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'Whitman Was A Thinker-' Say Old Friends LAKE WORTH, Fls. -The one-story bouse in which Charles Joseph Whitman grew up was ringed Monday by Inendi and who seemed unabre to link newspaper boy with the in Austin, Tex. "Charlie was a thinker whe never went oft half-cocked. must have been sick," saic Frank McCarty of Palm Beach MeCarty was a sehoolmaie 01 Whitman's for 12 years. He sail he and Whitman used to "rur together in a group oi live guys, we ve aouoie dated lots of times." Now computer specialist McCarty said he hadn't seen loo much of Whitman since they graduated from hifih school and Whitman went oli to college "But he was baclc here list fall and introduced me to wife." McCarty said.

"They leemea very nappy. McCarty said Whitman popular in high school and dated many girls hut had no panic lar girl friend. "He was cot plelely normal, just one of the guys, couldn't believe it when I heard it. "Charlh; wasn't much of athlete," he laid. "He was ways too busy working.

He had the biggest paper route in town and usually had some so job." McCarty said he couldn't re call Whitman having any spe cia! hobby but said he remem bered that he often went untins in the Everglades. "He wasn'i much of a shot then. They must have taught him that in the Marines. "But I still can't believe it Something must have happened A neighbor Who had known Whitman since he Was a httl boy agreed, "He must have just Inst his mind bang," Mrs. L.

J. Hollern. She said Whitman was "high spirited and lots of fun child, but gave no trouble. "His mother was a perfectly good mother very strict with the boys, a regular church-goer who made the boys attend with Herman Creenwald lives most across South Street from the neatly landscaped Whitman name, eight blocks south Lake Worth's business district He said he couldn't believe hi onetime newspaper delivery boy was capable of such slaughter. "Charles delivered the Palm beach Post to my home daily for about two years," Creenwald said.

"He seemed to be a Very nice boy, and quite intelligent. He very dependable. "And when the weather was bad his family would make the deliveries by automobile." Another of the Whitmans' neighbors, Chester Strunk, also remembered Whitman as a idles. it into The Whitman house, tan wilh brown trim, was one. of many built this mindie-elass sertior during the 1910s.

It has a swimming pool in the back yard. It's near a school and not fai from Sacred Heart Romar Catholic Church, which the Whi tmans attended. A spokesman for the familv came out of the house and told newsmen the elder Whilman had been placed under sedation and there would be no state-mem. Two priests and a funeral director also left the Whitman home. im, wnen Howard unrun, a quiet, Bible-reading, World War teran wanted down a Lamden.

N.J. street and methodically killed 13 persons in jusl 12 minutes with an automatic pis- Many of the victims were strangers to him. run is now in the Trenton. N.J., State Hospital, adjudged mental Iv unfit to stand trial. In another case, killers who were never caught lined up scv- rrs of thp George Mor- an gang against a Chicago wall ime gunned them all.

It has become known as the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The most recent of the muss slayings also was in Chicago. town house occupied by student nurses and knifed and strangled eignr 01 tnem. A aniter.

Rich ard Speck, has been arraigned on eisjnt murder indictments wave of holdups of stores service station in am. Ironically. Tabersky had been freed on appeal fallowing a conviction ot murder ia the holdup slaying of a Hartford liquor store pro EDITOR'S Associated Press newsman Robert Heard, 3f, an ex-Marine officer, was among tbnse wounded by a sniper In the University of Texas Tower Monday. He was shot in the left shoulder. Here if his personal account, dictated from his hospital bed.

He writhed with psin as he talked and at one point exclaimed, "God, It hurts!" By ROBERT HEARD AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) Si: MESSAUC FROM SNIPER HOME Folic hold a Me directing them ta develop films which was I the home Atrst'n, occupied hy Charles Joseph ttm was lotptilMri by police as sniper who kill-14 petsons Monday Police found the camera and they weat la ihe home to remove the bodv of I'l wife, mm of dil victims. prietor in Hit. After four years In death rew, he was released and In a tearful reunion with his mother, exclaimed "justice has been Within less than a year, a wave ef holdup murders began which led liquor stores in the state to adopt earlier closing hours. Taborsky and Culombe were finally captured in Hartford and subsequently admitted the slayings.

Tabor-sky also admitted the slay-lag for which he originally was sentenced in IS51. He was executed in the electric ehalr and Culombe, would be dead them. death sentence, he fs still scrv- Cold Blood' Another case was relatively until author Trjman Capote put the story into a best selling boon, "in uioem. ifli the niRnt ot Nov. is.

i two men. Perrv Smith the rest of I didn't cct it as bad as the others. The bullet went ii and there's a big hulc my back where it came out. at guv must he an incredi btc shot. We got the tip in ih mere was a sniper in the lower and I was In VI aab nur tie campus.

