Demonstrators charge courthouse
SEATTLE (UPI)—A thousand demonstrators charged the U.S. courthouse in a massive wedge Tuesday, throwing rocks, tear gas and paint-filled balloons in a protest against the Chicago riot
conspiracy trial.
More than 30 protestors, including a number of women, were arrested as club-swinging police closed in from two sides on the screaming mob.
Magazine's charges denied by restaurant
NEW YORK (UPI)—An attorney representing a restaurant which Sports Illustrated magazine claims was the headquarters of a bookmaking operation supported by Denny McLain said Tuesday night the "allegations are both utterly false and completely irresponsible."
Paul Godola, a Flint, Mich., attorney, made the statement in answer to a copyrighted story to appear in this week's issue of Sports Illustrated stating that McLain contributed money to support a bookmaking operation in 1967 that accepted bets in several sports. The magazine said "members of a Syrian mob with Cosa Nostra connections sponsored the organization."
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A 31-game winner and the American League's most valuable player in 1968 as the star of the Detroit Tigers, the 25-year-old McLain is reported to be about $150,000 in debt. He earns $100,000 a year from the Tigers and perhaps another $100,000 in off-the-field activities.
McLain could not be reached for comment on the report. He has not been reported seen publicly since Friday, when he met with Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn in New York in regard to an investigation by Kuhn's office into "off-field activities" by McLain in 1967.
The demonstrators lobbed tear gas into the courthouse, sending employees running for protection.
A spokesman for Kuhn said the commissioner would stand on his statement of Friday that "when all the pertinent facts and circumstances have been determined and evaluated, I will have a further statement to make."
Police, who had been stationed inside the courthouse and in a library across the street, quickly closed in on the attacking demonstrators.
Swinging their clubs, the police clashed with the demonstrators, who hurled rocks and balloons filled with pink and blue paint.
As the demonstration began, a large red flag with white lettering was hoisted up the courthouse flag pole. The banner said, "End the war and free the seven," referring to the seven defendants in the Chicago riot conspiracy trial.
Included in the mob were a half dozen saffron-robed members of the Hare Krishna religious sect, noted for its teaching of nonviolence and peace.
Windows as high as the sixth floor of the building were broken by rocks. A tear gas cannister was lobbed through a broken window on the first floor.
Fumes rose up the elevator shaft and sent employees running to the upper floors where they bathed their eyes with wet towels.
One demonstrator, William Thomas Hayes Jr., caught a severe dose of the tear gas while he was inside in an attempt to talk to the U.S. marshall and a federal judge.
be like this," he said. "I don't know what's the matter with them, the demonstrators. I came down thinking it was going to be nonviolent."
"I didn't know it was going to
After the charge on the courthouse was dispersed, a number of the demonstrators moved to the federal office building a few blocks away and smashed several windows.
The demonstrators continued toward the skid row area, where patrons of bars and taverns came out to take a look. Most of the drinkers went back inside, but a
few drunks joined the fray, fighting both police and the demonstrators.
U. S. Attorney Stan Pitkin said those arrested were charged with destruction of federal property and some would be charged with assault.
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