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eee held. “pude, they carried her into an ad-~ ‘joining’ bedroom and each one raped her, then subjected her to other indig- nities ‘too horrible to talk about.” What the hoods didn’t know when they finally let her go was that they “had raped the daughter of a lieutenant in the vice squad. The girl staggered ._ home and hysterically told her father, Thomas E, O'Neal, 41, about the attack. Police rounded up a group of 16 . suspects and she managed to identify two of them before collapsing. She was reduced to “the mentality of a 5- year-old,” according to Chief of Detec- tives Thad Brown. O’Neal wasn’t assigned to the case, but he assigned himself to it. He showed up the next day at the station house where the suspects were being Outwardly he seemed calm. Two of the men arrested were being led down the hallway to a waiting police car when O'Neal started yelling, whipped out -his automatic pistol and fired five wild shots before he could be restrained, Shots Wound One One of the men, Cart Norman, 21, fell, critically wounded with three bullets in the back. The other prisoner bolted for safety to another room, where police grabbed him, thinking they were inter- cepting an escape attempt. Tronically, Norman was being held on a marijuana charge, not the rape charge. He survived the shooting. As for the unfortunate O'Neal, a non- drinker and non-smoker with a sterling service record, he broke down and be- came incoherent after the shooting, Tried last month for assault with a deadiy weapon, O'Neal was acquitted by a jury of eight men and four women who deliberated only an hour and a half. Linking of the motorcycle complex and sex is something that’s recognized everywhere from slick ads to cheap, por- nographic magazines. On this point, Dr. Bernard Diamond, a psychiatrist and erjminglogist at the University of Cali- 8 fornia, says: symbol. It’s an extension of one’s body.” The reported behavior of Hell’s Angels indicates some homosexual ele ment, he says. Their. outer toughness would be “ga denial mechanism, an at- war, “The motorcycle in obvionsly a sexual - tempt to conceal the homosexual inclina- - tion,” But Lynch says in his report: “-.- “While homosexuals seem to be at- tracted to Hell's Angels, no infurmation recetved indicates that the Heil’s Angels as a group are homosexuals. They seem primarily concerned with heterosexual contacts.” : : Some club initiation rites, according to the report, prescribe that any new member must bring a “sheep” to the meeting. “Sheep” is their slang for girl or woman. The “sheep” must submit to sexual relations wit each member of the club. ~ . . ay , . . - . * . e- : TRE Angels were founded in 1950 in the steel] town of Fontana, Calif., 50 miles outside Los Angeles. The San Bernardino County chapter remains the “mother” organization, with the word “Berdoo” (nickname version of Eer. nardino) sharing the cyclists’ jackets with the words “Hell's Angels.” “The fledgling group made its repu- tation fast by taking over the Httle for felonies. Among them, they “have 674 felony arrests and 300 convictions, Tn the misdemeanor category there have been 1,682 arrests end 1,023 convictions. What do they do? “Apart from general hoodlum acts,” says the Lynch _ repart, “offenses mainly were forgery, = assault. auto theft, rape and sex pe They also number some crack me-~ chanics because “many Angels are adept at stripping and cannibalizing motor- ‘ eycles, including removal of serial nom- ~ California town of Hollister for a reign ~ of terror over the inhabitants. The in- cident provided the basis for a short story published in 1951 titled “Cyelists’ Raid” and the story, in turn, resched~ . the screen in 1953 as “The Wild Ones.” Marlon Brando portrayed the “hero,” leader of the gang who falls in love with a girl of the town and develops a heart of gold. ° Lynch's report doesn’t show any con- fidence in emergence of hearts of gold or any subscription to the theory that the Angels won't keep proliferating and + influencing others to ape them. Gf the 446 persons identified as members of Hell’s Angels by law en- forcement grouvs, 50 have been arrested bers which are replaced with fictitious © numbers.” . ’ Ruthless mass assaults on individuals are described in the report which sum- . marizes a series of such incidents. Reminiscent of the Hollister debacle, a group of motorcyclists headed for Porterville, Calif., for the Labor Day weekend of 1963. They included dele- gates from the Angels, Stray Satans, Galloping Gooses, Comancheros and Cavaliers. They all converged on the city. - “ _ The report reads like a nightmare: “Most started to drink in local bars, becomine abnoxious and vulgar. They stood in the middle of the street where thev stonped vehicles. opened car doors and attempted to pet and paw female marsenrers in the automobiles. The venmen whn arromnaniad the group lay in the middle of the street where they wert throrth suvceactive motions. Barroom Invasion - “At about this time, some half dozen motorcyclists invaded a bar and brutal- - ly beat an old man and attempted to abduct the barmaid. Shortly thereafter some dozen motorcyclists went to the ' local hospital where they pushed in . every door ef the hosvital looking for the victim of the beating. “Mutual aid in the form of police officers from neighboring cities, the Highway Patrol and the Kern County Sheriff's Office Canine Corps assisted and the group was ordered out of town after five arrests were made.” One af the modern-day Tartara, com- menting about the trouble which seeme te eccompany the Angels on thetr visits ts quoted as saying: “People will just have to learn to stay out of our way. t up everyone who gets in our way." 7 . —