Ist EDITION Sunday News Journal, Wilmington, August 2, 1987 Zoe E. Freese INDIANAPOLIS Zoe E. 89, of Indianapolis, formerly of Elkton, died Thursday of cardiac: arrest at her son's home. Mrs. Freese was a homemaker and a member of First Baptist Church, Elkton.
She moved to Indianapolis from Florida a year ago to live with her son. She had lived with her other son in Florida. Her husband, John died in 1975. She is survived by two sons, Walter C. of Fort Myers, and Norman A.
with whom she lived; a daughter, Zoe Silva of Long Island, N.Y.; a sister, Ida Johnson of Fort Myers; nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Graveside services will be Monday at 10 a.m. in Gilpin Manor Memorial Park, Elkton. IN MEMORIAM CABREY In loving memory of our Brother Joe. We miss your smiling face and helpful ways.
John, Mary, Catherine and Ann MACE In loving memory my father, Thomas O. Mace who passed away five years ago today. Remembering you always, Donna SCOTT In loving memory of our daughter, Mother, wife and sister, BARBARA ANN 'SCOTT, passed away one year ago, on August 2, 1986. In silent tears, we saw you sinking, We know you had to go away, Our hearts were truly broken, But, we know you could not stay; It broke our hearts to lose you, But you did not go alone; For a part of us went with you The day God took you home. There's an open gate at the end of the road; Through which each must go alone, And there in a light we can not see; Our Father claims His own, Beyond the Gate, Our loved one Finds happiness and rest, And there is comfort in the thought That God knows Sadly missed by ALL YOUR FAMILY STUART In loving memory of our Father and Grandfather, Wiley G.
Stuart, who passed away 4 years ago today, August 2, 1983. Daddy, we will always love and miss you. Daughter Mae and Granddaughters Jean Bonnie TRESSLER In memory of our father Harvey G. Tressier 56 birthday. Dearly loved and sadly missed," Beth, Jackie andAmanda.
DEATH NOTICES Emmons, In Dover, Smyrna, DE on DE, July formerly 30, 1987, of -North Monroe Street. Aged 87 years. Husband of the late Katie May Beecher. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral service on Monday, August 3, at 11am at the McCRERY MEMORIAL FUNERAL HOME, 3924 Concord Pike where friends may call Sunday evening after 7. Interment at Lawn Croft Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorial donations to the American Heart 4C Trolley DE 19806. DELLEDONNE On Thursday, July 30, 1987, after a lengthy illness, Rosalie DelleDonne, 99 years of age, wife of the late Ernesto DelleDone. Formerly of 813 N. DuPont St. Mother of Ernestine Bianco and Seda DiMauro.
Family and friends are invited to attend Mass of Christian Burial on Monday morning at 11am from St. Anthony's R.C. Church, 9th DuPont Sts. Calling hours for Mrs. Delle Donne will be from at the CORLETO-LATINA FUNERAL HOME, 808 N.
Union St. Entombment will follow mass in Cathedral Cemetery. GOLDSTEIN On July 31, 1987, at the Kutz Home, Jean S. Goldstein. Formerly of B'Nai Brith House.
Age 86 years. Widow of Morton Goldstein. Survived by 1 daughter Jacqueline Guttenplan of Wilm. and 3 grandchildren. A private graveside service will be held on Monday, August 3 at 2pm in Lodi, NJ.
Interment Rochelle Park Cemetery, Lodi, NJ. There will be no viewing. Arrangements by SCHOENBERG MEMORIAL CHAPEL. HEATH In Cape May Court House, New Jersey, on July 30, 1987, Marion (Croney) Heath, wife of the late George Andrew Heath of 3403 Broom Place, Wilmington, DE. Age 78 years.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral service at the Memorial Chapel of the Gracelawn Memorial Park, 2220 N. DuPont Parkway, New Castle on Monday afternoon August 3rd at 2pm where friends may call after 1:15. Burial will be private. In lieu of flowers, please make contributions to the American Cancer Society, 1708 Lovering DE Arrangements by the SPICER FUNERAL HOME KLAIR At the St. Francis Hospital on July 30, 1987, Emma L.
