Bucks County Courier (Newspaper) - August 11, 1966, Bristol, Pennsylvania 5 OTHERS TESTIFY AT HEARING Handyman Held In Murder Of Widow By SCOOP LEWIS Staff Writer did I killed Those are the words Francis L Tomlinson reportedly lold his mother the morning after Mrs Lucy T old was found raped and bludgeoned to death in the ment of her HGOt Upper Beaver Dam Bristol Township Detective Richard one of MX witnesses fni the made the ure yesterday during the hearing before Justice of the Peace Robert G bell m the Levittown Fire Co No 2 Hall Held Bail I who formerly had done odd jobs for Mrs including mowing was held without bail for Bucks County Grand Jury action on charges of arson and burglary Peter one of Tomlinson's Iwo court pointed defense to the burglary contending no testimony given yesterday showed a burglary had been committed To JP Campbell find a prima facie case m all four cases Take him back lo the Bucks Body Tomlinson was arrested in his second-floor apartment at Pine the ing of July 16 Mrs battered and partially burned body was found at the night of July 15 Detective testified Tomlinson admitted the killing at on July 16 when he was interrogated at Bristol Township police headquarters Batezel said that linson's Mrs Frances L Tomlinson of first confronted her she said lo couldn't have done what they said an- did 1 killed said Tomlinson's Eleanor was also present Other witnesses produced Bucks County District Ward F Clark yesterday were Andrew Anderson of Upper Beaver Dam next door neighbor who first found Mrs burned tive Robert Leonard 1 Monks of 11 North Mrs nn Page Col I a lucks Delaware Valley's Greatest Home Newspaper VOL No 253 Member ABC THURSDAY AUGUST 1966 42 PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS KILLS 2 WOUNDS 5 U.S Bombs Coast Guard Ship SAIGON U.S Air Force ly today attacked a U.S Coast Guard cutter by killing two Coast and wounding five other persons in the second mistake bombing in a military spokesman reported The first mistaken bombing was directed against the hamlet of Truong Thank 80 miles southeast of Saigon killing persons and wounding mostly women and children Reports from the scene disputed a U.S Embassy statement the attack was Good Airlines strike arbitration proposal collapses 1 No aboul union membership being against it it begins to appear that Congress is going to have to do ils duly to the country whether it likes the idea or not tion to end this strike we mean a quick thinking pilot averted disaster al International Airport late yesterday as he brought his Delta Airlines jet with 34 aboard safely hack home after one of Its engines exploded shortly after takeoff A close one it was And in the safely ord at is truly one the whole city should be proud of These dog days not even fit for dogs Heal and humidity teaming up and all the wandering ers do is make the even more insufferable Maybe lime we hike off on a Audit of Democratic hopeful Mill mary campaign expenditures becoming increasingly ing The mighty with that million he spent to buy his nomination as details of the show Are the people of Pennsylvania going lo fall for same sorl of thing in general Chris Short rather ed our faltering faith in the Phillies with that slirk last night But it's starling to look more and more like the Pirates all the way The way they knock the ball around is something to behold The man with the kink in his hack said to his sympathetic wife loves dening I don't think there's anything she'd rather see me do Life is full of ups and downs like up the ing and selling down to work who have an Inferiority complex seldom do provoked by Viet Cong firing at a U.S plane The ship hit today was the USS Point Welcome which uas attacked as it moved along the coast aboul 435 miles north of Saigon It uas spotted by a pilot which thought it was one of me coastal ships used by the smuggle men South Viet Nam Communists to and arms into Other planes dropped flares and the roared in against the blacked out ship as it took evasive action Newsman Also Hit Among the wounded were three a Vietnamese feied were liaison and freelance correspondent Tim a British national who had been wounded twice before in Viet Nam The who Police Hunt Woman's Slayer HOWELL S t a t c troopers searched clock today for the slayer of an attractive middle-aged the fifth red-haired man to be murdered al the sey Shore within a year Bloodhounds were used Wednesday night in the hunt for the assailant of Mrs Dorothy L who was shot twice in the head and brutally beaten Authorities refused to link the five slayings