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Jury says not guilty
in burglary trial
Donald K. Smith, 19,
Shelton, was found not guilty
Tuesday evening by a Mason
County Superior Court jury on
two counts of second degree
burglary.
The jury began its
deliberations about 4 p.m.
Tuesday and announced it had
reached a verdict at 9:10 p.m.
Tuesday.
Smith was charged with
breaking into the Shaub-Ellisen
building April 5 and into the
Corrine Bindara home at Fawn
Lake March 31 of this year.
The jury was selected
Monday morning and began
hearing testimony in the case
Monday afternoon. The trial was
recessed for Tuesday morning
and concluded Tuesday
afternoon.
Detective Kenneth Dobie of
the Shelton Police Department
was the first witness called by
Deputy Prosecutor Richard
Adamson. Dobie testified he had
investigated a break-in at
Shaub-Ellison the morning of
April 5. He said he found that
entry had been gained by
knocking out a piece of plywood
which had been put into one of
the doors in place of a piece of
glass. It appeared he said, as if
someone had attempted to break
into the safe by striking the dial
with a sledge hammer.
The second witness called
was Corrine Bindara, a Fawn
Lake resident, who testified she
was gone from March 31 through
April 3 and that when her
daughters came home from
school April 3, they noticed the
front door had been forced open
and called her.
She said she found a number
of items missing from the house
including a stereo and speakers, a
television game, tuna fish and
macaroni and cheese.
She also testified a TV
dinner had been prepared and
eaten in the home.
She stated she knew Smith
and that he had been to her
home on a number of occasions.
She identified the stereo and
speakers which had been
'introdued as evidence as those
which came from her home.
She stated under cross
examination by Defense
Attorney John Jarrett, that she
had met Smith through friends
and that he had been at her
home on a number of casions
over the past 2 years. ]She said
he was sometimes accompanied
by friends, some of whom she
knew by name and others she
did not.
The third witness called by
Adamson was David Dunson, 17,
who stated he is presently in
custody at the Mission Creek
Youth Camp where he was sent
after pleading guilty to taking
part in the same burglaries with
which Smith was charged.
Dunson testified that on
March 31, he and Smith had
gone to a residence at Fawn
Lake and had broken into the
house where they had eaten a
TV dinner and had taken tuna
fish, macaroni and cheese, a
stereo and speakers and a
television game from the house.
The items he said, were put
in Smith's truck.
He also testified that a few
days later, he and Smith had
entered the Shaub-Eilision office
where Smith had attempted to
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break into the safe by hitting the
dial with a sledge hammer.
Under cross examination by
Jarrett, he said he had known
Smith about two years and that
Smith was a friend of his older
brother.
Christine Porter, 15, Shelton,
testified she had been with
Smith and Dave Dunson April 8
and had observed tuna and
macaroni and cheese in Smith's
truck. Under cross examination
by Jarrett, she said the items
were in boxes in back of the
truck and that the two boxes
contained clothing and food for
a trip to California and that the
clothing in the boxes belonged
to Dunson.
Michael Dunson, 19, testified
he had talked to Smith in
downtown Shelton in early April
just before Smith, his brother,
Dave and two girls went to
California.
He stated there was a stereo
among the things Smith had in
his truck.
Dunson said later Smith
came to his home and asked him
to keep some items for him. He
stated the stereo was among
them and that after Smith left
he had become suspicious the
stereo might be stolen and took
it to the police department
where he was told it was stolen
and the stereo was taken by the
police officers.
Under cross examination by
Jarrett, Dunson stated he was
employed at Shaub-Ellison for
about six months and had been
fired from his job there.
He also stated that he had
heard he was suspected of being
the one who had broken into the
Shaub-Ellison building when he
went there to get gas a few days
after it happened.
He stated Smith had told
him he (Smith) had broken into
Shaub-Ellison. He also identified
/he speakers and stereo as the
ones which Smith had left with
him and which he had taken to
the police station.