Klair of 3115 New Castle Avenue, New Castle, aged 78 years. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services at the GEBHART FUNERAL HOME, 531 Delaware St, New Castle on Tuesday morning, August 4th, at 10am. Interment will be in Lower Brandywine Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home on Monday evening from 7-9pm. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Delaware Association for the Blind, 800 West St, Wilmington, De 19801.
MALATESTA In this city of July 30, 1987 Rose P. daughter of the late Valentine and Mary Finochi of 21 Balsom Rd, Ggordy Estates, age 80 years. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the mass of Christian Burial at St. Elizabeths R.C.Church, Cedary and Clayton Sts. on Monday morning August 3 at 11:00.
Intombment in Cathedral Cemetary and friends may call at the MEALEY FUNERAL HOME, Limestone Milltown Rds, on Sunday evening between 7 9. In lieu of flowers please make contributions to Jeanne Dugan Residence, 185 Salem Church Rd, Newark 19713. (Little Sisters Of The Poor) NILAN In St. Francis Hospital on July 30, 1987, E. Marie Nilan, wife of the late Edward F.
Nilan of 225 E. Hazeldel Ave. Minquadale, New Castle, DE. Age 84 years. Sister of Frank L.
Ferguson Aunt of Evelyn M. Painter. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral service on Monday morning, August 3, 1987 at 11 o'clock at the SPICER-MULLIKIN FUNERAL HOME, 1000 N. Dupont Parkway, Wilmington Manor where friends may call Sunday evening after 7pm. Interment, in Old Drawer's Cemetery, Odessa, DE OWENS At her son's residence, 119 Piano Newark, DE, on August 1, 1987, Jane M.
Owens. Formerly of Joseph Galaher Elkton, MD. Mother of Robert W. Owens, Newark, DE and Myra 0. Grzeskiewicz, Crofton, MD.
Mother-in-law of Norma C. Owens and Michael J. Grzeskiewicz. Age 73 years. Relatives and friends are invited to attend funeral services on Tuesday morning, August 4 at 11am in the Trinity Episcopal Church, Elkton, MD.
Interment will be in the Head of Christiana Cemetery, Newark, DE. Friends may call at the GEE FUNERAL HOME, 259 E. Main Elkton, on Monday evening after 7pm. The family suggests memorial contributions may be made to Delaware Hospice, The Gee Funeral Home, 259 E. Main Elkton, MD 21921 PAVONI On Friday, July 31, 1987, after a long illness, Bessie Pavoni, 94 years of age, wife of the late Arthur C.
Pavoni Sr. of 1906 W. 9th St. Family and friends are invited to attend Mass of Christian Burial on Tuesday morning at from St. Anthony's R.C.
Church, 9th DuPont Sts. Entombment will follow mass in Cathedral Cemetery. Calling hours for Mrs. Pavoni are also Tuesday morning from 9-10am at the CORLETO-LATINA FUNERAL HOME, 808 N. Union Wilm.
In lieu of flowers, please make contributions to St. Anthony's Catholic Church, 901 N. DuPont DE 19805 STARKS Suddenly on July 27, 1987, Jonathan Starks of 512 New Castle Avenue, Wilmington, aged 64 years. Husband of Rev. Lavinia (Lou) Starks of Wilmington.
Uncle of Tyrone M. Brown, Sr, Dwayne M. Brown, Sr, Tyrone Jr, Dwayne Jr, and Jazmine S. Brown all of Wilmington. Also survived by a host of other relatives and friends.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend funeral services on Monday, August 3rd, at 8pm from the J. LLEWELLYN BELL MEMORIAL CHAPEL, Washington St Lea Blvd. Interment Rolling Green Memorial Park, West Chester, Pa. Friends may call at the chapel on Monday from 6-8pm. WHITTINGTON At his late residence, on July 30, 1987.
