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REPUBLIC CITY 2-A Ti Ariiena Rrpublk fcodajr, i. iKt More AImjuI Mass Slayin (Continued from Page 1 Mulleneaux repealed his tan, shot at the youngsters. He said age and address. i he feared on tying up every- body and suffocating them with 11 the sacks, but the p'asuc bags fuilty" to all charges. Mrs.

tan Cummmgs, director Mulleneaax reminded the at-' of the school, was in the col- lieges back office when Smith essary ordered the youth ltn htia witnout Dona in Mrs. Cummings said she saw County tail. A preliminary hear- him (Smith) standing there with wa ki a-w vrv. uui-i- 1 1 I i iig i tfj ,1 Hal Q'K' I 1 i I MESA AUTO jjj leneaux. also coroner, said an Run and while she ran next inquest will be held tomorrow idoor to telephone police, she or Tuesday, -probably Tues- hear(l PP" PATROLMAN PAIL Bailey While the youth was still in was on duty at Mesa police court, newspapers, magazines headquarters when Mrs.

Cum-and television stations minSs called at 8 05 a m. the world were telephoning The A Arizona RwM.hlir. rvvrertiom for She sad she needed an officer because she'd seen a detailed reports of the slaying. I man with a gun," said Bailey. AT MESA POLICE headquar- "I couldn't get too much of ters, detectives and uniformed 1 hat had gone on.

She was officers re-created the a pretty hysterical." murder that Mesa Police Chief Gail Brimhall said "is the worst Bailey radioed patrol car No. 17 manned by officers Gary Johnson and Richard Demattei. senseless thing I've ever heard." "When we pulled up in the driveway at the college there were people crowding the other side of the parking lot," said Johnson. In a basement news conference, chief investigator, Detective Sgt. Ray Gomez, traced the anatomy of a crime that began three months ago, soon "I COULD SEE him (Smith) after eight stujent nurses were i id hrQ ft door butchered Chicago and be-1 ,4 u-fore Charles Whitman sniped He dldn have hls and fatally wounded 16 persons, Jhands so I didn't draw my gun.

most of them from a perch atop went inside and he said 'I a tower at the University of some people back there. DEATH SCENE Mrs. Earl Cummings, director of the Rose-Mar College of Beauty, 42 N. Stapley Drive, Mesa, said she was at (1) on the diagram, near her office, when she saw a man with a gun standing at (2). She left through her office door and went to Mesa Auto Supply (5) to telephone police.

Investigators said the slayer apparently fired one shot into the wall Texas in Austin. the gun is over there. Smith Republic Driwini by Cut Walker at (3), then forced his victims at gunpoint into the school's demonstration classroom, made them lie on the floor at (4) and shot them, one by one. Police said they found Robert B. Smith, 18, in the front of the school at (6), and a 22-caliber revolver in a paper bag lying on a chair at (7).

Four women and a child were killed, another woman and child wounded. Mori" About pointed to a sack on a chair. "I pushed him ahead of me into an employes classroom and there were the bodies," said Johnson. The patrolman, father of a Youth 'Cried for Aid young son, said the only sound he could hear in the room was Gomez said that Smith admitted studying and being impressed by the earlier crimes. "He told me had had 'cased' several places in Mesa," said Gomez, "and visited a high school where there would be teachers, and another beauty shop.

But he said there weren't enough people there to kill so he gave up the idea. "HE SAID he even thought of going back to his home town of where he knew people in a bank, and commit a the crying of the young baby. (Continued from Page 1) "The mother was lying Smith Galled 'A Kid That None Knew' By DAVID DAVIES MESA The massacre across the baby. sight of but underneath hostility seething. isgling and stabbing to death eight nurses last July in what those little kids sickened me," was called "The Murder of the he said.

"Often, this hostility is cov- "EVERYBODY that room was lying face down with their heads into the center," said five persons and wounding of two others by an 18-year-old crime there. Then he made a voluntary statement indicating his participation in this mur Johnson. "My partner called for an ambulance. A minute Mesa High School senior shock der." ed this conservative Mormon later the other officers arrived. I reminded Smith of his consfr community yesterday.

