Obituaries (1990) (287 pages)

., ‘disarming technique’ would have been tried only by somebody who -knew how the device had been constructed.”’ Godfrey was arrested on suspicion of manufacturing an explosive device and making threats concerned with explosive devices. One of those alleged threats was cop in Rocklin with one of mylittle On Halloween, additional threats were phoned to the Placer County made to the library threatened unidentifed Placer ment in the bomb incident Telephone company records reportedly show some of the threats had been made from a phone at the home of Godfrey’s then-girlfriend, during times he was there. Godfrey was held on federal Virginia K. Farmer, . 63,. the driver of the van, did not require medical treatment after the accident, which tied up traffic for at “Teast 30 minutes. The Grass Valley Police Department is investigating the cause of the accident. involve “cut and dried,"’ this case was was a passenger in his car. Ferguson's opening remarks addressed that dilemma when he told the jurors the law covered injuries to anybody other than the driver, and it made no difference if it was a relative and in the driver’s own car, The jury agreed and delivered its verdict after a two-day trial. Childers, whom testimony . charges pending a mental examina tion, but was later released on his own recognizance. U.S. Attorney Tom Flynn, who will be prosecutto's U.S. District Coun, did not retum The Union's phone calls placed to him during the past two days conceming why Godfrey was not in custody. : Nothing more was heard from Godfrey until Wednesday's bizarre incident. According to a report filed with the CHP in Newcastle, Godfrey showed had a measured bloodalcohol count of .21 at the time of arrest, tesufied the accident had been caused by his large pickup truck striking a rock in the road. He's scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 26. Ferguson said he would have to study: the ensuing probation report before recommending sentence, but Childers was probably facing a minimum of six months in county jail for the convicuion. ‘7 phetamines in his possession, plus there was a handgun and shotgun found inside the Porsche. Bradford Franklin Wright, 36, Besides the warrant and the new who listed himself as an unemarrest for possessing crank, ployed woodcutter, was arrested at 3 p.m. on Valley Drive in Penn ~Wright’s booking slip also shawed felon in possession of weapons. Valley. The big reason for that was a $75,000 enhancement placed by Nevada City Municipal ~ Court Judge Ersel Edwards after leaning Wright was allegedly apprehended with two ounces of metham ered a top arson Uified drug-treatment Sacramento. facility . ticularly in regal tification and dis active in Place: vestigating re Godfrey's Wednesday spree been preced quently transferred’ to ait uniden in : Placer County is reportedly ina DAF Coroner closes C seo enhancement of charges for allegedly committing a crime while on bail and a Marysville Municipal Court hold for an outstanding warrant there. ‘ Undersheriff Paul Rankin said the ongoing investigation could produce another charge. “The Porsche had Iowa plates but no vehicle identification numbers. There's a possibility that could be a stolen car," he said. The lingering case of the death of Gordon: Harvey Brown was finally closed this morming when the Nevada County Shenffs Depanment ,.declared__he committed suicide. That final lisung came almost two months after the Newcasue man was discovered dead near Greenhom Creek. Shenff'sinvestigators huddled with Assistant Distict Atlomey Mike Ferguson before making their final deter mination. The strange case began Nov, 7 when the 52-year-old Brown disappeared after leaving his home. When relatives filed a missing persons report days later with the Placer County Shenffs Depan a murder investigation. But suicide was re-inserted as a possible cause when the autopsy showed death had been a result’ of electrolyte imbalance and hypertonic dehydraun. Nevada County Sheriff's Sgt. Joe Loven said on Dec. 1 that Brown ‘‘basically died because he had not taken any food or drink."” This moming, Undershenff Paul Rankin said it appeared Brown “‘just wanted to die."’ Rankin said use rifle found in Brown's car had been ship to Sacramento for Department Justice tests — most notably to see Germany’s Communist premier today bowed to opposition demands and dropped a plan to form a new secret police force before the nauon's first mulupany elecuons in May. “Through May 6, no offices will be created in this area,"' Premier Hans Modrow said, referring to elecuon day and the controversial plan. Members of East Germany's §00-member Parliament responded with a round of applause. Plans for a new national security agency, including a secret police force, had drawn bitter opposition from members of Modrow’s coaliuion government as well as from the Opposiuon. The reformist Communist govemment last month abolished the hated Stasi secret police, but Modrow had said some kind of internal security force was needed to guard against alleged dangers from neo-Nazis and others. Onnocition leader caid daricinne rit: Featurin __ fh Custom Tues.-Sa PAUL'S ANTIQUES and 103 Broad Street, Nevada City, bottom of the hillo Saturday 10:00 A.M.-5:00 Sunday Noon-5:00 P.M Large selection of wicker fold and modem), rattan rockers. All W price. Antique and contemporary fumiture, sterling and china. What bd quis. Need to buy a small upright piano. PAUL'S 2 65-0925 . police dropped EAST BERLIN (AP) — East os HEARTLAN 273 invesugauon Plan for secret work. into Brown — but those tests had not retumed. discovered a gunshot wound under the deceased's Ieft arm, prompting the State Fire Md 202 W. Mai Then when Brown's body was found Nov. 20 with a noose around his neck, investigators termed the death suicide. That changed when the Nevada. coroner's long-time local if it had been rigged to fire a bullet ment, they said Brown had been contemplaung suicide. County administrative l¢ after his Nover tranquilizers. A hospital spokeswoman would only confirm that Godfrey had been treated there, but would not say what the treatment was for. Godfrey. was subse Newcastle man’s death ing Godfrey's case ‘in Sacramen ansient’s bail $114,000 Wright was stopped on a $30,000 failure-to-appear warrant conceming possession of a controlled substance for sale, but before the gboeking procedure was over, he was