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Sweetwater Reporter
Thursday, July 30, 2009 ■ Page 3
Obituaries
HAROLD F. CLEGG
Funeral services for Harold F. Clegg, 71, of Sweetwater,
will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, July 31, 2009, at Lamar
Street Baptist Church with Rev.
Jerry Payne officiating. Burial
will follow at Cottonwood Flat
Cemetery under the direction of
Cate-Spencer & Trent Funeral
Home.
Family will receive friends from
7-8 p.m. on Thursday, July 30,
2009, at Cate-Spencer & Trent
Funeral Home.
Clegg died Monday, July 27,
2009, at Hendrick Medical
Center.
He was born Jan. 18, 1938, in
Sweetwater. He married Joyce
Kaydell Hite Nov. 27, 1958, in
Sweetwater. He was a member
and also a deacon of Lamar Street Baptist Church.
He worked as a mechanic at U.S. Gypsum, Flintkote,
Domtar and was also self-employed and operated
Harold’s Garage.
Survivors include his wife, Joyce Clegg of Sweetwater;
two sons,
HJUIOIO F. CLEGG
Scott Clegg and wife Sylvia of Euless, Texas and Bill
Clegg and wife
Donna of Houston, Texas; two grandchildren, Stephen
Clegg and Dr. Jennifer Clegg, both of Houston, Texas;
and one brother, Richard Clegg and wife Valeree of
Sanger, Texas; and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins,
aunts, uncles and many friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and two
sisters.
Pallbearers will be Stephen Clegg, Calvin “Bugger”
Daniels, Dale Finch, .Jack Kennedy, Clyde Wagner and
Sam Young.
Honorary pallbearers will be the Recreational
Building Men’s Sunday School Class.
In lieu of flowers, memorials maybe made to American
Diabetes Association, 3001 North Big Spring Street,
Suite #104, Midland, Texas 79705.
IARRY DALE MANN
A life celebration service for Larry Dale Mann, 67, of
Roscoe, will be held at 10 a.111. Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009,
at First Baptist Church in Roscoe with Rev. James
Baker officiating. Burial will follow at Roscoe Cemetery
under the direction of McCoy Funeral Home.
Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. Friday, July 31,2009,
at McCoy Funeral Home in Sweetwater.
Larry passed away in his special place with Bible in
hand, Tuesday, July 28, 2009. We know the Lord was
with him.
Texas mom found dead was
notified her son was AWOL
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — An Austin woman found shot
to death had been notified that her son was absent with-
out leave from a Georgia base, even though he told her
he was on leave.
Pvt. Travis Wayne Baczewski (buh-SHOO'-skee) of
Austin is charged with capital murder for killing his
mother, 54-year-old Violetta Baczewski. He remained
in the Travis County Jail on Thursday on $1.1 million
bail. Electronic court records did not indicate that he
had an attorney.
According to an affidavit, Violetta Baczewski received
a letter on July 23 from the Army that her son was
AWOL, not on leave as he told her. After her son visited
her the weekend of July 11, she noticed items missing
from her home, including guns.
The Austin American-Statesman reported Thursday
that the woman called her son to ask about the items,
and he denied taking them.
V ioletta Baczewski was found shot to death in her bed
on Sunday.
The 22-year-old soldier, who worked as a mechanic
in Fort Benning, Ga., allegedly took his father's vehicle
to drive to South Texas. Police found a television and
jewelry, believed taken from the home, in the vehicle
outside a hotel in Alamo, a town near the Mexican bor-
der. The affidavit said the stolen guns were pawned in
McAllen and I^aredo.
Baczewski was initially arrested Monday night on a
charge of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
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Mom of decapitated baby:
1 didn't mean to do if
PAUL J. WEBER
Associated Press Writer
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Texas mother accused of
decapitating her 3-week-old son screams "I didn't mean
to do it. He told me to!" while her sister pleads for an
ambulance to bring help in a desperate four-minute 911
call released Wednesday.
Otty Sanchez, who police say told them the devil made
her kill and mutilate her only child, cries "I love him"
and says she's stabbed herself in the heart and stomach
while her sister tries calming down the 33-year-old
mother.
At one point during the frantic call, Priscilla Garcia
tries reassuring her sister that she is alive. "Otty, this
time I told you to come to me," Garcia says.
"I tried, but you told me that you died," Sanchez
responds.
