NAMES IN THE NEWS : Goetz Not Taking Subway From Jail
Bernhard Goetz, the electronics specialist who became a symbol for crime-weary Americans when he shot four youths aboard a subway, will leave jail after eight months Wednesday but will not take the standard subway ride to freedom, prison officials said today.
Instead, Prisoner No. 78900316 will be picked up by private car outside the Brooklyn House of Detention for Men, said Ruby Ryles, spokeswoman for the city Corrections Department.
The bespectacled electronics expert takes with him $22 in earnings from repairing radios behind bars, all that is left after spending $27 at the jail commissary.
Goetz, 41, spent the rest of his time polishing his chess skills in matches with cellmates, including child-killer Joel Steinberg and accused gunman Mordechai Levy of the Jewish Defense Organization.
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