Democrat and Chronicle from Rochester, New York • Page 2

2A ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE Friday, November 19, 1971 MANCUSO "Another officer comes along and says, 'Go ahead, kill him. If you don't do it, I will." "Then some troopers come along, all wild-eyed and scared. They ask me what I'm doing. Before they can do anything, I tell them I'm passing out water (to prisoners) and I cut my finger (during the wall-battering) and I need medical attention." Mancuso was taken to A block and locked in a cell. On Monday morning, Sept.

13, the day the authorities recaptured the prison, Mancuso said he heard troopers shouting: "Wake up, you niggers, we're gonna get you now." "I heard gunfire, I mean, a lot of gunfire that just didn't stop, for about 15 or 20 minutes. "Then for about half an hour later there was individual firing of shots. I didn't see it. I heard it." Al Mancuso leaned back in his chiar, pulled on a Camel and recalled where he'd been since he was 16. It started in reform school-type prisons at Elmira and Coxsackie.

From when he was 20, Mancuso did his time in Green Haven, Sing Sing, Attica and Clinton prison at Dannemora until he was 30. Of them all, Mancuso said, Clinton was the worst. "Much more vicious there. It was physical brutality, while here at Attica, it's psychological brutality. "When they turned me loose at 19, I hated the world, I still hate this situation where they are trying to dehumanize me.

But I've changed my thinking patterns." Al Mancuso can get a conditional discharge in three years, two months. He says he wants to become a salesman, that he'd like to "work for prison reform." Then, half a pack of Camels later, they took Al Mancuso away. He walked with that athletic, wiry bounce down the hall to A cell block, his head slightly bowed, his hands in his pockets, a guard at his side. Al Mancuso, the "professional" prisoner, knows how to do his time. He knows it better than anything else.

From 1A tling, punching, just roughhousing around ha, ha, you know, not fighting. "I saw this guard lieutenant grab 'one of them, then pull away when 200 or 300 guys came around them." He was talking about Lt. Richard D. Maroney, who told of stepping between two prisoners he said were fighting in A courtyard. While Maroney was holding one of the prisoners, another convict quoted Mancuso as 'saying: "You lock these men up and we'll burn the place down tomorrow." Mancuso yesterday denied he said it.

Rumors about what happened to the prisoners reportedly spread through the cells. Apparently fhat was the first spark of the riot. On Riot Thursday, Al Mancuso was working in the powerhouse at the rear and outside the cell block areas. "They kept us there until about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Then a lieutenent and a dozen state troopers came to the front gate of the powerhouse.

"A couple of us were concerned we'd be attacked even though we took no part in the rioting. "The chief engineer wrote out a statement saying we had nothing to do with anything and put 18 of our names on it. "They took us to block and locked us in cells. My cell's window was broken. There wasn't any water.

No food. "I asked an officer to get us some water. He told me to drink out of the toilet bowl like a dog. He told me: 'After we get through with your buddies in yard (where the rioters were holding out) we'll come back and kill you, "I decided if they're going to treat me like a dog, I might as well be down with the rest in yard. "I took the back off my bed and slammed and battered down the cement block wall of the cell and I got out into the gallery," a corridor that separates lines of cells in a block.

"I went to the end of the gallery. This officer throws down his M16 rifle on me. He tells me, 'I'm gonna shoot you and do them a favor on the He tells me to beg for my life. Arrow shows where body of Carmen Colon, 10, was discovered. Body is being taken from area.

SLAYING the body, city police still were searching the Bull's Head area where Carmen was last seen. The girl, who lived in Puerto Rico for five years, spoke little English. She had been living at the Brown Street address with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Colon.

City Detective Leslie Gales said Carmen's mother, Mrs. Guillomina Colon of 72 Ro- From 1A investigators searched the area into the night but found no clues. Deputies were stationed at the scene overnight. Another extensive search of the gully and nearby fields will be "made at daylight today, Un-dersheriff Andrew Meloni said. When the boys -discovered then left when told it would take a few minutes.

When she didn't return home, an uncle began searching the neighborhood. The family reported the girl missing at 7:50 p.m. Tuesday, police said. Detectives have been unable to locate anyone who saw Carmen after she left the drug store. meyn was visiting at the Brown Street home Tuesday afternoon.

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