1 remember Jack (KecverJ yelled as I went out the door, "Be careful, don't get shot," Wlirai Sr-t I ihr imivi isity campus, we went tu the north s-iclo of tne tnwer where could hear a popping raise. Run Toward Tower This other reporter (Emest Mrombcrger, Dallas Times Her aid) and I saw two highway patrolmen putting their rifles to pother. They started lo run to ward Ihe tower and we foliowec close, behind. Thr-n we came to a open spare about ISD yards where jirnlri tmn 1 he: would bp this funny noise evcrs nnw and Ihrn 1 ike hulli-l wh n-insr off in the distance, The two patrolmrn ran acrois the open area safely, and I said in mysejt, 1 hat gunman pruh: hly saw ihrtn and he will waiting for me" paused arwut Five seconds ueinre off. Knocked to Paientei 1 wa.s almost across the open sj.are whvn hit whirled me around arid knocked me on I lie hnl pavement.

That uuy must he an incredi bio shot. Six inches more lo th-i li arid he would have hit mi heart, My left arm was numh bul 1 remember feeling how pavement felt, ft seems like iusl a frsv minutes until a bunch of men ran out and hack to the shade under Ihe II- a i SI I islnnnrrrl I ha! he -jd I'll I'll UTh--r pretty soon Ihe lance came and look me hospital. the There 1 was, work r.g on a eal pnnd and nmv iook at ic I can't type. riven THE BRIDGEPORT TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, STRETCHERS AWAIT VICTIMS A Brackenridge hospital doctor s'H stretchers ready ic sniper victims to hospital at the University of Texas in Austin Monday. Crowds line II ret on the campus mall.

The Slate Capitol can be seen in background. Other Mass Slayings Recalled Including State Holdup Deaths IEW YORK (AP) The per slayings in Ami: in lex Monday were rmolher in a Jonc line of mass killings dating to 1929. One of the most inexplicable of the killings took place 6, Richard Hkkock. invaded the (arm home cf the Herbert Clut ter family, bound all four of them, and killed them. Smith and Hickack were hanged in April 1965.

At Parsipaany-Troy Hills, N.J., in 1956, engineer William Bauer went berserk with a shot gun and killed six members of his family, then turned the £un. on himself. Murder at Sea Terry Dupperrault, II, told horrifying story of murder at Wounded Newsman Tells How He's Hit on the Run ea in November 1961 when she rescued after days on a alt. She tola Miami police that er parents, Arthur and Jean Duppci rjlt of Green Ray, aboard the ketch Rluchellc by apl Jia.yav, 'aha killed his wife Harvey had been rescued ea lier with the dead body ot Terry Jn's sister. Renee.

7, When he heard that Terry had (fl, -a- uim-n Urd suic-id In a 13-day killing spree in John t. West, 22. of Paikr-rablnp W. ami Robert M. Daniels.

2-1. of Columbus, Ohio, left seven dead, iiic'jdinp a farm family of a shootout at a police road block, slain, and a couple of officers were wounded. Daniels later sags executed. On rilu-5 Doagias, seized Chailcs Starkweather, 19, and his girl friend, Carol Fugate, 14. who usiu wen sougnr inr iu slayings three George R.

York, 18, and imes D. Latham. 15, were ap prehended in and held In Salt Lake City, accused oi seven -slayings during a five-state rabbery spree after their escape from the Army Disciph nary Barracks at Ft. Hood, Tex They were hanged at Lansing. June 23, IWS, for a slaying in.

that state. Manchester Man Dies In 2-Truck Accident VKRNON (AP)-A 54-year-old Manchester man was falally jured in a two-truck accident Monday. Slate Police- said the vii Aime Jarvis, 54, of 11 Fenwick. Koad, Manchester, had been driving a pick-up truck on Wilbur Crnss Highway when was hi: brand a Iracl'r trailer. ti Inr tr.nlr-r, Maurice Bly, 41, of Benvus Point, N.Y., overran the smaller ruck, and both vehii vad iff the rnad, knocked isvn guard posts, and slid down a embankment, state police said Ha- a.a.-, aaiaed 'am driving.