Dunson also testified he and
Smith had at one time had a
conversation about the amount
of money which was kept on
hand at Shaub-Ellison and that
Smith had suggested they break
in the building.
Kimberly Lewis, 17, was
called as the first defense witness
by Jarrett. She testified she was
now living in Seattle but in early
April had been living in Shelton.
She stated she had gone to
California with Smith, Dave
Dunson and Christine Porter in
early April.
She stated a few days before
they left, she had had a
telephone conversation with
Dave Dunson in which he told
her he had attempted to break in
to Shaub-Ellison but was unable
to get in.
Under cross examination by
Adamson, she admitted she had
given a statement to Dobie and
Thehna Hauge April 21 while she
was in the juvenile detention
center in Thurston County.
She denied she had said in
the statement that they had
broken in to Shaub-Ellison and
that by that she meant Smith
and Dave Dunson.
Smith, called as the final
defense witness by Jarrett, said
he had been convicted of a
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Page 2 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, July 27, 1978
charge of second degree theft
and two counts of forgery.
Smith denied breaking into
the Bindara home March 31 and
to breaking into Shaub-Ellison
April 5.
He said at the time, he was
living with his brother. His truck
he said, was parked at Bingers
Service Station since he had
rolled it and was no longer able
to drive it.
He said the boxes of clothing
and food and the stereo which
were in the pickup belonged to
Dave Dunson.
Smith said he did not take
the stereo to Mike Dunson but
that Mike Dunson picked it up
from his pickup at Bingers.
He stated he and Mike
Dunson had earlier had a
conversation about breaking into
Shaub-Ellison.
Detective rhelma Hauge
from the Mason County Sheriff's
Office, was called as a rebuttal
witness by Adamson and
KIWANIS DISTRICT Governor Harris Hunter, right,
presents the official charter of the Hood Canal Kiwanis
Club to President Tom Spikes during the club's charter
night dinner at Hood Canal School Saturday night.
Thurston County
Detention Center.
She said that in the
statement, Miss Lewis had said
Dave Dunson and Don Smith
.had broken into Shaub-Ellison.
Members of the jury were
Margaret Fields, Elsie Loman,
Helen Stansbury, Louise Snyder,
George Webber, Ruth Goodwin,
Ingrid Pugh, Nels Person, Harold
Well, Harold Hersh, Janet Allen
and Harry Peterson.
testified she had ,a000. Lupinacc i to
statement from Miss Lewis at the
Juvenile
leave Pioneer
The Pioneer School Board at
a special meeting Monday night,
voted to release Superintendent
Bill Lupinacci from his contract
to allow him to accept an
administrative position with the
Mt. Vernon School District.
The special meeting was
called by Board Chairlnan Grant
lmpett.
applied for the position in Mt.
Vernon and that the selection
there took some length of time
with the final decision made
Monday of this week.
Lupinacci had one year
remaining on a two-year
contract, lmpett said.
Purse snatching
suspect arrested
Impett said he had started
Detour is proceedings to find a
replacement for Lupinacci
Tuesday.
Impett said information
about the vacancy will be
circulated through the
Washington State School
Director's Association and
Educational Services District
113.
Applications will be closed
August 10, after which WSSDA
will screen the applicants and
submit the names of the top six
to the local school board who
will then interview those, b.efore
making its selection.
Impett said the board had
been aware that Lupinacci had
A 15-year-old juvettile was
taken into custody and placed in
detention Thursday afternoon
about three hours after they had
received a purse snatching report,
Shelton Police reported.
Officers said a woman
reported to him that she had
been sitting on a bench at a
picnic table at the Methodist
Church on Mt. View when a
young man grabbed her purse
and fled.
Officers said the purse was
recovered when the 15-year-old
was apprehended.
working well
The detour, taking traffic
from the Arcadia Road around
Walker Park Road and Fairmont
Street, which went into effect
Monday, is working well, the
Mason County Engineer's Office
said.
