• O 1974 l'ho ?aril limn olowAsy - NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1974 -, Murder Case Witnesses Recant 7 Years After 2 Got Life Terms Accused 'Hurricane' Cniitimied From Page 1, Col, 3. ' Carter and Another , testified," he explained In en interview. "That was all the ' in Triple Slaying time [the long sentence]. They police] never would bevel By SELWYN RAAB got me to talk otherwise. I NAW SPtclal to Tile 4^fele York Time, a way out of my own mess," PATERSON, NJ.. Sept, 20— Mr. Bradley said that eon, ra•i ,Seven years after former box-' 'ry to his courtroom testimony 'he had witnessed no part of the ing star Rubin (Hurricane) Car- murders or of the killers' es- ter and another man were sen- cape. "1 lied to :ore myself," he etenced to life imprisonment L, said. fde a triple murder here, new The other key witness. Alfred evidence has been 'uncovered . P. Bello, said: "They Idle po- lice] promised they'd take care that raises serious' doubts about. of me if f gm jammed up tar- their guilt. rested] again." Mr. Bello also ' The two principal prosecution said that he had hoped "to capi- witnesses, the only ones who talize" on a SI0.500 reward of- ae., identified Mr. Carter and a co- fered for the capture of the i defendant, John Arles, as the gunmen. Mr. Bello maintained that lie black gunmen who killed three had seen the actual murderers whites in a barroom shooting, at the scene of the killings, but have now recanted their testi- . that his courtroom identifies-' mony. tion of Me Carter and Mr. Artis When Mr. Carter was arrest- was "a grave mistake." ed he was a leading contender 'Big Brother Line' . for the middleweight champion- Persistent police pressure. ship, The trial of Mr. Carter and Mr. Bello asserted, had con- fused him. "They gave me a big Mr. Artis took place during a brother line," he said. "The time of racial tension here and cops told me I'd be doing jus- •attracted wide attention in New tice for the families of the Jersey. white victims—it would be an 'He Was Framed' eye for an eye." Mr. Bello, who was 23 years The two witnesses, both old at the time of the trial, has 'white and both former convicts, a long police record dating I Rubin Carter at the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton told The New York Times that 'from the age of IS, He is now serving a nine-month sentence they had been pressured by at the Bergen County Jail in ' Passaic County detectives into Hackensack for burglary. committing perjury. In separate Mr. Bello and Mr. Bradley . i statements--each made wi th- said they had long been trou- ou! the other's knowledge— bled by their false testimony, but added that they had been they said they had deliberately, fearful of recanting it because and wrongly identified me, car- of possible harassment h the ter and Mr. Arils as the slayers. police in Passaic County—a One of the witnesses also said fear both said they still held. ' that detectives had made racial The five-year statute of trout 'slurs about the two defendants. •tations for perjury has expired "There's no doubt Carter was and neither Mr. Bradley nor Mr, Bello can now be prosecuted on; i 1 ramed," said Arthur D. Brad- that charge in the Carter-Artiil , ley, one of the recanting wit- case. ' inesseS. • Mr. Bello and Mr. Bradley • When he testified against Mr. were each separately sought Carter and Mr. Ard's, Mr. Brad- out by The New York Times. and await- Mr. Bradley said he was now ' ley was 23 years old willing to admit his perjury be- ing trials for a series of holdups cause his conscience had unrelated to the triple murders. troubled him and "1 knew soon- He faced a maximum term of er or later the truth would more than 80 years in prison, come out." but after serving three years he A different explanation was offered by Mr. Bello. For years, was paroled in 1970. he said, he had regretted that ■ Y E. S4uto "There's only one reason I The !kw Yo his false testimony had resulted, 'Continued on Page IX, Column 1 John Artis at the Leesburg State Prison Farm in life imprisonment for Mr.1 Carter add Me Attie but Ion rest record for etahhery and Sight of it before they entail tie. said he leered melees by the &Ault as a youth' and that back- 'termitic If II had