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Ill4t\ MurdersI oilT WOK III (l 1*1 — He was polite and coopera-Authorities filed three muid- live, officers said, arc! shower charges against a sandy- ed little emotion while beinghaired, soft-spoken high school questioned or while showingstudent Saturday on his l!Mh officers the bodies.hiithday. s t ra i uhf, iongish, lightMelvin Stewart Pittman was colored hair fell over one eve accused ol killing a couple from ax he talked to officers, ambush and I hen slaving a 'n,e Lands disappeared fromthird person. But no one, including Pittman, could say why. Police said Pittman was arrested after a high speed chase hrtdav driving the car of Ken nelh K. Jones, ST., of FortWorth, one of the victim*Friday night, they said, be led them :lt;» the body of Jones, near Lake Arlington on theedge of Fort Worth, and then to the bodies of Mr, and .Mrs. Sictor I.and, both 48.The l.atrds had been missingfrom their Fort Worth homesince Sept. I.I don’t know why I did if.”police quoted Pittman as saving.Piitnian, a .student at K B Trimble High School described ax an intelligent boy, took offi cers to an area near Lake Arlington Friday,Officers saw Jones’ bodythere, iri a dump of brush near the shore Then Piitnian took officers around thp lake approx i imately half a mile and pointed out the pot where the bodies of the I.auds lay. 1their home Sept. 1 l’heir auto was found later, Junes disap peared Thursday night.Police said it appears a .303rifle, bought reeenlh for s.ui Crowder Rrook* (• ii n e r a| from ;i pawn shop, was the Home of Fort Worth w a han weapon dling funeral arrangements forPolice said the Lands weie *» three viC.m* shot while walking th.ough the A*st D.M. \Ux I harlea Rut!,trees toward Lake Arlington r’lUfn? 'lt;1 him he wasI hev rppear to have been shot ”n h hank nf. 'h*i * , if. ,n, ake Ihursdav afternoon, aboutfrom a nearby tree, officeis * . r , * .. . • two blocks front where Jonesa,( ' lives, w hen he encounteredThe bodies had been drag* Jones.ged into tall grass from where Butt* sa;d Pittman told hintbodies were he puked up the rifle arid firedthc\ fell. Thebadh decomposed.(See SI WINGS on Page Mi—WIWmclYiiliakclkFI inSi*i rlt;Jlt;#«ifarsonO'l TAW \ i\V) I’m in er ( anadiati Prime MinisterJohn G. Ihefenhaker, accused of putting personal judgment ahead of national security in the Munsinger sex and security case, has charged that Prime Minister I.ester B.Pearson did the same thins! in an earlier security case.The accusation against Hie frnhaker, 7! year old Conserve tive leader, wax marie Friday by Supreme Court Judge Wishart Spence in bis report on the^overnmeui ordered uupurv in to the 1%0 scandal.The judge said Diefenbakershould have fired his then associate defense minister, Pierre Sevigny, who had a liaison withGerda Mun.singer, a one time.self-admitted Soviet espionageagent.He said the liaison createda security risk and made\ignv vulnerable to pressure from foreign agents nr theMontreal underworld, where the affair wa% common knowledge and “known to MmMiinsingcr s fellow prostt tutcs,’*Diefenbaker, who was m Royton, Ma-s t when thr report was issued, charged it wax simply a political hatchet job fromstart to finish j|# added thatin an earlier security case Prat son did not put national securityfirst\s foreign secretary in charge of diplomatic .service in 1331,Pearson accepted responsibility fro keeping Herbert Norman jn his department after a securityi sf# i \ \ VD \ on Pace 1»
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Amarillo Sunday News Globe
Amarillo, Texas, US
Sun, Sep 25, 1966
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