There have been calls they
said, about trucks using the
detour route for through traffic.
The" detour is posted no
through truck traffic and the
engineer's office reminded
truckers they should go around
the Lynch and Cole roads rather
than using the detour route.
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SHELTON • 426.2611
Open 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Mon..Fri.
8-4:30 Sat. • 10-4:30 Sun.
Several new deputi
join sheriff's office
Several new deputies have
joined his department in recent
months Sheriff Dan McNair said.
They fill vacancies caused by
resignations and positions which
had been open or filled with
persons on temporary civil
service appointments.
George Sparber, from the
Kitsap County area, has been
assigned to the patrol division.
He was employed with the Puget
Sound Naval Shipyard Police
before joining the sheriffs office.
Sparber attended Olympic
College and Central Washington
State College and has an
associate of technical arts degree
in law enforcement. He also
served in the military police in
the Army.
Gerald Specht has also been
assigned to the patrol division.
He is from the Kitsap County
area and was a sergeant in the
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard
Police before joining the sheriff's
office and before then had
worked in security work at
Keyport.
He is an emergency medical
technician and served in the
military police in the Air Force.
Also assigned to the patrol
division is Michael Foster, who
was with the Squaxin Island
Tribal Police before joining the
sheriffs office, tte is from Mason
County.
He has completed basic law
enforcement training and has
training in Indian law and
jurisdiction. He attended
Olympic College and Centralia
College.
Gary Crane has also been
assigned to the patrol division.
He was a sergeant with Pan
American Security Police at
Bangor before joining the
sheriff's office.
Crane is from New York. He
had worked in corrections work,
with the Kitsap County Jail
work release program and the
Kitsap County Youth Services
Center.
Richard Thompson, who was
with the Lincoln County
Sheriffs Office before joining
the sheriffs office here, has been
assigned to the patrol division.
He has completed basic and
advance law enforcement schools
and was a field deputy in
Lincoln County. He is an
emergency medical technician, a
diving instructor, has had water
search and rescue work and was
liaison officer for the Sheriffs
Reserve in Lincoln County.
fie attended Yakima Valley
Community College.
Assigned as a jailer-dispatcher
is Steven Whybark, from the
Kitsap County area. He was with
the Pan American Security Police
at Bangor before joining the
sheriffs office.
He had training in a number
of law enforcement areas while
with the security police at
Bangor.
Roy Butler from the Kitsap
County area, has been assigned
as a jailer-dispatcher.
He was with the U.S. Navy
Security at Keyport before
coming to the sheriffs office. He
attended community college in
California.
Jaci Evander has been hired
for a clerical position in sheriffs
office. She is from Mason
County and is a graduate of
Shelton High School and
attended Yakima Valley and
Olympic community colleges.
She has completed the
sheriffs office reserve officer
training program and was a
dispatcher for the Shelton Police
Department.
She was
State Department
before joining the
Michael Nelson,
joined the sheriff'si
crime prevention
six-month
Law Enforcement
Agency funding.
He is a graduate
High School and has l
of technical arts
enforcement from
Community College.
He was empl
Simpson Timber
joining the sheriffs
McNair said the
which the new
assigned are those
were vacancies
resignations of de
Pharris, who has
will seek the office
Brian Schoening
Hadden who have
private business;
and Deputy Doug
on six-months
The other
those in which
vacancies some of
been fLUed with
service appointments.
Those hired were
were on the civil
examinations which
earlier this year.
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COUNTY
If you missed our open house, we'd still like you
to visit our new office. We're mighty proud of it
and we hope you'll agree with us that it's a fine
addition to Sheiton and Mason county. It's easy
to find. It's located at 2008 Olympic Highway N.
in Shelton, and our phone number is 426-5517.
Come visit us, and have Dennis King, Pare
Brewer or Sandi Holt give you the tour.
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