Schottland stood before the collected Boston press corps Friday, sensing that his job was to both appease and defend. In the back of the room, a highly efficient and likeable university public relations director had set out drinks, sandwiches, and coffee for his friends in the press corps. "It was a really big spread," one reporter commented.

Affirming that Brandeis "is a sanctuary for the free exchange of ideas," Schottland told the press "It is not-nor will it ever be- a sanctuary for violators of the law or a staging area for violence."

He said he mourned the "wanton and senseless murder of patrolman Schroeder" and pledged scholarships grants amounting to $94,500 to all mine of Schroeder's children.

Continuing what Boston After Dark called his "mea culpa" stance, Schottland pledged full cooperation with police officials including access to all records- aademic, medical, psychiatric, biographical- and open entry to any campus building. If there is any reluctance, "I will personally see that it is done," he added.

Several students and the Boston Globe immediately criticized Schottland for prejudicing the case of the alleged robbers with pre-trial publicity. His statement "The students allegedly involved in the violence are not representative of the Brandeis student body," implies strongly that he believes the student body is as a whole innocent; the other students, guilty.

Another criticism, with more universal applications (especially to Harvard), was the way Schottland threw open the University records, breaching confidentiality not only on those students allegedly involved in the robbery, but on every student and faculty member.

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"You got to understand the Boston police," a reporter explained. "They didn't know what to make of this thing either. To them a 'radical conspiracy' is only a wild fantasy. They didn't know what they were looking for or what to expect. All they knew was that one of their own had been shot and they all wanted to go out totin' their guns to look for him. That's why there was such a big man-hunt on the North Shore."

Police lost little time converging on Hampton Beach after the reported sighting of Gilday Thursday night. A police helicopter saw a man resembling his description run into the salt marshes and hovered over the area for several minutes spraying pepper gas on the area. Police set up a dragnet and skimmed through the swamp until dark. Gilday watched much of the bustle from a tree.

Friday morning at 8 p.m., Gilday surprised Mrs. Ruth Palmer, a 79-year-old widow, in her car and forced her to drive him to Salem, where he let her off and sped away.

He turned off Route 93 heading toward Lowell on Route 38. Suddenly, three policemen gave chase down Route 38 at speeds of 100 miles per hour. Bullets careened off both cars. Gilday's was riddled. One officer was grazed on the forchead when a bullet glanced off the front hood. Just as the police exhausted their ammunition, Gilday's car richocheted off another parked car and spun to a stop near a woods. There was more gunfire, then Gilday disappeared.

Forty-five minutes later, he reappeared along another stretch of highway, where he jumped into the slowly passing car of Vincent Coyne, a Wilmington, Mass. Ford Co. sales manager and ordered Coyne to take him to New Hampshire.

Crouched under the hood pointing a gun at Coyne, Gilday rode for nearly an hour while Coyne criss-crossed the streets of Lowell and Tewksbury, Mass,. passing police cars who had also borne down in the area. At one red light, while Gilday was reloading his gun, Coyne dashed from the car.

Gilday took the driver's seat and sped onward toward New Hampshire. The chase began again with police finding and losing their suspect. Again at speeds over 100, Gilday raced down the back roads, often sliding off onto the shoulder and spinning back on. He abandoned the car in Atkinson, N.H., where he promptly stole another, police said.

Lost for several hours, Gilday was again reported in a house along the Massachusetts- New Hampshire line, but vanished when police closed in.

Over 300 police assembled in the Riverview Drive-in Theater in Haverhill that afternoon. One hundred of them had come from Boston, and the others came from nearby townships bringing their K-9 corps with them. The FBI joined the manhunt after filing an unlawful flight affidavit, based on statements from Valeri, charging that the "radicals" intended to go to San Francisco after the robbery.