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Three sections 32 pages Five inserts 75¢ Volume 144 Number 23 Phone (812) 354-8500 Petersburg, IN 47567-0068 (USPS 604-340) Wednesday, June 6, 2012 trial delayed to September Satterfi eld CR350N, Petersburg is scheduled to stand trial on charges of murder and arson. The trial has been rescheduled and set for Monday, September 17 and is scheduled to run all week in Pike Cir- cuit Court. Satterfi eld has already fi led his in- of killing his mother and then setting fi re to the house they shared has been moved to September. Andrew Satterfi eld, 36, of 2515 W. A trial scheduled for a man accused By Andy Heuring facts and notice of defense of mental disease or defect" with the Pike Cir- cuit Court. In it he admits his guilt, but claims he didn't realize it was wrong. The motion states: Andrew Satter- tentions to plead not guilty by means of insanity. His attorney, Doug Walton, has fi led a document admitting Satter- fi eld shot his mother and set the house on fi re. Satterfi eld fi led an "admission of fi eld, by counsel, does hereby freely and voluntarily admit that the follow- ing facts are true: "Andrew S. Satterfi eld, did then and the train derailment site several hundred yards south of Sugar Ridge Road. A track failure is being preliminarily blamed for an Indiana Southern train derailing at about 8:51 a.m. Friday. News briefs Winslow Riverside Railroad crews used a sidewinder (bulldozer with a boom) to move sections of rail constructed on Sugar Ridge Road to fl ea market dates Winslow Riverside Outdoor Train derailment spills ethanol, ground corn into ditch near SR57 Flea Market dates are Saturday, June 16, July 21, and Aug. 18, from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Admission is $1 per person, children under 10 will be admitted free. Proceeds will benefi t the town of Winslow. For a listing of rules and reg- ulations and more information contact Lisa Poehlein 789-5405 or Susan Craig 789-2915. Farmers Market begins June 9 Pike County Farmers Mar- ed last week when about 40,000 gallons of eth- anol was spilled after a train derailed south of Petersburg. Environmental teams spent the last few days A possible environmental disaster was avert- By Andy Heuring cleaning food-grade ethanol and thousands of bushels of ground corn spilled along the Indi- ana Southern main rail line in Pike County. No injuries were reported in the accident. At about 8:51 a.m. Friday, June 1, nine cars of a 19-car southbound Indiana Southern train derailed just south of CR150S (Sugar Ridge Road). Pike County Sheriff Jeremy Britton said apparently the track separated after the ket will be starting June 9 from 8:30 a.m. to noon in between the Dollar General Store and Moose Lodge. The market will contin- ue every Saturday thereafter. For more information, call Maria Re- strepo at 812-354-6838. Little Miss and Little Mr. Pike Co. Commissioners differ on road replacement applications being accepted Applications are currently be- ing accepted for the 2012 Lit- tle Miss and Little Mister Pike County. Participants must be fi ve years old on or before July 1 and no older than eight years old on July 1. Contestants must be a cur- rent resident of Pike County. Application forms may be picked up at the Pike County Ex- tension Offi ce. Completed appli- cations must be in the Extension Offi ce at the Court House by 4 p.m. on June 14 including a $25 entry fee. For more information contact INDOT info meeting rarily close and mine through CR1250S was tabled after differing versions of what property owners were aired. Commissioner Dale Nalley requested A request by United Minerals to tempo- By Andy Heuring United Minerals replace the now 14-foot- wide dirt road used as access to farm ground with a 22-foot-wide dirt road that will require trees to be removed to widen the road. During a hearing to temporarily close the road in Monday morning's com- missioner meeting, United Minerals rep- resentative Rich Montgomery said, "We will line through it and put it back better than it is now and the landowner will be happy with it, but it is not my intention to go overboard on it." Nalley said, "I feel it needs to be 22 feet the Pike County Extension offi ce at 812-354-6838. Transportation (INDOT) has scheduled a public information meeting regarding the State Road 61 project in Monroe City. It will be at 6 p.m. Wednesday, on SR61 in Monroe City The Indiana Department of wide. We have made everyone else make the roads 22-feet wide." Nalley added farm- ing equipment is getting wider and they need to make the road wider. Highway Superintendent Bobby Joe cycle wreck Sunday on Indiana 57 near Somerville involving Petersburg resi- dents Jon and Barbara Welch. Andrea Preston photo. Emergency offi cials work to investigate the cause of a fatal crash by a motor- June 13, at the Blue Jean Commu- nity Center, 1242 Main Street, Monroe City, Indiana, 47557. Cher Elliott with INDOT said, "The purpose of this meeting is to update the community of the revisions to the project and pro- vide tentative timetables for right-of-way acquisition and con- struction." Elliott added, "The primary in- Morton said he talked with property