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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 32
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THE MAGAZINE SAID THAT 10 DAYS AFTER THE CHURCH BOMBING, TH
KILLERS STRUCK AGAIN--THIS TIME WITH A PALR OF BOMBS DESIGRED FO, KILL
! POLICEMEN AND DETECTIVES WHO WERE MAKING THINGS UNCOMF
| THEM BY PROBING INTO THEI .
( THE FIRST BOMB, PROBABLY ONE STICK OF DYNAMITE S Da srt OFF Ne
ALVACANT LOT. POLICE RUSHED TO THE SCENE» et ih
LTCTRMEDTATE LY «TRE ene a ATER THE FIRST.
RUSTY URS PUE NT FOR US, * A POLICEMAN WAS QUOTED AS SAYING, “IT
WAS SET TO ALLOW JUST ENOUGH TIME FOR US TO GET THERE, IF WE HAD
FOUND THE BOMB, MAYBE 50 OFFICERS WOULD HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES OR BEEN
. THE ARTICLE SAID FBI AGENTS FEEL THAT STATE POLICE CHIEF COL. '
AL LINGO "SERIOUSLY KURT THE CHANCES OF BUILDING A CASE® AGAINST
THE BOMBER AND HIS GANG BY ARRESTING TWO MEN WHO HAD BEEN INVOLVED
TNE MEN, He VERS CHAPBLISS, 59, AND CHARLES CAGLE
A 3 S CAG BOTH OF
BIRMINGHAM? WERE CHARGED WITH ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF? DYNAMITE AND
SUBSEQUENTLY WERE CONVICTED, FINED $100 EACH AND SENTENCED TO 180
THE MAGAZINE SAID THE FBI CONSIDERED IT A PREMATURE ARREST
} WHICH TIPPED OFF THE BOMBERS THAT AUTHORITIES ‘KNEW A GREAT DEAL
ABOUT THEIR ACTIVITIES BUT ALSO SHOWED THEY DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH
EVIDENCE TO CONVICT THEM OF THE CHURCH BOMBING.
-" "TQ PREVENT ANY OF THE GANG FROM TALKING, THE MAGAZINE SAID.
A®KISS OF DEATH MEETING® WAS HELD WITH ALL OF THE GROUP INVOLVED IN
THE BOMBING ATTENDING. ‘
“IF ANY ONE OF YOU EVER TALKS, IT WILL BE THE KISS OF DEATH FOR
YOU,® THE RINGLEADER, MISTER XK, WAS REPCRTED AS VOWING. “WE JOIN
HANBS KERE AND NOW IN SWEARING THAT EACH OF US TAKES A VOW TC KILL
THE MAN WHO GIVES ANYTHING AWAY TO THE POLICE.®
THE MAGAZINE SAID THAT DETECTIVES AND FEDERAL AGENTS FOLLOW
MISTER X® CONSTANTLY, HE KNOWS THEY ARE FOLLOWING HIM AND SOMETIMES
SPITS AT THEM AND YELLS *YOU HOCS® AT THEM.
THE BOMBER IS BEING SO CAREFUL NOW, THE MAGAZINE SAID, THAT
| OFFICIALS HAVE LITTLE HOPE THEY CAN CONVICT HIM OF MURDER. THEY HAVE
MORE HOPE OF PINNING 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 CH Re STAKE
| _ BUT AN FBI OFFICIAL SAID CWE WILL GET HIM. HEALL Y
RE GOING TO SOLVE THIS CASE IF IT TAKES .
5/29--JD329PED
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