Beating Victim Remains Critical

{Huntington, West Virginia}...Edward "Jessie" Dreyfuse, a Cabell County fugitive captured Friday in Wood County, was transferred to Cabell County Monday, and his preliminary hearing is set for Friday. Police say Dreyfuse beat Otis Clay, a handicapped Huntington man, 12 times with an aluminum baseball bat earlier this month, putting Clay into a coma. Last week, Clay was taken off life support at St. Mary's Medical Center, but he remains in critical condition and in a coma. A spokesman at St. Mary's says Clay will be given "comfort care," a normal procedure when doctors say nothing else can be done for the patient. Police say if Clay dies, the malicious wounding charge against Dreyfuse will be dismissed and replaced with a murder charge.