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DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1972 Ymh 3 Seffat ffimllw; Associated Press Wirephoto Body of Harvey Glenn McLeod lies next to rifle used in shootings. Raleigh, N.C., May 29 (Special) A young rifleman in a business suit quietly appeared today at a large shopping center where Sen. B. Everett Jordan was making an unscheduled campaign stop and killed three persons and wounded eight others two of them children with his weapon. The assailant then shot himself to death.

Jordan, 75, shaking hands with passersby inside a building 150 feet from the rifleman, was badly shaken but uninjured in the several minutes of shooting and bedlam among hundreds of holiday shoppers in the North Hills Pleasantries TBnemi eafh Shopping Center, He was taken by police van 11111 Sen. B. Everett Jordan An unscheduled campaign stop Charlotte Observer newspaper reporter Warren King was with Sen. B. Everett Jordan on what was fully expected to be the usual political grind stumping through shopping centers where middle America can easily be reached.

By WARREN KING Knight Newspapers Service Raleigh, N.C., May 29 Sen. B. Everett Jordan and his party of seven had just finished a radio interview at a Wendell station this morning when one of Jordan's aides suggested a handshaking tour of North Hills and Crab Tree Valley shopping centers. Jordan agreed. lie didn'r have another appointment until 2 p.m., and we pulk'd into the North Hills shopping center at about 11:55 a.m.

The lot was crovid with cars, and the sun was beginning to break through an overcast sky-as we got out of the car and headed toward the main entrance of the mull. As we walked into the entrance foyer, Jordan noticed five wonwn cm a circular in the middle of ths tile floor, and walked over to shake hands. The first woman l.e spoke to was Mrs. Jackie Wharton, who asked hin; about a former employe at Jordan's Raleigh office. Mrs.

Wharton, one of the persons killed in thp shooting, told the high-spirited senator: "If you get elected I'll come to Washington and work for you." Jordan said he'd like that fine an 1, with a grin, shoved a campaign card in her hand. The senator then hands with two other women on the bench, ano approached Mrs. Ralph Moody, wife of the assistant North Carolina attorney general. Mrs. Moody, who was seriously injured in the shooting, said: "Oh, you don't have to introduce us we're old friends." Mrs.

Moody and Jordan exchanged pleasantries and Jordan shook hands with Mrs. Jessie B. West, another shopper. The party headed through the glass doors into the air-conditioned mall. Jordan stopped very briefly to shake hands with a woman walking by, and then walked on.

When we were about 100 feet past the glass doors, I heard a rapid series of about four shots that sounded almost like a cap pistol: "Pap, pap, pap, pap." under heavy guard to a nearby hospital where he went into a chapel to pray and await word on the wounded. Among the wounded was his press secretary, Wes Hayden, who was hit in the chest by a single bullet and critically wounded. The slim, 6-foot-4-ineh Harvty Glenn McLeod, 22, of Raleigh, fired one shot from the automatic rifle which he had purchased for $54.95 an hour earlier at a local sporting goods shop into his mouth, according to several witnesses. "I thought he was looking into the barrel for some reason when he shot himself," said Warren Baldwin, wTho witnessed the shootings by peering around a corner in the mall flower shop where he worked. The shootings came two weeks to the day after Alabama Gov.

George C. Wallace was shot and wounded in a shopping center at Laurel, Md. Today's shootings were apparently not politically or racially motivated, Raleigh police officials said. Maj. Edgar C.

Duke of Raleigh city police said that McLeod, a black with a long criminal record, "first fired at another Negro man and missed him." The first man shot at was outside washing a shop window 100 yards from where McLeod stood, said Duke. The bullet broke the glass. An eerie silence fell over the mall following the first shot, according to witnesses. Police said that the shooting began a few minutes after noon, Continued on page 30, col. 1 Associated Press Airephoto Mr.

and Mrs. Willie McLeod, parents of Harvey Glenn McLeod, at Raleigh, N.C., home. I turned around and saw two of the women who had been sitting on the bench lying on the tile floor with blood smears all over them. Mrs. Wharton was lying face down in a large pool of blood.

