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The Danville Register from Danville, Virginia • Page 29

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7-C The Register; Danville, T970 OrUy Alteration, Not MurdefS iiires Into Scuffle Between And Captain MacDonald Lawyers rCr. 4 i Wi i i F'f. fiRAfJfJ i i i i i Federal Bureau of Investigattoa is' making inquiries to detef- inine whether military police- inen assaulted Gapt. Jeffrey Macponaid's lawyers when they took him into "protective fiyj' Monday! seized MaoDonald, over his objections, to take samples of his hair, pre- sumably for use in prosecuting charges, that MacDohaid beat and knifed to death his pregnant and two young daughters. lawyers, Dennis Eisman and Bernard L.

Segal, both of Philadelphia, said they were roughed up needlessly aft cr a military police captain in a civilian car forced their car as they were riding with MacDohaid and bis military escort; Hearings int the three murder against MacCoriald had been temporarily recessed at the Bill McKeithan of The Newsmen who wit.nessed th Incident supported the charges of the lawyers, but the Army defiled 'them. FBI agents questioned delated Pi-ess, John Colt of Fa- a reporter far the News and of Raleigh, and Jim Car? of the Fayette- ville Observer. They were ng MacBonald itl a. ca? and iVere also forced off the street. Aft FBI spokesman said the nvestigation into the alterca- ion was requested by Warren Coolidge of FayctteVille, U.

S. district attorney. Coolidge said, 'In view of reports that a critiie had been committed on the res- ervation (Ft; Bragg) within My jurisdiction, I felt there should be an investigatibrii" He noted impartial FBI agents from Charlotte, riot. Fay- etteville agents, were making the inquiry. The FBI spokesman empha- pzed his agency was investigat- ing only the altercation, and not the murdefs for which Mac- Donald is charged.

He said the point is to find out whether a crime, assault) was committed against the law- yers; from taking samples of their cli- ent's hair. Judge Algernon But- ler rilled 6Ver the Weekend the case was hot in his 1 jurisdiction, but Eisniah said this will be ap- According to Eisman, testimo- ny at the hearings has r'evealed that bits of unidentified hair were 1 found under Mrs. ald's fingertips alter she died and other strands wet'e found near her body. Newsmen said- that when the fiis- ftan, Segal- and the three riews- JWedjiesday; The three Eisman had filed suit in the tj.S. District CoUft at Clinton, seeking an injunction to prevent i FRL- SAT, ARLY- PATIO CHAISE Reg.6.44 COO Reg.

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They wel-e taken by military ambulance to. a post then. were transferred to.a civilian hospital in nearby Fayetteville, were observed fiu thef and releasedi Eis- man a worn a nedk bfacg. He said it was mended by a Fayetteviile doctor as a precaution against his fdil complicatrnl; ah old cervical strain suffered in a fall at his home some, months ago After 'the p'olice took aid Into tustodyi they carried hifn to his quafterSj took pies of his hair, returned hirn to the car'e of his military enforcement officers who visited the MacDonald apart- meht 17, the day his fam- ily was slain, and who ques- tioned MacDonald shortly after the murders; were among the witnesses diirifig the 12th day of the hearing Eis- man said. Eisman has given the only ac- counts oT the hearings; which were closed over defense objec- refuses to c6in- inent oh the lawyer's reports Wednesday's witnes- ses, Eisman said, William Ivory, a CID agent involved in investigation of.

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