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1 A I 1 SINGLE COPY 15c Home Delivcml Days 73c 133RD YEAR NO. 38 FINAL EDITION THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 17, 1973 Local Probe Finds Many Court Documents Lost F771 7 TF1 TV fH JlijlJj LlJ. A if I i li I and the city clerk of courts (criminal division) for the "mad state of affairs" in their departments. Judge Klusmeier called the meeting after he had to dismiss a charge because the affidavit was not among the court papers. The police dapartment had claimed tne affidavit had been sent to the clerk's office but the clerk did not have it when the case got to the judge.

"The court is extremely concerned and disturbed over the lack of proper control of the docket of this couit," Judge Klusmeier told the officials, headed by Robert Rudig, deputy to Robert Jennings, county clerk of courts, and Lt. William Meredith of the Cincinnati Police Department. The county clerk supervises and politically appoints members of the city clerk of courts offices. "The reason the court is so concerned is because this is a matter over which the court has no control of responsibility," Judge Klusmeier scolded. Yet, if we sit here and close our eyes to what's going on, it will be the court's fault, and that's the reason the court will not tolerate it further." The Judge was unaware at that time of The Enquirer's investigation.

by the police department. In the other cases, clerks either did not prepare the capias (according to the docket books) or the capias just never officially reached the police department. In short, it was lost. The police didn't have a whole lot of success in finding the persons named on the bench warrants in the periods studied by The Enquirer. The study showed that only in about 55 of the cases in March and June, 1972, were policemen able to find the wanted persons.

Right now, the police have more than 6000 unserved police court bench warrants in their files. POLICE BLAMED this lack of success on the press of more important work. The Enquirer investigation concluded that the main ingredient in the wholesale losses, including the "lost defendants," was sloppy handling of vital paperwork. This conclusion was strengthened when The Enquirer obtained a transcript of a meeting in which Municipal Court Judge Harry T. Klusmeier blistered representatives of the Cincinnati Police Department quirer followed all the cases first filed in March and June, 1972, in police court-In March, about 2400 cases (individual charges) were placed on the docket.

About 15 or 363 cases dropped out before the routine arraignment-judgement procedure could be completed. IN ONLY ABOUT 50 or 181 of these cases were the defendants eventually returned to the court for judicial handling. In the other 50 of the cases, the defendants have not yet been found. In the 2500 cases in June, 434 defendants failed to appear at one time or another along the judicial pathway. This time, 207 fewer than 50 eventually were returned for final disposal by the courts.

What's the reason for all the lost defendants? Under normal court routine, a Judge issues a bench warrant or capias for persons who fail to appear for scheduled court appearances. This capias is supposed to be prepared by the clerk and sent to the police department for service. But The Enquirer found only 85 of the bencn warrants ordered by judges actually were received By GERALD WHITE Enquirer Reporter They're losing more than bail bonds these days in the Hamilton County Municipal Court system, They (court-related employees or police) are losing bench warrants, affidavits, arrest slips and defendants, it was learned during a recent three-month investigation of court procedures. Earlier, The Enquirer had estimated that $50,000 is lost annually because bail bonds are lost or mishandled in the lower court system. As part of an overall bail bond survey, The Enquirer traced the judicial pathway followed (or avoided) by all persons whose cases were supposed to be heard in certain selected periods in 1972.

And The Enquirer sought to find out how many persons went to trial during a selected period. What happened if they didn't show up when they were supposed to? Did they ever return? If not, why? First, how efficient was the judicial system in disposing of its case load? To answer this, The En Calle ate Waters Tip Of 6Dirt Tricks' Iceber aimed at radical leaders, student demonstrators, news reporters, Democratic candidates for President and Vice President and the Congress, and Nixon administration aides suspected of leaking information to the press. THE SOURCES said that many of the covert activities, although political in objective, were conducted under the guise of "national security" and that some of the records relating to them are believed to have been destroyed. Some of the activities were conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service and special teams working for the White House and Justice Department, according to the Most of the activities were carried out under the direct supervision of members of President Nixon's innermost circle, among them former White House deputies H. R.

(Bob) Haldeman, John D. Ehrlich-man and John W. Dean III; former Attorney General John N. Mitchell, and former assistant attorney general Robert C. Mardian, the sources said.

By CARL BERNSTEIN and BOB WOODWARD (c) The Washington Post WASHINGTON The Watergate bugging and the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist were part of an elaborate, continuous campaign of illegal and quasi-legal undercover operations conducted by the Nixon administration since 1969, according, to highly placed sources in the executive branch. There are more instances of political burglaries, buggings, spying and sabotage conductol under White House auspices that have not yet been publicly revealed, according to the sources. Although the undercover operations became most intense during the 1972, presidential campaign, such activities as the Watergate bugging and the Ellsberg burglary, which previously had appeared to be isolated, were regarded In the White House as components of a continuing program of covert activity, according to the sources. The clandestine operations, the sources said, were at various times Although most of the clandestine operations are shrouded in secrecy, they are known to include: The use of the Secret Service to obtain information on the private life of at least one Democratic presidental candidate In 1972. The possession of Sen.

