MEANWHILE 31 - year - old Chandler Littlefield formerly of Searsport is still at large after escaping Nov 27 from Union County Correctional Institute’s reception center in Lake Butler la just days before he was to be returned to Maine to face trial on two counts of murder in HE WAS scheduled to be released from there but the Maine attorney general’s office in Augusta has asked Texas officials by telephone not to free Morton until extradition proceedings have been completed according to John Atwood a member of the attorney general’s criminal division staff Charles Heald 38 of Belfast was indicted on the same charge as Morton at the same time and is now being held in Bangor’s Penobscot County Jail awaiting trial in that county’s Superior Court He asked for and was granted a change of venue last November BETTENCOURT and his wife lorence were found slain later on Dec 14 1973 at their Liberty home about four days after they had been shot Officials said robbery was the motive for the slayings Morton however has not been charged in connection with their deaths Morton is reportedly being held at the present time at Crockett County Jail in Ozona Tex on a fugitive from justice charge Belfast Manin Texas Wanted On Maine Count BELAST - Waldo County authorities and State Police are seeking to extradite Thomas Morton 28 of Belfast from Texas it was reported here Wednesday Morton is wanted in Maine on a charge of conspiracy to rob Jam Bettencourt of Liberty Nov 18 1973 after being indicted on that count last July by the Waldo County grand jury activities history it a Patriarca a conspiracy prison involved procedures confidential ac-cording assist-ant ' ' jthe Bettencourt case