To Seek 2D Ruby Death Verdict AUSTIN, Tex
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It continued: the trial judge, Joe B. Brown, did Holland said last night he has Defense lawyers said that the for Jack Ruby, whose conviction The district attorney said the Austin court in its decision was "Obviously this statement con- not allow the case to be tried not considered a site but it will appellate court's decision had left for killing accused presidential prosecution would not agree to that the trial court erred when stituted an oral confession of pre- outside Dallas County as asked have to be a city large enough the prosecution without a case assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was any punishment less than life in it allowed testimony by Dallas meditation made while in police by the defense. "so we can get the jurors." for murder with malice. set aside yesterday. prison. Police Sgt. P. T. Dean about custody and therefore was not Judge Brown has voluntarily Ruby has been in custody since Burleson took the news of the Wade said he intends to file what Ruby said some 1 to 40 admissible. The admission of this removed himself from further he shot Oswald. reversal to Ruby in his cell yes- Defense counsel expressed con- a motion for rehearing by Oct.minutes after Oswald was shot testimony was clearly injurious proceedings in the case. Trial Sees Possibility terday. He said Ruby was "very, fidence, however, that the for- 20, asking the Texas Court of in the Dallas police station base- and calls for a reversal of this court-level jurisdiction is now in Phil Burleson of Dallas, one very happy" and in a "state of mer Dallas night club operator Criminal Appeals to change its ment. conviction." the hands of Dist. Judge Louis of Ruby's lawyers, said he be- happy shock" over the sensation- will go free within months il he mind and uphold Ruby's murder According to Dean's testimony. Ruby shot Oswald in view of Holland of Montague, a town 75 lieves it will be possible to work al turn of events. is allowed to plead guilty to a convicticn. Ruby "told Dean that he had live television cameras Nov. 24,miles northwest of Dallas. out something "agreeable be- Melvin Belli of San Francisco, charge of murder without malice. The court, the highest in Texas seen Oswald in a police lineup 1963. Oswald had been arrested If the court rejects Wade's tween the state and the defense chief defense lawyer at the Ru- Wade, in Dallas, was chief for criminal matters, ruled that two nights before and that when soon after the Nov. 22 assassina- rehearing motion, Holland may as to an agreed punishment tor by trial but since fired by Ru- prosecutor in the trial ending Ruby did not get a fair trial. It he saw the sarcastic sneer on tion of President John F. Ken-set ball for Ruby, which his Ruby." by's family, said: "I hope some- there March 14, 1964, with a state reversed the conviction and or-Oswald's face he had decided nedy on a Dallas street. lawyers said they would request. A murder without malice con- (See RUBY, Page 3) Jack Ruby To Hear Bail Motion Oct. 20 Coppolino Enters Ple^ of Innocent FREEHOLD — Dr. Carl A. Coppolino went before his minutes before court opened for the four-minute pleading Coppolino was in handcuffs in transit from the jail to the first packed house in the Monmouth County Courthouse yester- session, few visitors were from out of the building. courthouse. day, pleading innocent to one of two murder indictments POUNDING DOESNT HELP Still pending is an indictment in Sarasota, Fla., where against him. Most of them were courthouse staff, lawyers and news- Coppolino and Mrs. Farber moved to separate nearby homes Superior Court Judge Elvin R. Simmill, who conducted paper people. Three reporters were among those locked out in 1963. It charges him with injecting a lethal drug to kill bis the arraignment and who probably will preside at the trial and their insistent pounding on the door to be admitted first wife, Dr. Carmela Coppolino, 13 months ago. now tentatively listed for Nov 14, Ordered the doors locked brought only a firm "no" from Court Officer John Tain. TRIGGERS PROBE after"Coppolino arrived at 1:55 p.m. Switching to a brown suit from