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Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, California, Sunday Dec. 5, 1971 SA BARON MURDER TRIAL Defendant Claims Self -Defense fpiji QD Lr OG )L GJ 3 Youa HOME CINTIR "Dee didn't want no traffic on He said when be saw Mrs. fied as "representing" the Maf-'er, but Clay defended him and "He said he didn't get the! returned the address book to ia while Raymond Patriarca, FIFTH et STREET SANTA ROSA PHOtf 542-1855 Open Doily 9 to 5 Thursday Evenings Until 9 p.m. Select from over 50 magnificent VALUES the road," he said. "She said, 'I know a place where the ground money as quick as he thought he would and he thought Ray him.

the East Coast Mafia chief was Wilson at her other home on Yu-lupa ave. in Santa Rosa she told him she and Miss Ramos had set the house afire with "some is very soft'." in prison. He said on the afternoon of He said they drove from Glen the night Clay was killed. Clay (Mr. Baron also gave testimo Pinole was cheating him," Mr.

Baron said. Clay, he said, wanted him to speak to Mr. Pinole and when liquid." Ellen to Calistoga then to ny which sent Mr. Patriarca to was visited by two men, one of whom he identified as Ron St. Helena rd.

for about three He said Mrs. Wilson re miles where they turned off marked, You seen it? You prison in connection with another murderca.se). A few days later, he said, he did, Mr. Pinole claimed he had given the stolen securities should have been there. It was a onto a private road.

He said Clay told him he had lot of Mrs. Wilson, he said, showed Leonard Hughes told bim that; made arrangements for the two to a member, of the Mafia In Reno, Nev. him a spot near a creek and he Mr. Baron said he scolded her men to help kill Mrs. Wilson's the Mafia had agreed to his ask started digging with a shovel and told her she could get in He said he and Clay discussed ing price of a half million dol while the two women held flash trouble and she replied, "Don't lars and that the money would the bonds nearly every day aft ex-husband.

Ken Mancini, and Ray Pinole. The two men, he said, were concerned because Clay had lights. er that and that at the end of worry about it." be placed in escrow for him until after he recanted. Mr. Baron said the shovel Mr.

Baron began his testimo April Clay took him to the Glen Ellen home and uncovered 8127,000 worth which he had broke when it became entangled ny by disclosing he gave testi Mr. Hughes also told him, he 'prolonged making the decision on some vines and he couldn mony in 1968 which led to the said, the Mafia was "upset" be-and had caused them to wait in buried outside. conviction of six Mafiosos for cause he had included a news SI finish digging the hole, so they put the body back in the trunk the 1965 murder of Edward He said he and a friend, of the car and returned to Glen (Teddy) Deegan in a Chelsea, Ralph Keaton, made arrange Ellen. alley. ments to go back east where he had connections to cash the Santa Rosa for 10 days.

Mr, Baron also testified Clay carried two guns and dealt in stolen guns. He said Clay also took drugs which made him "depressed and pensive." Mr. Baron admitted he himself carried at least two guns They were, he said. Peter paper reporter at the first meeting. At the same time, he said.

Hughes told him Mr. Davis' contact men, who were to convert the stolen had gone to Puerto Rico and He said they drove up Wake mone, Louis Greco, Henry Ta-i bonds Robin lane to the top of a cliff, mcleo, Ronald Cassesso, Henry Meeting where he and Miss Ramos got Salvati and Wilfred French. The Mr. Baron testified he and out to dig a hole. He said he told this bsautfful back until Mr.

Keaton flew back to New wouldn't be two with him and wore a bullet Mrs. Wilson to leave the car first four are in Death Row. He said he was placed in prot Bedford, with the bonds months later. with the body and to return in ective custody prior to testify on April 28. 1970, and had Mr.

Hughes, he said, returned an hour. proof vest. After the shooting, on July 11, 1970, he said, he returned to Massachusetts where he had meeting in the "woods" nearihonds to him, but he eventually Mr. Baron said he dug with gave them back to Mr. Hughes another shovel, while Miss Ra when Mr.

Hughes said he I further talks with Attorney Bai mos scooped out the dirt. aswso-sctc oierfo FMfl MDO-mOO thought some jewelers could; ley about his proposed recanta- In about an hour, he said, ing. He said he was hidden a Massachusetts estate and guarded around the clock by 20 U.S. marshals. He also at one time was secluded at Fort Knox, he said.

After he testified, he said, he was given a new identity, Jo (Continued from Page 1A two women, who were a few feet behind, and "I told them to get out of here, I'll handle it." The women, he said, took off, be hid the body in some bushes and walked back to Mr. Wilson's home in Glen Ellen, arriving about IS minutes later. Enroute to the house, he said, he disassembled Clay's .38 revolver and scattered the parts in the woods. He took Clay's .25 automatic, which was loaded, and took all the bullets out. "Peace" When he got back to the house, he said, the two women were sitting in the front porch.