Thomas Eagleton's confidential health records by Ehrlichman, former White House domestic affairs chief, several weeks before the information was leaked to the news media. The use of paid provocateurs to encourage violence at antiwar demonstrations early in the first Nixon administration, and again in the 1972 presidential campaign. Undercover poljtical activities against persons regarded as opponents of the Nixon administration. The activities were conducted by "suicide squads" in the FBI a bureau term for teams of agents engaged in sensitive missions which, if revealed, would be disavowed by the FBI and the White House. The use of pald-for-hire "vigilante squads" by the White House and Justice Department to conduct ulegal wiretapping, infiltrate radical organizations for purposes of I A i hv -5f i i 1 s.

4 4 0Mf A A A v- I 0 lit, 4 1 i ttt kuf Sir 4 fV, 1 cv 'Y4 If 'J provocation and engage in political sabotage. The "vigilante squads" were made up of professional wiretappers and former Central Intelligence Agency and FBI agents. One such "vigilante squad," under the supervision of former White House aides E. Howard Hunt Jr. and G.

Gordon Liddy, conducted the Watergate bugging in 1972 and the burglary at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist in 1971. The. Watergate grand jury reportedly Is examining another burglary that the team is suspected of committing. According to one highly placed source in the executive branch, undercover operations by the Hunt-Litldy squad were transferred from the White House to the Committee for the Re-Election for the President under an arrangement worked out by Haldeman, then chief of the White House staff, and John Mitchell, then attorney general. In other Watergate developments: Dean, Haldeman and Ehrlichman asked to be excused temporarily, from giving pre-trial statements in a civil case because, they said, it is possible they might be indicted by the Watergate grand jury.

Richard M. Helms, former CIA director, reportedly told a Senate subcommittee that he. felt White House requests for CIA help in the Watergate incident were improper but he never expressed his concern to President Nixon. The New York Times reported Warren Christopher turned down the job as special Watergate prosecutor Wednesday. He said he would not have been granted enough independence.

The New York Times reported that Henry A. Kissinger provided the FBI with the names of a number of his aides on the National Security Council whom he wanted wiretapped. Justice Department sources said Kissinger's role was more extensive than had previously been reported. The Senate prepared to open its public hearings today into the Watergate affair. Sixth Man Convicted In XU Holdup-Slaying AP Wirephoto dent Center recreation room where Jenkins was shot.

Ronald Panioto, assistant prosecutor in the Amos trial, argued that the robbery was planned and that Amos knew beforehand one of his companions had a gun. A contrast developed between the two cases which went to the jury Wednesday. The jury in Judge Keefe's room, was not sequestered Tuesday night, while the jury in the Amos case before Judge Kraft was sequestered, to prevent its hearing about other verdicts. He Takes Direct Route verdicts. Three of the defendants were found guilty of first-degree murder.

They are Willis McNeil, 26, 3111 Hackberry Wendell Drake, 22, 1841 Hewitt and Danny Martin (alias Danny Cox), 20, 3501 Stacey Ave. 'Stephen Lewis, 23, 1655 Anita Place, was found guilty of a lesser charge, first-degree manslaughter. Drake was accused as tne trig-german in Jenkins' death. He admitted carrying a rifle but said it went off accidentally. Gene Mesh and Albert Meste-macher, attorneys for Amos, argued before the jury in Judge Robert Kraft's court Wednesday that Amos was not inside the Stu FRANK BUCKLEY of San Diego, takes the most convenient way possible to get to his doctor's office.

Despite the consternation of police, he steers his wheelchair straight down the center line on Street, for nearly a mile. The 83-year-old retired Navy cook says he hasn't been arrested yet but police stop him often. He just wants to avoid the curbs. Southern Order: Brick Up Rotunda The last two defendants in the Xavier University robbery-slaying case were convicted Wednesday of first -degree murder and four counts each of armed robbery. The verdicts in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court mean that all six defendants have been found guilty.

Five of the six were convicted on one count each of first-degree murder. The other was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter. Each was found guilty on four counts of armed robbery. Just before midnight Wednesday, the jury in Judge Robert Kraft's courtroom found Ronald Amos, 23, of 3111 Hackberry guilty on the murder charge. The jury had begun deliberations at 4 p.

m. Earlier Wednesday, Vernon Childs, 18, of 1845 Hewitt Ave. was convicted of murder. Judge John Keefe said Childs would be sentenced at 10 a. m.

