New Jersey Nightly News; New Jersey Nightly News Episode from 07/15/1983

New Jersey nightly news is made possible by a grant from first securities. Good evening. I'm can't mount a hand coming up in the new A major sports betting ring is broken up at Caesars hotel casino. A gunman kills one man and critically wounds another in Hamilton Township and alleged serial killer Richard big unwalled is indicted in two more murders. Authorities announced today that a multimillion dollar sports betting operation has been uncovered by the FBI operating out of two plush suites at Caesars boardwalk Regency Hotel Casino in Atlantic City. The FBI and state police raided two rooms at Caesars yesterday. One of the people found but not arrested was Pennsylvania State Senator Leonard bodach. He was not booked because authorities believe he was unaware of the

gambling operation and was just in one of the suites as a guest. Several arrests were made though at Caesars including the alleged ringleader of the gambling operation. Augustine for Roane of Pittsburgh identified as an alleged close associate of the organized crime family of Pittsburgh. It's believed the rooms at Caesars were provided on a complimentary basis because subjects there were high rollers. But state police superintendent Colonel Clinton began and says it's too early to know if Caesar's and Fishel employees had anything to do with the operation. No idea at all the chief of the boardwalk boardwalk casino had any. Part to play in this at all in fact I think at this point that it's not a question. It can be adequately answered with. You have a good deal of investigation like that. Twelve thousand dollars worth of gambling records and cash were seized during the raids. Officials claim the ring conducted business with bets coming in from Nevada California New York and Florida bookmakers. In Mercer County this afternoon a man

walked into an industrial building reportedly asked for directions and then for no apparent reason opened fire with a handgun. The bullets killed one man and critically injured another. The killer is still at large. Alan Levine has the story. The shooting occurred in the rear of this building in a section housing the blast truck company. Investigators arrived they observed that there were two individuals one deceased and another one injured at the scene. No other individuals present. What were the extent of the injuries. There appeared to be. This is prob problem area because this again is medical appeared to be a gunshot wound to the abdomen area. The victim who is still alive. The wounded victim is Joseph Antro boss of Trenton. He's in critical condition at a nearby hospital. The dead man is identified as William Lynn grill of Hamilton Township. Workers at the Tupperware plant in front of the building staggered towards them and told them to call the police. Shortly after the shooting authorities said they had to go door to door in a nearby

residential neighborhood trying to get any clues they could. One trail took investigators to a Department of Transportation garage a road crew was doing some work about a quarter mile away from the murder scene. But that lead turned into a dead end. Authorities hope to get better information when they can talk to the wounded victim. But they don't know when that might be. That is a medical question that's something that I can't answer. When the doctors indicate that he can be talked to we will talk to the prosecutor Cartman concedes that the longer the delay in talking to the survivor the colder the gunman's trail may get. In Hamilton Township. And like today Hamilton Township Police released a description of the suspect he's believed to be about six feet tall has a black mustache and was last seen wearing a yellow hard hat and carrying a clipboard. Two more murder indictments were handed up today against alleged serial killer Richard begun. The 42 year old man is already awaiting trial for two other slayings. He's been linked to six murders and reports.

Mammas County prosecutor Alexander Lair said Richard be going wild will stand trial this autumn on charges he murdered two 17 year old girls accused of shooting Maria Cino township and knifing Debra Osborne of Toms River. Two murders allegedly took place prior to the New Jersey capital punishment. And consequently we cannot seek the death penalty. The bodies of Chiloe and Osborne were unearthed last April in Staten Island. Their remains were buried in a makeshift grave in the backyard of big unwalled mother's house. The murders took place in or near Point Pleasant just months prior to the 1982 announcement of New Jersey's death penalty law. However the prosecutor will ask for capital punishment in the two murder indictment handed up earlier this summer. VIGEN wall has been linked but not indicted in two more murders those cases are before a grand jury in Freehold County. I read a shade. It was one year ago today that a teenage girl was found murdered in a Blairstown cemetery her face beaten beyond recognition. Her identity is still

unknown and Blairstown police have called her Princess Doe. But Trista gasworks reports there's no hope today for finding out who she was. Princess Doe has been one man's obsession for a year. He is Lieutenant Eric Kranz of the Blairs town police. And today Lieutenant Kranz was one step closer to solving the case that haunts him. The murdered Princess Doe finally has a face. Her features were reconstructed by forensic artist Frank Bender and Lieutenant Kranz believes at least one part of this mystery is now solved at the dealing. Over a year and. With. Hundreds of leads and coming up with nothing whatsoever in dealing with out only an identity but also without a face was difficult at best. Some of the more unusual features about Princess Doe who stood five feet two inches taller and weighed one hundred five pounds or her left ear which was double

