Word: stonehead
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Only minutes before, Arville Garland had shot down his eldest child, Sandra, 17, and the three boys with her: Scott Kabran, 18, Gregory Walls, 17, and Anthony Brown, 16. He might have taken even more victims in the student-hippie residence called Stonehead Manor near Wayne State University had not Mrs. Garland dragged him away. Testimony at his trial indicates that Garland, a stable citizen and a loving father, had been driven to desperation by attitudes of youth beyond his comprehension...
...Escape. The charges are first-and second-degree murder. The defense does not question that Garland killed the four but contends that he went to Stonehead Manor with the intention of bringing his daughter home. When the gun accidentally discharged, Garland went berserk and shot the others. The plea is temporary insanity...
Last April, still determined to be independent, Sandy and Donna Sue rented an apartment at Stonehead Manor. The seedy building was close to Sandy's classes, bookshops, other student hang outs. But only a day later, her parents picked her up after work and forced her to return home. During the next month, she often stopped to have coffee with Donna Sue on her way to school, and during that time she got to know Scott Kabran, a former high school musician and poet with shoulder-length red hair...
...orphan whose foster mother died when he was six, Kabran spent three years in a military school before dropping out. With him in apartment 9 at Stonehead Manor lived Gregory Walls: black, kindly, holding two jobs and studying scriptwriting at nights at Cass Technical High School. Another familiar figure in the apartment was Anthony Brown, a rootless youth who slept wherever there was a spare...
...much to see Kabran as to escape from home that Sandy again moved in with Donna Sue Potts on Sunday, May 3. During the following week, occupants of Stonehead Manor testified, Garland, sometimes accompanied by his wife Martha, visited the building in search of his daughter. She eluded them. Garland questioned her neighbors, encountered infuriating evasions...
| 1 |