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A Bank Is Robbed, A Cop Is Killed, A Movement Is Hung

Carrying along their notes and their doubts, they trundled off to their papers at 11 a.m. that morning where anxious editors voraciously awaited the new evidence.

The four additional suspects are: William "Lefty" Gilday, 41, a June parolee from Walpole who like Valeri was scheduled to enroll in Northeastern University this fall; Stanley R. Bond, 26, another ex-convict from Walpole who entered Brandeis last February on the special prison STEP program; Kathy Power, 21, a Brandeis senior active in the national student strike center there through the spring and summer; and Susan Saxe, 21, a June graduate of Brandeis, magna cum laude in American and English Literature.

Contacted at their home in Albany, New York, Susan Saxe's parents vehemently denied that their daughter was involved in the robbery. She had lost her purse during the summer and they assumed the woman suspect was using the identification.

Their daughter was currently in Portland, Oregon, the mother explained. She had gone there Sept. 1 to work in a bookstore which was run by the mother of Brandeis Sociology Professor Neil T. Friedman, a young leftist professor who had been one of seven Brandeis faculty sponsors of the student strike information center.

"You can verify it with him," the mother said, "he met her at the airport and took her to his mother's house."

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Police reportedly found two empty satchels from the State Street Bank and a purple dress, allegedly worn by Kathy Power during the hold-up, in a locker at Logan Airport. A passenger named "K. Power" was booked on the flight list of 10 a.m. plane to Los Angeles.

A man resembling the description of Lefty Gilday was reportedly seen in the Kennedy Restaurant in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, Thursday night. The bartender said he called himself "Sean Kelly." He was drunk, flashing a gun and roll of bills, and mumbling something about "killing all pigs," the bartender said.

The Boston Globe is an interesting set of contradictions. Once every year, they run the editorial of the founding fathers about how they are a community newspaper, dedicated to the betterment of the city, the country, the people, the flag, the constitution, the land, the works. On the other days, their editorials discuss what's wrong with the city, the country, the flag, the constitution, the people, etc. Around the country, they are considered one of the most liberal papers in America (witness their proud status as the first major newspaper to oppose the Vietnam War).

It is not unusual to find the evils of the Vietnam War displayed prominently on the front page one day, and the same slot filled by the wonders of the midi in Boston the next. The paper is, in short, inconsistent. It has staunchly liberal and stauncrly conservative reporters, who contradict each other constantly; and a conglomerate editorial page where editorialists have been known to run articles denouncing the columnists. Such divisions, however, are considered all part of putting out a good paper.

On Thursday night, the Globe received a telephone tip that Kathy Power lived at 163 Beacon Street and the apartment might be an interesting place to go searching for clues. Last year, on a similar tip involving a Weatherman raid on a high school, the Globe sent over a reporter and photographer, but did not inform police. They later explained that giving the information to police would be violating the confidentiality of their sources and might hinder their ability to talk with radical groups in the future.

In a similar situation Thursday, they informed police of the "tip" and proudly wrote "In a raid Thursday night on information supplied to the police by the Globe... "

The raid turned up two high-power rifles, a passport recently stamped for Cuba, one shotgun, a box of assorted ammunition, and an army field radio stamped "Company A, 101st Engineers." The radio was positively identified as having come from the U.S. Armory near Newburyport which had been burglarized and fire-bombed the week before, presumably, said police by "radical types."

Friday, September 25:

"Radicals Linked To Police Slaying"- Herald-Traveler.

"Charge Hero Cop Slain by 5 Student Radicals"- Record-American.

On the basis of McNamara's Thursday press conference, the Boston papers went wild with the hint of radical involvement in the bank hold-up. The priest and housewife who were so prominently stabbed on the front page of the papers the morning before were buried between the girdle ads Friday.

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