pierced her three quarter inch long eyelashes and her dark brown hair which was much lighter at the tips. She was from 14 to 17 years old. In this particular case not being able to work from the skull the rock because of it being so delicate. I had a first photograph of the skull. And large for Life and make sure that it was very accurate. Blair's town residents paid for Princess Doe's funeral. She was very last February in the same cemetery where she'd been found. And today one year later a stone was placed on her grave. Any good detective becomes involved in the case. It's hard to detach yourself especially when it involves human life. Especially at the tender age of 14 15 maybe 17 years of age. Lieutenant Grant says he will never walk away from this case and even though it's been a year since the murder he feels certain that Princess Doe's identity and her murderer

will be found. But until that time matching a name to this face remains his obsession in Blairstown. I'm Trista Gaspar and even though Princess Doe's identity is not known Blairstown Police say there have been there has been so much publicity about the case. The 20 other missing children around the country have been found. Students attending New Jersey state supported colleges and Rutgers University will be paying higher tuition this fall. The State Board of Higher Education voted today to increase the tuition rates and county colleges tuitions will go to wish and will go up 12 percent with an average increase of about $75. Students attending the eight state colleges can expect a 7 percent increase. The average tuition bill will be up about $300. And at Rutgers University most students will pay an additional 9 percent. Elizabeth Mayor Thomas Dunn has instructed his city employees to speak only English during working hours. The English only rule according to the mayor applies to

business and private conversations as well. Mayor Dunn says the city's 15 hundred Spanish speaking workers will be permitted to speak their native tongue only when absolutely necessary and they are thinks it's speaking a foreign language at work is rude and confusing to coworkers and citizens who only understand English. The American Civil Liberties Union says the mayor's order is preposterous. One out of every four Elizabeth residents is Hispanic. It's been a week of emotional demonstrations and arrests at the side of a controversy. Delaware River pumping station was in 70 Pennsylvania and New Jersey residents have been taken into custody 30 of them today. But construction on the pump is continuing as Diane doctor reports. The demonstrators cause was dealt a major blow yesterday when a county judge refused construction of the pump station ruling the work contracts must be upheld. The county commissioners had sought the injunction because last May voters said no to the plan

but the referendum was not legally binding. Just this. Week it's a disgrace great disgrace. New Jersey residents who joined the protest claim they've got as big an interest as the folks on the other side of the Delaware. I'm here because I feel that the quality of my water that I drink I live in Trenton will be affected by this coming. Governor Kaine has a seat on the Delaware River Basin Commission and he can vote to reopen the docket on point and stop construction here. But the Delaware River Basin Commission which oversees use of the river says the pump project is environmentally safe. I think the environment I have been I think there has to be some point in time. Where some credence is given. Two facts. Ninety five million gallons of water a day would be drawn by the Point Pleasant pumping station. Some of it would be used by Philadelphia electrics Limerick

nuclear plant but most water would go to suburban Philadelphia communities which are in critical need of a new water supply. Still protesters insist the river will be irreparably harmed by the pumping station three years old and organizers say the group is $100000 in debt. But despite that they say the protests will continue until the project is defeated once and for all. In Point Pleasant Pennsylvania I'm Diane doctor. In New York today the clock ran out on a court ordered cleanup of a warehouse filled with toxic chemicals. A lot of time had been three months. The deadline today so the matter will be back in court next week. As Marcy Reitman reports. This afternoon the EPA official supervised his boxes and barrels were loaded into trucks bound for Delaware and storage. But there was no hope that the warehouse would be cleaned up by today's 5:00 p.m. deadline. Close to 10000 containers including

drums of hazardous waste remain inside the building. The snow that used to be. But is this kind of like you guys running. I don't know if this has anything to do with it. My daughter has action and her man she's mean to. The people who live less than a block from the warehouse began waiting for the clean up three months ago. That was when a fire broke out and the New York Fire Department discovered that toxic chemicals were being stored here illegally. We did have ended up in the hospital. Peter Caulfield criticize the state for not monitoring the cleanup more closely monitored. They should have known a month ago that there was progress made two weeks ago. We could go in we have to wait coffee says the city is prepared to join a state lawsuit. It was the owner of the warehouse who filed the first suit against his tenant the Sci. Corporation which owns the materials. Today I could not be