John C. Whittington, of 810 E. Basin Road, New Castle, DE Aged 63. Relatives and friends are invited to attend funeral services at the GEBHART a FUNERAL HOME, 531 Delaware Street, New Castle on Monday morning, August 3 at 10am. Entombment in All Saints Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home on Sunday evening from 7-9. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to American Cancer Society, 1708 Lovering DE 19806. Bertha H. Grant ELKTON, Md. Bertha H.
Grant, 75, of 10 Chesapeake Elderly Apartments, died Friday at home of cancer. Mrs. Grant was a homemaker and a member of Bohemia Manor Evangelical Christian Church, Chesapeake City. Her husband, John I. died in 1983.
She is survived by a son, John I. Jr. of Elkton; a daughter, Betty M. Dixon of Elkton; four brothers, Elwood Biggers of Rising Sun, Charles of Wilmington, John of Atlanta and Leroy of Elkton; four sisters, Frances Turner and Viola Robinson of Centreville, Emma Thompson and Faye Rieder, both of Port Deposit; six grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Services will be Tuesday at 11 a.m.
in Hicks Home for Funerals, Bow and Stockton streets, Elkton, where friends may call Monday 7 to 9 p.m. Burial will be in North East Methodist Cemetery, North East. Memorial contributions may be made to Northern Chesapeake Hospice Elkton. Joseph Smith SMYRNA Joseph Smith, 85, formerly of R.D. 2, Lockwoods Corner, Dover, died Saturday of heart failure in Delaware Hospital for the Chronically Ill, his residence for two years.
Mr. Smith was a farmer i in the Lockwoods Corner area for many years. His wife, Addie, died in March. He is survived by several nieces and nephews. Services and burial will be private.
Welch services WOODSIDE Services for David L. Welch who died Friday, will be Monday at 1 p.m. in Calvary Wesleyan Church, Delaware Avenue, Harrington. There will be no viewing. Burial will be in Hollywood Cemetery, Harrington.
Mr. Welch, 47, of R.D. 1, Harrington, and his co-worker, Robin Fulmer, were dead on arrival at Kent General Hospital, Dover. The two state surveyors were working on U.S. 13 near Woodside, when the driver of a six- wheel truck apparently fell asleep and drove onto the median, striking them.
Mr. Welch worked for the state Department of Transportation for 29 years. He was vice president of the Lake Forest School Board. He was a member of Calvary Wesleyan Church, where he was a Sunday school teacher, a member of the board of administration, building committee, bus ministry and Wesleyan Men. He also served as a youth counselor and manager of the men's softball team of the church.
He was a Mason. He was a past president of the Harrington Little League and a former member of the Army National Guard and Reserves. He is survived by his wife, Nancy a son, David L. and a daughter, Tina Lynn Welch, both at home; his parents, W. Carroll and Mildred Welch of Harrington; five brothers, Carroll Louis Edgar and Paul, all of Harrington and William of Woodside; four sisters, Evelyn Goodson of Jacksonville, Lillian Fennett of Harrington, and Pauline Gardner and Joan Viggiani, both of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Instead of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the David L. Welch scholarship fund, in care of Lake Forest High School, Felton. Mildred May Smith DOVER Mildred May Smith, of Kings Highway, died Friday of respiratory arrest in Kent General Hospital. Her age was unknown. Mrs.
Smith, born in Richmond, was a longtime resident of Dover. Her husband, I. Melvin Smith, died in 1980. She is survived by two daughters, Elaine S. Ewing and Barbara A.
VanSant, both of Dover; seven grandchildren and 10 greatgrandchildren. Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday in the Funeral Home of Michael J. Ambruso, 1175 S. State St.
There will be no viewing. Burial will be private. The family suggests memorial contributions to Kent County SPCA, Dover. Elsie S. Bell DOVER Elsie S.
Bell, 82, of 1853A N. Du Pont Highway, died Saturday of heart failure in Kent General Hospital. Mrs. Bell was a clerk at the newsstand on Loockerman Street for many years. Her husband, John L.
died in 1980. She is survived by four sons, John L. Jr. of Wyoming, Schneider G. of Franklin, N.C., James C.
of Camden and Marvin A. serving with the Navy; a daughter, Beatrice B. Russell of Ewan, N.J.; two brothers, George C. Schneider of Glassboro, N.J., and Clifton J. Schneider of Turnersville, N.J.; 10 grandchildren and 13 great Friends may call Tuesday from 2 until 4 p.m.
at the home of the deceased, 1853A N. Du Pont Highway. Instead of flowers, the family suggests contributions to charity. Gale E. Peterson ELKTON, Md.
