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The following article appeared on page B 18 in the March 5, 1977 issue of the Sun Newspaper, Baltimore, ~ Maryland: - oF : ¥y ] . te oe tt ee JUGS POSES EO. cul pouD OO! } bail in uF to - Westminster—A Carroll County Dis ” Arict Court judge refused vesterday to re. duce the $560,003 bail set for William M. Aiteheson, 22, the reported Ka Klux Klan * , Member who was charged bere Wednes- Gay with illegally possessing explosive materials. “+ Judge Donald M. Smith refused to te- | duce the bond set by a county District Court comintssioner, saying he feit if Mr. Aitcheson were released, there was a “substantial risk" that be would not return : » For trial on the two misdemeanor counts against him in Careall county. The defend ent was being held test night at the Carrol! County Jail ia lieu ef the bail. _ *.-. At the time of his arrest at his parents" home near Clarksvétle in Howard county, Mr. Aiteheson also was charged by Prince’ . Georges county zuthorities in connection - with six cross-buraings in that county and sending threatening letters to Coretta S, King, wicow of the Rev. Martin Luther | King, Jr. the slata civil rights leader. Prince Georges exenty authoritics re- Jeased Mr, Ailchesea on his own recogni- vance, | So To avoid news photographers wailing in the halt outside the courtroom here ves- fetday, Mr. Aitcheson, a junior at the Uni- versity of Marylamd in College Park, was ushered into the hat and crowded court- room through aside coor. _ « The defendant, @ curly-headed young _ han wearing a blue shiet, jeans and horn. rimmed glasses taped at the temple, showed no emolion as J. Hobert Johnson, . the public defender representing him. de- se bed hire as “a Boy who talks a lot and n't do a great deal a boy w talks to look bic emmang his fel lows” ne _ Mr: Johnson's Statement sharply con- trasted with testinagny by Frank M. Rau- schenberg, a state fire marshal who infil- trated the Klan. Mix. Rauschenberg char- acterized the young sman as “unstable and _., extremely dangerous.” - n ease _+ | BY PATRICIA A. ROUZER : os Westaiinster Bureau of Tac Sut ay While on the witness stand, Mr. Rau- schenberp identified assembly instruc- “tions for a pipe bom) and a molotov coc k- ‘tail, which be said Mr. Aitchesoa had idrawan up to train tie Klan Reret, a Aton committee of about seven persons intend- ed to engage ia cuerriila warfare. The fire :tTarshal added the group planned to mount a revolulion aguinst “biscks and the Communist end Soctatist conspiracy.” Mr. Rauscheaberg suid he had known j.the young tnan for more than sevea L months from atiending meathiy Klean ral- lies held at a Gamber iMd.} fori. He said that February 26 Mr. Alicheson had told him he thought the FBI was looking for him. ! Mr. Hauschenberg centradicied pre- ceding testimony by the young man's fath- ‘er, who said his son kad not been oul of state in the past month, The fire marshal testified. “Oa Febru. ary 26 he jthe defendant; told me he had - gone to Pengsylvania to visit with friends. He said that if the FBI made any attempt + 40 apprehend him he would flee the state, he would go off and live in the woods. ... He told me he had 2 military backpack and gear. and he also had a year's supply of Minute Men food (ablets—a highly nu- - tritiows tablet he could live off of.” a "thomas E. Hickman. the county state's atiorney, questioned Mr. Rauschenberg. 2 qualified explosives technician, about the defendant's expertise in constructing €x- plosive devices. . . fitst row of the tiny courtroom. bowed her ’ son ag “a knowledgeable person” in the * field of explosives who had constructed a _ bomb in the fire marsbal’s presence. ke The young man's mother, seated in the head as Mr, Rauschenberg described her: . ae a