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re. on | cathe | -Gity’s Deep-Eoncern Over ‘Fanatics-in Our Midst Police Guard Cardinel- By Barrett McGurn Of The Heraid Tribune Staff New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman likes to walk alone in midtown Manhattan, « small, white-haired round- cheeked figure in black. tipping his dark fedora every block or so to the passersby who recognize and greet him. ‘It was just about the same as usual yesterday at.1 p.m. when the 73-year-old prelate stepped out of his $0th Bt. tesidence to go slowly north on Madison Ave. fi « drigzle. ‘It was almost the same except for two things In déference to the rain the Carfibal bimched upter a big-umhretta. And half # block back, pretending to be window-sbopping and then catching up by darting across streets against the red lights, was a busty aix-foot Irish-American “tail.” The “tall” was a Mew York City detective on bodyguard duty. ? yO 7” The bodyguard will stay with the Cardinal probably ‘qntil he leaves Idlewild Airport at LU p.m y to fly . to Rome. He will be there for two moAghs as obe,e¥the three prelates, along with Pope John who wif preside over the 2ist Council to be held in tae 2,008-pear.Roman Catholic history. . Qe aE le oe ‘The “tail” was placed on the Cardimal yesterday after @ 1:37 a. m. bombing of bis residence which duplicated In many ways the two bomb offenses in July and September in St. Peter's Basilica, one of Roman Catholicism’s holiest Places. The Cardinai’s residence ts back-to-back with St. Patrick's Cathedral, the most famous place of worship of the 40 million-member American Roman Catholic Church. 2 Police worked on the theory that a fanatic, reading the news of the St. Peter's bomb attempts, bad decided tobrbbe same here. He didusauin « clumsy maj managed to send an alarm into other eities of larke Cath- PAGE / FOR™ARDED BY NE DIVISION NOT FORTARDED BY NY DIVISION