otiered goide. promotions anti thretementn Paamaic police If lie minr a pule ground had been frequently 14, vacations Co officers respottellile lic disclosure. Ile Alan said his publicized by ring promoters teirarr esting the criminals. In While Car Halted hint arrest had convinced him to enhance his fierce reputa- addition, the city and a tavern That "the cops are out to get tion as„a fighter. • At 2;40 A.M., nhout 14 blocks owners' association offered re• me anyway and there's no In contrast, Mr. Artis at the from the Lafayette Grill, the wards totaling $10.500 for the reason for me to protect them time of his arrest was an ob- same police ufficers stopped a arrest and convictions of the anymore." scure 21-year-old working at similar-looking white car which killers. 'various jobs who was about to A police search for the mur- Both Sign Statements they said was moving slowly in be drafted' into the Army. The a different direction—south- der weapons failed and there Mr. Bradley and Mr. Bello only recognition that had come (nen the first auto they had were no arrests during that have each recanted in addi- his way in Paterson had been pursued. Inside the car were Summer of 1900. Mr. Carter, tional signed statements made In high school. where he had Mr. Carter. Mr, Artis and a without any police objection, to an investigator for the New been a•member of the football, third black man, John Royster. left in July for an unsuccessful Jersey Public Defender's Of. track and basketball teams.. The car, a white 1966 Dodge, fight in Argentina. It was Ills fice, which. is conducting a Both . Mr, Carter and • Mr. had been rented by Mr. Carter last hoist. On the night of Octn- separate inquiry on behalf of Ares were interviewed in prise and was being driven by .Mr. bar N. 1966—four months af. Mr. Carter. Ave by The New York Times, Artis. ter the bar murders—he and Because of this new lnferma. The triple murder occurred After checking the car reels- Mr. Arlin were arrested and ae- ctv,^d of the triple homicide. Lion, Paul J. Feldman, Mr. Car- early in the morning of June 17, I tration and Mr. Aries's driver's ter's lawyer. said today he ! The police account of the 1966, at the Lafayette Grill at license, the police permitted the would soon file a court motion three to leave. events leading to the arrests for a new trial far both Mr, 428 East 18th Street. The tate Later, after gelling a more was reennstraeted during a Carter and Mr. Artie. ern, at the' corner of Lk complete description of the get- tense 1.1-day trial in April. Mr. Bello and Mr. Bradley layette Street, was In the din- away car, Sergeant Captor and 1967. According in prosecution both accused Detective Lieuten- gy northeast section or Pater- Officer De Cheek; believed that testimony, Mr. Cater and Mr. ant Vincent DeSinione of the Artis had given conflicting son, a neighborhood whose r.a.! the Carter vehicle resembled it Passaic County Prosecutnea Of: and they drove off looking for statements to drieetives about. fice as the officer chiefly 're- eial composition ;rail changing it. Shortly. after 3 A.M., the po- their nelvententa ell the murder sponsible for pressuring them from while to black working licemen came across Mr. Car. night. Hilt the Maio reason for into perjured testimony in Clans. ter's reeler attain. this lime I ITV Indictments 1967. The officer headed the Four Gunned Down ' about five blocks from the mur- from testimony tibiae's-el liv the, triple murder Investigation. • der scene. ,Passaic Cott n ty Preset. tor's' Lieutenant DeSimone, who is According to undisputed tes- Mr. Carter and Mr. Antis, Istaff from Mr. Bradley and Mr. now in charge of the county's timony, two armed black men now the only occupants were : homicide squad, angrily domed entered the bar at about 210 directed to drive to the ,Lafay- Bello in October, 1966. the charges. He described the A.M. Inside were the bartender ette Grill, ordered out of the Both men had admitted that statements by Mr. Bello and and three customers.. The bar- car, and then taken in a police on the night of the murders Mr. Bradley as "nonsense," add- van to Paterson police, head- tender. without saying a word, they had been breaking into the ing: "We don't manufacture