Evening star., 1947-07-14

briickerAttacker
For rSanity Test
Hearing Set Aug. ID;
Ex-PoIicemun Faces
Two Charges

A mental examination was ordered
today for William L. Kaiser, former
Capitol policeman charged with
firing two shots Saturday at, Sen
ator Bricker, Republican, of Ohio.
Judge Ellen K. Raedy in Munich
pal Court directed that Kaiser be
sent to Gallinger Hospital for OBJ
servation and set August IA for
preliminary hearing.
Assistant United States Attorney
John B. Diamond requested the
examination during the brief court
hearing.
Kaiser Is to be held without bond,
and Mr.. Diamond announced that
he was being charged with assault
with intent to kill and with carry
ing a dangerous weapon.
Kaiser was not represented. by
counsel.
Displays No Emotion.
He was pale but displayed no
emotion during the brief time he
was in court. He stumbled a little
as a policeman led him from the
court to the cellblock.
Assault with intent to kill is
felony and to prosecute requires a
grand jury Indictment unless the
defendant valves that procedure.
The maximum penalty is Is years.
Carrying dangerous weapon is a
misdemeanor. with q miximum pen
atty Of one year in Jail and $1,000
fine.
Senator Bricker did not attend
the court session. 1t. Robert Muir
ray of the metropolitan police ex-
planned earlier that it would not be
necessary for Senator Bricker to be
present.
Arrested in Less than Hour.
1t. Murray and Detective Sergt.
Wilbur Coffey arrested Kaiser Sat-
urday afternoon in the lobby of an
apartment house at 1896 Massachu-
setts avenue NV. less than an hour
after two shots were fired at Sem
ator Bricker near the Senate Office
Building entrance to the subway to
the Capitol.
Kaiser, who lost his job as Capt.
tol policeman last April 30 and who
several years ago was an employe
in the county auditors Office at Co.
lumbus, Ohio, was quoted by police
as saying: Il did it to refresh Sem
ator Bricker's memory"
The two shots went wild, but the
first of them, fired from a distance
of only Is feet, left nick shoulder
high in the brickwork. Senator
Bricker and j. H. Macomber, Sem
ate Expenditures Committee clerk,
jumped aboard the single-rail sub
way car and sped toward the Cap
itol. They crouched behind seat
as the assailant reloaded the %
caliber target pistol and fired again
from $50 feet away.
John Eckler, administrative as
sistant to Senator Bricker, said
today that "the Senator has said
nothing one way or the other about
asking leniency'' for Kaiser. He de-
clared Senator Bricker is leaving
the entire matter to police au-
thorities.
Senator Bricker told reporters last
night he was more concerned with
the potential danger to his COL
leagues than with his own escape
Saturday.
Worried About Crowds.
1--WE often worried about the huge
crowds we have just overhead in the
Senate galleries." he said. 1T
would be a mighty easy thing for
some one to drop a grenade over
the railing. But I don't know what
can be done about the situation
other than have our guards and
doormen be more alert. We Ger
tainly do not want to search all of
the visitors"
After he identified Kaiser last
Saturday, Senator Bricker said the
former Capitol policeman had talked
with him several times in recent
months about money he claimed he
lost in the liquidation of Columbus
loan and savings firm in 1882. Sen
ator Bricker said he was attorney
general of Ohio at the time and
officially filed liquidation suit
against the concern. He declared
he did not remember Kaiser in con-
nection with that action and that
he had not known Kaiser in Ohio.
Kaiser was appointed to the Capt.
tol police in October, 1945, by Sena-
tor Bricker's predecessor, former
Senator Huffman, Democrat, of
Ohio. Senator Bricker explained
that Kaiser did not lose his job
until almost two months after his
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