MORAL CLEANUP BEGUN RUES'OS AlRhS, Argenliti (AP) The Argentine gnver has begun a moral clea up by certain public. Darnnir puniic pnrK Oiinches for nimance, an dnring night clubs la tui bright lights "so men and svotri- in be told apart." Sniper's Father Secludes Self, 2 Sons, Priest LAKE WORTH. Fla. (AP) The Texas sniper's fmher secluded himself and two sens a Driest Monilny and ic- fused (o discuss lie mounting toll that included his estranged wife, son and daughter-in-law, is mis call irum a newsjia-?" C.A. Whilman asked one telephones Told that it was.

he replied, 'We have no enm- ent, and refused to talk fur-His voice was steadv and strong. He spoVe rapidly but politely. be Ford his wife ar.d daughter-in-law were known tc the dead, the ake plumbing contractor talked readily with reporters and told them of his dead son's nmphshments as a Bov Seoul, student and Marine. Friends Bar Visitors ring of neiJthbors and friends circled the Whilman home, refusing to let visitors approach, tne door. Inside whit man and the sniper's live ounger brothers were com foiled by their parish priest, ather Whitman said his srm, "scph, had been in coflece for years and hail gone he Marines.

After serving his time, he went back to school And now lacked a vear gradual ing, the elder Whitman laid. The west Palm Beach 1'ost Times said it had a clipping that snowed wn years at the U.S. Naval Tiase at Guantannrno- Pay, Cuba, left the service as a corporal, Nebraska ana Wyoming. Starkweather was executed uihiiTm, In New York, Radio Station WINS tapied a Iclephon -aTi father -n 1-1 he said his son. was fit one tin th" ytiunke-it Eagle Scout in th world" and was an honor stu dent at the University of Tr-Tbe elder Whilman said wile left him about 5 mnnths nd he began to wonder if that had anything to do with the Miootings.

men added don't know ff that has anvthing to do with it Whitman said his son all kinds of honors" i Marine Corps "made "the last 959. Miss Fugate was nF about 1hc idfint. He Interrupted the telephone conversation a few minutes and then relumed and told a report- They say it is my son. I'm sorry 1 cant be of any more to you now. I've got some phone calls to make." Lake Worth is just south est Palm Beach.

Acne 5 Fabris. a longtime ighbor of Ihe Whitman family i.ake worm, saia, un no, it just couldn't be Charley. Mrs. Fabns lives across me sfreet from the house in which Charles grew up with younger hrothers, Patrick and johnny Mike. Charley used to play with children," she said, "He was a little oiaer tnan my girl but they got along beautifully.

"Nice Little Boy" She said Charles attended parochial schools at Lake Worth and nearby west Palm Besxli uric little boy i handnome man," for about a year." Mrs. Fabris said Charles' par ents were separated about months ago, with Mrs. Whitman moving to Teias. "Charley and his wife used visit Margaret before she and her husband separated." she said. Mrs.

Fabris buist inlo tears upon learning that Mrs. Whitman alsn had been killed. "Margaret was my neighbor for moie than 20 years said. IjL I WM X' ii FIRtS AT SN1PF.R An Austin pel Alp iceman lires from a nearby building coward the University of Tesas tion lower during; the height of the shnoting spree by Charles Joseph Whilman Monday. Whitman was slain by police bat not before he had killed at least 14 persons.

I AP Wlrftliota BODY OF SNIPER'S WIFE REMOVED FROM HOME Ambulance remove the body of Mrs. Kathleen Whitman, wile ef Charles Joseph Whitman, Irom the family home in Austin Monday. Whitman was identified by police as the slayer or 14 persons or his wife and mother. Governor Orders Thorough Probe; Voices Shock RfO DE JANEIRO, Bra: (AP) Gov. John B.

Ctmnally or Texas said Monday night he uiu ira p. a in return nome be- edy unless "my presence there eittier required or would con-butc to straighlenine the sit uation." Connally made his remark tr newsmen after a meeting witf Brazilian officials at the For eign Ministry, He is on a touro Latin America to promote the Mr. I56R San Antonio ticmis-Fair. r5. Connally and I both extend our deepest sympathies to the families and friends of the vii t.nis." the governor said.

added: "1 have been in ict with acting Gov. and togelher we are ordering a thorough and com plete investigation Dy tne texas Department of Public Safety to ltevr.i>p la.lv all the tacts termlne the cau'ies, as well as hopefully to prevent recurrence of such a terrible event. Smith, who watched develop ments from his capital office and at nearby Brackenridge Hospital, announced that he had conferred wilh Lt. Col. Wilson F.

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School Officials Express Regrets, Laud the Heroes AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) Uni-versity Chancellor Harry Ransom and Regent Chairman W.W. Heath of Austin issued the following statement Monday on Charles Joseph Whitman, the sniper who killed at least 14 persons, including nil wife and mother: The university community is stunned by the appalling tragedy which occurred today. University offices are cooperating fully with law enforcement agencies, no explanation or motive In any normal context is available. Mr.

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