Mrs. Wilson, he said, said "Peace." Mr. Baron said when he heard the comment, he accused the two women of knowing beforehand that Clay intended to kill bim, but they denied it. He said he handed Mrs. Wilson the .25 automatic "because I wanted to see what she would do with it," and she tossed it on a couch.

Mr. Baron said he was going to leave Clay's body in the bushes but Mrs. Wilson remarked. "He has to be buried. The police will never believe this.

The publicity will make me lose my child." The defendant contended he agreed to help bury the body at Mrs. Wilson's insistence. Mr. Baron said just before the snooting, all four of them were at the Glen Ellen home and Clay suggested they all go into the woods to uncover the guns. Contradicting the testimony of the two women, be said they drove up Wake Robin lane in Clay's car, with Clay driving.

The women had testified they all walked from the house. After the shooting, he said, Mrs. Wilson said she knew of a place where there was some soft dirt to bury the body. He said they all went back in the car to the shooting site and were going to wrap up the body in some rags to transport it. "Kind of Stiff" "Clay was kind of he said.

"He was hard to carry. I didn't think we should wrap him up." cash them tion. Mrs. Wilson returned in the car, they took the body out of the New Bedford with several men. The other men were his brother, Donald Barboza, Herbert Jesus, Leonard Hughes, Frank Davis, and James Southwood, a reporter for the Boston Herald-Traveller.

All the men carried guns and some were wearing gas masks trunk and Mrs. Wilson drove off. seph Bentley, and the U.S. Jus Mr. Baron testified Miss Ra That was the last he saw of them, he said.

Lee Bailey Eventually, he said, he was contacted by attorney F. Lee Bailey to arrange for his recantation. In the meantime, he said, he was receiving from $800 He said he told Leonard Hughes, a long-time friend, and his brother, Donald Barboza, about the Clay slaying. On July 17, 1970, he said, he was arrested in New Bedford when police stopped his car and they found a gun on his compan tice Department relocated him and his family ki Santa Rosa mos instructed him to cover to hide their identities. Clay's face with a burlap sack where in April, 1989, he lived and to put a rope around his Mr.

Baron said he delivered legs, which he did. the bonds to Mr. Davis, who ion. Herbert Jesus. He was sent to Walpole State Prison for vio Pushed Over Cliff said he could get the bonds on Hoen ave.

Bomb At the time of the Mafia trials, he said, he was represented by an attorney, John cashed. He said Miss Ramos then to $1,200 from the Mafia and later $1,000 a month. He said he signed an affidavit stating that he would recant. lation of probation, At this meeting, he "said, he There, he said, he met Wil dragged the body along the ground with the rope and told Mr. Davis, who was an em Fitzgerald.

The Mafia, he said, but never did recant, nor did he liam Geraway, but denied he ever mentioned the killing to "pushed" it off the cliff, where issary for the Mafia, that "I would recant my testimony," "planted a bomb in the hood of his car." have any intention of doing so. Mr. Baron said he returned to it landed on an incline near Geraway. where the grave had been dug. referring to his testimony at the As a result, Mr.

Baron said, Geraway earlier testified that Santa Rosa in late May of 1970 Mr. Baron said he and Miss Mafia trials. and learned that an address book which he had lost before Mr. Fitzgerald lost his right leg and part of his left leg. Mr.

Baron told him he murdered Clay. Geraway later in- Ramos then "put Clay in the Mr. Baron said he offered to Mr. Baron said he was relo he left was found at the Mira-1 formed on Mr. Baron and was hole and covered him up." When they returned to the recant his testimony for money and Mr.

Davis mentioned "A responsible for the discovery of Clay's body and the murder house, he said, Mrs. Wilson was quarter of a million dollars." cated in Santa Rosa by the Justice Department because he felt his life was in danger from the asleep, so he had Miss Ramos charge against Mr. Baron. "I said it wasn't enough," Mr. drive him to his home in Santa Mafia.

Mr. Baron, he said, talked to Baron said. "I wanted a half million." mar Bar. The book contained names of a number of state and federal government authorities. He said he and Ray Pinole got into an argument over the book at Mrs.

Williams' house. Pinole accused him of being an inform- Rosa. He said he was sent to the Mr. Geraway a lot about Mrs Mr. Baron testified he saw Mr.

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aboard ship and was hospital At one point, he said, Miss Wilson claimed that she and a NOW ized for a time in China. He said he was compensated $18, 000 for the injury. man called "Roger," had stolen the stock and bonds in question from the family home of Victor Before they put the body in the trunk, he said, Mrs. Wilson asked him to take all of Clay's things out of his pocket. He said He met Clay in April of 1970 through a neighbor, Mrs.

Nancy DeCarli. House Burned Christmas aftet Christmas after Christmas! Williams, he said. he did and gave them to Mrs, Wilson. Mr. Baron said one day after the shooting he went to the Glen i 1 fAyv The very first day he met Clay, he said, told him about the stolen securities, that They drove back to the house with the body in the trunk, he Ellen home to talk to Miss Wil said, and at Mrs.

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