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WOUNDED SENATOR - Los Angeles: Sen. Robert Kennedy, clutching
rosary beads, lies wounded on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel just
after he was shot by ari unidentified assailant. Kennedy’s wife, Ethel,
kale Knifer Killed As He
Sat On Bleeding Woman
Cops Plea
* Fails To
Deter Man
CHARLOTTE - Samuel Lee
Grier, 24, of Charlotte, was
, shot to death Saturday by three
local officers as lie sat astride
a woman, holding a knife to
her throat and threatening to
cut it.
Police Chief J, C. Goodman
stated numerous officers and
residents of the neighborhood,
watched as Grier, sitting on the
bloodstained Mrs. Martha Ann
Wortham, with the knife to her
throat, screamed, “We’ll both
to to Hell together.
Mrs. Wortham, the chief said,
was lying in a pool o’, blood
when Patrolmen S. J, Mof
fltt ana A, J. McCoy arrived
at the scene in a Negro section
of the city She had been cut
several times and the officers
and neighbors pleaded with
Grier to release his victim.
W When Grier ignored their
pleas and started to shove the
blade at Mrs, Wortham’s throat,
three officers fired at him. He
was pronounced dead on arrival
at a hospital here.
Although none of the officers
£ will be suspended pending an
investigation, Chief Goodman
assured the press that a com
plete probe will lie made into
t’.ie Incident.
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Mom, 29,
Is Hunted
GREENVILLE - Officers are
seeking a man in connection
with the pistol death of Mrs.
Mart Williams, 29-year-old
mother of three, who was
shot once in the stomach early
Satuday morning. However, lo
cal authorities have refused to
identify the suspect.
E. W, Harvey coroner of
Pitt County Coroner, related
that Mrs. Williams died at Pitt
Memorial Hospital around 1;20
a.m. Saturday after a rescue*
squad was called to her resi
dence shortly after midnight.
Tiie man said he was told
business, ask for a Sweepstakes
ticket. You can be a winner.
The tickets are white this
week and they are dated June 8.
The lucky number and their
worth are as follows: 2832 is
worth SSO; 380 will get you
S3O and 892 is good for $lO.
Sweepstakes tickets were in
advertently transposed,, June 8
tickets may he presented this
week and June I tickets next,
week.
BITTEN BY RAT - Dayton, Ohio: Juanita
Blake, 11 months of age who was bitten severely
on the hands and feet by a large rat after she
fell from her bed early June 2. She is the
youngest of five children, Investigating officers
said that there were at least 20 bites on one
foot alone, with the total over 40. They de
scribed the bites as the worst they had ever
seen. (UPI PHOTO),
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WASHfifGTOff, D. C. -Wayste
Darnell I>tsmp*r of Atemeaee
County, was freed of a rsps
conviction IfoNiy by a 7-4 S
vote of the United States su
preme Court. The &®sirt rates
that the rifle mad a* evidence
in Burner’s October, 1006, had
is at lower left. The suspect shot three other
persons standing near Kennedy as he fired 8
shots. (UPI).
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by iber!ff*s officers from his
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Three Are
Blasted In
Shoot-Out
HENDERSON - Berry Hicks,
56-year-old local resident,
charged with shooting two*
police officers, is being held
in his guarded Maria Parham
Hospital room under a $15,000
bond.
Hicks, described byTHE
CAROLINIAN’S Henderson re
porter, L. B. Russell, as being
“lame, half-sick and hardly
could walk,’* is reported to
have been sitting on his front
porch at his home, 108 Cham
pion Street last Friday around
(flea ttmUE ARE. 9. 2)
Wake Man
Kills Prof.,
Dgtr., Self
DURHAM - William O.
Hunter, 41-yr-oid Wake County
citizen, Rt 1, Morrisvtlle, was
killed Sunday morning, 6:24,
when the car he Is alleged to
have been driving on the left
side of N. C. 55, five miles
south of the city, jammed Into
cae driven fey William H. Mar
shall, a visiting professor at
Duke University. The profes
sor and iQ-w, old daughter,
Barbara, were also killed.
Investigating: officers
reasoned that flutter was
traveling south, toward AJ*sk
and Marshall was traveling
north. Aftmsrdlag to a report
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LOS ANGELES - Roosevelt Gner, defensive tackle for the Los Angeles
Rams, wbo sat out last season with a knee injury, but served as line coach
for the Rams, and Rafer Johnson, Olympic Decathlon Champion, grabbed
and disarmed the alleged would-be-assassin of Senator Robert Francis
Kennedy early Wednesday morning. He was struck in the shoulder and in
the mastoid bone, located slightly behind the right ear, with the ballet
piercing his brain.