In that statement. Smith said Robert Benjamin Smith, of tutional rights and we took him he owned a 22-cahber six-gun that his parents had bought him ered up beautifully, but if one smun, ne lorcea looks beneath the surface, he vicis to lie on the floor finds odd behavior manifested also methodically killed in school or elsewhere." ihls Vlctlms one by one- accord- ling to a confession he made to Enos questioned whether police, schools are providing "the Acquaintances of als0 proper psychological ation. Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, "SCHOOLS ARE screening; who fatally shot 16 people in students for vision, heart, tuber- Austin Aug. 1 before a police-culosis and other physical de- man shot him dead, had told a fects, but are they sufficiently psychiatrist he had thought interested in mental health? about shooting people from the he asked. I observation deck of a tower at i Carl Heath, basketball coach University of Texas.

at Mesa High School, who was! A FEW WEEKS later, Whit- Smith's counselor, said the man did just what he had youth was "a good even an cussed. excellent student in some! ma mnrHor in. 630 E. Seventh Drive, accused of fatally shooting four women and a child, and seriously "He offered no resistance, "for target practice." Last week, the youth said, he obtained 200 feet of nylon cord, a package of 25 plastic food showed no remorse, and didn't wounding another woman and lv Jk- A rift v'r seem at all excited. He was an infant in a beauty parlor, was described by high school very calm." sacks, two leatherhandled hunt classmates and, neighbors as a While Smith was being inter smart boy with social prob lems." ing knives and a box of long-rifle ammunition.

He told officers he had con rogated, a crowd of 100 persons began collecting at the back of the police station in downtown Mesa. Other labels attached to the sidered tying his victims and 5-foot-10 slender youth by those Republic Photo Beauty College Demonstration Classroom Which Became Death Scene Five Killed, Two Wounded, After Being Forced At Gunpoint To Lie On Floor suffocating them inside the areas. who knew him best, and motivate others to carry on 3 Chief Brimhall, admitting he plastic bags Physically, however. Smith w'itn tneir plans," Enos said. I feared a public reprisal against never very deeply, were "loner," "i described by other students want to emphasize that I feel SMITH SAID HE awoke atjSmith, ordered seven officers dawn yesterday, dressed and i to keep the crowd behind a row "strange," "reserved" and "a kid that nobody knew." "a loner" was unable to about some of these form normally.

i murders being prevented. Often- Also a Loner In Missouri then packed the revolver, plas of police cars Survivor Played Dead; Pravers Angered Killer "HE WAS the type of per WHEN SMITH was brought tic bags, knives, cord and spare ammunition in a brown paper sack. times, people attempt suicide, -He was no mixer, but there. not reaiiy intending to kill them- "i was never any evidence of seives, but merely to call atten- I any hostility on his part toward tion to the fact they need help. others, Heath said.

"After Potential killers also rirnn hint? out to be transferred for his court appearance, the crowd, son who stayed in his own shell," said Linda Burnham, 17, of 454 S. Mesa a social studies classmate with Smith at HOUSTON, Mo. As an el-! ementary school pupil in Hous He told officers he left home at 6:30 a.m. and walked the mile and a half to the beauty which contained high school friends of the dead girls, began making angry comments. MESA A teen-age girl played dead after being shot twice yesterday by the killer of four women and a 3-year-old girl yesterday, oiiuvrciiug wiui uic icai ui uic ton, Robert B.

Smith "never" Mesa High School. fellows after Dhvsical pducation! muoicu 11,01 ctal sSS S.v SS'PW counseling in schools and'l CiaSS, USUally WOUld De.1P.l,. police said she told them. college, arriving there sometime "He was kind of a strange char. 4- boy," she said.

"Sometimes he Bonita Sue Harris, 18, an employe of the Rose-Mar College of Two men said they wished Smith had put up a struggle at the beauty shop "so the police iff nf 'Tcvac Pnnnfu nlf1 bHIm'B on lne CurO, 100K-: before its scheduled 8 a.m. Saturday opening. seemed kind of nervous in alBeauty, 42 N. Stapley, and Tamera Lynn Sellers, 3 months, were Arizona Renublic last eht lin over magazines or books-f -talked much-he nniv nf a Arizona ttepuDiic lasi nigni. usuallv tnose havins tn dn hl The nation has had its share way.