the grey he wore on Mrs. Farber triggered an investigation of both deaths, Inside, the calm former Red Bank anesthesiologist talked arrival from Florida Tuesday, Dr. Coppolino, 34, stood im- which had been officially attributed to heart attacks, when briefly with his wife, Mary, who sat near him, and with his passively as he heard Mr. Keuper read the indictment charg- Dr. Coppolino, in September, -1965, married his present wife, a attorney, F. Lee Bailey of Boston. ing him with the strangling death of William E. Farber in 39-year-old divorcee, Mary Gibson Polenltz. Judge Simmill told the lawyer he, would hear his motion Middletown Township in 1963. The present Mrs. Coppolino, sporting a blue raincoat, and for Coppolino's release in bail, pending trial, on Oct. 20. The victim was a retired Army colonel whose wife has Mr. Bailey met with the doctor for two hours at the county Prosecutor Vincent P. Keuper said he will resist the appli- testified in a Florida court that she and Dr. Coppolino were jail after his arraignment. cation. "very intimate" friends while her husband was alive. The Later the lawyer said Mrs. Coppolino would accompany Although the 40-seat spectator area was Jammed 1" widow, Marjorie, will be a state's witness. (See COPPOLINO, Page 3) Senators Urge Expansion Of Neutral Zone Patrols WASHINGTON (AP) — A halt In Saigon, reliable sources re- "We would like to see that zone Mike Mansfield was joined in U. S. bombing aimed at re-PortePrdd U.. S. and Vietnamesietnamese fully demilitarized again," Rusk Sen. J. W. Fulbright, D-Arki, storing a neutral zone between planelae s halted bobbombini g of a 2424- said, "if the North Vietnamese chairman of the Senate Foreign North and South Viet Nam mile-square area of the demili- will stop using the zone for a Relations Committee, in applaud- brought senatorial proposals to- tarized zone 10 days ago so com-purpose for which it was not in-ing this action. Both have < day for expanded international mission teams could carry out tended." posed escalation of the war. patrols to limit the war. Inspections. Senate Democratic Leader (See SENATE, Page 3) DOCTOR PUEADS INNOCENT — Dr. Carl A. Coppolino, Secretary of State Dean Rusk handcuffed, it eseorjej d into thety county , spurtJ Jjouse fey said in New York yesterday that SfY DepartmenD t LtL . JohJh n AndersonsAd* * news; Shit air attacks on the eastern part of the "buffer area had been sus- ands Visit Plans raph»r» surround them taking pictures. The. doctor was pended. The White House pre- rushscHnto the building and up to Superior Court Judge viously described this as an ef- WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres- of the Asian nations. There was around , the Oct.'. 24-25 Manila ident Johnson is expanding his COLLEGE Slf-IN — Monmouth College students stag* Elvin R. Simmill's courtroom, where he pleaded innocent fort to permit the International no immediate word from the meeting qt cmefsof state of the Control Commission to investi- trip to the Manila conference in- White House, but the President seven countries with troops fight- a sit-in at th« office of President William G. Van Not* to the murder of retired Army Col. William E. Farber to a major Asian tour with visits gate alleged violations of the scheduled an afternoon news con- ing Communists in South Viet yesterday in protest of alleged discrimination in college of Middletown Jn 1963. area. to New Zealand, Australia, Thai- ference that was expected to Nam. land, Malaysia and South Korea, bring his confirmation of the an- Johnson plans to visit New Zea- approved off-campus housing. The sit-in it a. continuation as well as the Philippines. nouncements from abroad. land Oct. 19-20 and then fly to of a protest which began Monday when th* students Johnson's plans were disclosed The official visits to the five Australia, before attending the picketed the college and a boarding house they contend 66 Viet Gong Give Up today by governments of several nations will be sandwiched (See LBJ, Page 3) discriminated against Negro students* , . , Allies Close Trap Administration Makes a Concession SAIGON (AP) - A; unit of 68{lied force ,m five .days of the braved a hall of Communist gre- Viet.