Skip to main content
The largest online newspaper archive
A Publisher Extra® Newspaper

Daily News from New York, New York • 3

Publication:
Daily Newsi
Location:
New York, New York
Issue Date:
Page:
3
Extracted Article Text (OCR)

DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1974 FIRE HER 3 L.I. Family Found Shot to Death By JERRY A couple and their evening in their expensive were discovered by the The victims were identified his wife, Louise, 42, two sons, two daughters, Allison, 13, and Suffolk County police said they received a call at 6:35 p.m. from Ronald DeFeo, 23, who told them that he had found the bodies of his parents in their bedroom on the second floor. When police arrived, DeFeo said he also had discovered the bodies of his brothers and sisters in other bedrooms of the threestory brown frame house. Police said all the victims were in their nightclothes.

John and Mark were found in bed in one of the rooms they shared on the second floor. Allison's body was in a second-floor bedroom and Dawn's in a third-floor bedroom. No Sign of Struggle Police said that there was no sign of a struggle or of a robbery. No murder weapon was found. Police Sgt.

William Smith said that three of the victims were shot in the back, two in the head and one in the neck. Police theorized that all were killed in their sleep late Tuesday night or early yesterday morning. SCHMETTERER and DANIEL four children were found Colonial-style home in couple's oldest son. as Ronald J. DeFeo, 43, John, 9, and Mark, 12, and Dawn, 18.

After the medical examiner left and the bodies were taken to the morgue, police said members of the DeFeo family apparently had been dead since before 7 a.m. yesterday. Young DeFeo told police he returned from his job at BriganteKarl Buick in Brooklyn, where his father was service manager. The automobile dealership is coowned by DeFeo's father-in-law, Michael Brigante. Hunt for Weapon DeFeo, the only surviving member of the family, was taken to Suffolk County police headquarters in Hauppauge, where he was questioned by detectives.

It was not known whether Ronald spent the night at his home. Police conducted a search of the grounds around the house and used metal detectors in an attempt to locate the murder weapon. The DeFeo family was de- Arafat Waves Olive Branch in UN Body is removed from house in By STEVEN MATTHEWS speech in Arabic, but put them Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, opened on after the address. the United Nations debate on had come before the members freedom fighter's gun." "Do not let that olive branch fall from my hand," the guerrilla leader appealed to the nations that had invited him to become the first representative of a nonmember state or group to receive delegate status and permission to address a plenary session of the world organization. He repeated his plea to loud applause from the packed, heavily guarded General Assembly chamber.

Only the seats of Israel, which boycotted the speech, and South Africa were Because of its racial policies, South Africa was suspended Tuesday News photo by Robert Rosamilio Palestine yesterday with a of the General Assembly from participation in the current General Assembly session. The Israeli's returned later in the day to reply to Arafat's speech. Debate Is Delayed Israel's UN ambassador, Yosef Tekoah, in an afternoon speech issued a stinging indictment of both the UN and the PLO. Tekoah said that inviting Arafat to speak amounted to hanging out a sign saying, "Murderers of children are welcome here." Tekoah compared PLO tactics to those employed by the Nazis during World War II. He accused ringing proclamation that he "bearing an olive branch and a the PLO of wanting to dismantle Israel and Jordan.

Tekoah warned that any UN resolution that "responds to the PLO demands would encourage the extremists in the Arab world who reject a peaceful settlement with Israel." Arafat, clad In Western clothes and wearing his traditional black and white checked Arab headdress, but with no trace of his usual' beard, spoke amid the tightest security precautions ever undertaken at the United Nations. He removed his familiar dark glasses when he read his Palestine Demonstrations Snarl Manhattan Traffic bate on Palestine. Heavy police security and the pacifying efforts of leaders of pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian groups kept the several scuffles minor. But there were seven arrests during the day. Copter Check Last night, when Yasser Arafat left the UN building around 8:45, after attending a reception given in his honor by the Egyptian Mission to the UN, patrol helicopters lifted off from the UN lawn for a quick check around the area.

The motorcade with Arafat then zipped through the UN gates for the 90-second drive on 49th St. to the Waldorf-Astoria. He was expected to spend the night at the hotel and leave for Cuba this afternoon. About 50 demonstrators were marching and chanting within al, By MARTIN KING and FRANK LOMBARDI The turbulent politics of the Middle East tied up Manhattan yesterday in a traffic-snarling, temper-fraying round of demonstrations over the United Nations deblock of the hotel, but they apparently did not see the motorcade, which slipped into the hotel's parking garage without incident. Beginning with the arrival of Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, at Kennedy Airport at 6:18 a.m.

yesterday, the day's events moved at breakneck speed. Arafat, whom. Jewish militants had threatened openly with assassination, arrived aboard an Air Algeria 707 jet that was guided to a remote hangar. There clusters of reporters and photographers and scores of federal agents, Port Authority policemen and other security personnel waited in the chilly dawn. Two green Army helicopters DRISCOLL shot to death yesterday Amityville, L.I.The bodies Amityville LONG ISLAND Sta.) 44 Oak St.

