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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) 4 {Mount Clipping in Space Below) > IDENTIFY ig oa <a Friend Says It’s Lawyer’ . mg pilin we ert . re =} > Cogoner’s..officials in Ventura]! “We currently are-not explor-|{ _told. newsmen, that he findicate pave, aame wt ‘County worked today to confirm} |ing the possibility thar Iris aiiy- jwould appeal the case on Toit newspaper, city and state.) : one else. We are going along in| principal grounds: haba body found in the rugged an effort to confirm that it is}; g@Refusal of the courts ~ Sespe Hot Springs area last Hughes’ body until such time|' pe ut weekend was that of missing! |that we prove otherwise.” grant a etiange of venue 80 tat ii Horeld-Exantner Sharon Tate murder trial de-l} Richardson said the dead ae could he held away Los Angeles, Calif. fense attorney Ronald Hughes. ||man, whose body was found by from—the_emotional climate of The body, according to fellow}|fishermen about five miles|/0s Angeles. , defense attorney Paul Fitzger-l]downstream from where|, @Pre-trial publicity made — ald, is definitely that of Hughes,/iHughes disappeared, “had selection of an impartial jury ed during the|'m Fi'y"“tharacteristies of| Viztually impossible, who disappeared during ma characteristic j @Trying all four defendants! Thanksgiving recess of his first! puphes He said X-rays sent Ur Gere ; Fi Bnes as ‘together w cit ' a court case—a trial which ended) from Los “Angeles certainly} i, ious aiealative pale ii Monday with Hughes’ client and) showed some similarities but) them three co-defendants Teceiving! not enough to be conclusive.” | ; | . : . Banning def t — the death sentence. | | Richardson said the medical He am for lng pees As medical examiners in Ven-| examiners had not. completed! hecause of disruptive behavior tura County. compared Hughes’} their report on the. autopsy, but ial titi dental charts with the teeth off “i¢ is my understanding that nights pape on naan — the dead man, attorneys for) there were no fractures, no bul-| “Yangon and Misses Krenwin- Charles Manson and three wom-) Jet. holes and no evidence of a kel and Atkins each was found en members of his hippie “fami-| heart attack.” guilty and sentenced to die for ly” began the long process Of} Richardson said it appeared] the Aug. 9, 1969, murders of ac- appeals which may keep the] «not unlikely” that the dead| tress Sharon Tate and four oth-. case in the courts for years. man could have been caught up| ers in Miss Tate’s home, and: Judge Charles H. Older hasj in the storm that lashed the wil-|'the Aug. 16, 1969, murders of. set April 19 for formal sentenc-} derness area during the Thanks-|' wealthy grocer Leno La Bianca! Dates 3/31/71 ing of Manson, Susan Atkins,/ giving weekend and washed| and his wife Rosemary. Miss Edition: Q§ Stan Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie!) downstream in what was then al! Van Houten was tried and con; Author: Van Houten. But even this for-| raging Sespe Creek. He said the}/demned only for the La Bianca’ mality is expected to be delayed| body—that of a big man esti-| kites — by motions for a mistrial. mated to weigh in excess of 220,-—-—-@- Tae While Fitzgerald said, “I saw) pounds—wa’ found in“Wetretk ihe body and I feel absolutely! bed, with his head “wedged un- Editor: totally convinced it’s Hughes,”: defatuti He said, comraty Charaerar: the Ventura County Coroner’s; to earlier reports, the body was te office was reluctant to gine ial not. missing an arm. 4 a positive identification until re! «ppig we think, was an erro- Classification: view of the dental charts later! pooys report by the fishermen Submitting Office: T ag Angeles today. --» | who found the body,” Richard- . Fitzgerald said. Hughes, who] ‘son said. - Sr L] Being Investigated represented Miss Van Houten, Fitzgerald, head of the de- \ “has a Strange-shaped head, fense team, meanwhile predict- 2-/ ¢ aS” sort of a majestic configuration,) ed that the appeals process to G a P Y/T~ a and the head (of the dead man)| be utilized in an attempt to is ees 7 Then : > ‘ i = ty oncl___. Lea rat ore is the same. Some of the beard} save the lives of the four Srwaz0.? tice. AFL! is still there. doomed defendants may take, Y py” Deets Deputy Coroner Leo Richard-| fouftrtive years, ““— a 3. 6 sla ie gon Tio Wweve? veoncedted only: yyil" f 2 ~Lds ASELES | fh». } 4