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Page 4 College Station, Texas Thursday, April 6, 1972 THE BATTAll! Thomas recreates Marin County courthouse shootout at Davis trii SAN JOSE, Calif. OP) — A prosecutor crippled by a bullet in the Marin County courthouse shootout said publically for the first time Wednesday that he shot four abductors, three of whom died. In a voice quavering with emo tion, Deputy Dist. Atty. Gary Thomas, 34, testified from a wheelchair at the Angela Davis trial about the Aug. 7, 1970, shootout. Thomas, 34, recreated the scene in a van outside the courthouse as the armed men tried to flee the San Rafael courthouse with himself, a judge and two jurors as hostages. He said the van, with Jonathan Jackson, 17, at the wheel, began moving, then suddenly stopped. Jackson put his hand out the driver's side window, he said, “and then I heard a shot ... I can’t say whether it was one or two immediate reports . . . then Jack- son pulled his hand back inside the window and he looked at it and there was blood on it.” Thomas said that within sec onds he grabbed the gun from Jackson’s hand. “I took the gun from him and fired a shot in Jonathan Jackson’s direction, one, maybe two . . . James McClain was moving to ward the left side of the front of the van. I shot him in the back. I turned and fired a shot in the area of William Christmas and then shot Ruchell Magee in the chest. “I shot Magee once. He was moving. I tried to shoot him again and the gun clicked ... he stop ped moving right then and he yelled out ‘stop firing, please, please stop firing!’ ” Thomas added: “At about the same time, I developed sharp pains in my back. My legs gave out and I crumpled down.” During the shooting, he said he saw Judge Harold Haley die. Asked about his own injuries, Thomas said quietly, “Somewhat over an inch of my spinal cord is shot away and I am paralyzed.” Thomas was calm throughout his testimony, but his voice quav ered as he spoke of the killing of the judge who he said was a longtime friend. Miss Davis, 28, a black Com munist, is charged with murder, kidnap and conspiracy in connec tion with the shootout. The state says she helped plot the violence. Jackson, McClain and Christ mas all died in the shootout. Mc Gee was wounded but lived. He faces a separate trial on the same charges as Miss Davis. The state claims the hostages were seized as ransom for the Soledad Brothers, three unrelated black convicts then charged with slaying a white prison guard. The prosecution contends that Miss Davis was waiting for the group at San Francisco Interna tional Airport. Thomas, assistant district at torney in Marin County, was the prosecutor in the trial of McClain, who was charged with assaulting a San Quentin Prison guard. The state claims the courtroom invasion and subsequent kidnap- murders were pre-planned, with McClain as one of the planners. The first thing he remembers about the kidnap, Thomas said, Sbisa Hall & Duncan Hall Meal Schedule Week Beginning April 9 Thru April 15, 197Z Master Menu No. 5 SUNDAY Breakfast Orange Juice 1. Ass’t. Dry Cereal Chilled Peaches Fried Eggs Grilled Sausage Links Toast-Oleo-J elly 2. Blueberry Hot Cakes Grilled Sausage Links Coffee-Milk Sbisa—Plus Scrambled Eggs Dinner *Stuffed Crab 1 Fried Cod Fish 1 & Fried Shrimp 2 Tartar Sauce * Green Peas * French Fried Potatoes Turnip Greens Cole Slaw Steamed Rice Cherry Pie Bread-Oleo-Ice Tea MONDAY Breakfast Tomato Juice 1. Cream of Wheat Scrambled Eggs Hash Brown Potatoes Hot Biscuits-Oleo-Jelly 2. 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Scrambled Eggs Link Sausage Toast-Jelly-Oleo Coffee-Milk Sbisa—Plus Hotcakes & Fried Eggs Dinner ♦Chicken Fried Steak ♦Herb Rice Cream Gravy ♦Whole Green Beans Buttered Whole New Potatoes Buttered Squash Lettuce Celery Salad French Dressing Bread-Oleo-Ice Tea Debbie Vanilla Snack Cake Supper ♦Frankfurters w/Chili Hot Dog Buns ♦French Fried Potatoes ♦Sauerkraut Lyonnaise Steamed Rice Carrots Pickle Relish-Diced Onion Mustard Tossed Salad-Green Goddess Dr. Individual Pound Cake Milk-Coffee Monday through Friday: Breakfast—7:00 a. m. Lunch—M. W. F.—11:15, 12:15 and 1:15 p. m. T. Th.