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r ‘cialty. was -botching his‘ getaway. ‘After heisting $190 frorix a St: Louis su- up outside his lodgings. That was char- acteristic of Ray, whose most profitable . Known caper, grossing only $2,200, was - The cruelest of his convictions: was for . the $11 stick-up of a Chicago: cab driv- ‘er in 1952.. = “State Penitentiary in 1967, Ray’s style _changed; he seemed to have become -a _cum-laude graduate tute at espying loopholes. in. the. law’s pentine distiller: from. Gumiville, he- has. ‘oted: ‘frequently: for’ Lyndon: Johnson's * Great ‘Society® programs. *: His -constit- vents ~were-. not:. unsympathetic « 18. “months ago. when-he proposed that the US: “flatten Hanoi and let world opin- - ion “go fiv-a kite.”"In-1948-he cried that Harry Truman’s anti-lynching bill | would: “tynch ‘the Constitution,” and as. “Jate as. 1956 was: “defining N-A.A.C.P as “the National Association for the Ad-_ vancement of Communist Propaganda.”.. King’s... murder, ScHero's Style; Only once in: the past .- across the Canadian border, and was have the First District’s Negroes—43% . renting’ a $10-a-week room from. Mrs. f the population—challenged the chair-.. man.° Rivers: trounced their: “1950 can- - didate, a Negro: attorney,’ in- that year’s _ Democratic: primary: : This year, in the .. aftermath of Martin’ Luther King’s as- - -Sassination,~ ‘another’: Negro ~ attorney, — : George Payton-IJr., 39; decided to try. _Seraping together’ the $2,000- registra-- - tion fee with loans:from relatives,-Pay- - “tom attacked Rivers*as ‘a “warmonger and superhawk,” stumped for a $2 mini- mum wage,- expanded. social security, .- and liberal federal housing programs. « «"~ ‘Almost ~ ‘inexplicably, -Rivers, who - “wears his silver’ mane’ in’ the style of - his South Carolinian hero John C. Cal- : ~ oun, ran scared, plastering Charleston ¢ with biliboards-and-TV spots. Ten days ~ - before the primary,-Rivers arranged to ~ have 15 members of his commitiee flock - o Charleston along with- Admiral Hy- _man Rickover to inspect:a Polaris mis- : sie facility and-laud Mendel. -.. ~The militant“ Campaign was hardly. necessary. Last week Rivers’ Democrats, “vo: Galt: along: with several thousand Republi- = ~ ABR ELaT Oy RES cans “who crossed: party-lines, gave the . could pass for 40, Rays age—dohn Wil- - lataaten, flame used by~ the man ~ Airport. on June 8, Ray.eluded’a.world- “wide professional manhunt; fortified by “a $100,000 reward for his. capture: Last _week,. withthe accused.-assassin~ im- mured..in. a maximum-security cell. in : on, policemen unraveled the nexus. of plastic - faces, . borrowed identities and . bogus. papers. that he had -woven- . two months across two continents: -. Ossington: Avenue. Just why Ray- chose - Canada: is -not~entirely clear, but, al- -edge—widely circulated among convicts needed is the gall to ask for‘one and’a not strictly: necessary.: - ‘several: months Ray had appropriated - of. likeness.to Ray. In July: 1967, Ray “took the name of Warehouse Supervi- scars: chairman: 65,842 -votes against. 18; 883 “thief, ‘James Earl “Ray’s spe- af --Ray’s 5-ft. 9-in., 175-Ib. frame, but looks ‘permarket in 1959, Ray left tracks that . ‘the most flat-footed cop could follow: ‘-. ‘he even parked a-car used in the stick- .- .. bungled‘ when the escape car crashed. . in -criminality. : - . Flush. with unaccustomed cashi‘and. as-“-''on Miss Spencer’s say-so, Travel Agent. ‘ .. Henry Moos notarized the form and for- vigilance, he rambled across the: coun-.- warded it to Ottawa. . _try-using- a. collection. of. aliases..Then, :.