noting similar hair of the victims was flimsy evidence to go Mrs McKenzie was the third person murdered at the shore in seven days Two ol the tims were women and one was a teen-age service station at- tendant Her body was found early Wednesday in an auto parked near a Route 9 diner Al authorities thought she was beaten to but an autopsy revealed caked blood on her face hid the bullet i Mis McKenzie's body was MRS McKENZIE Shot Twice County Physician C Malcolm B Oilman said the woman was shot in the right eye and temple Her face was beaten almost but her clothes a white blouse and checkered slacks were intact Her body was covered with a sheet Detectives said the victim had not been raped Shortly after the bedy was discovered near the Regent Di- ner off Route State Police cordoned off a nearby wooded area Bloodhounds were brought in by helicopter from and a con- tingent of troopers in Trenton placed on standby alert The hounds picked up a scent behind the but lost the at Route 9 The searchers abandoned the dogs at 10 p.m and continued the manhunt throughout the nicht found by Jerry an employe of the Re- gent Diner He lold police he had gone to investigate what he believed was an abandoned car Registrars In Bristol Traveling registrars are in Bristol BorOugh and Falls Township today Tomorrow they will be in Bristol ough and ship In Bristol Borough both days will be at Hie Building from 2 to 9 p.m In Township from 2 to 9 p.m will be at Hugh Community 920 Road They will be at the nial School on Centennial Road in from 2 Lo 9 p.m Tim Testifies At Hearings Grid Star Says Shapp Paid Him To Pose HARRISBURG football star my of the Philadelphia testified today he was paid lo for pictures with Milton J Shapp during successful campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination Brown told Dauphin County Court the pictures were taken during a one-hour meeting of he and Shapp and two other known athletes Wilt lain and Ira Davis was m the fourth clay of hearings on a taxpayers suil seeking an dit of million mary expense account filed with the slate Elections Bureau The star testified that the meeting arranged by Randy whom Biown identified as a relations or publicity man for at the time Brown he the by lie said he agreed to the be- cause he it lo mccl a man who was running foi and because he Shapp as a person He said did not sec the pictures after were taken The second witness was don a partner in t h e Philadelphia advertising firm of Associates which handled primary campaign Scharfberg lold the court that his firm's billings lo Shapp for the campaign work totaled Shapp completed his mony in the case Wednesday after being on the witness stand periodically for three days Edward R Becker of Philadelphia at the close of Wednesday's lold reporters that lie ex- to call several more witnesses this week But none of them are expected lo be as extensively as Shapp Henry W also of Philadelphia Wednesday ended his direct ex animation of witnesses in lo charges made in a petition filed by Becker Sawyers motion to end the audit hearing midway Wednesday's testimony was met with silence by Presiding Judge Homer Krcider H i s opponent said then that he on Page Col Starts In Ends In Man Nabbed After Chase By 5 Police Cars A os a multitude of charges and motor vehicle violations in two municipalities after an morning escapade today It started at cording to Sgt Michael when Bristol Borough police re- a call on 3 dent on Harrison near son Place When Manlo and Patrol man Joseph Kehn arrived at the scene found a rammed up against a parked which -n had hern shoved into rear of a second parked cle Total Wreck Investigation disclosed the car in the middle of Hie street tonged to or Drive Levittown It uas totally wrecked Damage to the parked owned by James Zazzarino jf 248 Harrison St and Stephen Kerence of Harrison amounted to Ssl Manlo said the only thing found in Gleason's was a U S Sleel Corp stub Reported Stolen Gleason in the had his oar as being stulen from the Hames Road Shopping minutes after Bristol Bristol Township trolman Richard Bilson rd an aulo on 413 Bilson attempted to overtake but it increased its speed and proceeded to portville Road From ville the chase lo Five on through and Orangewood sections of lowri lo Creek then lo Ave and into the section of Levittown Calls For Help By had radioed for assistance and four township patrol cars had joined m pursuit of the hicle which attained speeds up on PaRe tol taken lo the northern city of 400 miles from Saigon UPI correspondent Elizabeth Halstead today