—11:30 and 12:30 Dinner—6:30 p. m. Saturday: Breakfast—7:00 a. m. Lunch—12:15 p. m. Dinner—5:00 p. m. Sunday: Breakfast—8:00 a. m. to 9:00 a. m. Dinner—12:45 p. m. MSC Food Services Open 7:00 a. m. Close 7:00 p. m. Daily Plus Sandwich Line in both Sbisa and Duncan at Lunch and Ham burger line in Sbisa each week day evening. MEAL SCHEDULE AT SBISA MEAL SCHEDULE AT DUNCAN was the sound of a voice coming from behind him in the spectator section. He said he turned and saw Jackson holding a hand gun. Just then, he said, Jackson reached behind his raincoat and pulled out a rifle. “The people in the courtroom, including myself and the guards, were instructed to get down on the floor. I got down on the floor where I was seated, stretched out.” He said he kept his eyes on the judge’s bench, saw McClain approach the judge and heard him ask Jackson: “Did you bring the tape ?” The state apparently seeks to show that the comment about tape is proof of preplanning, since moments later a sawed-off | gun was taped to the ft was neck. Thomas said the judge, s; his bench, telephoned the ii and told him, “Don’t do anj; rash.” McClain, he said, foci telephone and said “some like ‘we have the judge. if you don’t do what we'll kill him and the jury! Error costly to soldier WASHINGTON <A>) _ A dec orated Army sergeant told a Sen ate hearing Wednesday his career was nearly wrecked, his citizen ship questioned and his adoption of a Vietnamese war orphan de layed when he was wrongfully accused of drug abuse. Staff Sgt. Donald L. Fryer, 34, of Alhambra, Calif., said his troubles began when a medical report on his departure from Vietnam stated he was heavily under the influence of heroin. He told Sen. Harold Hughes, D-Iowa, chairman of the Senate’s drug abuse and alcoholism sub committee, he was stripped, searched and detained for 10 days in a security ward behind barbed wire. He was released, he said, only because of strenuous efforts by his commanding officer. Fryer said doctors ignored sub sequent checks showing him to be free of heroin or any other drug. The Army finally acknowledged an administrative mistake had been made, he said. But by then it was too late to head off troubles. The military record-keeping system had him pegged as a drug abuser and the word spread rapid ly, he said. Fryer, who holds awards of the Bronze Star and the Army Commendation Medal for meri torious work in personnel and with orphanages in Vietnam, tes tified he had never used heroin or any other illegal drug. He said his parents and wife, concerned when he didn’t report home on leave as scheduled, were told by the Red Cross it was strange he was still in the Army at all “because we didn’t think the Army would keep drug abusers.” ican citizen would be mi especially after being toli passport for his adoptei David Matthew, was bein; up. Although his problem! seem to be clearing, Fryei he fears the erroneous recmi continue to appear. He was praised by Sen. Hi as “a dedicated, honest acii developed human being” urged by the senator not to get the officers who dropped duties to clear his record. After first being rebuffed by officers who didn’t want suspect ed drug users, Fryer said he was helped by the commanding gen eral at Ft. Lewis and others to obtain a certificate stating that his records were in error. But he said the certificate was not immediately accepted by Cali fornia officials who told him they would recommend against the adoption of the 4-year-old Viet namese child by a drug abuser. A Canadian by birth, Fryer said he was concerned that his naturalization status as an Amer- Bombs disrupt North Ireland (Continued from page 1) MacStiofain declared there would be no suspension of operations at present. But he said he would welcome a conference of “all in terests”—including Protestants— on the Northern Irish question. In Belfast, sources in the Home Affairs Ministry said Whitelaw could be expected to release the 60 suspected terrorists within three weeks. They are among 700 men currently detained under the [province’s emergency detention rules. ed food. It was reported the official found living conditions reasonable and the food good but ordered in creased recreation time for the detainees. One of the promises the Brit ish government made in assum ing rule of Northern Ireland was that the practice would be phased out, providing no new violence resulted. A senior ministry offi cial boarded a prison ship docked in Belfast to investigate the com plaints of 132 inmates on a hung er strike. The inmates on the vessel, Maidstone, said they were unjustly held and fed contaminat- Two Catholic parliamentarians also appealed for a truce. John Hume, Social Democratic Labor party member of the pro vincial Parliament, urged the IRA to end its campaign of ter ror but asked a comparable de- escalation by the British army. 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