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r # 0-19 (Rev. 1-26-86) The 22-year-old defendant who stunned a Supre me Court jury Monday with his confession of killing Black Nationalist leader Macol stuck stubbornly to his story yesterday despite a scathing cross-examination. Talmadge Hayer insisted that he and three other men killed Malcolm as he was about to speak in the Audubon Ballroom on Feb, 21, 1965, but maintained that his two co-defendants were not among the assassins. . Won't Name Anyone Assistant District Attorney Vineent J. Dermody, the prose- cutor, suggested that Hayer had been ordered to confesa the crime in clear his accused ac- ra : Insists’Another«3 ‘Helped Slay X complices, Norman 3X Butler, 26, and Thomas 15X Johnson, 30. But Hayer wouldn't budge from Monday’s confession, insisting that he and the other thlee men were hired to commit the crime, but refusing to identify his ac- complices. “How much money were you offered?” Dermody asked Hayer, “I will not say,” was the de- fendant’s calm reply. Moving closer to the witness stand, Dermody demanded, “Was it for 12 pieces of silver?” Hayer’s counsel, Peter L. F. Sabbatino, stood up and asked, “Is that the amount in the Bible?” “Yes, exactly what Jpdas got,” Dermody shouted, _ bringing a scattering of applause from the spectators. Hayer answered, “No, sir,” to (60-399 34/- NOT NE-ORDED MAR 4 1966 Toison : ar pie asper Callahan Conrad Felt oe iva nH Tavel _ Trotter Tele, Room Holmes aie Gandy —__ the question, after the lawyers haggled over the number of silver pieces paid for the Biblical assag- sination, Judas received 30 Pieces of silver to betray Christ to the authorities. —— — The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star New York Heraid Tribune New York Journal-American New York Daily News New York Post —. ra New York Times Ww e Baltimore Sun The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Cbserver People's Warld bic. AR 2 1968 Date