The Kokomo Tribune from Kokomo, Indiana • Page 15

16 Kokomo (Ind.) Tribune Thursday, March 1, 1979 Police trying to determine if bombings, smuggling linked Kimberlin hearing CORPUS CHRISTIE, Texas A federal marshall accompanies Brett C. Kimberlin, Indianapolis, into the federal courthouse in Corpus Christie, Texas, Wednesday for a hearing on a motion to reduce his bond on a marijuana conspiracy indictment. Kimberlin was in- dicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury for six bombings in Speedway, in September 1978. Including the bombing indictment, Kimberlin now has federal bonds totaling more than a million dollars. (AP photo) INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Detectives arc following the trail of an alleged drug scheme in Texas to determine if there Is a link between a bombing seigc and a murder In the Speedway area here, authorities said.

Charges were brought in both cases for the first time Wednesday. A federal grand jury indicted Brett C. Kimberlin, 24, an Indianapolis businessman, for the September bombings, and police'arrested William Bowman, 32, West Manchester, Ohio, on a murder charge in the July 29 shooting death of Julia Scyphers, 69. Speedway Police Chief Robert Co- pcland said the only connection so far is that both Kimberlin and Bowman were arrested Feb. 16 on federal charges that they and three others attempted to smuggle five tons of marijuana into Texas.

The investigation has intensified to determine if the bombings and the murder are related, Copeland said. At the time, police speculated that the bombings might have been intended to divert attention from the Scyphers case, he said. The string of eight bombings began Sept. 1, terrorizing the quiet community of 17,000 which hosts the annual Indianapolis 500 auto race. One of the bombs exploded near the Scyphers home.

Kimberlin, former co-owner of a health food store here, remains in custody in Corpus Christi, Texas, on the drug charges. Bowman, who had returned to Ohio after posting bond in Texas, was brought back to Indianapolis late Wednesday after waiving extradition. Wednesday, a federal magistrate in Texas refused to reduce Kimberlin's $250,000 bond and ordered him arraigned Monday on the four indictments stemming from the alleged drug smuggling attempt. Copeland said Bowman's name had surfaced in the Scyphers inves- tigation, but police knew nothing about him or even what he looked like until Texas authorities provided a photograph after the drug arrests there. "That gave us more concrete stuff, 1 Copeland said.

Marion County Prosecutor Stephen Goldsmith said Mrs. Scyphers' husband, Fred, identified Bowman from a display of six men as the person who came to the couple's home asking about a garage sale the afternoon of the murder. The 34-count federal indictment charged Kimberlin with only six of the bombings because the other two one in an open field and one in lawn shrubbery were outside federal jurisdiction, U.S. Attorney Virginia Dill McCarty said. Five-mile jog set Saturday In conjunction with Kokomo Physical Education and Sports Week as proclaimed by Mayor Arthur LaDow, a five-mile jogging activity has been scheduled for Saturday beginning and finishing at Memorial Gymnasium's Gate 7.

The event is sponsord by the Indiana Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation as part of National Physical Education and Sport Week and was announced by Charles J. Baer, president of the Indiana association. Participating joggers are to report Saturday for registration at 8:30 a.m. and those jogging for timed performances will begin doing so at 8:45. All others will begin at 9 o'clock.

Shower and restroom facilities will be available, and certificates will be given those who complete the five-mile course. The six listed In the indictment, including the one that seriously Injured a man and his wife in a high school parking lot, involved, property which had received federal funding or were state commerce, she JJE Besides the six Bombing, Kimberlin also Illgf rVIIUUd 1111 UIOU TfttWo with eight counts of of an unregistered fireaflji, counts of manufacture oFde'Stfuc- tive devices, four counts of pretending to be a federal officer or employee and five counts of unauthorized possession of government insignia, including a presidential seal. Mrs. McCarty said conviction on all 34 counts would carry a maximum sentence of 269 years in prison and a $260,000 fine. She said she didn't know when Kimberlin would be returned to Indiana, and that he might first be tried in Texas on the drug charges.

U.S. District Judge James L. Noland set bond in Indianapolis at $800,000. Enrollment now open for naturalization classes of 7 weeks Enrollment for citizenship naturalization classes is being made now at the Adult Learning Center in Wallace School, 2326 St. Additional information may be obtained by calling 452-2454.

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