reached for comment. Residents have been going door to door collecting money so they can hire their own lawyer. They don't believe anyone else is going to force the cleanup of the warehouse including the state and city governments. If you're not living in a place where it's high class then let's face it that's the whole thing and in the mean time the residents say they feel like they're sitting on a time bomb their big fear is fire in Newark. I'm Marcy Reitman. Yes that's Philadelphia's channel 48 will be leaving the airwaves in September. Owners of the television station which is licensed in Burlington today confirmed they've sold their programming rights and some production equipment. The buyer is WPA Chelan cooperative channel 17 in Philadelphia Field Enterprises owners of the BSR getting out of the television business. The company's already sold its for other TV stations drilling on the deepest oil and gas exploration well ever attempted is scheduled to begin off the South Jersey coast by the end of the month. Officials of shell

offshore incorporated also say this will be the first deep water well ever drilled in U.S. waters. Dan Hodgson tells us they're confident there won't be any problems. Within two weeks a specially equipped ship will be in place 100 miles southeast of Cape May. Officials of shell offshore incorporated into other oil companies plan to sink their well through 68 hundred feet of water more than 11 hundred feet deeper than the current record depth for an exploratory well. Well then extend 8000 feet below the ocean floor. Officials say the technology is reliable and they're confident there won't be any accidents in a 27 year period through 1981. There have been over forty four hundred wells drilled in the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf and in the drilling oil spill in excess of 50 barrels has ever been recorded from an exploratory well the blowout preventer stack has a series of valves to stop the oil from escaping.

And in case of a storm they were able to disconnect the ship from the wellhead. This is the first time a well of this depth has been possible in the United States because it was only a year and a half ago that the federal government began selling leases this far offshore. Oil companies of some 27 exploratory wells and shallower areas of the Baltimore Canyon marked in the light blue portion of this map but none have produced enough oil to be economically feasible. Shell officials say their last resort is to try the deeper area marked in yellow. They plan to sink two additional wells through seventy five hundred feet of water when this first one is completed in about four months. The Interior Department estimates there are 700 million gallons of oil and three trillion cubic feet of natural gas buried under the Atlantic seaboard. If so it would be one of the largest deposits in the world. Shell officials say so far there's no evidence to support those estimates. But despite the public skepticism they will be spending 130 million dollars over the next year. Just to make sure. In Atlantic City I'm down hard so. The weekend is here let's take a look at the weather forecast for the next few days here's what it looks

like warm and muggy tonight with a few scattered thundershowers possible. Lows will be in the mid 60s up north and nearing 70 degrees in central and southern parts of the state expect mostly sunny skies for tomorrow with highs in the low 90s. And the outlook for Sunday sunny and warm. During up for their next big race. No it's not an election. It's the mayor's race. A part of tomorrow's Raritan River Festival. New Brunswick and 14 mayors are expected. Today. The celebration will also feature floats fireworks and even folks a little bit. Well. In Middlesex County some mayors are gearing up for their next big race. No it's not an

election. It's the mayor's race. A part of tomorrow's Raritan River Festival in New Brunswick and 14 mayors are expected to participate. But if paddling politicians don't make your day the celebration will also feature floats fireworks and even folk singer Tom been just downriver from there lies another attraction won the draws few crowds but lots and lots of curiosity among those who have been curious. Our own Michael Aaron. Right. I wonder what. Recently we got off the turnpike. Found out. As it turns out she's an old Staten Island ferry boat. Her name is Mary Mary. For 35 years she plied the waters of New York Bay. If she was once

young and beautiful she's not now. Four years ago a salvage your name George Searle bought her and told her here to East Brunswick. George told us he's made and lost a million dollars several times in his life. Obviously he likes to do things in a big way. I was always intrigued by wanting someday to. Have a big boat I never thought it was going to be 300 foot a ferry but I wanted something. The Merry Merry was one of the last of the steam powered ferries. Her sister ship here the Private Joseph Merrill is the last. Not too long ago she would take you from Staten Island to lower Manhattan. Or bring you back. For a nickel. Some people said that the half hour ride was the last bargain left in New York. The original Mary Mary lived here in Manhattan during the Revolutionary War. She was a farmer's daughter after the British captured Manhattan she invited them all to a party on the farm one of the British imbibed 3000 defeated Continental troops slipped away to safety. The neighborhood still

bears the family name and Merry Merry got a ferry boat named after her. She's in bad shape now. Footsteps echo down lonely corridors. Dust settles in the cabin once reserved for women. There's nobody around to follow the rules. With a little imagination though the sounds of a living ship still linger in the air. You can almost hear the blast of her old steam whistle. George's wife of 23 years wasn't surprised when he brought the merry merry home very adventurous CGs out to try anything he's not afraid of it and he may possibly do something else. Bigger than this someday. But today it's George dream to turn the Mary Murray into a floating restaurant right here where she's moored. It's been done elsewhere to do it here however it will take a lot of paint a lot of restoration and a lot of money.

