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- From: Rosemary Waigh <rwaigh@zooid.guild.org>
- Subject: Trutt readings part four
- Reply-To: rwaigh@zooid.UUCP (Rosemary Waigh)
- Organization: The Zoo of Ids
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 03:23:30 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.032330.2836@zooid.guild.org>
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- (June 1990, _The_Animals'_Agenda_)
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- "Tapes Incriminate U.S. Surgical Spy In Trutt Case"
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- "Accepting a plea bargain, accused U.S. Surgical Corp. bomber Fran Trutt
- pleaded 'no contest' April 17 to charges she tried to murder company
- president Leon Hirsch by placing a pipe bomb near his parking space on
- Nov. 10, 1988. Trutt will reportedly be sentenced on July 16 to serve one
- year in prison, with three years probation and 10 years suspended. The deal,
- a blow to Friends of Animals and other groups who raised funds for Trutt's
- defense, kept the court from hearing full details of how U.S. Surgical spies
- Mary Lou Sapone and Marc Mead apparently instigated the attempted bombing in
- an effort to discredit animal protectionists who object to U.S. Surgical's
- use of dogs in sales demonstrations of surgical staples.
-
- "During pretrial hearings, the court did hear tapes Sapone clandestinely
- recore d while talking Trutt into trying to kill Hirsch ahead of her former
- lover, who was also allegedly targeted.
-
- "'If it's my lover, then they know me,' Trutt said.
-
- "'So maybe you should do Leon first,' Sapone returned.
-
- "Trutt wavered. 'It's not just him. He's got a whole bunch of people working
- for him who are doing it (killing dogs).'
-
- "Answered Sapone, 'Yeah but, but when you were saying if you're rid of him, it
- may discontinue because it may be somehing. I mean, he runs the place, right?
- And so it's a directive from him. So maybe if he wasn't there, they
- wouldn't...'
-
- "Trutt, whose defense was based on alleged entrapment, said she took the plea
- bargain in hopes of seeing her own dogs again soon.
-
- "'She was willing to allow herself to be incarcerated for a crime she did not
- commit in order to see her dogs immediately,' defense attorney John Williams
- said. 'She would do anything for her dogs. The only thing you could compare
- it with is a mother seeing a child.'
-
- "There were no demonstrations at the Stratford, Conn. courthouse, where Sapone
- conspicuously avoided meeting the gaze of activists including Friends of
- Animals president Priscilla Feral, but three days later some 300 protesers
- staged the biggest demonstration yet outside U.S. Surgical headquarters in
- Norwalk. Meanwhile, in Tucson, Arizona, 11 members of Voices for Animals were
- fined $137 each for criminal trespass after chanting 'U.S. Surgical slaughters
- dogs!' at a sales meeting the firm held under the brand name Autosuture."
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