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Gy PAUL HY Staff Reporters death of- Mary Jo K ‘GIGUERE and SACK GALL ANT, ‘The possibility o tio court hearings ‘fn the hne-—one in’ Pennsylvania . non and suother, already scheduled, in M assachusetts—— arose yesterday, along with’; Aegal: complications, in, the Case, { | Luzerne County Common Pleas Court officials in Wilkes Barre Said a hearing might have ta be held there on the | Betition of a . Massachusetts district, attorney for exhuma- tion and autopsy of the body: Of Miss Kopechne. ‘The 28-year-old former sec- ; velary to the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy drowned the night | of July 18 when a car driven : by Massachusetts Sen, Ed- - ward M. Kennedy plunged off’ A-natrow bridge and into a tidal pond on ‘Chappaquiddick: Isiand adjoining Martha’s Vineyard, oe Petitions aulopsy were day in Dist, Atty. Edmund Dinis of New Bedford, bui legal filing requesting received yestex- venortediy was being hejd up - - pending a personal appearance © by. Dinks_ge a duly authorized. representative; . > Poe ams the Pennsylvania from, sate re el f-s, 4 Dog ee Ale ad Dab ee SON COURT, SOLICITOR _Atiy,” ' Arthur Panaway of Luzerne ’ County said he had. recom- merited that Dinis be informed, ~ by letter that the autopsy petition to the county—where © Miss Kopechne is buried—was - not-acceptable as a petition re- ceived through the mail. The solicitor vania court, send a member " of his staff or choose a men"; ‘ber of the bar in Peansylvania to submit it for him. President Judge Bernard C. Brominski of Luzerne County , Common Pleas Court said that , : if the petition is properly pre-_ sented, he could set a hearing as’ early as next week on . Whether or. not to sanction ex- hum ation, arene nes Pd wer ee ee said “Dinis.’ 1 would have to present the peti- > _ tion in person to the Pennysl- . _ tions from the parents, J udget » Brominski said yesterday: “ae * their objections. "Propet notice. maust be given io all parties, - including ithe dead. girl's ‘parents, Mr. ‘aiid Mrs, Joseph Kopechtie of Berk. eley Heights, N.J., the Iudge- added, The parents said they ‘Were consulting a lawyer, but did not indicate whethér they , would. forrnally ‘oppose an aie , topsy, Coe, “thn INDICATING the Massachite setts petition woud get no spes : cial priority, Judge Bromiziski : told reporters yesterday: “Pye got 16 other things on _ My desk to do, and I’m ‘not : going to be stampeded by ‘what. - happens in other states.’ . Dinis’ request would “go into the hopper and be scheduled | for hearing in the normal ¢ way,” the “judge said. ew ~ Jt was not clear whether a ’ Pennsylvania autopsy he eating would be public, what witness- es, if any, would be called, or | “whether it might conflict with . ‘an inquest scheduled to begin . ” Sept. 3 in Edgartown District Court. | ath In a. letter to Dinis Jast Week, Luzerne County Dist. ‘Atty, Blythe Evans said that for the Pennsylvania cougts “to consider an order for an _ dutopsy and exhumation to be “made on the body of the de ceased, it would require a + showing of imperative reason * +.as-a basis for any other wee hi a AS FOR POSSIBLE objec all depends on the nature of They may have a legitimate and legal * reason to block it. I can’t real- " ly speculate until Pve seen the peation, and heard, the eo argue earon po (Indicate page, name of . newspaper, cily and state.) __BOSTON GLOBE’ Boston, Masse 2BOSTON HERALD ~ TRAVELER BEC ORD Ab @ Qo ete Date: 8/14/69 Edite: John Herbert Title: KENNEDY INCIDENT Classification: 6 2 _ Submitting Office: zing Investigated f CG: Bureay .—