quarters. hurled a bottle at the Intruders. Ace Sheet Metal CoMpany at witnesses." No charges were than brought 351 East 16th Street, ghoul two On Monday he refused to The assailants, one armed with asainst the boxer or Mr. Artis. a 12-gauge shotgun, the other blocks from the Lafayette Grill. agree to a lengthy • interview They were questioned by de- •Mr. Bello acted as the lookout and ordered this reporter, to with a .32-caliber pistol, began tectives for 17 hours and re- firing. The fusillade lasted. less •' While Mr. Bradley used a tire leave, his office at 77 Hamilton leased, Twelve days later both iron to break into the factory. • Street here. than' '15 seconds and then the men waived their rights against two gunmen walked out. with'- 'Mr. Bello testified that sifter Vincent E. Hull Jr., a former self-incrimination and testified hearing gunfire he walked to- Passaic County assistant prose. out taking any money from the before e rand jury. Nn indict- cash register. ward the Lavern. On the side. cuter who was In charge of the ments were handed up by that walk outside of the hap, Inc said, prosecution at the Carmr-Artis Killed instantly were James grand jury. Oliver, 52, the bartender and • he saw Mr. Carter with a shot- trial. said in an interview cur- Paterson. in Me grip of a gun in his hand and Mr. Artis lier this week that it would be part owner of the tavern, who further jolted was struck by a shotgun blast, crime wave, was with a pistol in his hand. After improper for him to comment by the triple murders. A few eetting as close as 12 to 14 feet On the ease because It again and Fred Nauykas. 60, who was hours before the Lafayette Grill from them, Mr. Bello said, he May go before the courts, cut down by .32-Caliber bullets, A third victim, Mrs. Hazel Ta- slnyines, a black tavern owner turned and ran. However, he Racially Troubled City hod been fatally Alto( by a continued, he was able to see nis, 31, died of shotgun and pis., while man and that summer tol wounds a month later. them drive off in '11 white At the time of the triple mule fears of impending racial The only person who survived Dodge. der in 1966. Paterson was a ra- clashes drifted through the city. cially troubled, decaying indus- was 42-year-old William Ma- In a dramatic moment at the trial city. It had a population of rina, who was shot in the 'head 'A Heinous Crime' trial, Mr. Bello pointed at the t36,000, including 45,000 once with a ,31-caliber bullet There were rumors in white defendants, positively identify- blacks and 10,000 Puerto RI. and who eventually lost his left neighborhoods that the Lafay- ing each one. cans. During the midmineteen- eye. ette Grill murders had been On the witness stand, Mr. sixties, the city was the scene After the attack, two witness- committed In retaliation for the Bello acknowledged that after of several racial • disorders es in addition to Mr. Bello said death of the black tavern own- the shootings he had walked. touched off by charges of dis- they saw the gunmen get into a er. A second story circulated into the bar, stepped over one crimination and police brutality. white car and drive away. through the City that. the black of the bodies, and stole S62. In 1966. the 29-year-old Mr. ' At 2:35 A.M., five minutes of-' gunmen'had killed three whites from the cash register. Then ho Carter had achieved an interna- ter the slayings, two . Paterson as part of their initiation into a called a telephone operator to tional reputation as a hard-hit. policemen. Sergeant Theodore black supremacist group. report the crime and waited fur tin; boxer who had fought main Capter and Police Officer Angee, The Lafayette Grill homicides the police. • events in Madison Square Gars lo De Chellis. who had received' were described by Frank X. At the trial, Mr..Bradley, who den. Paris. London and South a radio report about the Beta-1 Graves Jr., then Paterson's followed on the witness stand, America. Outside the ring, Mr. way car with two blacks in ie mayor, as "one of the most hei- identified only Mr, Carter. In Carter, .a flashy dresser and a noticed -a speeding white car nous crimes" in the city's histo- testimony similar to Mr. Bello's, flamboyant *personality, was about seven blocks from the ry. Mayor Graves ordered the he , swore that Mr. Carter well known tn, his home town murder scene. The white auto assignment of 100 police offi- emerged from the bar with a of Paterson, was heading east, possibly cers out of a total force of shotgun. Mr. Bradley also said lie also was laminar lo the toward Route 4, a major high- 41 to the investigation. that a few minutes before the pelice because before he had way. But in trying to cut of Asa further incentive to solve crime he had seen a white car turned to boxing, he had an are Ithe white car, the officers, testi the crime, the-,Mayor promised 1 , / ;$ • ,"

