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0-19 (Rev. 12-14-64} 3d Suspect in in Police‘D By Newton H. Fulbright Of The Hereld Trituse Staff A third suspect, a 30-year- old unemployed Negro house painter, was booked by police yesterday on charges o bomi- cide in the’ -@Aying last month of black nationalist leader Malcolm X. The suspect picket up ante SUuspPots, reeethe after he had made an appear- ance in Bronx Criminal Court on an assault charge, was identified as Thomas Johnsen 30, of 932 Bronx Park South. Booked by Lt. Ludviki Macho at the W. 100th St. > station, the suspect identified - himself as Thomas 15 xX, A tall, slender man with a slight mustache, the suspect # spoke without emotion, giving , his addresa and answering that he was not » user of ! On idn’t Boo See Assistant Chief Inspector Joseph L. Coyle said, “We didnt book him for nething.”* Beyond that, the authorities refused to say how Johnson was involved in the slaying of the controversial 39-year-old Negro leader, a defector from the Chicago-based Muslim sect headed by Elijah Muhammad, Muhatimad has denied any complicity in the Feb, 21 shooting of Malcolm X, gunned down as he arose to address a rally of his followers in the : Audubon Ballroom on the * upper West Side. Immediately after the assas- : sination, Talmadge Hayer, 22, iof Paterson, N.J., was arrested and charged with homicide. He was wounded in the leg in { by a# bullet fired by one of Ma Aalicolm’s bodyguards and re- mains in the prison ward at drugs. He declined to make, petlevue Hospital. . any of the three free tele~ ‘The second suspect arrested phone calls he was advised | was Norman 3X Butler, who he could make, and: was Te} has been described by police turned to « station houses cell to await arraignment this) mornin gin Criminal Court, Assistant District Attorney Herbert J. Stern, who inter- viewed Johnson in the pres- ence of the suspect's attorney, Charles Beavers, would say merely: as a Black Muslim “enforcer.” Johnson and Butler were are \ rested after the shooting last Jan. 6 of Benjamin Brown, 31, a Negro corrections officer employed by the Department of Correction. Mr. Brown had broken with the Black Mus- lims and set up his own “T have ordered him booked | mosque, Struck in the shoul- for Le homicide of i wi w ch he perpetrated | otherd,* \3 der, he is recovering. Johnsen and Buter—were, , scheduled to appear in Brenx ne 2 ic * Tol “ . olson Ley Weimont a Mop oe € Callahan . Conrad Felt Gale Roses Sullivans Tavel Trotter Tele Room Holmes ’ Gandy J, tt lz , Malcolm XS laying: k Him tor N othing— J0-2 7% 720) - NOT P°CORDED 176 MAR 265 1965 The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune f/f New York Journcl-American New York Dally News New York Post The New York Times The Balttmore Sun The Worker — The New Leader The Wal! Street Journal The National Observer People’s World Date MAR 4 1398