own- ers Dave Yager and Harold Haley. "They made it real plain they didn't want any more trees stripped and they wanted a 16-foot road. Haley wanted the road to be put back 16 feet wide. But they "could live with" 18 feet. "They don't want a super highway out there… They said it is just going to be strip ground and they don't want a super highway in there. There isn't going to be any farming." "So you are saying this isn't going to ev- er be farm ground again?" asked Nalley. Morton said not for "years and years. And by then it will be stripped again." Nalley then asked Morton when he had talked to Haley and Yager. Morton said he thought it was on Wednesday. Nalley said the next day he talked with tent for the project is to recon- struct 2-12' through lanes and curb and gutter on each side of the roadway as well as placing a storm sewer drainage system." Haley and took him to the road and ex- plained what he had in mind to widen the road and Haley was fi ne with it. They also disagreed on how much of the Continued on page 2 PUBLISHING PIKE History ...........C7 Health .......C9-10 Crash claims Petersburg woman ternoon in a motorcycle crash near Somer- ville on Highway 57. Barbara "Bobbie" Welch, 69, died of head injuries after being thrown from the Harley-Davidson she was riding with her husband, Jon Welch, age 74. Jon Welch was injured, suffering numer- A Petersburg woman was killed Sunday af- By Andy Heuring ous cuts, abrasions and lacerations, but no fractures. He was taken by Life Flight to St. Mary's Hospital in Evansville and is expect- ed to be released this week. Gibson County Sheriff's Deputy Brad Gar- road was going to be replaced. Montgom- ery said the 1994 county map didn't show the road and neither did the county road WHAT'S INSIDE: Local ........A1-10 Obituaries ...A3-4 Sports ........B1-4 net investigated the accident. A news release from the Gibson County Sheriff's Depart- ment said Welch was riding his 2006 Harley- Davidson south on Highway 57 near Somer- ville at 11:43 a.m., when a 2004 Ford Expe- dition driving north on Highway 57 turned left in front of Welch onto CR540. According to the news release, Welch said he began braking to avoid colliding with the Classi eds ...B9-11 Church .......C1-5 Opinion ..........C2 NEWS TIPS: Phone: ........................354-8500 Fax: ............................354-2014 E-Mail .editor@pressdispatch.net mined Barbara died of blunt force trauma to the head. The Gibson County Sheriff's Department Expedition, being driving by an unidenti- fi ed 20-year-old from Elberfeld. Welch be- gan sliding and laid the bike on its left side, continuing to slide south. The news release said when the bike slid onto the shoulder of the road hitting uneven pavement it caused the motorcycle to fl ip from its left side to the right side (commonly known as going high- side). Welch's wife Barbara was on the bike behind him and as it overturned she was thrown from the bike and hit the guard rail. She was pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy conducted Monday deter- said in fatal accidents it is standard proce- dure to conduct drug and alcohol screening. After those tests they stated, "Alcohol and drugs are not a factor in this fatal accident." The accident remains under investigation. (See obituary on page A-3.) CONNECT WITH US: NETedition ... pressdispatch.net/edition Facebook .... facebook.com/pressdispatch E-Mail .......... news@pressdispatch.net fi rst few cars went over it and caused nine of the last 10 cars of the train to derail. Three of the cars were tankers, each containing 33,000 gallons of food-grade ethanol, which is 190 proof. Sheriff Britton said two of the tanker cars were punctured. He said one had a large hole about 36 inches diameter and nearly all of its contents emptied quickly. The second punc- tured tanker had about an eight inch tear in the side that was low on the side of it. "Most of its contents drained out," said Britton. A third tanker car overturned, but did not leak according to Britton. Continued on page 2 there kill Kathy Satterfi eld by shooting at and against the body of said Kathy Satterfi eld with a .22 caliber pistol then and there infl icting mortal wounds in and upon the body of Kathy Satterfi eld and setting the residence of Kathy Sat- terfi eld on fi re while she was inside, causing her to die." His motion continues: "The defen- dant further says and hereby gives no- tice pursuant to IC 35-36-2-1 that his sole defense is that he is not responsi- ble under IC35-41-3-6 for his conduct which took the life of Kathy Satterfi eld because he lacked the substantial ca- pacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his con- duct to the requirements of law, as the result of a mental disease or defect." Pike County Prosecutor Darrin Mc- Donald said there are three possible outcomes to this case: • He is found not guilty by reason of insanity. • He is found guilty, but mentally ill, 1,400 pages of documents that three court-appointed psychologists will re- view. Consequently the trial was moved from the original date of June 1. which allows for him to be treated and then to serve his sentence. • He is found guilty. McDonald said there are nearly