slowly rrulslint In the aelpAlair• I muse there were three men in hood, with Mr. Carter in the the car, nut two suspects as re- Supreme- Court judges ruled Cruising hy; with two gleh Seat: Trent seal, unanimously that there was no 'These two identificatIone ported in the first police broad- cd in the front and a woman In -cast legal reason to reverse the ver- were .vital for the prosecution of the shooting. the back. When he heard the After picking tip cash at his dict. ;since no other witness could gunfire, he walked toward the home, Mr. Carter said, he and A year Inter, Fred W. Flogen, 'place the defendants at the site Lafayette Grill. The closest ho his two companioes returned to an investigator for the New Jer- lof the crime. Mr. Marina, the sey Public. Defender's Office, an gm to the killers was about a 'sole survivor, had failed to the Hite Spot and stayed there until it closed at 3 A.M. Mr, agency which represents in- dozen feet, he said, at which Identify Mr. Carter or Mr. Artis Carter and Mr. Artis said they digent defendants, became in- point he ran and hid in an alley as his assailants when they then dropped off Mr. 'Oyster at terested in Mr. Carter's case. and watched them drive away .were brought to his hospital his home and were daiving to- Mr. Carter said he had spent 'bed several hours after the $20,000 in legal fees and was in a car he believed to by a ward the apartment of a girl, Cadillac. •shooting. In addition, he had friend of Mr. Artis when they penniless when Mr. Hogan be- . originally described the shot- were halted a second time and gan his inquiries, Mr. Dello later remembered gun killer as weighing 175 to held by the police. Mr. Hogan and friends of Mr. seeing the police bring Mr. 190 pounds, almost six feet tail.. • Carter came to this reporter in Carter and Mr. Artis to the with a pencil-line mustache but Six Supporting Witnesses September, 1973, and asked for! Lafayette Grill. in a Dodge, no heard. Mr. Carter was a, Six- : defense w i tnessese 11 investigative help ie deterrnin.. Their clothes, he recalled, did muscular 160 pounds, 5 feet' 8 black—supported Mr. Carter's If there might be any' enchei tall, with a thick, droop-i description of his movements 'grounds for reopening the case. not resemble those of the "gin-. leg mustache and a goatee. between 2 A.M. and 3 A.M. on The reporter and Mr. Hogan men. None of the witnesses besides. the murder night. But Mr. Hull, 'then began a search for Mr, The two killers, he . said, Mr, Bello Mildred that they had the assistant Passaic County Bello and Mr. Bradley. Two were dark suits, either Mack nr gotten a good look at the pistol- prosecutor, brought out in months later Mr. Bello was brown, while Mr, Carter had oil calrying ,eunman. Mr. Arils was cross-examination that these a ten sports jacket and Mr. Ar- anky and almost six feet tall. found in prison. Mr. Bradley l witnesses had given contradic- was found in New Jersey last tis was coatleme and wore a Mrs. Tanis, the bar patron tory statements to the police' May.. blue sport shirt. who survived for a month after, shortly before the trial. "I tried to tell it right but she was wounded, had given Because the witnesses had In recent months, Mr. Hogan said he had obtained signed they [the police; wouldn't fix. the pollee a description similar., heen drinking on the murder ten, Mr. Bello said. "They'd go to Mr. Matins's. night, Mr. Hull questioned their recantations from Mr. Bradley and Mr, Bello. over the story and kept saying ' Dispute Over Bullet ' reliability as to dates and exact 'These [Mr. Carter and. Mr. Ar- times and he labeled the ' Before his