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wv BS F et Been taken into custody ause officials do not feel they @ enough evidence to put him his henchmen in the electric air or behind bars, the current eof the Saturday Evening ie FBI knows who bought fo dynamite, who made the j-who placed it there? and engineered the crime," Mg- Weaver, U.S. attorney” in m, Bier we fost domt ave sine lence,” sigaid Lt. “Maurice ; a; chief of Fimingham de- was on a ‘sunny Sunday last Sept. 15, just as ‘school classes were get- “that the dynamite Pa planted under the stairs ‘the Sixteenth Street Baptist burch exploded, hurling rub; br blocks in the Negro sec- tee fie biast killed four young girls and injured 19 per: ins, It was one of many ex- losions that have kept raci ‘sions at a fever pitch” tonths. But it was the one Focked the nation as néthing ise"had. and caused President | Glinedy to say he felt a “‘deep' nse of outrage and grief.” The magazine said that 10 ays after the church bombing, , te killers ftruck again — this: me with a pair of bombs de- | gned to kill. policemen - and | Stectives ‘who were making lings uncomfortable for them ¥.probing into their activities. ‘The first bomb, probably one ick of dynamite. was set off ‘a vacant lot. Police rushed the scene, but could not locate immediately. ; The secofid b, dynamite in a can filled ith. rusty. shrapnel, went “off t minutes after the first- Ps it was meant for us,” a po-; Seman was quoted as, saying. , It was set to allow just enough me for us to get there. If.we ad found the bomb, mayhe 50 Jd have lost their yes, or been mangled “y= -bomber Bene bi ay arrésting two" inen te | lyad, been involved in Be > Kia detivities, “7 ;The men, R. =, Chan a. and-Chasles Cagle, 2: Birmingham, were chatged with legal possession of «dynam of _d Subséquently wee ae victed, fined $100 each and sen- tenced to 180 days in jail. The magazine said the FBT considered it a prematyre ar- rest which tipped off the bomb- ers that authorities knew a great deal about their activities but jalso showed they did not have lenough evidence to convict them of the church bombing. To prevent any of the ‘ganz from talking, the'magazine said, a ‘kiss of death meeting” was held with ail of the group in- volved in the bombing attend- ing. : aie “IP any one of you ever talks. it will be the kiss of death for you,” the ringleader, Mister X, lwas reported as vowing. “We join hands here and now in Swearing that each of us takes a vow to kill the man who gives ‘anything away to the police.”” The magazine said that detec- tives and Federal agents follow “Mister X’ constantly. - He knows they are following him and sometimes spits, at them and yells “you hogs” at them. The boniber is being so care- ful now. the magazine said, that officials have little hope they can convict him of murder. They have more hope of pin-; ning a conspiracy charge on him. “You've pretty nearly got to| have somebody who was at the] meeting when it was planned,”| Weaver was quoted as ‘saying.! “And just remember that the people who did this are going to the erat,” i merece mite