° aftera:.30-06: bullet killed. Martins Eu- . ther King: Jr cin. Memphis on: April 4, va, :. ders for. certificates- for: both Bridgman -adaisical. procedure for issuance of birth 18, the: fugitive: got. a-phone call’ and Southwest London’s Wandsworth pris--"* . Chinese-run. boardinghouse on Dundas: ’ :. Street West, where he had. rented a room.in advance for. $9. a week from “Mrs. Yee Sun-‘Loo; On May 2, Ray Canadian Pattern, Four days’ after .' Ray - had : hightailed- -$345 in cash for a retum excursion ‘flignt to London. Four- days later, . he “deft. Canada. ..° : : Fela Szpakowsky on. Toronto’s polyglot -:.- from London to Lisbon, perhaps in the “hope. of ‘a. payoff, perhaps in an ate “most surely, ‘one reason was the: knowl- | “mercenary fighters in Africa, or "else to in. the: U.S.—that it is ridiculously easy: ..-...:.. to get a Canadiaa passport. All. that is - * birth certificate—and the certificate. . is, -.In a consistent if bizarre f pattern over. four aliases from-Toronionians,.all from - : -‘men™-who .live- around - the- suburb: of. . Scarborough and bear varying: degrees: “sor Eric’ St: Vincent. Galty 345 “whose Z “he had apparently mead a as Eric Star- Tight palm-and. : -who.rénted the room in: Memphis 13 ~ ay from the: bathroom: where : assassin hid; is an’ insurance ad juster who is shorter and slighter than not unlike him. Paul Bridgman, an ed- ucator, and Ramon George Sneyd, .a: policeman, whose names Ray used af--. ter he arrived im Toronto, are both 35.2 and have Ray’s’ build. Police are still. .~ “puzzling over how they were chosen: ‘In the Library.” On- April 16, Ray : paid $8 for a Canadian passport in the ~ "name: of Sneyd. “He blended into the -. wallpaper,” - After he escaped from the: Missouri ; recalls Lillian - Spencer, - manager of the Kennedy ‘Travel Bu- -reau, who handled the simple decla- ration that Ray signed, affirming that ‘+ he was a Canadian citizen. Next day, ‘Ray was also aware. of: Ontario’s lacke certificates.and mailed: off $2. money 6r- and Sneyd. For: these, he. néeded: the maiden” names: oftheir: mothers.’ Ane. nouncements. of:.their births--in library copies of old newspapers supplied . the: information Ray required. - A Ray. never: collected:. the. birth- ‘cere tificate. mailed back= for: Bridgman—~ who,-. as. Ray- apparently, learned, ‘ale. ready had a valid’ passport. On April. next.day moved three blocks away to 2 picked up his new passport and paid “Nice Guy." On. May’ °8,. Ray flew tempt.-to- contact..recruiters: for white ic Ee VAR CA RRYING
+ Ory - breasaway” state’ of “Rhodesia, .which . * Maistains. a mission in. the Portuguese . we capital: Indulgent_ officials, ' spotting ‘a - > discrepancy: between the spelling of his. - ;,Bame~“Sneya” on his passport and _his- adopted. signature, nevertheless allowed ° hima | to-pass “like any: tourist.”. .2...425 « ° Husbanding his funds; Ray’ checked -" into the third-rate Hotel Portugal, hung - - out at cheap bars, and even: wheedled - a $7.02 discount on a prostitute’s rou- . tine-$17.55 fee for half an hour’s dalli- .ance: “He was.a nice guy,” declared - Maria,.a comely adjunct to.the Texas. Bar. Ray-Sneyd also obtained a new © passport from the Canadian embassy _by pointing out that. his surname was. _. Misspelled on his original document. . On May 17, Ray. flew: back to Lon--. - don,: -finding anonymity..in .oné of the -~ city’s-5.500 hotels and back-street room- . ing: houses. His tracks. become. visible “* again: on=-_May. 28,:.when- he: checked - ., intlovthe: -$5-a-night- New=Earl’s: Court ~. ... Hotet::On-June 5, after telephoning the. . : London. : Daily Telegraph:.to- inquire -> about: -mercenary forces-in: Africa,- Ray... was: again-on the move, holing: up- in. the: unlisted Pax Hotel; run. by. Swedish- - -born:Mrs:-Anna. Thomas, 54:: For: the: -next-three' days, Ray never-left his room : for more:than 20 mimutes;: and refused ' to emerge-for four telephone: calls; two of them from an. airline.. On- June.6, ~ Ray: again telephoned the -Telegraph’s. Tan: Colvin, asking about mercenaries. :... ' Colvin offered to send him an 1 address: started when the FBI—taking into ac- ~ “count the easy passport procedure in Canada—asked the Canadian police to - go through their passport applications.. :. They“ combed 300,000: of:.them.