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gation discloses that any more people are involved, L we will make every effort to apprehend them.” | Witnesses to the slaying at the Audubon Ball- _ room, 166th st. and Broadway, sald there were five men in on the murder, and so three are still at-large if that report is true. © ’ Chief Coyle said Butter “seemed surprised” when__ picked up at his home. The arrest was “the home, his wife,! | a Butler was free in $10,000} . + ball on charges of felonious as- va sault and Sullivan Law viola- ; tion for the shooting of Correc- a tion Officer Benjamin Brown,. « 31, another Black Muslim ee} a fector. * Mr. Brown was * shot in the’ 24 Tight chest with a .22-caliber: bullet at 11 p.m., Jan. 6, while’ Walking on Eoston rd., Bronx.) Butler ana two other men, both Black Muslims, were necused . ‘of the shooting. Mr. Brown admitted that he had been a member of Black Muslim Mosque Ne. 7, and had tried to convert prisoners in his tare on Rikers Island to. the eult. _ But he defected, like Malcolm %, and set up a moasge of his own at 1473 Boston 1A, Brom. SHOT OVER PICTURE He was shot, he said, both because he had defected and because he refused to take cown a picture of the “prophet,” Elijah Muhammad, the Chicago-based self ordained ates, 27, of 158 N, Elliot _ 1 ro ilife oh Black Mi leader of. No. 7 in h XX, has had it. JF of Malcolm X or of beatings of defectors. BEATEN IN BOSTON But defector {fialintitonk top | sieutenant in Mosque No. 7 when Malcolm X was in com- mand, and afterward told The , Journal-American eatly today: that Rutler ts one of _Caztse ey tenants. “He intensive investigation and oning many rot, ” the Inspec - “forcers,” sald Leon 4X. “He Is ’ ¥ a» Wentenant under @apt—on seph X, leader of New York Mosque No. 7.” Leon 4X was « Black Mustim ttl only two months: ag when he was viciously bea by Black Musiims enf. ' ChristmasDay in Boston, and decided to defect. , Zeon 4X was sent by Mal- colm X to form a Black Muslim mosque in New Haven when he was still in the fold, and: “Norman 3X (Butler) was the one IF assigned to take over the teaching of karate at Mos- que No, T when I left for New Haven,” he said, “He's very skilled {nm karate. I know-~I taught him,” : Leon 4X also said that Thomas 15X, one of the men jaccused of shooting officer ‘Brown, ds also a Heutenant, un- ‘der Capt. Joseph X.. ! Thomas 15x. Norman x - “enforcer,’’, Zénera 5x. are all Jieutenan’ Capt. ‘Joseph x, and toether, they ‘command ‘the Black Muslims rin the Bronx, said Leon 4K. Other “top Meutenanits’ are Clarence X fn Brooklyn, the, “top enforcer” and nex (to All but Lous. = are en- forcers.” He alio asked how Butler, who has no job and no money, poud have gone free in $10,000 *“Now where did he get that money?” Leon 4X asked. “The Black Muslims gave it to him, They have unlimited money.” Butler was jailed in the W. 54th st. station overnight, and was to be arrateneg taday ta Chanittel-Court...