He never "There were some girls al could have gunned the ready in the college," said Go- down." mostly listened and observed. I.who herded the women into rpfortpd- "She's' Smith, charged yesterday with science. mass murders, including the don't think he allowed anybody room and shot them one by one nravinSo vou mind killing five personS WOund- it' following: 7 4U uj praying ao you mina. "IT'S FUNNY even after a mez, "but apparently bmith waited until a customer, the; Alter nis arraignment tn gpt reaiiv Pi0Sfi to him. fn eet real ose to 1 1- i i iU uic iicou.

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quiet, Bible-reading HoW- lady with two children, arrived and went through the doors. He followed her inside." on cntu ni 'u awn auwmi6 uic osier saiu. rr r. aj ini, i.m.j After a vear in meuiuaicauy Kuiea Heath said Linda, who sat next to Smith in the social studies class for the last two months, said that he usually made "As" in the lice station, then taken by car to Maricopa County jail. And as the sheriff's car pulled floor.

jU4j 4U. .1 4: uu uic HE DESCRIBED the Smith couldn't bring a.u strangers t0, him, softball, he Miss Harris, shot twice but, family "as a militarv familv said. Then, said Gomez, Smith bat back far enough to "imauc pistol. a decent swing. Just lack unflt stand trial and is Police Sgt.

Ray Gomez through the shooting, moving from air base to air subject and was well balanced academically." now in the out of the lot, a group of youths who had been piling rocks into the back of a white pickup, roared out after the police coordination, I guess. Miss Harris, shot once in thesald. i P'ayea aeaa, nopmg ne base." Robert L. Smith, the arm and once in the head me any. more- is a retired Air Force LINDA'S BROTHER and sis drew his gun.

Nobody paid any attention to him. So Smith fired a shot into a plate glass mirror. "THEN HE got them into a back room and had them lie Trenton, N.J., State Hospital. -In 1958. Charles Starkweath- "i Mrs.

George Haslup, next- reported in serious condition atKPPl aeaa unui as. major. QnnthcMn nictrlnf TIncnifal I all OVer." door neighbor to the Smith ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Burnham, who live across the Mesa police radioed the sher- She said Smith told them heiintelliuent in school, but he kinda street from the Smiths at 635 gave him this account of what family in Mesa, said the youth KA flT 3 '4 "seemed quite pleasant, but "S'w11 d-Ve kept to himself." i U.J.'l lonJ 4 1.411 Uil down," Gomez said he wasjff's car and ordered it to speed cPVfnlh -nij phappened after the women were mum piauncu mu any oiu- stUcK to himself," Foster said without delay into downtown ordered to lie on the floor: told.

"He he shot them through' the head, reloaded vouth's parents, Mr. and Mrs oren, out wouia Decause mey "The Smith family was well res Sandra Haslup, 19, who grad-was executed, and his cirl A One of the student beauty op were mere. Ipected, and they seemed to mix Robert L. Smith, were friendly and helpful. erators, Mary Margaret Olsen, Tneyu grow up, too," sne, well in the community." uated from Mesa High last friend, Carol Ann Fugate, was June, said: "He usually smiled, sentenced to life in prison'.

i prison. Phoenix. It arrived without incident. "I feel a lot safer knowing that boy is in the county jail," said a veteran police officer. quoted him, three times and shot each one twice, "He' told me he didn't figure on any children there but he ROBERT, who was born here, 18, started praying.

Smith demanded: "What's she doing?" MRS. CAROL Farmer, 19, an- was a fifth grader when the fam- at me when he walked by, but was very quiet and never said anything beyond 'hello' or some "You couldn't ask for better neighbors," said Mrs. Burn- (Continued on Page 21-A, Col. 3) Miss Harris said she also heard Smith say that nobody cared for him. On St.

Valentine's Day, -i 1929, seven members of the'l George (Bugs) Moran gang were lined up against a Chicago garage wall and machine- i (Continued on Page 21A, Col. 7) thing like that." The Haslups noted that Smith stayed indoors most of the time.Jgunned, presumably by under- "THOSE lhe kllIcrs ere 1 More About Lives Saved by College Director distressed to commit a murderi" .3 exhibit pretty odd behavior," -hi 1956, Connecticut's "mad (Continued from Page 1) "As she left the office she rived for a visit Friday night, heard a 'pop. She wasn't sure kM fha is nnn month, course to be- Enos said. "You couldn't neces- dog killers, Joseph Taborsky come cosmetologists. Their first.sarily call it bizarre Arthur Culombe, killed six lowed Mrs.