Gale E. "Pete" Peterson, 39, of 199 Hollingsworth Manor, died Friday of a pulmonary embolus in Union Hospital. Mr. Peterson worked for the town of Elkton for about five years, retiring in 1979 because of disability. He is survived by his parents, Grace F.
and Wallace Peterson with whom he lived; two brothers, James F. of Delaware City, and Gary A. of Elkton; and two sisters, Cheryl Everett and Sharon LaPointe, both of Elkton. Services will be Wednesday at 11 a.m. in Hicks Home for Funerals, Bow and Stockton streets, where friends may call Tuesday 7 to 9 p.m.
Burial will be in Gilpin Manor Memorial Park, Elkton. Florence G. Legates FELTON Florence G. Legates, 79, of R.D. 1, died Saturday of cardiac arrest in Kent General Hospital, Dover.
Mrs. Legates was a homemaker. She is survived by her husband, Lawrence; and a sister, Priscilla A. Moore of Felton. Services will be at 1 p.m.
Tuesday in Berry Funeral Home, Main Street, where friends may call one hour earlier. Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Camden. Lofland, 71, formerly of Dagsboro, died Thursday of heart failure in Delaware Hospital, her residence for 10 years. Miss Lofland was a domestic. She is survived by four brothers, Odell and John Lofland, both of Melfa, Leroy Sr.
of Dagsboro and Major of Freehold, N.J.; five sisters, Annie Stewart and Etta Turner, both of Philadelphia, Mabel Lofland of Bridgeville, and Mildred and Geneva Lofland, both of Melfa. Services will be Monday at 1 p.m. in the chapel of Melson Funeral Services, Thatcher Street, Frankford, where friends may call one hour earlier. Burial will be in Curtis Cemetery, Campbelltown, Md. Mary Emma Lofland SMYRNA Mary Emma Fulmer services WOODSIDE Services for Robin "Rob" Scott Fulmer, who died Friday, will be at 11 a.m.
Tuesday in Trader Funeral Home, 12 Lotus Dover, where friends may call one hour earlier. Burial will be in Lakeside Cemetery. Mr. Fulmer, 35, of 171 Orchard Dover, and his co-worker, David L. Welch, were dead on arrival at Kent General Hospital, Dover.
The two state surveyors were working on U.S. 13 near Woodside, when the driver of a sixwheel truck apparently fell asleep and drove onto the median, striking the men. Mr. Fulmer, a surveyor since 1969, had worked for various companies in the Dover area. He was employed by the state Department of Transportation since 1981.
He was a 1970 graduate of Dover High School. He is survived by his wife, Therese a son, Harry Scott at home; his parents, Chester David and Eleanor A. Fulmer of Dover; two brothers, C. David of Dover and J. Timothy of Corpus Christi, Texas; and a sister, Holly McDermott of Reston, Va.
Wyoming man killed in crash WYOMING A 40-year-old Wyoming man was killed in a twovehicle crash at Del. 10 and Kent 125 Friday night, state police said. Clarence J. Hungerford, of R.D. 2, was pronounced dead on arrival at Kent General Hospital in Dover.
The crash occurred about 5:30 p.m. Hungerford had turned his car north onto Kent 125 and into the path of a pickup truck being driven eastbound on Del. 10 by Kenneth L. Haskett 21, of Wyoming. Haskett was treated at Kent eral Hospital for a cut lip, police said.
Neither driver was using a seat belt, police said. Hungerford's death was the fifth highway fatality to occur in Delaware Friday, bringing the year's traffic deaths to 79, compared with 77 in the corresponding time last year. He worked at Harold H. Hogg Smyrna. He was a member of American Legion Walter L.