testimony at the Besides the two purported do- tist are the guys.'" tense account of the move- Carter-Artis trial, Mr. Bello had During the police questioning, eye witnesses, the prosecution's ments of Mr. Carter and Mr, been convicted six times of rob- other major piece of evidence Mr. Bello said detectives Artis a "concocted lie." , ' bery, burglary and theft and warned hint that he might be- was an unspent .32-caliber bul- Two important defense wit- had been paroled two malts, let that Detective Emil De Rob- come a suspect in the murders nesses testified that they had before the Lafayette Grill mur- unless he helped them by in- bio said he had rotund in the ders. • front seat of the Carter car been Intimidated and shouted' criminating Mr. Carter and Mr. while searching it after the at during questioning by the Mr. Bello, now 30, was inter- Ards. . . murders. Ballistics reports, police. They said the police con- viewed twice by The New York He said detectives referred to however, disclosed that the bul- fused them ii to giving incon- Times during the last month at the two black men as "niggers, let allegedly found in the car sistent statements. the Bergen County Jail in Hack- Muslims, animals and murder- ' ers" and told him he would be was copper plated while the ,Mr. Hull, in his summation to ensack. He is a stocky 160 .32-caliber bullets used in the the jury, stressed the impor- 'performing a "public service" pounds. 5 feet 9 Inches tall, •by "getting them off they murders were lead plated. Mr. tance of the identifications of with straight black hair and a Carter denied that the police had the defendants by Mr. Bradley streets" and thereby protecting carefully groomed mustache, whites. "They bold me help showed him the unspent bullet and Mr, Belle. The prosecutor During the interviews, lie wore during the time they questioned noted that both had testified , your own people and 1 went for a green prison uniform with a it," Mr. Bello said. him and said that he had first they had not received any half-sleeved shirt. On his right Reward Is Stressed learned of It five months later, promises of favorable treat- arm he has a tattoo:. "Born to Just before the trial began. ment because of pending charg- Raise Fiell.' During that summer, Mr. Bel- Mr, Carter, when not in es. "When you take all these Mr, Bello said he had been lo said he had heard rumors training for a fight, had a repte factors into consideration," he questioned by detectives on the that Mr. Carter had committed talon as a night owl in Paler- declared, "what they testified night of the murders and fre- the murders as an initiation son's black bars. He testified to, It rings true." quently thereafter during the into a black power sect. that on the night of the mule . . 'Verdict Is Upheld summer and early fall of 1966. "All the cops were convinced ders he had visited severe Holding up the blood-stained He said he had originally given Carter and Artis did it and they rl drinking spots, with John Boys• detectives a ';true" version of wanted me to believe it," he ter and Mr. Artis, whom ht iclothes of the three victims and their photographs, :what. he had seen, except for continued. "1 conceived in my knew casually but not well. Mr. Hull mind that it could he them. I culled for a guilty verdict, with his involvement in the Are Met- Bath defendants later said al Company burglary. didn't know that without me that the first time they had sentences of death in the elece 'tric chair. • He said he had stopped in the there was-no ease; that there been stopped by the police with Lafayette Grill for a glass of was rlo other evidence. I didn't Mr. Royster in the car they There was no attempt by the realize I was a pivotal guy." prosecution to establish a mo- beer about 15 minutes before were driving from the Nice Spot The detectives, he said, em- tive behind Mr. Carter's and the slayings and that a young Cocktail Lounge an East •I8th phasized the reward and "I fig- Mr. Artis's alleged crime: Es- black woman came in and or- Street—five blocks from the tired I mould caeitallze nn the tablishment of a• motive is not dered-a six-pack of beer to take murder scene — toward Mr. out. "She looked at everyone in money if something could