‘and * _ tipped . off Scotland Yard to’ Sneyd’s - .. true identity.. Heid ‘on charges -of pos- .. . sessing false passports and.a.loaded .38 - . revolver, Ray’s first ‘appearance in Lon-. don’s--famed. Bow: Street. .Magistrate’s - - Court lasted 82 seconds before he was’. AY FROM ‘BOW STREET Assistant’ Attorney. ‘Geieral. Fred: Vin- - son SJr:; began. the :slow; tortuous: pro- : -eedure:- ‘of: extraditing- Ray’ to. _face “finish : the: last 13% “years: of. his- 20-year "Missouri sentence’ for robbery: Fighting. call the way, Ray’s lawyers could dela: he had had help. Where did the money come from (at. times: he- flashed a-rolf of $20° bills)? . This, | of course, galvan- ized the. artisans of | conspiracy theories. : Ray, as well as Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas and Sirhan Sirhan in Los “An- - geles, might all be cogs in a single, « -Stupendous murder machine. The kill-. _ers, Capote suggesied on NBC’s Tonight . .-show, -might- all- have. beer intensively | trained, brainwashed. triggermen - of:.a - ‘type envisaged by Novelist Richard - Condon in The Manchurian Candidate; - . their purpose could be to drive the U.S. to. its knees by assassinating pub-— *, Lic persons—a theory, Capote claimed, . : that was once expounded by 19th. cen-: ry ‘Theosophist Helena Blavatsky. (Sir- han, Capote. noted, -asked for..a copy : <,of* Madame ..Blavatsky’s. The: Secret Doctrine soon: after his arrest.) , _ord of bargain-basement villainy. could ~ ‘not have. traveled so far-without ex-.- _tensive help from experts. In Capote’s . orate and many-tiered plot--the pigeon . . paid to leave. his fingerprints on a rifle “ -and then. decoy. pursuers away- from :: -- King’s real. assassin: The plottersal-~ lowed Ray to live, Capote hypothesized, -because he had no knowledge: of the :conspiracy’s inner.core: J:.-. ~ °: Botched - Again.. “Law-enforeement - s“men working on the case tend. to: dis- count such ‘theories. A. senior Justice , dercover search for leads to-a_ plot among: Memphis underworldlings; but * hunted. the suspect as a member: of-a conspiracy——are . working - on _the-“_as- e- Sypption that: Ray, a known racist and. To Crime Buff Truman Capote Un. Cold: Blood), it seemed conceivable that-”: -. More plausibly, Capote argued that a.cheap crook with Ray’s dismal TEC. | . view, Ray was the low man in-an elab- 7” ing, “We shot him!” Though a number , Department lawyer is conducting an un- - ‘:local police and FBI ageats—who first: : Ironically, after. eitealty eluding cap ture. for. so: many weeks, . Ray can’ be- aid. to have: botched his ‘last. getaway. He- apparently left Lisbon‘i in ‘a hurry be ause he: senséd.. that’ the. police | were mn. his trail.. But~ under-a © 60-year-old: reaty “with: the.: US.,., Portugal-—which : bolished the’ death penalty: in. 1867—. will not extradite ‘any..criminal sought. yn a capital charge. Senhor’ Ray coul The accused’ a assassin of Robert Ken nédy | sat passively: i in his’ 12-ft. by 12-ft. - ‘maximum-security- cell ‘at. Los: Angeles. _.County’s Central Jail for Men, reading ~ works on: - theosophy.. “Meanwhile, ' bits “and pieces: of Sirhan ‘Bishara. Sirhan’s” personality: and past. began. falling into- place. Most’ of. the insights came with last week’s release of. testimony taken. . by. the. grand. jury,.which had convened : the day after Kennedy. ‘died. “2. ‘Vincent T. Di Pierro, college- studen : “and part-time waiter at the Ambassador. . Hotel, recalled seeing Sirhan. at the mo- “ment of the. murder: “The! minute the. . first two