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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY. MARCH 24, 19R1
State / National
Letter arrives 6 years late
from the twilight zip
Killers watched vacation home
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DALLAS — The letter that ar
rived in Mrs. W.W. Lawton’s
mailbox the other day looked in
nocent enough at first glance —
not tom, not dirty, not crumpled,
not yellowed.
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cated the letter might have come
from the twilight zip: the double
postmark, the 10-cent stamp and
the return address — from a dead
woman.
The irony of the letter was not
so much that it arrived six years
late, but that it was sent by a Fort
Worth woman who has been dead
for two years. The writer was
trying to apprise her friend that
her husband had died.
“It gave me a very strange feel
ing,” Lawson said. “I saw the re
turn address from Mrs. Bob Phil
lips and I thought 'Why am I get
ting a letter from her when I know
she has been dead for two years?”’
After seeing the return
address, Lawton noticed the letter
had been postmarked twice, most
recently on March 13. The other
postmark was from 1975.
“It was shocking to get a letter
from someone who is dead,” she
said. “It looks like it was just
mailed, it wasn’t yellowed, dirty
or even crumpled.”
During the six years it took the
letter to travel the 30 miles from
Ft. Worth, Phillips died of cancer.
Judge trailed before death
cas
United Press International
ROCKPORT — The FBI tip
ped local authorities to the pre
sence of two convicted killers near
a federal judge’s vacation home
four months before the judge was
assassinated, but did not report
any suspicions the killers were
stalking him, according to Aransas
County Sheriff Bob Hughes.
A Dallas newspaper reported
Monday U.S. District Judge John
Wood Jr. was trailed for several
months before a sniper shot him
down outside his San Antonio con
dominium.
In a copyright story, the Dallas
Morning News reported the sur
veillance followed a secret meet
ing at San Antonio in December
1978. Wood was shot May 29,
1979.
Hughes said Monday the FBI
had told his office convicted hit
man Charles V. Harrelson and an
associate, convicted killer Larry
Culbreath, were in the area, but
that he thought they were setting
up a gambling operation.
Meanwhile, Harrelson s attor-
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ney, Joe Chagra of El Paso, said he
expects to be indicted in the case
when a federal grand jury investi
gating the assassination recon
venes this week in San Antonio.
“They better have a strong case
against me if I’m indicted for the
Wood murder,” Chagra said in a
weekend interview. “It’s their
move.”
Chagra’s brother, narcotics
kingpin Jimmy Chagra, currently
is in a federal prison on a convic
tion of continuing criminal activ
ity. Jimmy Chagra was scheduled
to appear before Wood, known as
“Maximum John” for his harsh
treatment of drug offenders, when
the judge was killed.
The Morning News reported a
close friend of Harrelson — a key
suspect in the Wood shooting —
was one of four people to rent a
cabin for a week across Copano
Bay from Wood’s beach home
near Rockport where the judge
was vacationing.
Culbreath, Harrelson and two
other men rented a cabin at the
Sea Gun resort in January 1979,
from which they watched the
judge’s movements, the newspap
er reported. The group returned
to the resort later in the year when
the judge made another trip to his
beach home.
Sheriff Hughes said that on
each occaision, his office swept the
cabin for evidence after the Har
relson party left. He said the sear
ches turned up telephone records
and gambling paraphernalia, but
he was not aware of any connec
tion with the Wood case.
The Morning News said it
learned from a man who claimed
to be at the 1978 meeting the con
ference was held to discuss obtain
ing weapons for a contract murder
and watching closely the move
ments of a "top federal official."
The News’ source, who has
given an affidavit to authorities,
said he was offered $100,000 and
access to cocaine if he would find
weapons for the job and dispose of
them after the killing.
The unidentified man also said
he was told the assassination
target would be placed under sur-
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disabled by a stroke, was kififfing is
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suspect) went and took a show. “The
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Police said the suspect, ^
name was not released, wouli;
subject to psychiatric examine
before charges are filed.
The suspect’s wife was on!
ground floor of the hospital:
reportedly watched her moi
in-law fall to her death. Shei
she was waiting for her hush
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when she heard glass breac
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from crying out for help.
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