Someone said: "What's going on, what's going on?" and then there were shouts of "Get back!" Only members of the Jordan party were near the entrance at this point. A Charlotte Observer reporter, Bob Boyd, who also was accompanying the Jordan party, ran toward the glass doors to look at the women lying on the floor. I ran toward the doors and as I got to the door, Boyd said: "Look out! He's out there and he's loading up again!" Jordan was looking toward the glass doors and we shoved him into an optician's shop. The rest of the party followed. I went into the optician's shop where the senator and his party were standing in a back office and then ran out of the mall to begin interviewing witnesses.

Shoppers were beginning to gather around the three injured women then, and as I ran past the circular bench, I noticed one of the women lying on her back on the bench with her hands clasped to her chest, her lips moving as if in prayer. Associated Press Wirephotos Wes Hayden Press secretary critically hurt Br Bern End! 4 Gals, op (Cars, 115-mph (has By EDWARD KIRKMAN A two-state auto chase in which four jailbreaking women led 20 pursuing police cars al speeds up to 115 miles an hour came to a screeching halt early yesterday morning when their car turned into a dead-end uptown street and the women were captured. The drama, which included the pass through, and continued the chase. As the jailbreakers car sped toward the Cross Bronx Expressway, city police were alerted and joined in the ihase with eight more cars. Six shots were fired by local cops.

Head Down Broadway The women exited the park- of the women pulled a switch- pital for treatment. The escapees headed south on Merritt Parkway way at 181st St. and Broadway, parkway. When one woman produced a knife, he leaped from the car. Police, seeking to set up road blocks at several parkway toll booths, were unable to reach attendants on the phone.

Eight Connecticut patrol cars were then joined by four New York State police vehicles as the fleeing prisoners passed the state line. The women's car hit 115 miles an hour. One cop described the driving as "the best I've ever seen." When the women approached the New Rochelle toll booth of the New England Thru-way, attendants had managed to block all but one of the entrances with unoccupied cars. A wooden gate was lowered across this booth but the women sped through, sending the wood flying. The pursuing cars had ta down to stabbing and taking hostage of a matron at the Niantic, Conn, prison, a triple turnover by the women's car, a kidnaping and car theft from a good Samaritan who went to their aid and a 100-mile-an-hour crash through a New Rochelle toll gate barrier, began shortly before 2 a.m.

The women, Ann Griffin, 31, Carol Jones, 26, Jacqueline McCoy, 29, and Karlene Nelson, 29, all of New Haven, had been arrested for auto theft in that state and taken to women's prison at Niantic, near New London. About 15 minutes after their blade knife and placed it against the neck of matron Mrs. Elizabeth Dinan, 62. As other prison personnel looked on, the woman with the knife drew it across the matron's neck, inflicting a superficial wound. Then the women all drug addicts, according to police forced Mrs.

Dinan to accompany them out of the jail and into her car. With Karlene behind the wheel, the car sped off toward New Haven. Prison officials notified state police. Mrs. Dinan was dumped from the car at the outskirts rof but, near Fairfield, the car crashed through a road divider, turning over three times before coming to halt in a wooded area.

Goes to Their Aid Robert Anderson, 32, a high school English teacher, who lives near the parkway, heard the crash and went to the women's aid. Anderson led them from the woods and into his home, where he informed them that his wife had already summoned an ambulance and notified police. The women hastily left the house and forced Anderson to drive back toward the and, stiil driving at high speed, headed down Broadway to 110th St. Then, dodging in and out of streets, the car headed toward Riverside Drive and finally into dead-end 124th St. Unable to turn around, they fled on foot but were all caught, unhurt.

The women, who face assorted charges in two states, were taken to New Rochelle, arrijrned and held, pending action by Hsfybft; where she. arrival, according fSr, el ,1. ,1 l.f,.