Page 2-Tuesday, May 18, 1982-The Michigan Daily Massive search ends in capture ofPolishbandit WARSAW, Poland (UPI) - A Robin Hood-type bandit .wanted for murder and terrorizing local officials was wounded and captured by police who tracked him down in one of Poland's most massive manhunts in years, of- ficials said yesterday. Newspaper accounts said the bandit, identified only as Jozef K., was shot in the arm and head during a weekend police operation that included crack "Tiger Brigade" commandos, dogs, a helicopter and two armored cars. An accomplice was also captured, the newspapers said. "IT WAS the biggest such operation in post-war Poland" a police spokesman said. An official source said Jozef K., who hid in the forest east of Warsaw for 18 months recovered consciousness in a hospital and will eventually be able to stand trial. The drastic manhunt ended a decades-long career of crime. SZTANDAR Mlodych newspaper said Jozef K., born in 1934, spent 17 years behind bars, jailed six separate times for offenses dating back to his army desertion. He was released on parole in Septem- ber 1979, but two months later attacked a village administrator ina small town. In October 1980, the newspaper said, he shot and killed a railway guard and escaped into the forest 100 miles southeast of Warsaw. The official Communist Party daily Trybuna Ludu said some 70 people took* part in the final operation, guided by a special task force. "OFFICERS and rank-and-file policemen worked for several weeks nonstop," said Sztandar Mlodych in a graphic description. "They set traps, resorted to cunning methods - to no avail. On May 14, they learned the suspect was in the forest near the village of Drocowka. They launched a quick ac- tion. Urgently alerted, special com- mandos from the Tiger Brigade came from Warsaw. "The forest was surrounded so that no one could leave it. Snipers and police with two armored cars stood by. Six guards with dogs entered the forest with commandos in bulletproof vests. Overhead, a chopper with a special crew was flying." The bandit was finally captured. Brybuna Ludu said Jozef K. "tried to create around him the aura of a gentle offender who stole only that which was not private property," namedly state- owned material. Today The weather Expect a typical humid Ann Arbor summer day with variable cloudiness, a high in the 80s, and a chance of afternoon thundershowers. O Two old friends PRESIDENT REAGAN has sent "best wishes" to a Texas bear he posed with while campaigning in the Lone Star State in 1980. Reagan responded to a letter from Abner the bear, a former Baylor University mascot who now lives at Texas Safari Ranch, which is a drive-through animal park in Clifton, Texas. Mick Cloer, the park's public relations direc- tor, composed the letter, addressed "Dear Dutch." He sent along two copies of a photograph showing Reagan with his hand on Abner's head, taken at the Waco airport in April 1980. "There was a consensus... that I was 'too old' to continue my services for Baylor.. . some even claimed that I used a hair coloring to preserve my youthful appearance," Abner's letter said. The let- ter was signed with a paw print. Reagan's reply, addressed to Cloer, said, "Thank you for your letter and my very first message from a bear ... Ab- ner covered quite a bit of territory in his day and obviously deserves a restful retirement."o Happenings Films CFT- Love and Death, 4, 7:30 p.m.; Annie Hall, 5:45, 9:15 p.m., Michigan Theatre. Miscellaneous Ann Arbor Lunch and Learn - University Chief Finacnial Officer James Brinkerhoff, "The University of the Future," noon, Campus Inn. Rudolph Steiner Inst. - E. Katz, "Christ and Karma," 8-10 p.m., 1923 Geddes Ave. Museum of Art-Art Break with Barbara Krause, "Leonardo's Return to Vinci,, 12:10 -12:30 p.m., Art Museum. Botticelli Game Players - noon, Dominick's. CEW- informal drop-in, 12 -1:30 p.m., Center Library. Ann Arbor Go Club -7 -11 p.m., 1433 Mason Hall. Extension Service - North American Bethological Society, noon, Michigan League. To submit items for the Happenings Column, send them in care of Happenings, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI. 48109. The Michigan Daily, Mother charged with- trying to hire killer SPOKANE, Wash. (UPI) - A mother accused of trying to hire a killer to mur- der the prosecutor and judge who sent her rapist son to prison for life, knew what she was doing, the prosecutor argued Monday. Ruth Coe's defense lawyer claimed however, the Spokane woman was suf- fering from depression and was on medication at the time and that police entrapped her into offering $500 to an undercover officer posing as a hit man. OPENING arguments at the trial of Coe, wife of a former newspaper managing editor and the mother of Spokane "South Hill rapist" Fred Coe, 35, centered on her mental capabilities at the time she was allegedly trying to hire a professional killer. Coe, 61, is accused of trying to kill Spokane County Prosecutor Donald Brockett and Sueprior Court Judge George Shields. Special prosecutor Mary Kay Bar- bieri told visiting Judge Robert County, who is hearing the case without a jury at the defendant's request, that Coe had her "wits about her" when she attem- pted to hire an undercover agent posing ass hit man. ACCORDING to Barbieri, Coe told the agent, "if I had my druthers, I'd like to have Brockett made a vegetable ... and have his diapers changed for as long as Fred's in jail." Barbieri said the defendant also told the hit man "killing him will be good enough." Defense attorney Carl Maxey argued his client has become a person of diminished mental capability and was entrapped by police at a time when she was "at the peak of her anxiety - she had no defenses." MAXEY SAID there was not specific or general intent by Coe to arrange a murder-for-hire and the evidence would show police set up con- tacts with her. Evidence would show, Maxey said, Coe had become a manic depressive, had threatened suicide at times and was taking large amounts of medication. He said the conviction of her only son, the death of a best friend, being "scorned in the community," plus the drugs she was taking acted together to put her in an extremely vulnerable position. 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