hap- Carter's honie_ on 20th Avenue. necessary for conviction • in New Jersey. An all-white jury the bar," he continued, "and I pen." The boxer said he wanted td In October. INK Mr. Bello deliberated for four-and-one- seen that look before and fig- pick up more money at his said he admitted -for the first half hours before finding both ured something would happen home. Mr. Artis was driving the time to detectives his role in defendants guilty with recome and I got up and walked out car in that general direction fist." the factory burglary and impli- when the police halted him five mendations of life lienprison- ment. . . I Later, still acting as a lookout cated Mr, Bradley in that burg- minutes after the shooting. At lary and as a potential witness In 1969 New Jersey's severe din the factory burglary, Mr. Bel- that time. according to prosecu- lo recalled seeing a white car in the murders. 'I-believe I was tion testimony, the police re- doing the right thing," he ex- leased them, apparently be- plained. ,,"They had me in -a The New Yee-11 Time% The Lafayette Grill in Paterson, N. J., as it looks today,"'eight years after shooting there in which three riled ,%• - ■••:- ( ',mini with 15 guys around min three yeilis, he !landed In one of them held This Is the MIN It170 and has heti no ether lir- way it's got to be." Before the trial. Mr. Bello resit judges who sentenced said, Lieutenant DeSimone ad- Mr. Bradley in 1967 could not vised him to "take the money be reached by telephone for phe S10.500 reward) and spilt comment on whether there had (leave Paterson]. They prom- ised me they'd take care of me been any intervention in his be by Passaic County authorie if I got jammed up." • Atter the murder trial, both io Bradley is a quiet, slender Mr. Bello and Mr. Bradley were tieas man, who weighs about 160 denied the reward money be- pounds and is 5 feet 10 inches' cause of the conviction appeals filed by Mr. Carter. They were tall. He has reddish brown hair. never prosecuted for the facto- and a matching. mustache. in ry burglary attempt.. recent interviews, he insisted That he was "trying to straight- In the seven years since the trial. Mr. Bello has been arrest- en out my life." ' He said he had "almost" de- ed four times. The first three accusations, all minor charges, cided to tell the truth before were dismissed. He was, the trial, "But once I got on the however, convicted of burglary, witness stand." he said, "and I in Passaic County last June. thought of, the, time to be served. I decided to stick to filo Detective's Visit Recalled story." • According to Mr. Bello, Lieu- Tells of 'Burden' tenant DeSimone visited him at the Passaic County jall•last Au- The perjury, he maintained. gust and he told the detective "has been a burden for eight that his nrielnal testimony was years. II. [recanting] is some- "a mistake." Upon hearing this. thing I wanted to do for a very Mr. Bello said, Lieutenant DeSi- oat: time. 1 always knew it was mone warned him: "I'm going a matter or Lime before there to tell you something. If you would be a knock on the door open your mouth you're going and I would have to tell to do 100 years." someone." Lieutenant DeSim6ne de- Both Mr. Bello and Mr. Brad- clined to reply to Mr. Bello's ac- ley said they had not spoken to cusation. each other about their testimo- Mr. Bello maintained that het ny before the Carter-Anis trial. had been mistreated at the! Since then they have only net counts, jail In Paterson before once, four years ago, according the Lieutenant's visit and that to both of them. the mistreatment increased af- Mr. Carter. who is now 37, terward. 