Fox Post 2, Dover and Camden-Wyoming Moose Lodge. He was a Navy veteran. He is survived by his parents, Clarence and Barbara Hungerford of Wyoming; five brothers, Robert A. of Woodside, Raymond R. of Camden, Richard E.
of Laurel, Thomas N. of Dover and Mark E. of Wyoming; and his maternal grandmother, Sophie Schipul of Milford. Services will be Tuesday at 11 a.m. in Torbert Funeral Chapel, Bradford and Reed streets, Dover, where friends may call Monday from 7 to 9 p.m.
American Legion services will be at 7:30 and Moose services at 8. Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Camden. Joseph C. Wright LEWES Joseph C. Wright, 72, of Primehook Beach, near Lewes, died Saturday of heart failure in Milford Memorial Hospital.
Mr. Wright worked at Swift Co. for 46 years in Roanoke, and Washington, D.C. When he retired in 1980, he moved to Delaware. He was a member of Belmont Baptist Church, Roanoke and the Moose Lodge of Hyattsville, Md.
He was an Army veteran of World War II. He is survived by his wife, M. Louise; a son, Joseph L. of Annapolis, and three brothers, Donald Warren R. and Marshall all of Dayton, Ohio.
Memorial services will be Tuesday at 11 a.m. in Lofland Funeral Home, 102 Lakeview Milford. Burial will be Wednesday at 11 a.m. in Evergreen Cemetery, Roanoke. Donald G.
Reichard Donald G. Reichard, 49, of 107 Louise Road, Chelsea Estates, New Castle, died Thursday of cancer in Veterans Administration Hospital, Elsmere. Mr. Reichard, a truck driver, was a member of General Teamsters Union Local 326, New Castle, from 1960 until he retired in 1986 because of disability. A Navy veteran, he was a member of Disabled American Veterans, New Castle County Chapter 4.
He is survived by a brother, Frank A. II with whom he lived; and two stepbrothers, Joseph Michael of Crofton, and Carlos Michael of Virginia Beach, Va. Services will be Wednesday at 11 a.m. in Spicer-Mullikin Funeral Home, 1000 N. Du Pont Parkway, Wilmington Manor, where friends may call Tuesday after 7 p.m.
Burial will be in St. Georges Cemetery, St. Georges. Instead of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the American Cancer Society, Wilmington. Jean S.
Goldstein Jean Schoenfeld Goldstein, 86, formerly of B'nai B'rith House, Claymont, died Friday of respiratory failure in The Kutz Home 704 River Road, her residence for two years. Mrs. Goldstein was office manager for 15 years at Alpha Craft Klik, wholesale jewelers in New York City. She retired in 1975. She moved Wilmington eight years ago.
She was a member of Beth Shalom Congregation. She also was affiliated with the Free Nurses Institute of New York City, a charitable nursing organization that provided free nursing to indigent people. Her husband, Morton, died in 1977. She is survived by a daughter, Jacqueline Guttenplan of Wilmington; and three grandchildren. Private graveside services will be Monday in Rochelle Park Cemetery, Lodi, N.J.
Shiva will be observed Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Guttenplan, 28 W. 40th St. Leon M.
Young Leon M. Young, 52, of 40 Staten Drive, Stuyvesant Hills, Hockessin, died Saturday of cancer at home. Mr. Young worked at Du Pont Co. for 32 years.
He most recently worked in sales in the Riston products division of the electronics department. He retired in June because of disability. He was a member of the Du Pont Country Club. He is survived by his wife, Shirley a son, Scott of Macon, a daughter, Terri Young at home; his parents, Margurite S. and Allan Leary of Toronto; and a brother, Gary Young of Ontario, Canada.
Services will be Monday at 1 p.m. in Chandler Funeral Home, Lancaster Pike, Hockessin. There will be no viewing. Burial will be in Canada. Instead of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the American Cancer Society, Wilmington.
Record Births Christiana DENNIS Deborah, 2807 N. Tatnall July 31, son. DRYDEN Emily and Stephen, 8 Penarth Drive, Penarth, July 31, son. EBBOTT Sandra and William, 28 York Road, Deerhurst, Aug. 1, son.
