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A'Quiet but confident lonerIMILWAUKEE, Wis. (AP — Arthur H. Bremer, the onetime photography student .-charged. with shooting Democratic presidential candidate George C Wallace, is descnbed as a quiet but confident loner.The picture drawn by relatives, friends and acquaintances of the man who is accused of gunning down Wallace and’TfireeUlfiers at a Maryland shopping center Monday is that of a youth who kept his opinions to himself, developed few friendships and was something of a puzzle even to his family Bremer, 21, is being held in lieu of $200,000 bond in Maryland, under federal charges of assaulting a candidate for public office and a federal officerjslaLeLchaxes^jLasiclose-cropped hair, effects found in his Milwaukee apartment Monday night indicatedotherwise.Among the items iojhe West Side apartment were a Confederate flag and newspaper clippings about Wallace’s campaign, some dating to 1968 when Wallace staged a third-party effort“He must have been for George Wallace, because he had a Wallace sticker across the door,” said Stephen Wasche, 17, a neighbor in theapartment house.Bremer moved into the a park.men! from his family's South Side home last fall Neighbors said he dropped from sightabout a month ago -Brem er-^-truck^drxueiLialhecauIt^iUiJiUgnldibfcilLAlthouglflicquamtances, including classmates in his college photography class, said they were not aware of political interests or activity on the partnf the blond vouns man withWilliam, 58, said his son had “never mentioned anything political,” but he said 'he had learned that his son was a “dues-paying member of the12th Ward Democratic unit ” Notebooks found in the aoart-ment included one with thewords “Cheer up, Oswald” in large print. Then, in smaller print, were the words ““w'hiiecollar conservative. middle class Republican suburbanite robot.”Members of Bremer’s fami-iy—who hadn’t seen him since he moved to the apartment in October—descnbed him as “shy arid timid.” and they expressed disbelief that he could have been involved in theshooting,“We could never talk to him,” said a younger brother, Roger. 18. “We never knew much about him.” Roger said his mother, Sylvia, 57, had tried to visit Arthur at the apartment but he “slammed iheJooi^mJietiace^_Among the items^tound in the apartment w'ere two boxes of shells—one containing 21 ,38-cahber shells, the other 23 9mm cartridges—and seven targets, as well as some gun magazines
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Waynesboro Record Herald
Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, May 16, 1972
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