looking at bail of $114,000. during which he was going to com Godfrey, who into unconsciousness during the ar est on warrants turns transients, this one had more than $100 in his pockets and was driving a high-powered Porsche. munity, Hospital's intensive care unit for treatment of an overdose of The CHP said Godfrey slipped sacto man guilty of DUI that injured his wife difficult because the injury was suffered by Childers’ wife who ed by a call to ted to nearby Auburn Faith Com Decker of Aubum ‘and another car driven by Marilyn Thomas. of Auburn. CHP Officer Ken Osbom, who arrested Godfrey, reported none of the other three drivers required medical attention: Sheriff's deputies. At the time of the arrest, Godfrey on Ott. 23. The caller said: ‘‘Last week I tried to kill a cop in Auburn and this week I’m going to kill a rial Hospital. An Enloe spokeswoman said this morning Larson is incriticalcondition. . , rest and was immediately transpor ending three vehicles. then intoa van driven by Daniel County reportedly admitted his bus, collision — The CHP said he first rammed Library and to that county’s Child “his pickup truck into a car driven by Protective Services office. The call Mary Corchardo of Meadow Vista, phoned into the Rocklin City Hall lly injured ~ was arrested on Bell Road near Highway 49 after allegedly rear a a The Nevada County Board of Ri wishes to also thank the following f helping to make this year’s Christm. Can Tree project a huge success: * ONE STOP MARKET * COMMERCE SAVING Thanks Again! a PUBLIC NOTICE A public hearing will be held before the N Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, January 10:00 a.m., in the Board of Supervisors C Floor, Eric Rood Administrative Center, 950 Nevada City, CA to consider a request by Disposal for a 10% rate increase adjustment lection services in Western Nevada County, / The Nevada County Department of Sanitat mending a 5.2% rate increase adjustment e ane) TOON AN #NAEND

., ‘disarming technique’ would have been tried only by somebody who -knew how the device had been constructed.”’ Godfrey was arrested on suspicion of manufacturing an explosive device and making threats concerned with explosive devices. One of those alleged threats was cop in Rocklin with one of mylittle On Halloween, additional threats were phoned to the Placer County made to the library threatened unidentifed Placer ment in the bomb incident Telephone company records reportedly show some of the threats had been made from a phone at the home of Godfrey’s then-girlfriend, during times he was there. Godfrey was held on federal Virginia K. Farmer, . 63,. the driver of the van, did not require medical treatment after the accident, which tied up traffic for at “Teast 30 minutes. The Grass Valley Police Department is investigating the cause of the accident. involve “cut and dried,"’ this case was was a passenger in his car. Ferguson's opening remarks addressed that dilemma when he told the jurors the law covered injuries to anybody other than the driver, and it made no difference if it was a relative and in the driver’s own car, The jury agreed and delivered its verdict after a two-day trial. Childers, whom testimony . charges pending a mental examina tion, but was later released on his own recognizance. U.S. Attorney Tom Flynn, who will be prosecutto's U.S. District Coun, did not retum The Union's phone calls placed to him during the past two days conceming why Godfrey was not in custody. : Nothing more was heard from Godfrey until Wednesday's bizarre incident. According to a report filed with the CHP in Newcastle, Godfrey showed had a measured bloodalcohol count of .21 at the time of arrest, tesufied the accident had been caused by his large pickup truck striking a rock in the road. He's scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 26. Ferguson said he would have to study: the ensuing probation report before recommending sentence, but Childers was probably facing a minimum of six months in county jail for the convicuion. ‘7 phetamines in his possession, plus there was a handgun and shotgun found inside the Porsche. Bradford Franklin Wright, 36, Besides the warrant and the new who listed himself as an unemarrest for possessing crank, ployed woodcutter, was arrested at 3 p.m. on Valley Drive in Penn ~Wright’s booking slip also shawed felon in possession of weapons. Valley. The big reason for that was a $75,000 enhancement placed by Nevada City Municipal ~ Court Judge Ersel Edwards after leaning Wright was allegedly apprehended with two ounces of metham ered a top arson Uified drug-treatment Sacramento. facility . ticularly in regal tification and dis active in Place: vestigating re Godfrey's Wednesday spree been preced quently transferred’ to ait uniden in : Placer County is reportedly ina DAF Coroner closes C seo enhancement of charges for allegedly committing a crime while on bail and a Marysville Municipal Court hold for an outstanding warrant there. ‘ Undersheriff Paul Rankin said the ongoing investigation could produce another charge. “The Porsche had Iowa plates but no vehicle identification numbers. There's a possibility that could be a stolen car," he said. The lingering case of the death of Gordon: Harvey Brown was finally closed this morming when the Nevada County Shenffs Depanment ,.declared__he committed suicide. That final lisung came almost two months after the Newcasue man was discovered dead near Greenhom Creek. Shenff'sinvestigators huddled with Assistant Distict Atlomey Mike Ferguson before making their final deter mination. The strange case began Nov, 7 when the 52-year-old Brown disappeared after leaving his home. When relatives filed a missing persons report days later with the Placer County Shenffs Depan a murder investigation. But suicide was re-inserted as a possible cause when the autopsy showed death had been a result’ of electrolyte imbalance and hypertonic dehydraun. Nevada County Sheriff's Sgt. Joe Loven said on Dec. 1 that Brown ‘‘basically died because he had not taken any food or drink."” This moming, Undershenff Paul Rankin said it appeared Brown “‘just wanted to die."’ Rankin said use rifle found in Brown's car had been ship to Sacramento for Department Justice tests — most notably to see Germany’s Communist premier today bowed to opposition demands and dropped a plan to form a new secret police force before the nauon's first mulupany elecuons in May.

