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By LINDA HUDAINS THE TREUNEDEVOCRAT Donald Lee Fenton, theman charged sure,” with threatening to kill US. Rep. John Murtha in December, was released from the Cambria County Jail follow- , ing a plea Wednesday to a federal | judge. I am taking a risk if I let this guy ly. out and something does go wrong,” f , » Wilson also oe said the inmate fi | told him Fenton Hb oy) ae fa] Said he had been ro Pe hit with pepper ‘Wf spray while he {| was hospitalized as part of a con _ 2, | spiracy in which a Murtha was try- | THREAT | Continued from At T cover things had been moved ‘) around. But Fenton’s lawyer, Marketa Sims, questioned the inmate's truth- fulness, noting that he expected to receive assistance with his case for yf. helping prosecutors keep Fenton Murtha ing to steal Fen- behind bars. She also noted that the ton’s ideas for inmate had a criminal record that developing Johnstown, included perjury and criminal solic- Pesto was given a statethent that itation to commit perjury and that Fenton wroteon Dec. 11, in which he he had at times worked as a paid claimed that he awoke in the hospi- ialOn Dow o wad town BUBPas Pe 4) duusiuaut, sald US, Magistrate Keith Pesto, refet: Murtha, his aide John Hugya and sev- ying to Murtha as “a national trea eral others, Fenton spent three days in Memorial Medical Center, then was “ButTam goingtotakethatrisk,” he released to the county lockup, where said after Fenton's mother, brother, he remained for move than two landlady of 10 years, and several oth months, His trial in USS. District Court ers testified that Fenton sometimes could come up as early as May, said loses his temper but gets over it quick- U.S. Attorney John Valeovei, Fenton, 41, of the 2400 block of Bed- Following the threats against ford Street, was-released on $25,000 ree- checkered shirt, Murtha, a doctor anda black police — man standing over him, He alleged . that they showed him a photo ofa." dead black man hanging in a jail cell and told him that would happen to, « him ifhe didn’t let Murtha alone. * He claimed in the letter that the men told him they'd “strangle me, « hang me,” and have a doctor label his death a suicide. a He claimed in the written state. ment thatthe photograph of the dead - man was shown to him an hour or * two after Clinton Mickens hanged himself in a detention cell at the Pub, lic Safety Building. Mickens died oT. A tara the sgl Vase UUs CAG Cakly aaviay va drew ognizance bond and ordered to look for a job, stay away from people who may be witnesses at his trial, and keep all medical appointments. Valeovei presented testimony that painted a less-benign image of Fenton, who sat silently in a red and black he had to drive to Somerset.” Special Agent Paul H. Wilson of the Federal Bureavt-of Investigation said a ‘Man jailed in Murtha threat is released month that Fenton promised to “geta j *- machine gun and kill Murtha... even if bag! The inmate also claimed Fenton said that when he left his home, he would | be followed by different cars and that when he returned home, he would dis- |’ Please see THREAT, A4 Fenton Guxepuy (acisg oped! 0,9 Fl 23 #9 3 08 9 Be Oe AALS ya 08 ~~? 2 a O5 Quer “8 ry us} 4% 6M AS ) S5 “po SNAT] OB ESE oF. 3 faba = C CFE tod Al [pe th r 4 a uv t NN. Ny (y, RY ‘ ‘\ Ry vd 8 OS Spe 8 4 ‘wR SW, yay ol a ‘ ; ys a: is.