Evening star., 1954-11-25
District Suspect ].
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Met Remington in
Prison, FBI Believes

A Washington man, with a rec-3
ord of auto thefts, is one of two
convicts charged with the fatal
beating of William w. Reming-
ton in a Lewisburg Pa.) Peni-.
tentiary dormitory.
He is Robert Carl Parker, 81,
whose mother. Mrs. Bertha M.
Vagnoni, and stepfather, Martin
Vagnoni, live at 81 H street NV.
Parker was charged with
George Junior Mccoy, "a, Of
Grundy, Va, of beating Reming-
ton to death with a brick con-
cealed in a stocking. Like
Parker, Mccoy was serving a
three year sentence for auto
theft, but In a separate case.
Met in Prison.
Special Agent Norman H. Nc
Cabe of the Philadelphia FBI
Office, said his investigation so
far had turned up no evidence
that the two suspects knew Rem
ington before the three met in
prison. All were housed in the
same dormitory, he said.
Mr.. McCabe declined to COM
ment when asked if Reming-
toms conviction for perjury in
denying handing over secret
Government documents to a
Communist spy ring figured in
the Staying.
Reports that Remington was
a victim of gang warfare were
denied fatty last night by Act
Ing Warden Fred T. Wilkinson.
"This definitely was not the
result of gang warfare" he told
The Star. "At this time I
couldn't comment on the motive
for the Staying but I feel sure
1t will come out at a later time.
It would not be in the best in
terests of the investigation for
me to comment"
Denies Prior Incident.
Mr. Wilkinson said there was
no prison record of "any overt
act or physical incident" involv-
ing the three men before the
actual Staying.
Parker, an Army veteran, had
been released from the service
in October, 1851, after serving
Is months.
A month after his discharge
he was sentenced to a three-year
prison term in Richmond, Va,
for grand larceny of an auto. He
escaped from a prison camp at
Halifax, Va, and was arrested on
April 20, 1858, in Greensboro,
N. c., as a fugitive. He was also
charged with theft of an auto
and interstate transportation of
a stolen auto which was taken in
Mecklenburg County, Va, and
abandoned in Greensboro the day
ne was arrested. IA
Last November Parker, was
brought to the District Jail here
to- await disposition of another
auto case against him The FBI
said their records indicate he
was given a one to three year
sentence and returned to Lewis
burg on January 10, this year.
Mccoy Record.
McCoy's arrest record began
In his home town of Grundy in
Buchanan County, Va, where he
was charged with auto theft on
January Is, 1947. He was SEN
fenced to one year and 10 months
in the Federal Reformatory at
Chillicothe, Ohio. Mccoy was
later transferred to the Federal
correctional institution at Ash
land, KY, and was given a con-
ditional release in September,
1913.
In January, 1949, he was re-
arrested, this time on a post of
flee robbery charge and was
given a year and a day sentence.
In May, 1851, he began serving
one-to- three-year sentence in
the Ohio State Penitentiary on
a concealed weapon charge. He
escaped and was arrested again
on October 3, 1853, at Pikeville,
KY, as a fugitive and also
charged with interstate trans
portation of a car stolen in Philo,
Ohio, and abandoned in Mouth
card, KY. He was serving a
three-year sentence for that Of
fense.
Mccoy is divorced and has two
children who live in Grundy with
his former wife.