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Malcolm X — Part 34
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1s ainieit Chief Inpector Joseph
iCoyle seid witnesses have not
g beer helping the police. -
|: “When the heat is off, we ex-
ipect some of these people will.
leam: forward,” Coyle said at the
“Wadsworth Ave. station, where
the investigation is concentrated.
| “As of now, I don't think they
_ feel secure,”
Coyle said that Talmadge
_Heyer, 22, the one suspect cap-
tered, has refused to talk to
"aotice, He is in the Bellevue Hos-
* pital prison ward. He was assert-
j edly shot by Malcolm’s bodyguard
jy Reuben Francis, 33, who is being
jheld in $10,000 bail on charges of
ifelonious assault and Sullivan
«Law violation. .
I Corie refused to aay whether
puiice knew the identities of two
Vocther assailants who sprayed Mal-
teorm X with some 16 bullets and
‘shotgun pellets, two of which
E pierced his heart. , -
Bomb Threats Phoned
"We've never gotten auch co-
operation from the Black Muslims
- the Black Nationalists,” he
‘ “But we're making some
vo ouress, We're seeing a little of
tue dawn."
As hunderds of police rein-—
forcements, both uniformed men
and detectives, poured into Har-
lem from Brooklyn, Queens and
the Bronx, there were threats of
further violence. :
Several bomb threats were re-
_ceived at the Unity funeral home,
(2552 Eighth Ave. at 126th St,
:where Maleolm’s body will be on’
} ianlav daily until Pitey Gus
dering the funeral home and in- Li
building, some of them on the
E roof, -
ef Islam No. 7, 102 W. 116th St.,
early yesterday, disclosed that s
Molotov cocktail had been tossed !
into the fourth-flocr from the |
roof the building. Police said they
recovered an empty five-gallon !
can on the roof next door at 113
Lenox Ave., there were traces of
gasoline in jit, but they could re-
cover no fingerprints.
of the Tactical Patrol Force will
be posted on the roofs of two
other mosques in Corona, Queens,
aid
2,000 burnished copper eoffin’:.- .
ee all dewceh glasy“eover., -
The funeral is scheduled tenta- — :
tively for 10 A.M. Saturdey, “{ .- ‘y.
Police searched all persons en-
spected floral wreaths delivered
there. Dozens of uniformed cops
were posted near the two-story
According to Joseph E. Hall, = ,
director of the parlor, & man he
knows said he had overheard talk
that 2 bomb would be tossed.
Armsted Barrett, assistant man-
ager, got a phone call from »
woman who said: “I overheard
three men say they are going to
blow up the funeral home.” A
third caller said:
“Malcolm X's body will never
be buried. It will be cremated by
fire bombs.”
Pt."
Tossed From Roof ee. Ft 5
Investigation of the blast which Robert F. Williams
destroyed Muhammad's Temple. ; Dedicated to violence 7
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AIeea Ue, PUsice Sa10, MeMoers
ere renmrarses
arm] one each in Brooklyn and the
Bronx.
Five firemen and a bystander
were hurt in the three-alarm fire
and blast that occurred at 2:15.
A. M. The mosque had been Mal-| ee,
colm. X's headquarters when he; ~~ -
was still a follower of the Elijah!
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— James Parmer — ~
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