visited the village of Can Tho near the stricken hamlet and dead including a year-old baby and more than 114 women and children wounded A girl of 13 was in critical condition and expected to live despite valiant efforts by a team of U.S Survivors said there were no Viet Cong in the village at the time of the attack and that the was unexpected A U.S Embassy statement in Saigon Wednesday said Viet Cong in the village opened fire on a spotter deliberately pro an attack in hopes i would create anti-American feeling by the villagers Officially Approved U.S military in Can Thos said the si ike agains Truong Thanh was authorized by Vietnamese officials reliable intelligence sources reported a company of Viet Cong in the area The same sources had earlier given information which led to the capture of a weapons cache A request for an air strike on the area was made and went through provincial headquarters lo the Vietnamese commander of the IV the U.S spokesman said A forward air controller was ordered to the scene and he spotted the hamlet so the fast jets could hit The Welcome was taken for an enemy contact by a patrol plane which called in a flare ship and an air strike on the U S military spokesmen said Girl Charged In Death ON WAY BACK Francis L Tomlinson cuffed and escorted by Constable Joseph leaves Fire Co No 2 for return trip to Bucks County Prison after hearing on charges he raped and murdered a Bristol woman Photo by Denis Big Police Guard Due To Threats Reported threats on the life of Francis L Tomlinson 22 year-old accused murderer of a Bristol Township day prompted Bristol Township police to place an guard inside the lown No 2 Fire Hall during the hearing Fifteen and clothes township officers were stationed throughout the fire hall In there state and county detectives No Emotion Tomlinson showing no signs of was seated at a flanked by his pointed Peter J derame and Joseph Directly behind the table were Constables Joseph and Frank and Bristol Township Sgt William Edmond Several of the 10 brothers and sisters of Mrs Lucy T the murder were ed about feet from the No Outbursts There were no outbursts or remarks from the audience ing the hearing con- ducted by Justice of the Peace Robert G Campbell Among those in the audience was Vincent H former township manager and who has been appointed by Gov William W Scranton as the township's second IP Duane township di- on Page Col To Cut Lines Citizens Ask Bus Routes To Remain A girl faces a technical charge of death by juvenile and careless driving in N J Charges against Judith of 714 Fourth stem from an accident last night in the New town in Steven Israel 5 of 129 bury lost his life According to the accident occurred I the intersection of Way and abom p.m Scene of the accident is about a block from the home Darls Between Cars Police said the standing a of children at me uon niu darted between two cais ped al a slop sign in the bound lane of Kennedy i He was dead on annal Hospital Miss police was driving southbound with her father and had passed through the mtoi section It was the first traffic a pedestrian in in eight hearing nn thr charge is scheduled for Atie 25 Police explained delinquent charge is automatic since Miss i- a minor An aroused Bristol Township Citizens Committee has been organized to petition the ship school board to reconsider its planned halting of bus in the township Sources indicated that 44 bus routes will be 17 affecting public 27 ing parochial school students Several action committees have been formed lo call on board members and to pre- sent their plea at the tive session scheduled tonight Petition Urges Safely A is being circulated which reads as follows the undersigned hereby petition the school tors of Bristol Township to vide transportation for tary and secondary students with al least the same ards of safety and welfare which have been used in past years conditions which would endanger the lives of any of our children on the highways or in the fields and wooded areas of the community we re- gard as On exactly the same date last year a similar petition signed by over people was ed lo the board which on Page Col All About Baseball I i 1 The Eastern Babe Ruth Stars are still 2 Who arc batting and pitching king of the Legion Baseball 3 Chris Short was long on stuff last year 4 How big is the See Sports Section Pages 31 INDEX I I Amusements Classified S Comici 41 6 Editorial 7 Obituaries 32 Investor I Junior Reporter Movies 3 Stocks 2 Sports TV Review 26 TV Schedule 41 Women's News 20 21 Day Classified WT Classified WT