I'd like to eventually do something with what you're looking at to do a job at least to me and to meet all the requirements. Two million dollars to get it into shape to be a restaurant right. It's not just a restaurant to meet all the safety the water sprinklers and refrigeration and so many things involved when you get when you really start to get into it. Are you a dream or a dream all my life that's that's that's what I wanted. So many things in my life. But of course financially. And I just I couldn't do the things I want to do but I've still got a few years to go and hopefully I'll see this thing well and something really nice that people come from all over the state. Mark Twain once wrote it's easier to stay out than to get out. Well George Searle has thought about getting out for the right offer. He might sell this relic. But buyers are hard to find for a used ferry boat. So he just waits and the boat

just stays. I love this photo do you really. Each year I feel like that with the area building up and all. I'm sure it's somebody who's out there is going to come along and really do a job with me here. And if not. That's ok I'll just pull right in a little we'll use it as a shop and maybe we'll end up with a pizza parlor. I don't know it's just maybe not as elaborate as I really want it but if not it's OK with me. It's a it's a great thing in fact maybe I'll move on it and spend the rest of my life up in the pilot house you know. So either way it's OK with me. A glass of wine. A boat's. A dream. Some day George Soros or someone may make this dream come true. But in the meantime. Here's looking at you Mary Mary. On the Raritan River. I'm Michael Aaron.

Now you're waiting to end it. That's a great story. That really I care a little bit place. For a good. Look. And now it's time for sports with Pat Scanlon that. All right thank you very much it's all open to $20000 New Jersey Open Golf Championship at the ball this royal golf club in Springfield Let's take a look at what happened today. Sam cancel area out of Medford village had tied or had taken the lead this morning with a 68 that's four under par. Sam got in trouble as you saya and chip out of the woods there.

He's got to a 76 to finish two strokes back with a 2 93 as you see Chip's am. But there there's your winner Jack Kiefer he won the New Jersey open in 75 and 76 gave her from Forest Lakes shot to 74 then a 67 for eight to 86 today. He wins a New Jersey Open Championship by six strokes. Now Steve Seeger had been leading going into today's round. Take a look at Stevie shota 77 this morning. Not a great rat as you see his reaction. He finishes in second place with a 290 to six strokes back. Meanwhile we have more golf to tell you about and the finalists are set at the U.S. Amateur Public Links championships. 21 year old defending champion Billie tootin of plot to Florida will play David hobby of Santa Ana California hobby 23 years old. The final round of 36 holes begins at 8:00 a.m. at Hominy Hill and Colts Neck. Champion Michael Spinks and challenger Eddie most often Mahomet will not meet tonight in Washington D.C. for the light heavyweight title but Stoffel Muhammad from West Orange could not make

white £175. So the fight is off. Meanwhile last night in toto New Jersey Rocky walk awaits a New Jersey featherweight in the left side rebounded from a loss to WB a featherweight champion eusébio Pedrosa rocky floor Chino Cruz early in the first round. Cruz 500 Boxer for a lifetime should have even been in the ring with Rocky later out of Rocky connects with our right to Cruise's head. Rocky is now 30 and three with 24 wins by knockout. With that TKI 257 of the first round. In heavyweight action can all prove the game challenger for Oakland New Jersey Scott Franks scoring with the right. But Frank had to muster all coming up. Nice uppercut by Frank who won a unanimous decision he's now 20 0 and 1 for the career. The crowd wanted to knock out and booed Scott but Frank Well he had kisses for the protesters. The east coast biggest drag race the Summer Nationals continues yes at Raceway Park in Englishtown qualification runs will continue tonight and tomorrow with survivors making it to Sunday's final top fuel dragster is funny cause in pro stock models highlight the field

competing for some six hundred ninety thousand dollars in winnings and for points toward a year end world championship in each of those divisions in pro stock. Well this man was Frank aja Canio is a favorite. Canio and his 83 Camaro leave the Pro Stock series through six or races. Well a few other things to tell you about tonight going on at the Meadowlands track the one point to five million dollar Meadowlands pays for a three year old Ralph Hanover and Joe Nathan are the favorites. Sunday night is the cosmos and Tolson at Giants Stadium and of course Sunday night in Denver it's the first ever USFL championship game featuring the Philadelphia stars and the Michigan Panthers. That's sports. Have a good weekend. Pat Scanlon thank you Pat. That's our news for tonight. For tat Scanlan and the rest of us here in New Jersey not the news I'm cannot I hand wishing you a good night. New Jersey let you see from the foundation New Jersey Nightly News is a production of the network in association with

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