Friday. Childs showed no emotion as the verdicts against him were read by Court Clerk Cary Self, nor as the jury was polled. In addition to first-degree murder, Childs was also found guilty on four counts of armed robbery. The jury deliberated less than three hours. Childs and the other five defendants were charged following the gunshot death of Thomas Keith Jenkins, 18, of Pasadena, during a holdup at the Xavier University Center recreation room last November 11.

Jenkins was an XU freshman. The six defendants were all charged with one count each of first degree murder in the death of Jenkins and with four counts each of armed robbery. ON TUESDAY, JURIES in four other courtrooms returned their James Headley, vice president of Southern Railway System, said Wednesday, night that work will begin today on sealing off the rotunda at Union Terminal, despite what Cincinnati City Council might think. Headley's comments came after council passed an ordinance designating the terminal as a historic history to the Greater Cincinnati Airport, at a cost of $365,000. The building commissioner, William Ahlert, Wednesday invoked piovisions of a city asbestos law and suspended Southern's demolition permit until the Air Pollution Control Division can determine if there are asbestos materials in that portion of the concourse to be wrecked, and if demolition controls are necessary.

The ordinance requires the approval of the superintendent of the city's air pollution control division before a demolition permit can be issued on a building containing asbestos Insulation. "What they might not know," Headley said, "is that three permits landmark, and after the city building commissioner suspended a permit for Southern to start demolition of the terminal's concourse. "What they did," Headley said, "is consign the murals (in the Terminal) to the slag heap. "I don't" know what they were thinking about." SOUTHERN OWNS THE terminal, and it wants to tear it down because it has no more passengers in Cincinnati, and because it needs the space to expand its piggyback freight operations. A group called the Task Force to Save the Union Terminal tried to raise $1.75 million to buy the terminal, but failed.

Its goal now apparently is to move the 14 murals in the concourse mosaics that portray Cincinnati's industrial have been issued. Two were on April 19 to take down the murals and to cut through the floor of the concourse to give us room for the piggybacks. "The third was Issued last January 10, and it said we can brick up the rotunda, and that's what we are going to start doing Thursday." Listing the terminal a historic landmark means the city can hold up building permits for alterations for three months and demolition for six months. When asked what will happen to the murals if the dispute continues? "You tell me," Headley said. "I am 1 1 considering going down to city hall Thursday (today) with an application to tear down the whole concourse and seeing what happens." The Weather Partly cloudy, windy and cool High low 60s.

Fair and cool and Friday. Low tonight 30s, high Friday upper 50s. Details, Map on Page 13 ttr flirted Skylab Repairs Under Study Chill Page Action Line 35 Amuse. 10, 11 si rrnir 34 AP Wirephoto SEC Chief Quits G. BRADFORD COOK, the youngest chairman in the history of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), resigned Wednesday, saying he was caught in a "web of circumstance." Cook, 36, was appointed only March 3 by President Nixon1 as chairman of the SEC, which is the watchdog agency over the country's securities and investment markets.

Cook has been under fire recently for his role in changing a reference to $250,000 in an SEC suit against New Jersey financier Robert L. Vesco. The money, it was learned, was donated to the Nixon reelection campaign, it later was returned to Vesco. Page Graham 35 Horoscope 35 Horse Sense 35 Jumble 35 People 3 Society 19 Sports 53-61 TV-Radio 36, 37 Van Dellen 23 Viewpoint 6 Weikel 45 Women's 18-25 Word Game 23 the buildup of heat inside the space station. Other sources said about 50 of the medicine including antibiotics and antihistamines in the craft may have been ruined and some of the food also affected.

Temperatures in part of the space ship have reached oven-like levels of 190 degrees. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officials say. The program director said engineers are studying ways to install CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) There's still hope of launching astronauts Sunday to Install a sun shade to cool the sweltering Skylab space station, officials said Wednesday. But they admitted that some items on the $294 million orbiting lab already have been spoiled by heat.

William C. Schneider, director of the Skylab program, said special sensitive film has been fogged by a canopy to shade the space station from the sun. He said there is still hope of launching Skylab 1 astronauts Charles Conrad Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul J.

Weitz Sunday for a repair mission. "We plan to deploy the solar sunshield as soon as possible, on the first or second day of the mission and then do a full 28-day mission," said Schneider, "if we get the solar shield deployed we feel we'll be able to get the full 28 days." Books Bridge Business Classified Dolumnists Comics Crossword Dear Abby Deaths Editorials Features Some of you probably think It's been a darn cold spring. But remember, it won't always stay that way. Say in July, you'll wish you had more space to keep things chilled. Maybe that's why a smart buyer bought the refrigerator Ernest Parsons advertised in the Enquirer classified pages.

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