Dr. Ross Miller, a cousin of
the slain Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., was among the first
tftiysicians to reach Kennedy af
ter he was felled.
The assassination try came
exactly two months and one day
sifter the bullet of a still-to
be-apprehended killer struck
down the Rev, Dr. Martin Luth-
Bulletin!
A report from surgeons and
officials at Good Samaritan
Hospital in Los Angeles at 3
p.m. Tuesday indicated that the
condition of Senator Robert F.
Kennedy, Democratic pres
idential aspirant from the State
of New York, was very critical.
The next 24 to 26 hours are
considered crucial. One sur
geon was quoted as saying the
outlook for Kennedy’s recovery
was 4 gloomy Indeed.’ Another
surgeon was said to have re
marked that if Kennedy lived,
his brain may he irreparably
damaged.
er King, Jr., in Memphis, Term,.
Kennedy’ was wheeled from sur
gery after three hours and
placed in the intensive care sec
tion of the Good Samaritan
Hospital
Senator Kennedy, who had just
made a victory speech from the
Two Foiled
In Robbery
Os Store
DURHAM - Officers of the
Durham County ABC board
worked swiftly Friday night and
quickly captured two who pulled
a daring robbery of the Ninth
Street ABC Store.
James Hope Jr., 18, whose
address was given as Rt. 5,
Gorman, and Albert Smith, 19,
1807 Wiley Street, are both
being held in the Durham County
jail for the charge. They sre
being held due to their failure
to furnish $5,000 bonds.
They are alleged to have
worked out the robbery by be
ginning with a ruse. They are
alleged to have entered the store
just before closing time and
placed a large quantity of pen
nies on the counter. Roland
Leary, ABC policeman was
in the store at the time.
“The clerk told them that
he was too busy to count the
pennies and for him to 'take
them across the street to be
changed.*' Leathers related.
“The pair left and then re
turned. Hope edged up toward
Officer Leary, who he saw was
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From Raleigh's Official
s Police Files |
The Crime |
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DAMAGE TO PROPERTY
CHARGE
Gatharn K. Parham Jr., of
1000 Hoke St. was charged with
assault With a deadly weapon
and trespassing and damage to
property at 1205 Man gum St.
on June 1 when a window at
the residence of Mrs. Earline
Deleris Fox, white, was said
to have been broken out with
his hands and feet, according
to the police report. Damage
was placed at sls
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ROCK THROWN FROM VEHI
CLE
Mrs, Mary Worthy, 220 Bled
soe St., reported to the police
department on June 2, her chil
dren were watching TV and a
rock was thrown through the
glass window or the front porch.
She alleged a vehicle then left
at a high /ate of speed No
Injuries were reported.
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lobby of the Ambassador Hotel,
his headquarters, was enroute
to the kitchen areas of the fa
cility with several of his assis
tants tor a press conference,
when the sniper climbed atop a
SHOOTING SUSPECT - LOS ANGELE
This is Los Angeles Police Dept, “mug
shot* of the suspect in the shooting of Sen.
Robert Kennedy. Thus far police have iden
tified the man as Sirhan, a foreigner. The
man fired 8 shots from a .22 calibre gun.
(UPI).
SUBDUED SUSPECT - Los Angeles: Sus
pect in the shooting of Sen. Robert Kennedy
(under raised arm) is purnmeled by the crowd
just after he fired off several shots, wounding
Kennedy and two or three other persons nearby.
Foreground is Los Angeles Rams tackle, Rosie
Grier who helped subdue the man. (UP!
PHOTO).
JUST BEFORE SHOOTING - Los Angeles:
Sen. Robert. F. Kennedy, with his wife Ethel
standing beside him, gives victory sign to
huge victory crowd at the Ambassador Hotel.
The Senator then left the podium, walked, to
a nearby anti-room and was shot by an assailant
who also hit three other persons as he fired
8 shots from a handgun. Police thus far
have been unable to identify the man, fUH
PHOTO).
table and started shoot inf with
a .22 calibre automatic pistol,
which shoots eight times. The
weapon was reportedly emptied,
two of the shots striking the
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