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-----Original Message----- From: Loren Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Loren Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Octopus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; fortlist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; list forteana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, 5 February 2000 15:06 Subject: [the_octopus] Masonic Ring from Alaska Airlines flight source of conflict 4 February 2000 6:54 PM EST Crash Victim's Ring Spurs Conflict By TOM VERDIN Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- When Tracy Knizek learned a fisherman collecting debris from the Alaska Airlines crash had found her father's ring, she felt the amazing recovery was a signal from the loved one who died in the crash. The fisherman, Scott Jarvis, was arranging to get the ring to Knizek in Washington state. But then deputies arrived at his door and demanded it be turned over, Jarvis' mother said Friday. ``We were very upset because my son and daughter-in-law have gone to great lengths to get this ring to the right people,'' said Cathy Jarvis. ``Like I told one of the officers, it's almost like no good deed goes unpunished.'' Ventura County sheriff's deputies threatened to arrest Scott Jarvis' wife, Mary, when they went to the couple's Oxnard house and he wasn't home, said Cathy Jarvis. She said they cited federal law governing air crash evidence. Cathy Jarvis said her husband, Cliff, stepped in and said his son had the ring and was at a meeting. She said the family consulted a local attorney and would hand over the ring. Sheriff's officials confirmed deputies went to Jarvis' house to get the ring, but said they merely told his wife she was breaking the law and could be arrested. Knizek, of Suquamish, Wash., lost her father, Bob Williams, 65, and mother, Patty, 63, in Monday's crash. The ring had been the subject of news stories for two days. Scott Jarvis' boat Meridian was part of a flotilla of commercial fishing boats that helped illuminate the crash scene Monday night. Jarvis, 37, and his nephew, Kevin Marquiss, 21, found it nestled in a deck hatch after turning over wreckage to investigators Tuesday. Studded with three ruby-colored jewels, it had a large capital G in the center, which stood for ``Grand Master Mason.'' ``It's like he sent it from heaven and just set it on the boat,'' Jarvis said. Until she learned of its recovery, Knizek had struggled to accept her parents' deaths. ``Ever since I was a little girl, my dad and I had a deal. Whoever died first, the other one would come back and tell them what it's like,'' Knizek said at her parents' home in Poulsbo, Wash. ``It was just to let the other person know if it's OK, like we think it's going to be.'' She said it was as if her father had left the ring to say their connection would never be broken. ``When that ring came around, I thought, 'Wow.' It's just to tell us, 'This is really happening, Tracy, this is real, and you're going to be OK and your brothers are going to be OK.''' AP-NY-02-04-00 1854EST http://www.newsday.com/ap/rnmpne1e.htm Please click above to support our sponsor Jim Keith 1949 - 1999 |
Title: Masonic Ring from Alaska Airlines flight source of conflict