shots-were: fired,” testified Di : . Pierro, “he still had a very sick-looking : smile on his face.: That’s one. thing- . can never: forget that.?.755 Three. others . in. the. serving kitchen : where. Kennedy was shot also ‘testified “to ‘seeing Sirhan, ‘who crouched on~a . _tray rack and asked . repeatedly _ if the . ~ Senator would. come: that, way. But it - was not the innocuows-looking. Jorda-: nian“ that~ attracted attention; it was.a “svelte,- mysterious. girl in a polka-dot “dress, who. was seen joking with the ac- :-, cused and who reportedly. later ‘rushed : : past stunned. campaign workers. shout- ..of publicity-hungry . females © turned _ _. themselves, in:-to police, a. worldwide. ~ woman hunt had failed to- uncover- the. real Miss Polka Dot. . Seek Mixed Bag.. Another witness claimed ‘that he had seen Sirhan at a suburban © -. gun .club: twelve. hours before: the: as- : ~sassination. Contrary ‘to. range. policy, . - , which calls: for a pause. between shots, —. -. Sirhan snapped off. up. to “300. rounds. . ‘in: rapid-fire succession .with an. Iver’: Johnson 22-cal. revolver, the same type’
ere ne y Coroner testified. that Se oe Kennedy“ “was.-struck with: three: bu: lets,;: rather-; than. < two.--as- + Origin: thought: The: ‘third. landed. in|, back « cling~as -individuals:(the jury, agreed: in: : Raskin’s case),-'and_ that-.thei ediate- ‘induction... Preumabiy Ferber” “would. have refused to serve, and. there-. “by become liable for prosecution uhder:: «-the Selective Service. Act. on / tact in the age.of the megalopolis:.4:- ‘Intact, that i is,< until, last’ “month, . ‘community, started. demolishing - “it: int: _line: with a decision made. last.year that. it was too expensive to maintain-.: The= * “By accepting Innis’ incendiary ° view, CORE alienates not - Only ‘whites but x black Moderates as well. Thus it joins = $15-million-a-vear mill. operation. will; Student Nonviolent Coordinatin Zn be unaffected. by. the policy, since most. : Cries and the Southern Christian : 3 : ©of those losing their homes are too. set. * "Leadership Conference in. a militant cnce ina militant psi Oe Ter, in their ways—or: too old—to. look: for 3 new: jobs:-A good number of. the-94 dis--= placed. families, accustomed ‘to living in:  Bomicige “cases ‘for’ the A.’s office, will: make | sure that” nei- and ‘Sirhan’ will: plead éither guilty;‘no. ¢ contest,’ ‘not guilty,” or. pot ‘guilty by. “ - creates a-sad and - unusual: social. pace im lem that has prompted. several group to try,. unsuccessfully, to-save-it. ‘Som large families and. retired. couples” wills andoubtedly- wind:,up om food. stamps: = and welfare. Oliver Overingion,“74;, Te Nam | ‘war’ before the: Supreme: Court. .. -:Last-week at Boston’s Federal. District. : - Court, “he moved Closer: ‘to- that: goal is” pace. Two Years--ago; -Flovd Mc-.. Kissick replaced’ ‘Fouzider James Farm-. ‘Gi Decause he “was'; not: moving fast: “enough. Last: week “McKissick, in turn, was: supplanted - by*"a~ more. aggressive Tieutenant. “ “CORE's?°1 “chief; and Writer Mitchell: Goodman; “44. The fifth member of “the Boston’ Five,” ” Mar- 2 disamamea 34, a former: -White Ho ‘Roy Innis. a Harlem- oned Black-1 pa- tiOnalisG “WT - -formally- replace -McKis-. sick next month-at ?CORE’s. convention ta? Columbus: Innis.::34,7 is? a. bearded manifesto makez. who-holds that “sep- aration of unlikes’is the ‘natural” condi- sa of: society,”’and* ‘says: that. biacks.. Senerally” ‘favor: ‘nonviolence, . but-“ ‘not: ‘over the achievement of nationalistic:c ‘0 Fectives.” He’ professes “a “fear: of: gen-. At by =th4 eps, shamber but sys time working ‘in: his: large’ vegetable- gar en. “We're both sickly,” says. ‘Mrs Lan. dacre. : ‘He “takes: omy . statements; Zas:-well as ‘a: mof "a. draft-card. burning attended ‘some Le the defendants; “Thesd :