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Arthur Watson Gets 10 Years (Mount Clipping in Space Below) In Heroin Case By BAYARD BRJNT Of The Bulletin Staff The only motive in selling drugs when you're not an ad- dict." an assistant U.S. attor- ney. said, "is greed to make (Indicate page, name of joney by destroying others." newspaper, city and state.) jThe speaker was Gregory I Magarity, the federal pros- Page 11 ecutor in a case in U.s.Dis- Evening Bulletin trict Court in Philadelphia Phila.. Pa. against Arthur Watson, 34, an alleged associate of"Black Mafia" leaders. A jury on May 24 found Watson guilty of conspiracy tribution of $1,950 worth of heroin last year. He appeared .. before U.S. District Court Judge Clarence C. Newcomer for sentencing yesterday. 'Deserves No Mercy' Magarity said the evidence in| the trial showed Watson was a supplier and not an ad- dict-himself. The prosecutor said he wanted an "extremely sub- stantial period of in- carceration (for Watson) be- cause a person who profits and thrives on the sickness of Others deserves no mercy." Judge Newcomer gave Wat- 6/21/74 Date: son 10 years in prison to be followed by three years of Edition: I special parole. He could have Author: BAYARD BRUNT gotten a maximum of 30 Editor: GEORGE R. PACK years. Title: : Accused of Slayings Watson was captured by Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion agents in an apartment Character: in the Manayunk section of or Phlladelphia last March 7. Classification: Watson has been charged Submitting Office: PH wilh killing two men in Cam- den, N.J., last year, in what. Being Investigated police called a contract slay-1 ing linked to a heroin theft in IPhlladelphia. He is under s50.000 bair on this charge. An FB! agent testificd last March that Watson was a close 'associate of Ronald Harvey and Sam Christian. reputed "Black Mafia" lead- ers and forimerly on the list of 4/5 the,10 most wanted fugitives. They have been arrested.