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ee der Of | e 8 at eers, known ts. “Mister- xu ae not t been taken into custody é enough evidence to put hint ¥. <his henchmen in the electric ir or behind bars, the current turday Evening ge of the Saturday Evening f. reported. i oe “The FBI knows who bought dynamite, who made the swho placed it there’ and ‘ho. engineered the crime,” Mg- an , weaver U.S. attorney” in Rye now e every detail “about ut we just don’t have=t al ence, "aisaid Lt. ‘Maurice : mse: ° chief of Birmingham de- ives, according to. -the vat “was on a sunny Sunday ing Jast Sept. 15, just as y school classes were get- *Fott, that the dynamite ginb- planted under the stairs ‘the Sixteenth Street Baptist burch exploded, hurling rub- for bl blocks in the Negro sec- a a @ blast killed four yourig ero girls and injured 19 per- ins, It Was one of many @X- losions that have kept racial insions at a fever pitch” for tonths. ‘But it was the one “that jocked the nation as nothing ise ‘had. and caused President étinedy to say he felt a 7 aeeP mse of outrage and grief. ” The maguzine said that io ays after the church borybing, ; le" killers struck again — this | AD pte ue! me with a pair of bombs de- | gned to kill. policemen - and ; Stectives Who were making lings uneomfortable for them ¥ probing into their activities. ‘The first bomb, probably one ick of dynamite. was set off Ya‘yacant lot. Police rushed the scene, but could not locate ie Gmmediately. ; :The secorid ymb, dynamite in a can filled | ith. rusty. shrapnel, wert* ve E minutes after the first’ > 2-- It was meant for us,” a po- , seman was quoted as. saying. \ it was. set to allow just enough . me for us to get there. Tf we , ad found: the bomb. maybe 3 50 ‘ficers. would ave lost their ves, or been mangled} te: + fc garg “by Abe bor two. 2 ad had been: involved | in Ku. Klan detivities, 78 et oa | /The men, R. E. Chambliss” 39, and Chases Cagle, 22, both, “oF ingharn, ° were ch: Ral Liidigth oF illeg al ossession of and possession fre victed, fined $100 each and sen- tenced to 180 days in jait. The magazjne said the FBI considered it a prematyre ar- rest which tipped off the bomb- ers that authorities knew a great deal about their activities but also showed they did not have enough evidence to convict them of the church bombing. To prevent any of the ‘pang from talking, the‘ magazine said, a “kiss of death meeting’ was held with all of the group. in- volved in the bombing’ attend- ing. dere henser: “IP any one of you ever talks. it will be the kiss of death for you,” the ringleader, Mister X, was reported as vowing. “We join hands here and now in swearing that each of us takes a vow to kill the man who gives gmite ‘anything away to the police.” The magazine said that detec- tives and Federal] agents fallow “Mister X’ constantly. — He knows they are following him and sometimes spits at them and yells “you hogs” at them. The bomber is being so care-. ful now. the magazine said, that /officials have little hope they can convict him of murder.: They have more hope of pin-. ning a conspiracy charge on; him. ; “You've pretty nearly got to have somebody who was at the meeting when it was planned,’ ‘Weaver was quoted. as -saying.' “And just remember that the’ peg rs may did this are going