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lianrl|?al?r Sumtng 1?ralb MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1974 - VOL. XCIV, No. 18 Manchester—A City of Village Charm TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES PRICE) FIFTEEN CENTS V Police Seeking Suspects In New Britain Murders Donna Lee Bakery Saturday night that the viewing the scene in the one-story brick Herald Sports Angle column on page 16. By JAMES V. HEALION priest who administered last rites termed building said, “My God, I’m going to carry In North Haven, 25 miles to the south, George D’Alessi, owner of Sugar N Spice NEW BRITAIN (UPI) - Police Chief the perpetrators “barbaric animals,” and my gun everywhere I go from now on.” Thomas B. Ormsby said today he had no a police likened the scene to “a Priest Summoned bakery, was held up at gunpoint by two men Sunday night and robbed of $3,000 "strong leads” in the shooting deaths of slaughterhouse.” The Rev. Augustine Giusani, who was near a night deposit box. The men six persons in a bakery but said a white “It was something I would not want to summoned from St. Ann’s Roman Catholic reportedly fled in a white car. D’Alessio car was seen containing a white male, a see again,” said Police Chief Thomas P. Church in the working class neighborhood was not injured. black male and a light-skinned female. Ormsby, a seasoned veteran of homicide to give the last rites, said, “The people “We have information and a witness cases. He said Sunday he was without who did it are really ... The only way I can Neighbors told police they heard shots near the scene going by,” Ormsby said. suspects in the apparent robbery Saturday describe them is being like animals, that’s at the Donna Lee Bakery about 8:25 p.m. Asked if police were looking strictly for night in which the six were each shot in the all, barbaric animals.” Thomas Kron, 20, shivering in the cold robbery suspects or persons who may be head — some from the back, and one with Besides Salerni, the victims were: night outside the bakery following the fugitives from another jurisdiction, h said, a shotgun. Helen Giasanti, 59, of Newington, a clerk murders, told a UPI reporter, “ My father N "We don’t know who we’re looking for.” Four Were Customers in the shop; Michael Kron, 47, of New Bri went out for bread and rolls and never No federal assistance has been Four of the victims were customers. tain, a commercial painter; Thomas came back.” requested, he said. Two women were among the dead. Dowling, 58, a machinist, and his wife An It was hours before the worst fears of Gov. Thomas J. Meskill, a former New Detective commander Capt. George na, 57, a hygienist, both of New Britain; the young man and his family were con Britain mayor, said he would “offer a Berescik, said there were indications William Donahue Jr., 22, of West Hart firmed. Ormsby asked for a description of reward under toe statute if the state’s at from toe position of the bodies the six ford. Kron from the family in a nearby coffee torney makes the request.” Such rewards were lying down when their killers fired a Editor’s Note: Mrs. Giasanti was a shop and it tallied. The family left heart are usually for $3,000. shotgun at John Salemi, 55, the owner of former Manchester resident. See The broken. “I’m sure everything that can be done is toe Donna Lee Bakery, and then dis being done to find those responsible for patched toe others with one or more large this terrible crime,” Meskill said. caliber handgun, probably .45-caliber Dean Cross-Examination The woman was described as about 30 pistols. years of age, about 5’ 6”, and wearing an Police said $300 was taken frorp the cash orange pullover sweater and dungarees. register and the victims’ wallets, before Expected To Be Rugged There was no description of the men, toe killers stepped into a waiting car on a except that the white was wearing a tee lonely stretch of isolated East Street and Mass Slayings Described fled. The murderers missed $1,350 in shirt. election officials Robert C. Mardian and Salemi’s side pants pocket. Taking the WASHINGTON (UPI) - Rugged cross- The getaway car was decribed as a examination by the defense trial is Kenneth W. Parkinson. New Britain Police Chief Thomas P. night in which six persons were shot in white 1964 Grand Prix Pontiac with a wallets delayed identification of the expected this week for John W. Dean III, More Tapes Ormsby, right, tells UPI newsman the head at close range inside the Don cardboard rear license plate and a dented bodies. the government’s star witness in the The prosecutors are also expected to James Healion of the na Lee Bakery. (UPI photo) left front fender. May Have ‘Panicked’ Watergate cover-up who resumes the play the tapes of Dean’s March 21-22,1973, So gruesome was the carnage in the A policeman speculated one of the ban “slaughterhouse” slaying Saturday stand today for his fourth straight day of talks with Nixon — talks the youthful dits may have “panicked” and killed one testimony. former White House counsel once of toe victims when somebody made a Prosecution questioning of Dean, the described as “a tremendous disap move or offered resistance, then killed the first witness in the case, is expected to end pointment” because he realized the cover- others to silence witnesses. U.S.