The Michigan Daily Vol. XCI, No. 36-S FREE ISSUE Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, July 9, 1981 FREE ISSUE Sixteen Pages Kelly able to stand trial Students, police testify at Bursley slaying pre-trial By ANN MARIE FAZIO Leo Kelly, the defendant in the mur- der of two University students at Bur- sley Hall last April, was found to be competent to stand trial at the pre-trial examination held yesterday. Judge S.J. Elden, of the 15th District Court, made the determination after reviewing the report of a forensic psychiatric examination Kelly was given at the request of his defense at- torney, William Waterman. KELLY, A 22-year-old psychology major, has been accused of murdering Edward Siwik, 19, of Detroit, and Douglas McGreaham, 21, of Caspian, in a 6th floor Bursley hallway. The two students were gunned down as they at- tempted to warn residents of a fire set after Kelly allegedly threw a firebomb down the hall early that morning. Testimony was given in court yester- day by four University students who lived in Bursley, one of whom was a Resident Director. Also taking the stand was the )M physician who performed thewautopsy on one of the murder victims, and three state police crime laboratory officers. THE TESTIMONY of the students, called by Assistant Prosecuting Attor- ney Brian Mackie, pieced together the events surrounding the shootings. Michael Neumann, a resident of 6th Douglas, the wing where the incident occurred, said he was awake typing a paper at about 5:30 a.m. and saw Kelly run out of his room with a "flaming bot- tle." He said he then saw Kelly throw the bottle, which hit the floor and then struck him. After it hit the floor, Neumann said, "the whole end of th4 hall was in flames." NEUMANN SAID he later went to get a security guard after seeing that the fire alarm had been pulled. A resident director of Bursley, Rebecca Bradley, said she was woken up by the alarm, which specifically sounds in her room and in the hall. She said she met Resident Advisors Doug McGreaham, who was later shot, and Randy Moon, who went with her down the hall. Bradley said she heard two "fire- cracker" type noises, then saw Siwik, the second murder victim, lying on the floor with a hole in his upper right chest. ANOTHER 6TH Douglas resident, See STUDENTS, Page 2 Daily Photo by PAUL ENGSTR LEO KELLY, ACCUSED of killing two University students last April, walks into 15th District Court, where the pre-trial examination for his case was held yesterday. Kelly has been charged with the Good Friday slayings of two University students in a Bursley dormitory hallway. Taiwanese here fear murder By JOHN ADAM Daily staff reporter Copyright 1981, The Michigan Daily The alleged murder in Taiwan of a former Univer- sity Ph.D student in statistics is making waves in several different states across the country, and may have international repercussions as well. The eventual consequences of his death may reflect hack again to their point of origin: the University's student population from the Republic of China (or Taiwan). Assistant Prof. Chen Wen-Chen, 31, who worked most recently at Carnegie Mellon University in Pen- nsylvania after leaving Ann Arbor, was found dead in Taipei, Taiwan Friday. Latest reports say his wife and one-year-old son are still under house arrest in the Taiwanese capital. Several State Department of- ficials, along with Amnesty International have been notified and are trying to get the wife of Chen and his child, who is an American citizen, out of the country. The reason for Chen's death is not apparent, though several sources said they believe his death was "politically motivated." Earlier reports from the Taiwanese government said Chen might have com- mitted suicide, though a recent autopsy questions that, and the official statement in the Central Daily News in Taipei said the reason for his death is under investigation. Link between 'U' group and secret police alleged COMMUNITIES OF at least three major college campuses - the University of Minnesota, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Michigan - are directly affected by the recent mysterious death of Chen, and the words "secret agents" surface in many conversations about it. Whether Chen was politically active against the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) government of Taiwan is debatable. His faculty advisor while at the Univer- sity, Statistics Prof. Bruce Hill, doubted Chen would have had enough time for political activities. "HE WAS AN outstanding student - the best that I'd seen in statistics in 21 years," said Hill, adding that with Chen's involvement in research and with school work he doubted Chen had much time for any political activities. However, in a move which a friend of Chen's said he later regretted, the former University student came to The Michigan Daily along with a group of Taiwanese students five years ago to reveal the names of suspected KMT secret agents working at the University. Because of a lack of evidence, this newspaper decided not to publish the story. Friends of Chen deny that this incident had any effect on his alleged mur- der. The ultimate cause still is unknown, though students here claim there is evidence that KMT agen- ts are, in fact, in the student community keeping track of the activities of Taiwanese students and reporting any "deviations" back to Taipei. THERE IS A certain fear among the Taiwanese at the University about speaking out publicly against the government or the KMT agents. Of the 10 Taiwanese students interviewed for this story, all but one wished to remain anonymous for fear there would be retributions on themselves or their families in Taiwan. The same situation was evident at the University of Minnesota, who had a former sociology student, Rita Yeh, convicted in Taiwan "for spreading Communist ideology in microfilms and notebooks." She was con- See TAIWANESE, Page5 FREE ISSUE! SUBSCRIBE!