The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, May 26, 1982-Page 3 DESCRIBE SCENE AFTER SHOOTING Policemen testify at Kelly trial By GEORGE ADAMS Two Ann Arbor police officers testified yesterday that they found a shotgun and shells in the room of Leo Kelly minutes after the shooting deaths of two Bursley dormitory residents last spring. Testifying at Kelly's trial, Officer Albert Barbow said he also found a gas mask and materials that may have been used to make a fire bomb, which Kelly allegedly threw down the hall- way just before the shootings. A NUMBER of University students also told the jury yesterday that they saw someone emerge from Kelly's dorm room and fire several shots, but they could not identify Kelly as the assailant. Kelly is accused of the shooting deaths of Edward Siwik, 19, of Detroit, and Douglas McGreaham, 21, of Caspian last April 27. Answering questions from Washtenaw County Prosecutor Brian Mackie, Barbour said that he and his partner, Officer James Stimack, arrived at Bursley at 6:15 a.m., only moments after the incident reportedly took place and proceeded to the sixth floor of Douglas House to investigate. Barbour said that they entered the hallway, and "a few yards from the south entrance, I saw two bodies on the floor. One had a massive chest wound and the other a massive wound in his back." He stated that he and Officer Stimac proceeded down the hallway "to get ev- ery one out and locate the perpetrator," when they saw a number of empty shotgun shells on the ground near the center of the hallway. OFFICER STIMAC testified that evidence gained by speaking to resident Michael Neumann led him to believe that the shooting suspect went into room 6219 (Kelly's room). "We took defensive positions and I knocked on the door," he said. "I said that we were the police and that we wanted to toak to him (Kelly). The first thing I noticed when he opened the door were numerous 12-guage shotgun shells on the floor and a shotgun on the bed." Barbour, Stimac, and Detective John Atkinson all testified that they found the shotgun, ammunition, a homemade pistol fashioned of wood and metal that, according to Barbor, "couldn't fire a shot." LLOYD SCOTT, a hall resident, said that he was with Siwik when he saw a black male coming out of Kelly's room. "It really happened so fast I really couldn't see faces," he said. "I yelled See POLICE, Page 11 Helms to attempt to block voting act extension WASHINGTON (AP)- Against overwhelming odds, Sen. Jesse Helms plans to lead a small band of hard-line conservatives in an attempt to block ex- tension of key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Senate sources said yesterday. The North Carolina Republican has told colleagues he will organize a filibuster to fight renewal of the civil rights law even though President Reagan has announced his support for the legislation. Sixty-six senators are sponsoring the voting rights bill, which will be debated when the Senate returns from a week- long Memorial Day recess in June. A similar version has passed the House by a wide margin. AN ADDITIONAL 12 or 13 senators have indicated they will vote for the compromise extension worked out among civil rights organizations, liberal Sens. Edward M. Kennedy (D- Mass.), and Charles Mathias (R-Md.), and Robert Dole, a moderate Republican from Kansas. Ralph Neas, chief lobbyist for the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, said he takes Helms' threat seriously, but believes the Senate ultimately will defeat his efforts. "We are confident that we can beat a filibuster," Neas said. HELMS, IN a letter to other senators, said he will oppose "to the maximum extent possible" a version of the voting rights extension approved earlier this month by the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee. Important enforcement provisions of the voting rights law expire in August, so there is pressure for quick Senate ac- tion. Civil rights leaders say they need a tough voting rights law to guarantee the voting rights of millions of blacks and other minority voters. At least 1 million new minority voters have been registered since enactment of the law 17 years ago. BenchednDily Photo by JACKIE BELL What better way to spend a cloudy, spring day than lounging on a park bench? This city dweller found the prospect dif- ficult to resist yesterday in Liberty Plaza. Police question suspect in Texas By CHARLES THOMSON Two Ann Arbor police detectives have flown to Houston to question a suspect in the still-unsolved 1980 mur- ders of three Ann Arbor women. Ann Arbor Police Chief William Cor- bett said the detectives were questioning 28-year-old former Detroiter Coral Eugene Watts in con- nection with the 1980 murders of Ann Arbor resident Shirley Small and Un- iversity students Rebecca Greer Huff and Glenda Richmond. Corbett said the detectives flew to Texas Monday after they were contacted by the Houston authorities. According to Houston police, Watts was arrested on charges of kidnapping and attempted murder Sunday morning after he tied up a Houston woman with coat hangers and tried to drown her in the bathtub of her apartment. Watts also bound the woman's roommate, police said, but she escaped and summoned the police. Watts was arrested as he was fleeing the woman's apartment. Corbett said the detectives were sent to Houston to check into similarities between the two incidents. "There are some similarities in the crimes," he said. At least one similar incident, like the three Ann Arbor murders, occurred early on a Sunday morning. The first Ann Arbor victim, Small, 17, was found dead near her home in the Georgetown Townhouse on April 20, 1980. On July 13, 1980, the body of Richmond, 26, was found outside the door to her Ellsworth Road apartment building. Huff, 30, was found dead on the steps of an apartment building on South Maple Road on Sept. 14, 1980. Although some reports have suggested that police no longer believe the three murders are related, Corbett refused to ignore the possibility. "We're not ruling out anything," he said. "There is stilla possibility that all three were committed by the same per- son." Asked if police were questioning Wat- ts for all three murders Corbett said, "Let's just say he's a suspect." All three Ann Arbor women were stabbed in the chest area, but none ap- peared to have been sexually molested. There was no evidence of robbery. Corbett refused to give a physical description of Watts or to say whether Watts' appearance resembled a com- posite drawing released by police in Oc- tober 1980. Watts was reportedly a sub- ject of the police investigation before he left Michigan. The two Ann Arbor detectives now in Houston, Staff Sgt. Paul Bunton and Lt. Dale Heath, were both involved in the original investigation of the three mur- ders.