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FD-380 (Rev, 7-16-63) (Mount Clipping in Sp. ace Below) YY TOM LANKFORD News staff writer estigation into the possibility iam Sterling Rosecrans is onnected with Birmingham ta- al merwent is warranted after’ could be cM an FBI graph expert said. le said he wanted additional! time to study Rosecran’s mental Background and to review the ‘polygraph charts made during “examination of more than gur hours. Me BIRMINGHAM POLICE Chief’ Jamie Moore said further inves- tivation is called for. “He, Jefferson County Sheriff} )|Mel Bailey and two Birmingham, [i pesto ‘detectives were to return to the!’ Alabama city this “attetndbo: pending further reports from the, FBI. The Birmingham officers ques- tioned the 30- year-old Indiana} laborer for three hours Tursday|| night without results. Rosectans denied being in the Birmingham area during bombings last year’ in which four Negro children) were killed. He is being questioned ahout the bombing of a Jacksonville ' Negro home. During the poly- Staph test, Rosecrans was ‘questioned about the Birming- ham bembings and Florida ra- ‘cial and railroad bombings. The slender ex-convict earlier] had refused to submit to the, test. 2 *“Detective C. L. Limbaugh and V, T. Hart said Rosecrans ‘aiswerer” all their setters 3 the long interview al Duval arate Jail, TRE THTRTS, “planned to give him a poly- graph examination following _the interview but cancelled it » Degause the subject was ex- haust | Theotticers ss giedgie assy) i then the! readily T0"0 them. how he ‘woulal ‘ing he was in Mobile, jworked as a mechanic, ‘FBI said it has been established that Rosecrans was in Mobile! ‘Saturday, Sept. 14, whereabouts the following (Sunday, Sept., 15) has not proven. day} been SHERIFE'S OFFICERS re ‘ported that lie detector tests ‘Thursday cleared the suspect of! \Florida East Coast Railway. The initial _ investigation against the suspect started aft. ler leads were turned up during! ‘bombing of the Sixteenth Street! (Baptist Church occurred. (The! but his! implication in dynamitings of the: a the railway dynamite investiga-( ae have handled the’ Birmingham| explosions _ had been {be bomber, ; Rosecrans exp in'de detail how to make shrapnel and oth. 4 type bombs used in Birmi ham,. the officers’ said. *:#3¢} They also quoted im as say jt Ss $25,000 temporary bond awaiting! preliminary hearing’ to: be’ Scheduled after he has. Tetained an attorney... 2k. z ree He is being-held on Federail charges and the State of Florida! is contemplating filiag—sharges against him. (tion, The FBI, meanwhile, has is- sued a statement here saying More arrests are expected in | connection with the Feb. 16 ! bombing of the bome of a Ne- | gro first grade pupil at a pre- | vioysly, glmnite school. D: own, special agent- llin-charge of the Jacksonville FBI office, said investigation is concentrating on members of the’ Ku Klux Klan. Rosecrans is |known ot have been in the com- Epany of Jacksonville klan mem- bers the night’ after the bomb-? ‘ing, Brown said. N —— THE FBL HAD Rosecrans un-)- der surveillance for several days: lafter the house bonibing and the|! suspect fléd. into the- woods aft-| er he spotted agents searching, his car which contained sticks of dynamite, ~ . Officers later found 800 “sticks of dynamite near where’ the car been parked. ahs ‘capt. KN. Godwin and” vestigator . Dexter Haney ".0f, “the State Troopers have been | ‘ in Florida for two days see! ing to interview Rosec They sald théy hoped ‘to’ talk “. the man Sometime .today., Bigmingham-. detectives “Hi fend Limbaugh said SO8ettatis 4 pa [indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) 1 THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS —Birmingham, Alabama ose: 3a =64 edition: Red StarFinal autor) TOM LANKFORD BAPBOMB Editor: Title: cheracter: BM Classification: Submitting OfticeSIRMINGHA M Being Investigated