Sunday, September 27:

The city of Grand Junction, Colorado sprawls out over a small piece of the Colorado Mesa Valley. It's population of 24,000 have gravitated there primarily because it is a "pretty place," according to one citizen. A rapidly developing population center, the city has clean streets, a couple newly built high schools, and it's own college scene, centered around Mesa College. In 1967, it won the All-American city award. Every year, the citizens host the national junior baseball tournament with teams coming from as far away as Miami, New York, and Houston.

At 12:40 p.m. on the runway of Grand Junction's Walker Field, a turbo jet bound for Chicago was taxing for take-off. The control tower ordered the plane back to the hanger for minor repairs, and as the passengers disembarked, a deputy sheriff disarmed Stanley R. Bond, 26, one of the suspects in the $26,000 robbery of the State Street Bank, and arrested him for armed robbery, murder, and unlawful flight in the Sept. 23 robbery of the State Street Bank in Brighton.

He was carrying a loaded 9 mm automatic at the time and his suitcase contained two other weapons and $10,000. The FBI had acted on a tip from a woman who recognized Bond from pictures in the press when she sat next to him on a flight into Grand Junction from Seattle, Wash.

In Seattle, Bond dashed off a letter to Boston newscaster Steve Nevas of WBZ-TV declaring war on the U.S. government. He claimed to be the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Action Force- East and called Robert Valeri, 21, another suspect in the robbery whom police had been questioning since Wednesday night, a member of RAF- West. Bond said he was writing the letter "because the U.S. government has not chosen to make public the formal declaration of war presented to it by Revolutionary Action Force in August of this year."

On the television news that night, another newscaster reported that there was no specific information available on the Revolutionary Action Force, "but it's membership nationally is believed no more than 50 to 75 people." A better estimate, equally as uninformed, might be a membership of one- Stanley R. Bond.

"I think the press has given Bond an identity and he has such an ego that he has taken it up. It may be that he believes it. People do incredible things under pressure," said one politically active Brandeis student, "I seriously doubt what he has been saying. I think he has fantasies of his own."

A few hours after Bond's capture, police announced that he and Valeri are being charged in a second holdup, the August 18 robbery of $8000 from the Prudential Savings and Loan Association in Evanston, Ill.

This is the first time Boston police have given any substantiation to their charge of a "larger conspiracy."

On the fourth day following the robbery and murder of Patrolman Schroeder, there is no evidence on the whereabouts of suspects Kathy Power and Susan Saxe. The purple dress found at Logan Airport and a flight listing of "K. Power" headed toward Los Angeles notwithstanding, police have shifted their search to Philadelphia, presumably on information coming from interrogation of Valeri.

Police also discovered that Kathy Power put a $100 deposit on a red 1967 Volkswagen about 45 minutes after the hold-up and paid for the car in cash an hour later.

Monday, September 28:

The flags at all Boston police stations and around most of the city are at half-mast today as slain patrolman Walter Schroeder is buried at Ever-green cemetery in West Roxbury at noon. Policemen arrive at the funeral wearing black cloth ribbons over their regular badges, and many will continue to wear the ribbons through the week.

THE GREAT CHASE- PART II:

Very close to the time Schroeder is being buried, five officers in Worcester, Mass., are setting their trap to snare the elusive Lefty Gilday in the town's Billing's Square.

After escaping a police dragnet Friday, Gilday hid for more than 30 hours in a basement cellar. At 9 a.m. Sunday, he emerged in Haverhill, Mass. and forced his way into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Huberdeau while Huberdeau was out getting milk. Returning, Huberdeau found Gilday holding his wife at gun-point.

At noon, Huberdeau's father and mother and five of their children arrived for Sunday dinner with their son and daughter-in-law. They ate carefully.

Members of the family were tied up, then released in the evening. The children watched Walt Disney, and one of the members of the family described Gilday as "pleasant."