Robert 3Vn rhat it was, but it frightened by (Joyce hours are spent in classroom but odd or strange." iroooery victims, lanorsky was six days weekly, and that cus nvnnlllAj kt.i 1 I ray) a iuauiiui.1 prnm 4U( her. From the studies, in which they learn her two children. tomers are admitted at 9:30 a.m. Monday through Friday and at 8:30 a.m. Saturdays.

store she heard a whole seriQs of and she tried to go back, to get to her girls, but the men in the store kind to date." i i -also in 1956, William Bau- "The girls began setting out their supplies," said Mrs. Freestone. "The telephone was ringing and Mrs. Cummings went "I'm sure he never dated a about cosmetics, anatomy, and related subjects. Later they begin actual experiences with customers, while still continuing their classroom work.

Most pay a flat tuition fee Freestone, a Mesa city coun i I 1 1 I H- wouldn't let her go. So, she stayed outside and kept other students and customers from going in. Five minutes after she cilman for 10V4 years, has operated the beauty college for 5M-years. He also runs beauty col Ibaek into the office to answer it. although some, considered to be "AFTER TAKING the call she saw the man.

it was all over. engineer, wnca mem-. chS' 8 8 of his family in their home High School youth. in parsippany-Troy Hills, N.J.,' Several classmates noticed re-. then turned a shotgun on him- cently that Smith carried a self.

i small hunting knife in a backl on Nov 19 1939 Perry pocket. When they asked him'smith and Richard Hickock about it he shrugged off theirikiiicd four mpmtwt nf started back, but she slopped, ..1.1 especially promising, receive iUhcn she saw a young man. have been more (victims). We'll MJitlwiff II Vmllh ID in fiito Xh.r "ever know how many. But, she I uuiiiivli II Iw fnH ihnr.

thinking what she might have standing there with a cun. lid a questions and they did not pressliicrbcrt Clutter family in their the matter. Ifarm home in Kansas. Both In the annual of the Junlor'were hanged. The story was the class last year he was not Truman Capote's best as having any activities.

Anoth-scIlcr' "In patial or full scholarships. ONE SCHOLARSHIP student was Glenda Carter, who had been voted "student of the month" by the other students. I A notice proclaiming her honor was on the front wall of tlie school, together with a picture of her and a poem she had selected herself. leges in Tempe and Globe. "They were all such wonderful girls," said Freestone.

"These were among the most conscientious students we had. They were a half-hour early. If they'd been a little less conscientious, a little later in getting here, they might not have been killed. "BUT, THEN, If it hadn't happened when it did It might have been worse, even more horrible. i ji, i i uuilc auu nucuici might hav'e been able to hnfk Into ift nfflrp nnH Ktnrlrrl of those already 4u i 4u save some din ti'QB ofraM ha mlnht i inSiae.

er acquaintance said: "He's not But Un tll'V tU (III Ul4 lib lllJkllt "She's almost at the point of hoar her, and that this might -In 1961, Capt. Julian Harvey killed his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Duppcrratilt, and their the kind to participate." TIIR KIM INC. In Mnca blaming herself, after what she did.

She's a true heroine." startle him, and she didn't know what he might do. Entitled. "A Smile." It Hn.pii'tcrdny paralleled recent Ith these lines- imurders in Chicago and as Tet. Smith told Mesa nolice Wl of a "So she went out through the. Freestone said he usually ar-office door and walked ncross.rives at tlie school about 7:45 the parking kit to the auto but yesterday delayed to ply store (Mesa Auto Supply) Visit with his daughter, Mn.

got the idea of mass murders nuppwaults, but committed suicide when hp from those killings. So smile for your friends, make them smile, too. Be happy yourself, and God be with you. Robert Benjamin Smith, Accused Killer An hour later there would have been 45 students here, and more than 50 customers. Just about 100 people." The students take a nine- i learned that another daughter, Terry Jo.

11. had been rpsrupit Dennis Layton of Safford, and Richard B. Speck. 24. Is and called the police and my husband from there.

ricture Of The 18-Year-Old Taken For High School Yearbook her two daughters who had ar charged in Chicago with stran- alive. 4.