State Completes Case Against Hart

              mi^m^tmmimmm^^w^mrmmBam  ■■■■■■■■■^B  mtmrntmrn  completes case against  ■MM)  »-.   I  By SUSAN WITT  Of The Tribune Staff  PRYOR — The state of Oklahoma  today completed presentation of its  cafee against Gene Leroy Hart,  charged with three first-degree murder counts in the sex-slayings of  three Girl Scouts.  Special District Judge Jess Clan-  ton recessed the hearing until Friday morning, when defense attorneys will argue for dismissal of the  charges or ask for a 30-day delay  before presenting defense witnesses.  After defense testimony, Clanton  will decide whether the evidence is  strong enough to order Hart held for  trial.  Hart, 34, is accused in the death  of Lori Lee Farmer, 8, Michele  Guse, 9, and Doris Denise Milner, 10.  THE MOST damaging evidence  against Hart was presented Tuesday  when a forensic chemist testified  that hairs taken from the body of one  of the slain girls had the same microscopic characteristics as hair  samples taken from Hart after his  arrest in April this year.  Prosecutors today called only one  witness, an Oklahoma State Bureau  of Investigation agent, who testified  that Hart's ex-wife bears a "remarkable resemblance" to a girl in  one of two wedding photographs  which Hart developed in 1968 while a  Related pictures, story,  pages ID, 21C  trusty at Granite Reformatory.  The photographs apparently were  the first link to Hart in the case.  Squirrel hunters discovered the  photographs near a cave and cellar  where other evidence linked to the  crime scene was found.  THE PHOTOGRAPH of Hart's ex-  wife, Patricia Dawson, was mounted  next to an enlargment of the wedding photograph and introduced into  evidence.  OSBI agent Arthur Linville said he  went to the home of Hart's mother.  V  jCUa Mae Buckskin, June 17 or 18  "md asked her for a picture of her  on's former wife.  Linville said at that time he  thought the woman in the photograph was Hart's former wife.  The agent said Mrs. Buckskin cooperated in giving him the picture.  People who know Hart have said  that he was upset when his wife divorced him after he entered prison  about 1967, and she reportedly has  refused to let him see his son.  The prosecution called 23 witnesses during the six-day hearing  and offered 85 pieces of evidence to  the court.  DEFENSE ATTORNEY Garvin  Isaacs said today he plans to call a  number of defense witnesses in the  hearing, but asked for the delay to  talk to witnesses and prepare a legal  brief for the court.  Clanton said he would listen to arguments on the defense motion to  dismiss Friday and at that time will  consider their request for a  continuance.  The state offered no testimony  during the six-day hearing about a  farmhouse burglary near Camp  Scott at about the time of the  murders.  Special tracking dogs flown into  the camp shortly after the murders  reportedly linked the farmhouse to  the death scene.  A roll of masking tape, a small  piece of green plastic and a piece of  newspaper discovered at the cave  .and cellar site were linked to a night-  safe prowling lamp left near the  slain girls' bodies.  The flashlight had a piece of dark  green plastic taped over the lens  with masking tape.  Crime technicians testified that  the tape on the flashlight had been  torn from the roll of tape found near  the cave and cellar.  A piece of newspaper stuck into  the battery compartment of the  flashlight was torn from the same  See HART, page 4A  or g»  £2 o  oc  UJ  Up,  UJ  o  3