was taken at the Tsbor camp and to crack, and told inquirers he
commented, "Isn't it true you shaved
recognise the surroundings (in 'got tired of it
the picture) because you had On Monday, McManus again
been at Tabor’s cabin before?" came to her aunt's bouse, die
Mrs Derese retorted. “No, I've said, and she began questioning
never been there
He also secured her of having killed and who was involved She
lengthy conversations" over said he told her there were two
the phone with Tsbor before the men he picked up at an apart
murders, but she testified she ment complex on Baker Road
her
Manus had reportedly "doo-
dled" on with dollar signs and
the words "kali" and "each" on
lion will sponsor a fun
at I SO a m Saturday at the
Robert E Lee High School
1
Judge I D McMasler also told
the jury, which has been seques-
courti
• ' t 3
if 25-2 444 56-7 1»-6 SO
1 J63 26-6:26-7 26-120
Trust no one.
No one.
him about bow her parents were
CITY ALLOCATES - -
fTkSlipprr
crete and other materials used
on projects
A new four-pipe system for the
Community Building sir and
-
The administration explained
its recommendations as follow-
only knowingly talked to Tabor and one of them was in his 40s
andthf^oir
V on the phone twice, both in con- and had "a beard and white hair, in6
| nection with her job as secre- but be didn't know if the heard
fi1 tiry at S4E Enterprises, a ply- was real and said the man could
I wood brokerage firm owned by
II {McManus and Vernon Oiney "He told me If they found one
[I Paula had testified she had hair on the bodies (of her par-
11 seen McManus driving past her entsi. he would be dead He said
I meats' Country Club Oaks I was to say be had visited at my
V home July 23. the night 'before house if they found a hair on the
A the murders, while she was on bodies, she testified
W the telephone talking to a friend Items mentioned in Paula s dle an> Pf«* of al> equipment
I She told Smith she had an argu- statement to police were also % building it at the Cedar
If meni with her father earlier that scrutinized by Smith, who asked Bayou site near the old water
f( afternoon because Herbie was to her about a 11,500 loan Me- lower- the equipment can be
l| pick their son, Chad, up and take Manus had cosigned for her at tested without causing undue
IIII him on vacation with him for a Houston National Bank in Feb- ra£° interference
1976, according to the ^ Pub‘lc worts department
She said she knew it was Me- statement nee<{f *** sewer cleaning
Manus driving past the house be- Paula said she was having ™achine “^use its present
cause she recognized his wife's "money problems'’ at the time ^leaning machine only loosens
car and the beard he had at the and was unable to get a bank debris with a high pressure
time, but Smith countered. loan until McManus signed for waterhose 'nieprojXMedequip-
"Isn't the reason you knew it her , menl also removes debns with a
was Vernon McManus was be- Smith said she made no men- 'uk, r*jl»city vacuum Jystenr
cause you half already laid plans tion in the statement about Ver- j ,of drainage will be
to have your momma and daddy non having what appeared to be use(i to buy culvert pipe, con-
murdered and you were plan-
ning your alibi with Ben
Tabor?" Paula denied the alle-
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A new radio shop is needed be-
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Used as a radio shop since 1664,
this building will accommodate
only cars and pickup trucks
Larger vehicles must be worked
on outside or at other locations
The proposed structure will han-
vartabie temperature control
throughout the budding
Funds for streets will be used
to supplement the 1677 street
improvement program by
reconstructing
streets
New air packs are needed for
the fire department because the
present packs are wearing out
rapidly Twenty-six air packs
will be bought
An epoxy dispenser will
enable the traffic crew to apply
traffic buttons at a faster rate
The library's bookmobile,
bought in 1971. has had many
mechanical failures A new cab
and chassis are needed to recon-
dition the vehicle
Funds for animal sterilization
will help control the animal pop-
ulation by issuing vouchers
worth 120 to defray the cost of
spaying and neutering animals j
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IS IT A PHANTOM,
A DEMON, OR
THE DEVIL HIMSELF?
COUNTRY FAIR
gation
Three telephone calls Paula
testiifed she made from Terry
Scarborough's home following
their date July 24, shortly be-
fore Scarborough took her home
to find her parents murdered,
were also reviewed by Smith,
who asked her why she called a
girlfriend twice after 1 a m. to
confirm a skiing trip they had
planned for the following day.
Paula testified she had talked to
the friend earlier Saturday
morning, but still called her af-
ter her date with Scarborough.
Smith pointed out that in her
four-page statement to Baytown
police July 28, she said she had
made four phone calls that night
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 182, Ed. 1 Friday, May 13, 1977, newspaper, May 13, 1977; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1145209/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.