"I'm not dead, Otty," Garcia says. "I'm standing right
here talking to you."
Sanchez, 33, is charged with capital murder in the slay-
ing of Scott Wesley Buchholz-Sanchez, who authorities
found decapitated and grossly mutilated in a bedroom
of her sister's house early Sunday. Police say Sanchez
chewed off three of her infant's toes and ate parts of the
brain. She used a knife and two swords in the attack,
according to police.
Garcia tells the dispatcher that her sister has stabbed
her child and that blood is all over the bed.
"She's gone crazy last night. She was hearing voices,"
Garcia says. "She kept bringing me the baby. And finally
she calmed down and I took her back the baby. And now
I just woke up to hear screaming."
She continues, "The baby is dead. The baby's dead.
Please, somebody come."
During the call, the dispatcher instructs Garcia not
to touch the baby or anything in the area. The call ends
with the dispatcher saying help is on the way.
Sanchez, who had been hospitalized after the killing,
was being held on $1 million bond at the Bexar County’
jail. It was not immediately clear Wednesday whether
she had an attorney.
Scott W. Buchholz, the infant’s father, said Sanchez
suffered from postpartum depression and that she told
him she was schizophrenic a week before the slaying.
Buchholz, who said he also is schizophrenic, said he
wants her to receive the death penalty.
A family member has said Sanchez had been under-
going psychiatric treatment and that a hospital called
looking for her several months ago. Gloria Sanchez, the
mother's aunt, said her niece had been "in and out of a
psychiatric ward."
in May 2008, Otty Sanchez's mother, Manuela
Sanchez, called police after her daughter didn't return
from a trip to Austin, saying she was concerned about
her daughter's safety. Manuela Sanchez told police she
suspected her daughter was into drugs and specifically
told police she wasn't suffering from any mental issues.
Buchholz last saw Sanchez and his son the day before
the killing. He said Sanchez had moved in with her
parents a week earlier, leaving him July 20 after being
briefly hospitalized for depression but released that
same day.
Sanchez brought "Baby Scotty" over to see his father
the day before the slaying, and Buchholz said she became
irate when he asked for copies of the birth certificate and
other documents, then left in a huff with the baby.
Priscilla Garcia called 911 before 5 a.m. the next morn-
ing. Police say the killing took place in a bedroom and
that no one else was injured.
New jobless claims rise
more than expected
CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) The number of newly laid-off
workers filing first-time claims for jobless benefits rose
last week, the government said Thursday, though the
increase was mostly due to seasonal distortions.
The number of people remaining on the jobless bene-
fit rolls, meanwhile, fell to 6.2 million from 6.25 million,
the lowest level since mid-April.
The Labor Department said new claims for unemploy-
ment aid increased bv 25,000 to a seasonally adjusted
584,000. That's above analysts' estimates of 570,000.
A department analyst said the increase comes after
claims were artificially depressed earlier this month by
the timing of temporary auto factory shutdowns, which
happened earlier this year than in most years. Still, this
week's total is below the 617,000 initial claims reported
in late June before the seasonal distortions began. It
reflects a trend that economists say indicates a slowing
pace of layoffs.
Stocks surged in morning trading as investors wel-
comed both the new data on jobless claims and better-
than-expected earnings. The Dow Jones industrial aver-
age rose about 150 points, or 1.6 percent, and broader
stock averages also jumped.
The four-week average of unemployment claims,
which smooths out fluctuations, fell to 559,000, its low-
est level since late January. But jobs remain scarce and
the unemployment rate, which hit 9.5 percent for June,
is expected to surpass to percent by year’s end.
And weekly claims remain far above the 300,000 to
350,000 that analysts say is consistent with a healthy
economy. New claims last fell below 300,000 in early
2007. The lowest level this year was 488,000 for the
week ended Jan. 3.
The seasonal distortions are due to the fact that the
auto companies shut their plants earlier than usual this
year. Car makers normally close their factories in early
July and temporarily lay off thousands of workers as
they retool plants to build new car models.
Those shutdowns happened in May and June this
year as General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC closed
plants after filing for bankruptcy protection. That shift
in timing caused new claims to fall sharply in the first
two weeks of July. Claims are now rebounding from that
artificial decline.
The recession, which started in December 2007 and
is the longest since World War 11, has eliminated a net
total of 6.5 million jobs. The unemployment rate is
expected to rise to 9.7 percent when the July figure is
reported next week.
