Wilkes-barre Rec Dept Holds Tennis Camp

Aldo Russo 
Aug. 9, 1996 
Aldo Russo, 88, Of New Hancock Street, Wilkes-barre, And Formerly Of Scott 
Street, Parsons, Wilkes-barre, Died Friday At Home.

By W. ZACHARY MALINOWSKI; Providence Journal Bulletin
 Sunday, August 11, 1996 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Page: 10A 





PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Police Chief Richard E. DeLyon insisted on Saturday that
former Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons manager Butch Hobson wrote the
handwritten statement that claims he used and bought cocaine about four times. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "He wrote the whole thing out," DeLyon said in a telephone interview from
his home. "A handwriting expert could prove that out." &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The chief's remarks contradict those of Hobson's lawyer, Stephen
Famiglietti, who appeared at Hobson's arraignment on Friday and said afterward
that police, not Hobson, wrote the statement, and that Hobson then signed the
statement without reading it. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 The statement was dated May 4, the same day Hobson, 44, of Fairhope, Ala.,
was arrested by federal and local police at the Comfort Inn in Pawtucket and
charged with possessing cocaine. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Chief Says Hobson Wrote Statement