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Soturday, Moy 4, 1 974 tDje JJeraacoIa Journal 7D Gurney Engages in Shoving Match ORLANDO (AP) Sen. Edward Gurney, engaged in a shoving match with reporters trying to question him about his indictment on charges of violating Florida election ilaws, newsmen said Friday. Brian Ross, a reporter for WCKT-TV in Miami, said Gurney at one point hit him with a cushion. Other reporters said Gurney and his aides pushed and shoved not going to discuss the indictment. "If you want to talk about the indictment then come to the hearing in Tallahassee.

If you want to talk about tourism or the energy crisis then I'll answer your questions," he said. When reporters persisted with questions about his political problems, Gurney and his aides left the conference room. newsmen in the lobby of a local hotel. Newsmen said no one was hurt in the brief episode. Gurney, a member of the Watergate committee, was here to open a conference on tourism and the energy crisis.

When newsmen asked him questions about his indictment, he replied, "This conference is being held for a different purpose and I'm illiil 8IIIifi Prosecutors Try to 2 Charges Against Separate Christian The Orlando Sentinel reported that Gurney and the aides shoved newsmen and the reporters shoved back. Gurney walked swiftly through the lobby and took refuge in the hotel bar, the newspaper said. As he left the lobby, a reporter asked, you bitter about this thing (the indictment)?" Gurney shot back, "It appears you're bitter," the Sentinel said. Gurney's aides again shoved their way through reporters as Gurney left the bar, the newspaper said, then he ran from the lobby to his room in the hotel. Ross said he and a television cameraman and another reporter went to.

the hotel room. When Gurney emerged, Ross said, he carried a pillow which he shoved in Ross' face. Ross said the cameraman filmed Ihe incident. 1 1 Ross added that several 1 reporters were slapped in the incident, but he wasn't sure who did the slapping, "All I can tell you is that I got three good whacks on the head," he said. Last week, a Leon County, Grand Jury in Tallahassee indicted Gurney on a misdemeanor charge of failing to report campaign funds collected in his behalf.

A federal grand jury in Jacksonville reportedly is investigating a secret $300,000 campaign fund collected in his behalf from builders seeking Gurney's influence with the Federal Housing Administration. ft EARLY MORNING FISHERMEN Some people can't understand the lure of early morning fishing and, even for those who love it most, it's hard to explain. These Tampa men, checking their crab nets in a mist that isolates them from everything except the water beneath the boat, must feel the same way. (AP Wirephoto) 3 Dead Men Were Hell's Angels TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -Prosecutors of Floyd Christian will try to separate the former state education commissioner's trials for perjury and bribery, they said Friday.

Prosecutors told Circuit Judge John Rudd in a court hearing that they wanted to proceed first with prosecution of Christian on 10 counts of lying before the grand jury and a charge of attempting to' persuade another witness to lie before the grand jury. Rudd would have to rule on whether the perjury and incitement to commit perjury could be joined in one trial, but Asst. State Atty. Aaron Bowden said it was the right of the prosecution to decide in which order the indictments would be tried. Christian was indicted by a Leon County grand jury last month on 19 counts of perjury, bribery and conspiracy in the awarding of state education contracts.

Defense attorneys, who indicated they would like to see Christian tried on all 19 counts at once, told Rudd they were reserving the right to file objections separation of the trials. The other eight counts alleged Christian accepted bribes and lied to a legislative committee. No trial date has been set. The prosecution announcement came Friday during a hearing in which both sides argued over how much prosecution evidence defense attorneys should be allowed to see. While agreeing to turn over a transcript of Christian's testimony before the grand jury and a list of other witnesses who appeared, prosecutors termed a defense motion for a complete transcript of the grand jury proceedings an unreasonable "fishing expedition." "This is a naked demand for the discovery of everything," Bowden said.

But defense attorneys argued that they needed more leeway. "All we are asking for is fairness," attorney E.C. Kitchen said. "This matter has been under investigation for two years. The state has spent much money and much talent to prepare its case.

west of Fort Lauderdale. Each man had been- shot behind the ear with a shotgun. Police said the bodies apparently were dragged to the water's edge, tied together, weighted with cement blocks and dumped into the pit. One body was discovered when it broke free and' floated to the surface. Police divers found the other two, still lashed together, in the bottom of the pit.

Dan Sullivan, a spokesman for the Broward Sheriffs office, said, "The men all had tattoos with 'Hell's Angel's, spelled out in full on their arms." sault with a deadly weapon April 2 in connection with a non-fatal stabbing at a Lowell cafe, police said. He was to have appeared in Lowell District Court Thursday. Simmons was believed to have been in Florida for about two years and ed a motorcycle shop, Lowell police said. He was arrested in connection with a 1969 riot in Lowell in which a police paddy wagon was set afire, officers said. A police spokesman in Lynn, said police in several Massachussetts cities were investigating the possibility of a motorcycle gang war in that state.

He said a Hell's Angel member in Lynn was killed and another wounded April 23 when a gunman fired a pistol into a bar. The bodies were found May 1 in the flooded rockpit near the Eveglades hamlet of Andytown about 15 miles I i "i i I 'i1 Ilk'' 5iyCASH'CHARGE'rs1 i 1 1 1 LAY-AWAY L1-J 1 2 Days Sat. Sun. Hay 4th 5th 1 XSs fZJ' 'Hear this Message 10 GALLON pT MM MUARiUM KITS A LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) Three men dead in an Everglades rock pit were two members and a former member of the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang in Lowell, police said Friday.

The three may have been I murdered in a gang war, 1 police said. The Broward County I sheriff's office identified the men from fingerprints as -Edwin T. Riley, 34, and Francis Hartman 28, both of Lowell, and Albert Simmons, 35, a former Lowell resident whose present address was unknown. Dan Sullivan, a sheriff's department spokesman, said Massachussetts State Police reported that Riley and Hartman were members of the Hell's Angels in Lowell and Simmons a former member. 'Sources said police were investigating the theory that the men died as a result of a gang war or a fight within the Hell's Angels.

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