'He said that he had said in an interview at Trenton betlei attacked by a guard, de- • • UMW Press Inlernollonel State prison that he held nied proper medical attention Rubin (Hurricane) Carter In 1966 "no :animosity" toward Mr. and sent to a county hospital • Bello or Mr. Bradley. "1 know they are Just part and parcel for mental ob.servation: On Sept.! had not observed any part of of what these prison institu- the murders or their aftermath "f was seeing like every day' he was transferred from the DeSimone and gelling a general tions push out," he said. Passaic County Jail to Um Ber- because lie had been two blocks "They've been abused and mis- from the tavern breaking into .picture of what happened. They 'gave me the background [of the used and it was the pollee who gen County Jail, where Mr.! the metal factory, in two inter- Bello said his treatment has murders] and presented me are most In 'Annie." views, he conceded testifying During his eight years in pris- been "excellent." falsely to having seen Mr. Car- mare or less with general infor- mation to form a statement. on, Mr. Carter has been study- Passaic County pilson offlo ter before and after the mur- ing law`liiinks and he said it ders at the Lafayette Grill. They showed me a statement •cials denied Mr. Bello's charges,' from Bello that helped fill out would he difficult in New Jer- contending that be was "a "My vision was blocked,", the picture. Mr. Bradley said. "I didn't see sey's courts to set aside the, troublemaker" who provoked anything." "There's only one reason T guilty verdict on the basis of testified. That was to stop all :fights with guards and other in- Mr. Bradley has spent 12 recanted evidence. "Once they mates. Bergen County jail off!. years in prison on a variety of the time. They never would. have got me to talk otherwise. I get you in jail in New Jersey, eiuls said air. Bellu had caused convictions. He and Mr. Bello saw a way they won't let you go," he said. met in the early nineteen-six- nut of my own mess. no probleths there. • I was 23 years old and facing "but I sure hope this new Mr. dello said une'of his rea-. ties while both were serving prison terms at the Bordentown BO to 90 years in jail. I just evidence will stand up." sons for remaining silent seven 'bought my way out.' .years about his self-described, Youth Correctional Institution. Mr. Carter was sentenced to ,puqureu uestutiony was ins Until his partner implicated 'Promise' Is Recounted three life terms, two to he :belief that the murder convit- him in the Paterson factory . Mr. Bradley said that Lieu- served consecutively. Thus, he - fions would be set aside, by an burglary, Mr. Bradley. said he tenant DeSimone and Mr. Hull, must serve a minimum of 30 had not been questioned by the -appeal. Aionsugia rte concecieu the former assistant prosecutor, ,years and he will be ineligible that he had been worried about police about the murder case. .promised they • would "do ev- for parole until 1997. a perjury conviction, his chief In October, 1966, Mr. Bradley erything we can to help you . Born in Clifton, Mr. Carter concern now, he mad. was the was back in Bordentown prison and I received a lot less time possibility of reprlials by the awaiting trial for four armed lthan I would have." grew up in the Paterson areas Passaic police because of his re- robbery charges when Passaic Neither LieUtenant DeSimone AL the age of 11, lie was sent to cantation. County detectives first ap- nor Mr. Hull would comment on the Jamesburg Reformatory for "1 believe once this case is proached him. He was then Mr. Bradley's account. an eight-year term after stab; 'out I'm going back to jail— brought to Passaic County for , Mr. Bradley said he was un- .bing a man. The boy contended they'll find something," he que,tioning about the Lafayette certain who intervened for him 'duo lie had acted In selfelei said. [Grill murders. after he pleaded guilty to rob- to thwart a hornosexear Most of the questioning was bery 'Vision Wu Blocked' and other charges in Es- !assault!assault by an adult. done by Lieutenant DeSimone, sex. Union, Bergen, Morris and He spoilt five years in the reae The other chief prosecution Mr. Bradley said. There were no Passaic counties. He could have iformatory, but frightened. 