Evening star., 1960-01-11

with murder. William was ar.
rested Saturday morning by
FBI agents at the home Of an.
other brother, Lawson Coleman
at 2215 Fourteenth street NV
Deputy Chief Scott said bott
have signed statements admit.
ting participation in the hoiduI
but not the shooting. Raymond
has accused william Of being
the triggerman. William viii
not discuss the shooting. Bott
men are in District Jail.
800 Attend Rites
Joseph Camden, captain oi
the jail watch, reported they
are occupying separate cells.
More than 900 policemen
from Washington. Maryland
and Virginia attended a solemn
high requiem mass this morn
ing for Pvt. Brereton at Our
Lady Of Sorrows Catholic
Church in Takoma Park, Md
The slain officers widow
Mrs. Nora Brereton, mother OF
a l-year-old daughter, Sobbed
uncontrollably during the 40
minute mass and eulogy. AT
one point, she appeared to faint
and was revived with a glass of
water and some smelling salts.
/ The pastor. Msgr. James F.
King. sang the mass. He was
assisted by the deacon, the Rev
Raymond Tanning: the SUBJ
deacon. the Rev. Desmond
Murphy; the master of cere-
monies, the Rev. Philip O'Shea
and Msgr. Louis F. Milton
berger, pastor Of st. Martins
Parish.
Msgr. Miltonberger said he
had known Pvt. Brereton since
the dead officer was a little
boy.
AdmOnitiOn Quoted
In his eulogy, Msgr. Kins
cited st. Matthew's admonition
BE ye always ready" MSgr
King said he was sure every
officer in the church was think.
ing to himself, "Who will be
next?" The answer lies ir
being prepared to meet God
not in the police manual, he
said.
He died with his boots or
and unafraid," the priest tolc
the overflow crowd.
After the funeral mass. sis
policemen from the thirteenth
precinct acted as pallbearers tc
carry Pvt. Brereton's body tc
the waiting hearse. The cor.
tege, with a large motorcycle
escort, was four blocks long as
it wended its way through
Washington and past the 18th
precinct at Tenth and U streets
NV. on its way to Arlington
Cemetery.
The flag flew at half mas
from the pole on the roof ot
Pvt. Brereton's station house.
Full Military HOnors
Pvt. Brereton was laid to rest
under overcast skies in Airing.
ton Cemetery with full military
honors.
A firing squad of soldiers
from Fort Myer fired three vol.
leys as a bugler sounded Taps
near the grave site.
When the haunting tones o1
the bugle died away, Mrs
Brereton broke down. She was
comforted by her in-laws, Mr.
and Mrs. Dennis Brereton Of
Brooklyn. N. Y.
Then she sobbed as the ser.
geant of the guard handed her
the folded American flag which
had lain across her husbands
coffin.
A large crowd of uniformed
policemen formed a U-shapeo
formation around the grave
Msgr. King spoke briefly at the
last rites.
Mclaughlin Halls Police
Commissioner Robert E. Nc
Laughlin, who attended the fu-
neral, today lauded the police
force for the around-the-cloc
manhunt which followed the
shooting:
"AS one who followed this
case hour ur-by-hour from the
first minutes after the shoot
ing, I can say the Metropolitan
Police did a brilliant job. The
force conducted a very intelli-
gent and even intuitive inves-
tigation in bringing about the
arrest of the suspects"
In another development, Po-
lice Chief Robert v. Murray
received a telegram Of COM
mendation from E. Franklin
jackson, president of the Dis
trict branch of the National AS
sociation for the Advancement
of Colored People.
The telegram read:
1--WE congratulate you, the
Police Department and the FBl
on the speedy arrest and ar
raignment of the suspects in
the Staying Of police officer
Pvt. Donald Brereton. We join
the community in deploring all
| crimes and violence. especially