-Mexican Leaders Meet today or Tuesday, and attorneys for the up would continue. Ormsby said his department was alerted five defendants have made it clear they in Transcripts of both were released in “an anonymous telephone call” by a tend to attack Dean’s credibility. earlier by Nixon and the House Judiciary male who said toe owner forgot to lock the In Fourth Week Committee’s impeachment inquiry. door of the bakery. A policeman The tapes of meetings of March 17 and responded and found Saerni’s body in one One lawyer said the cross-examination To Discuss Mutual Problems the morning of March 21, 1973, were rooni, two others in a second, and the could last the rest of the week. The trial is entering its fourth week before U.S. played last week. WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Ford Oil —With the United States looking for might produce a “veto-proof” Congress. other three in a third room. During the March 17 meeting, with the “It looks like a slaughterhouse,” one of District Court Judge John J. Sirica. left today to meet President Luis new resources to meet domestic energy As the President prepared to leave Senate Watergate committee soon to Washington, administration sources said the policemen said Saturday night. Dean, once White House counsel under Echeverria at the U.S.-Mexican border, to demands, it was reported last week that former President Richard M. Nixon, is become active, Nixon suggested that Dean reaffirm friendship between the nations rich new oil supplies had been discovered Kissinger was expected later this month Another policeman who got sick after prepare some “self-serving goddamn to nail down final arrangements for a considered Nixon’s chief accuser. Dean and hold negotiations on trade, oil and in Tabasco and Chiapas, two southeastern has pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the statements” that would clear the Presi meeting between Ford and Soviet party" migrant farm workers. states of Mexico, and the recoverable cover-up and is currently serving a prison dent of Watergate blame. Ford, making his first visit to a foreign reserves of highgrade crude were es leader Leonid I. Brezhnev toward the end At the meeting four days later, however. of November. term. country as President, left Washington timated at between 10 billion and 20 billion Charged with conspiracy in the trial are Dean warned of “a cancer growing on the NEWS presidency,” and laid out for Nixon the shortly after dawn for a planned meeting barrels. Ford plans to visit Japan and South former Attorney General John N. full Watergate story before and after the with Echeverria at toe international boun Ford relaxed Sunday at the White House Korea from Nov. 18-22 and the sources CAPSULES Mitchell, former White House aides H.R. ■June 17,1972, break-in at the Democratic dary between Nogales, Ariz, and the and got in a round of afternoon golf after said the President might hold a summit “ Bob” Haldeman and John D. Mexican state of Sonora. returning late Saturday night from a cam session with Brezhnev in the Russian Ehrlichman, and former Presidential re- National Committee. He was accompanied by Secretary of paign swing through North and South Pacific Coast city of Vladivostok Farm Ministers Meet State Henry A. Kissinger. Carolina and Kentucky. afterward. From there. Ford and Echeverria ‘Veto-Proof Congress Kissinger is to arrive in Moscow LUXEMBOURG (UPI) - Agricultural IS planned to fly south by helicopter to the In his speeches he again maintained that Wednesday for talks. ministers of the nine European Common New Watergate Charges town of Magdalena for their initial talks Democratic gains in the Nov. 5 elections Market nations met today to discuss and to cross over tq U.S. soil for a problems caused by lower American grain luncheon and second business meeting in exports and a sugar shortage in Britain. May Be Instituted Tubac, Ariz. Most attention focused on another meeting opening here later today when Kelly Says Crime Pays finance ministers of the nine are expected WASHINGTON (UPI) - Special belief that Nixon’s acceptance of the par Broad Discussions to approve in principle their first joint Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski says don amounted to an admission of guilt.