Merrick AMITYVILLE Rd. Montauk COPIAGUE Richmond Hwy. South Bay News map by Dennis McCulley Bodies were found in house (X) on Ocean Amityville. scribed by neighbors as "very religious." All of the children reportedly attended the local Catholic parochia! school. The $75,000 house lies between Ocean Ave.

and Amityville Creek, which runs into Great South Bay. The property has numerous trees and there is a swimming pool at the side of the house, which also has a detached, twocar garage. Having addressed the Assembly, Arafat attended a private working luncheon and discussed a possible UN resolution along the lines of proposals made in his speech. Later he attended a reception given by Egypt and then left the UN in a closely guarded motorcade for the Waldorf-Astoria. Shortly before he arrived at the Waldorf, at 9 p.m., the helicopter that brought him to the UN left the grounds.

The debate did not begin for more than an hour after its scheduled 10:30 a.m. start, but UN officials denied that there was any unusual reason for the delay. There had been reports that a bomb threat had caused the delay. Six members of Arafat's PLO delegation sat in the front of the hall, and a dozen others listened from seats on the side as their leader spoke of the "dream of the Palestinian people" for a "democratic state" in the Middle East where Moslems, Christians and Jews could "live in equality and progress." Change in Doctrine? "In my formal capacity as chairman of the Palestine tion Organization, I proclaim that when we speak of our hopes, we include all Jews now living in Palestine who wish to live in peace with us," Arafat said in a strong, clear voice. Some observers felt that this indicated a change from previbusly expressed PLO doctrine that only those Jews who lived in Palestine before 1917, when Britain formally announced support for the idea of a Jewish state by issuing the Balfour Declaration, would be allowed to remain the secular state envisioned by Arafat.

A PLO spokesman refused to elaborate on the statement, however. Gesturing frequently with his arms, Arafat attempted to reconcile his many condemnations of Zionism as an "ideology that is colonialist, imperialist, neocolonialist, racist, discriminatory and anti-Semitic" with what he said Arafat May Have Had Gun Was Yasser Arafat carrying a gun during his speech to the United Nations General Assembly yesterday? Those who got close to him said that he may have been armed with a pistol--or at least was wearing a holster. A spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization denied to reporters that Arafat had a weapon. Reporters, photographers and UN guards, who were close to Arafat as he left the hall, said Arafat was wearing a holster on his right hip. Photos taken from the press box showed an object that appeared to be a holster as Arafat raised his arms and clasped his hands in a victory salute before and after his speech.

The Associated Press quoted one of Arafat's bodyguards, without naming him, as saying that it was a gun. "It's not only real, it's loaded," the guard said. A spokesman for the UN, however, said that the "holster" was, in fact, a case for Arafat's dark glasses. -Steven Matthews were there to whisk Arafat, clad in a khaki jacket over fatigues and wearing his customary sunglasses and kaffiyeh, or headdress, to the UN. A third helicopter, a blue and white police chopper, buzzed overhead, its crew on the lookout for possible snipers.

As some of Arafat's party headed for the UN in a motorcade with the code name Alpine, Arafat was flown to the north garden of the UN. The army copters landed there at 6:55 a.m. The motorcade and its police escort sped into Manhattan on the Van Wyck Expressway, Grand Central Parkway and the Triborough Bridge to the East (Continued on page 52, col, 1) was his kinship with the "oppressed Jewish people." Arafat scorned those who would dismiss him as a terrorist and, in a reference to the United States, lashed out at "those who supply our enemy with planes and bombs." United States Ambassador John Scali sat impassively through the remark, as he did River Drive, closed temporarily to usual traffic. As Arafat waited in the United Nations building later in the morning to speak before the General Assembly, groups of protesters began gathering at different locations. At Fifth Ave.

and 60th a corner of Central Park, several busloads of pro-Palestinians began arriving before 10 a.m. By 10:50 a.m., the demonstrators had swollen to at least 800 men and women chanting "Welcome, welcome Arafat!" and carrying anti-Israeli signs, the (Continued on page, 52, col. 2).

Get access to Newspapers.com

  • The largest online newspaper archive
  • 300+ newspapers from the 1700's - 2000's
  • Millions of additional pages added every month

Publisher Extra® Newspapers

  • Exclusive licensed content from premium publishers like the Daily News
  • Archives through last month
  • Continually updated

About Daily News Archive

Pages Available:
18,858,071
Years Available:
1919-2024