More job cuts were announced this week. Verizon
Communications Inc. said Monday that it would cut
more than 8,000 employee and contractor jobs before
the end of the year.
Among the states, California had the biggest increase in
claims, with 4,290, which it attributed to increased lay-
offs in the construction and trade industries. Michigan.
Florida, Connecticut and Indiana had the next-largest
increases. State data lags behind initial claims data by
one week.
New York had the largest drop in claims, with 22,052,
which it said was due to fewer layoffs in the service
and transportation industries Wisconsin, Missouri,
Pennsylvania and Ohio had the next largest declines.
Baby cut from mom's womb
is found; woman arrested
HOLLY RAMER
Associated Press Writer
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A baby girl cut from her
mother's womb in Massachusetts was in good condition at
a New Hampshire hospital on Thursday, officials said, and
a woman arrested at a homeless shelter with the infant was
to appear in court.
Thirty-five-year-old Julie Corey of Worcester, Mass.,
was arrested Wednesday in Plymouth, N.H., where police
found her and a man with the child at the shelter. Corey was
charged as a fugitive from justice and was to be arraigned
Thursday morning in district court in Concord.
The two appear to have lived in the same apartment
building as the slain woman, public records show.
Corey was arrested after acquaintances became suspi-
cious of her claims that she had just given birth, police
have said.
The man who was taken into custody with Corey, 27-year-
old Alex Dion, was released to a family member.
The body of the "id's mother, Darlene Haynes, was found
Monday in a do;, t at her Worcester apartment. It was not
until an autopsy that authorities discovered the fetus was
missing.
A public records database shows that someone named
Julie Corey lived in the same building as Haynes in the
past, and an Alex Dion is listed as living in the same build-
ing currently.
Michele Hutchins, spokeswoman at Speare Memorial
Hospital in Plymouth, says the baby was in good condition
Thursday morning. She said the baby was brought in at
5:50 p.m. Wednesday and was days old.
"The baby had a ribbon tied around the umbilical cord —
not your normal umbilical cord-severing device, and with
that it's pretty certain this is the baby from the murdered
woman," Lt. Terry Kinneen, of the New Hampshire State
Police, told WMUR-TV in Concord on Thursday.
Corey told acquaintances that she delivered the baby
sometime late Thursday or early Friday at an undisclosed
hospital, and by later Friday was showing the newborn off
to acquaintances, police said.
"Some friends became a little concerned about how she
got home so early after just giving birth," Worcester Police
Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst said.
Police said Corey had reportedly gone to New Hampshire
to relocate. A newspaper report said she arrived at a
Plymouth homeless shelter Tuesday night. She told work-
ers there that the girl was 6 days old and identified herself
as the mother but had no information on the child, accord-
ing to the Union Leader in New Hampshire.
Corey was arrested Wednesday as she tried to leave the
shelter with the infant after workers alerted police and a
nurse began photographing the babv with her cell phone,
the report said.
Haynes was eight months pregnant. Her body was found
by her landlord, William Thompson, who said a "horrify-
ing smell" led him to her apartment, where he found her
body wrapped in bedding in a closet. Her death was ruled
a homicide.
The exact cause of Haynes' death has yet to be deter-
mined pending toxicology tests, but Worcester said the
autopsy indicated Haynes suffered head injuries.
Police said the 23-year-old had apparently been dead
for several days, and that she hadn't contacted family or
friends since Thursday.
Haysha Toledo, a 17-year-old neighbor, said neighbors
used to hear fighting from the apartment Haynes shared
until recently with her boyfriend, Roberto Rodriguez.
Haynes had a restraining order against Rodriguez. Her
landlord said Rodriguez moved out of the apartment last
month.
Family members said she had three other children.
Her youngest, an 18-month-old girl, is in state custody,
according to Department of Children and Families spokes-
woman Alison Goodwin. Family members had been look-
ing after her.
Karl Whitney, Haynes' unde who is acting as a spokes-
man for the family, said Haynes’ grandmother, Joanne
Haynes, is raising the two other children, Jasmine, 5, and
Lillian, 3.
He told the Telegram & Gazette that Haynes had picked
the name Sheila Marie for her fourth child.
Associated Press writers Hob Salsberg, Jeannie Nuss
and Rodrigue Nyowi in Boston contributed to this report.
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