'witness, Mr. Bradley, now 30, physical threats and he offered received prison terms totaling 'said, of being transferred to that declared in his statements tot this description of how he said more than 80 years, but he was more severe Annandale Reform The New. York Times that het he had been turned into a per- sentenced to one term of three imatory he escaped at the age.oti Jured prosecution witness:‘„ to. five years.. After serving Ill and lived with an aunt -trri Philadelphia. The iiest year Wm he attributes to Improper, joined the Army, served 1%0 medlearattention In prison. years and received an honorte now wears glasses. able discharge. Mr. Carter was mar,ried be fore his In 195G, Mr. Carter arrest and haS an TI-. year-old daughter. "I've sur- working as a foreman in a plaii41 tics plant In Paterson when lute vived eight years because of my was arrested for having Ma' wife and child," he said "They capcd from the reformatoryl give me the will to stay alive in three years earlier. At the agii here and vindicate myself." of 19 he sentenced to nine. Arrested on Birthday. months at Annandale.. Shortly ; John Artis was sentenced to alter his release in 1957 he was three concurrent life terms and, convicted of three robberies. ne will become eligible fon and assaults and served a four-4 parole in 1981, aftet havingi year term. Mr. Carter later saith served fourteen-and-one-halt'.? that those crimes were partly. years. He will mark his 29thl the result of his embittennenti birthday Oct. 15 in 11..eesburt at being returned to the reforO State Prison, a minimal secu-• matory after clean records in rity institution, , ' the Army and in civilian life.• "What Bello and Bradley are He learned how to box in, now saying- proves what we prison and turned professional. said all along, that DeSlmono In 1961, As a fighter, he al-. and Hull made a deal with, fected a fearsome pose, with a- them,". Mr. Artis said in 'ark shaven bullet head, a drooping Interview with The Times Wetki mustache and a heard. Possess-, nesday at the prison.' lag a powerful leftt hook, he WaSSI "If they [Mr. Bello and more of a puncher than a m.o., Bradley] tell the exact. truth ist and he won 13 of his first it'll get me out," he said. "4x; 21 fights by knockouts. . ' the trial they thought they One of his biggest victories. were playing a game. But they was the first-round knockout in were playing with my lire and 1963 of welterweight champion. with Rubin's life." ,', t Emile Griffith In a non-title.; Dressed in a blue denim prii;i fight in Pittsburgh. A year la- on uniform, Mr. Arils recalled! ter,. at the peak of his career, that he was booked, for •thei Mr. Carter fought middleweight triple murder on his 2lst champion Joey Glardetlo for day. It was the only time Fret the title, losing a'elose decision. had ever been arrested—tt, In Mr. Giardello's home town oti couldn't believe it," he said. II, Philadelphia. . . .1 believed then that if you 011, Hero to Other Convicts . r. the truth nothing. bad could: happen to you." . . Outside of the ring, Mr. Car= His worst moment during ERIE: ter was active in clvd-rights acre 1967 trial came when }the fore- tivitles in Paterson. During• man of the jury announced the; press interviews In . the Miler: nuilly verdict. "It was ghotil-. teen-sixties he was outspoken, sit," Mr. Arils recalled. "The about alleged police brutality lo; man paused for a second. whielu Paterson, other New Jersey felt like an. eternity. "before'' les and New York, At the time. milting at me,and saying 'with;, or his arrest he was • at a recommendation of mercy fo'r/.1- street worker for an antipoverty, life imprisonment' I couldn!t1 program, aiding youths in hisu believe I might be sentenced" city's black neighborhoods. to ileathlor something I didn't; While in prison Mr. Carta?, du." has refused to wear prison. "MI. had walked .home' thaty, clothes or work at instilution-,4 night' Instead of getting a al jobs. "If I did I'd be act from Rubin I wouldn't he honeP knowletiging my guilt," he exffi he said, shaking his heed. "Bur: plained. "I refteal to give up tbe. they wanted to get Rollin and independence of my mind.'orl they dRIn't care . ithotfr.Ille..I't spirit and he warehoused 'nip 4 just happened to be along for,- uniform and prison life." the ride." His independent attitude his leadership on inmate courrit cils at Trenton and Railway prtio: ons have made Mr. 'Carter- qua hero to many convicts, Hto' photograph hangs on the waits1 of many cells. in New' Jersey,to prisons. - • ,t an In addition to researching lawn books for his court appeals, Mrtc Carter has written "The Six4t teenth Round—From Numberi One Contender to No.• 45472,"t 'an autobiography that twill ben published on Oct. 13 by Vikingi PMSS. >411 Recently, Mr. Carter lost the, vision of his right eye,,a combos