FOX LaRay and Paul, 23 N. Kings Croft Drive, Kings Croft, Aug. 1, daughter. GIBSON Tamra and Rex, 20 Tammie Drive, Hickory Woods, July 31, daughter. HALYE Marilou and Edward, 6 Hearn Place, Fairfield, July 31, daughter.
HENDERSON Lynn and Steven, 248 Brick Hill Road, Elkton, July 31, son. LLOYD Karen and Brad, 35 Westbridge Road, Porter Square, Aug. 1, daughter. MARINER Jeannie and Michael, 208 Adams Delaware City, July 31, son. MECK Lorraine and Bruce, 619 Postfield Road, Scottfield, July 22, son.
MILLIGAN Pamela, 27 Stanton Minquadale, Aug. 1, daughter. MONTRUCHIO Lisa, 1316 E. 14th July 31, daughter. PETCHEL Kathleen and Michael, 1331 Linden Aug.
1, son. ROBERTS Kathryn and Mark, 435 Upper Pike Creek Road, Newark, July 31, son. SERRANO Carmen, 318 Concord McDaniel Crest, July 31, son. SMALLEY Katherine and George, 62 Union Pennsville, N.J., July 31, daughter. STEED Linda and Herbert, 149 W.
Edinburgh Drive, Coventry, July 31, son. TYLER Donna and James, 105 Melodic Drive, Harmony Woods, July 31, son. VALENTINE Cindy and Troy, 107 Simca Lane, Dor-Jul Apartments, July 31, son. WILCOX Deborah, 15 Barclay Hall, English Village Apartments, July 31, son. WINCKLER Jacqueline, 2304 Carter July 31, son.
Woman injured in beating, choking near New Castle A New York City woman is in Christiana Hospital after someone tried to strangle her early Saturday at a motel near New Castle, state police said. A spokesman for the hospital identified the woman as Isabella Odetta, 32, of the Brooklyn borough. She sustained chest, neck and head injuries, cuts and bruises, the spokesman said. She was listed in good condition Saturday night. Odetta was entering a room at Hollywood Motel, 145 S.
DuPont Highway, when an assailant pushed her inside. She was beaten on the head and face and choked until she became unconscious, police said. Odetta called police when she regained consciousness. The victim was not registered at the motel and was visiting a friend, according to a Hollywood Motel employee who refused to identify himself. "When the police asked that woman what her name was, that's the time I found what her name was.
That name was not on the register," the employee said. Thief takes weapons Shotguns and handguns worth $87,000 were stolen from a Hockessin-area residence Thursday night, New Castle County Police said. The guns were stolen from a ranch house at Binge and Old Wilmington roads. The victims asked police not to reveal their names. Someone broke into the house by prying open a rear door.
The weapons were taken from a gun case and the garage, police said. Man charged in break-in A New Castle resident was charged with causing $400 damage when he broke into a house with a baseball bat Thursday and hit the occupant, New Castle County police said. Wallace A. Zimmerman, 23, of the 600 block of Clark Dobbinsville, New Castle, was charged with first-degree burglary, seconddegree assault, and criminal mischief. He was committed to Gander Hill Prison for lack of $15,000 secured bail, police said.
Sistillio Popo, 20, of the 1000 block of Atlas Drive in Collins Park, north of New Castle, refused treatment for arm bruises he sustained when he was hit twice with the wooden bat. Zimmerman, who police said had been drinking, beat on the front door and screen with the bat and entered the residence swinging, striking several objects. He then hit the victim twice. County police arrested Zimmerman with help from state police. Popo said the attack may have been in retaliation for a previous incident between the two.
Police charged Popo with cultivating marijuana at the Atlas Drive residence. Police received a tip that Popo Police was growing marijuana in the yard. From the driveway, an officer could see a plant growing at the corner of the house. The officer confiscated a sample for testing and returned with a search warrant to confiscate the plant and arrest him for manufacturing a schedule one non-narcotic, which is a felony. Teen held in robbery try OCEAN CITY, Md.