“Through May 6, no offices will be created in this area,"' Premier Hans Modrow said, referring to elecuon day and the controversial plan. Members of East Germany's §00-member Parliament responded with a round of applause. Plans for a new national security agency, including a secret police force, had drawn bitter opposition from members of Modrow’s coaliuion government as well as from the Opposiuon. The reformist Communist govemment last month abolished the hated Stasi secret police, but Modrow had said some kind of internal security force was needed to guard against alleged dangers from neo-Nazis and others. Onnocition leader caid daricinne rit: Featurin __ fh Custom Tues.-Sa PAUL'S ANTIQUES and 103 Broad Street, Nevada City, bottom of the hillo Saturday 10:00 A.M.-5:00 Sunday Noon-5:00 P.M Large selection of wicker fold and modem), rattan rockers. All W price. Antique and contemporary fumiture, sterling and china. What bd quis. Need to buy a small upright piano. PAUL'S 2 65-0925 . police dropped EAST BERLIN (AP) — East os HEARTLAN 273 invesugauon Plan for secret work. into Brown — but those tests had not retumed. discovered a gunshot wound under the deceased's Ieft arm, prompting the State Fire Md 202 W. Mai Then when Brown's body was found Nov. 20 with a noose around his neck, investigators termed the death suicide. That changed when the Nevada. coroner's long-time local if it had been rigged to fire a bullet ment, they said Brown had been contemplaung suicide. County administrative l¢ after his Nover tranquilizers. A hospital spokeswoman would only confirm that Godfrey had been treated there, but would not say what the treatment was for. Godfrey. was subse Newcastle man’s death ing Godfrey's case ‘in Sacramen ansient’s bail $114,000 Wright was stopped on a $30,000 failure-to-appear warrant conceming possession of a controlled substance for sale, but before the gboeking procedure was over, he was looking at bail of $114,000. during which he was going to com Godfrey, who into unconsciousness during the ar est on warrants turns transients, this one had more than $100 in his pockets and was driving a high-powered Porsche. munity, Hospital's intensive care unit for treatment of an overdose of The CHP said Godfrey slipped sacto man guilty of DUI that injured his wife difficult because the injury was suffered by Childers’ wife who ed by a call to ted to nearby Auburn Faith Com Decker of Aubum ‘and another car driven by Marilyn Thomas. of Auburn. CHP Officer Ken Osbom, who arrested Godfrey, reported none of the other three drivers required medical attention: Sheriff's deputies. At the time of the arrest, Godfrey on Ott. 23. The caller said: ‘‘Last week I tried to kill a cop in Auburn and this week I’m going to kill a rial Hospital. An Enloe spokeswoman said this morning Larson is incriticalcondition. . , rest and was immediately transpor ending three vehicles. then intoa van driven by Daniel County reportedly admitted his bus, collision — The CHP said he first rammed Library and to that county’s Child “his pickup truck into a car driven by Protective Services office. The call Mary Corchardo of Meadow Vista, phoned into the Rocklin City Hall lly injured ~ was arrested on Bell Road near Highway 49 after allegedly rear a a The Nevada County Board of Ri wishes to also thank the following f helping to make this year’s Christm. Can Tree project a huge success: * ONE STOP MARKET * COMMERCE SAVING Thanks Again! a PUBLIC NOTICE A public hearing will be held before the N Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, January 10:00 a.m., in the Board of Supervisors C Floor, Eric Rood Administrative Center, 950 Nevada City, CA to consider a request by Disposal for a 10% rate increase adjustment lection services in Western Nevada County, / The Nevada County Department of Sanitat mending a 5.2% rate increase adjustment e ane) TOON AN #NAEND