A 15-yearold Baltimore youth was arrested and charged with trying to steal over $1,000 worth of clothing and sunglasses from a store early Saturday, Ocean City police said. Police responded to a 5 a.m. alarm at Pepper's in the 45th Street Village shopping center. Officers found a broken window and saw someone in the store when they arrived. They followed footprints in the sand behind the store and found the youth hiding on the deck of the Garden Restaurant.
Several officers chased him as he fled to a nearby marsh. He was apprehended at the Ocean City Convention Center, after trying to escape on a bicycle. Police found two duffle bags inside the store filled with clothing and sunglasses valued at $1,475. The youth was charged with breaking and entering, police said. Three face drug charges OCEAN CITY, Md.
City police arrested three people on drug charges in two cases this weekend. Arrested early Saturday were Mitchell A. Willis, 31, and Ellen C. Esposito, 39, both of Amstead Way, Baltimore. The two were charged with of PCP and hashish and possession of PCP and hashish with intent to distribute.
Esposito was held on $25,000 bail and Willis was held without bail at the Ocean City police headquarters. The two were arrested on Wicomico Street at Baltimore Avenue at their car, where police confiscated 44 grams of PCP and a quantity of hashish. Police also concluded: a sixmonth investigation with an arrest Friday night at BJ's on the Water at 75th Street and the bay. Mitchell L. Real, 26, of Jockey Beach Club condominiums at 123rd Street, was arrested at 9 p.m.
and charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, keeping and maintaining a common nuisance, possession of controlled paraphernalia and possession of marijuana. Police confiscated one ounce of cocaine, one ounce of marijuana and packaging material. Real was released on $50,000 bail. Compiled by Alice Brumbley Police search for motive in beating death of teen the scene where the car was found," Thursday, Pepper said. Police found no weapons in the car, which was parked at the end of a dirt road in thick foliage 1,000 yards from Sussex 277.
An Angola hunter found the car Thursday night while walking through the woods checking deer-spotting stands he had put in the trees. About 20 officers searched for the body at daybreak Friday. Also charged with first-degree murder is Danny Quillen, 17, of Tall Cedar Trailer Park near Lewes. Both suspects were also charged with first-degree burglary, felony theft and first-degree conspiracy. Police had interviewed Tilson and Quillen immediately after Schmierer was reported missing because they were acquaintances.
"He kept his ties in Delaware and visited back and forth. We knew he had friends and ties here," Pepper said, adding that police do not know of any disputes between the three. Schmierer was originally from Sussex County, Pepper said, but had been living with his divorced mother in Dry Fork, W.Va. The suspects were remanded Friday to Stevenson Detention Center near Milford, according to police. By ALICE BRUMBLEY because of "physical evidence Staff reporter State police Saturday night still had not determined the motive of two Lewes-area teens arrested in connection with the beating death of a young man, whose body was found in a backwoods grave Friday.
The body state police found in a 4-foot-deep grave in Angola Friday was identified as John T. Schmierer 18, of West Virginia, who had been missing from his father's Lewes home for more than two weeks. Dr. Ali Z. Hameli, state medical examiner, said Schmierer died from head and facial injuries from a blunt object and was identified by fingerprints.
Results of blood tests for alcohol and drugs are expected Monday from the medical examiner's office. Police suspected foul play when Schmierer was reported missing the afternoon of July 17. "Things at the house were in disarray and there were obvious signs of struggle" when his father returned to the house on Gills Neck Road, said state police spokesman Cpl. Gerald R. Pepper Jr.
Schmierer's father had last seen his son at 10 p.m. July 16. State police interviewed one suspect charged in the case and several other people Friday morning and located Schmierer's grave later that day on a dirt road off Sussex 279, about a mile from his 1976 blue Chevette. Anthony V. Tilson, 17, of R.D.
2 Angola Beach, one of the two charged with first-degree murder and other charges, did not directly lead police to the grave, Pepper said. He declined to say how police learned Schmierer was buried. Tilson and another Lewes-area youth were arrested as suspects DAILY NEWS JOURNAL PAPERS HARDWARE A SUPPLY LIMESTONE 2072 Limestone Rd. Limestone Shopping Center Intersection Routes 2 7.
