fIrintos 'kernlk C ush TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1972 Phone 223.6000 Circuh Wallace Is Shot, At Laurel Rally; Seriously Hurt Suspect Seized Milwaukee Man Held As Suspect By Richard M. Cohen Washington Post Staff Writer Police Were holding a man identified as Arthur Bremer, 21, of Milwaukee, Wis., last night as a suspect in the shooting of Gov. George. C. Wallace. Maryland State Police Supt. Col. Tom Smith said at a briefing last night at Holy Cross Hospital in Sil- ver Spring, where Wallace was being treated, th a t Bremer was pummeled af- ter the shooting by the crowd attending a rally for Wallace at a shopping cen- ter in Laurel and was arrested by both Prince George's County police and Secret Service agents. Prince George's County Executive William W. Gul- lett said at the briefing that Bremer was taken to a hospital and was being checked for injuries. Gul- lett refused to identify the hospital, but Col. John Rho- es, assistant chief of police See SUSPECT, A13, Col. 5 SUSPECT, From Al witnessed the shooting, de- Reuter News Service is say- Washington-area police ra- scribed the assilant as a ing that the assailant was dios carried an alert for a in Prince George's, earlier white man with fair skin and wearing "Wallace buttons second suspect who report- told The Washington Post close cropped blond hair, and stuff all over him." A. edly was seen in Savage, Md. CBS film shown on televi- changing the license plates that the suspect was being who was dressed in a red, white and blue shirt with sion early last night showed on a blue Cadillac. Police held at Prince George's 'matching socks. the man wearing a large but- later canceled that alert, and General Hospital in Che- Billy Grammer, the coun- ton on the left lapel of his from Col. Smith's briefing, it verly. try music singer who travels coat. appeared that police were Rhodes s a I d, however, with Wallace, was quoted by Early in the evening, not looking for anyone else. that the suspect did not ap- pear to be injured. The U.S. Justice Depart- ment said the U.S. attorney in Baltimore would file charges of assault on a fed- eral officer and violation of te 1968 Civil Rights Act against Bremmer before the night was out. The Justice Department also said that the Secret Service had the .38 caliber snub-nosed revolver alleged- ly used in the shooting and "will be getting the bul- lets." Five shots were fired, according to a spokesman for the department, al- though other reports, said four shots. At the briefing at Holy Cross Hospital, Col. Smith said the .38-caliber weapon was purchased by bremmer in Milwaukee Jan. 13. Smith said Bremmer was identified by his driver's license. "There is no evi- dence there was anyone else involved, at this time," Smith said. Smith gave Bremmer's address at' 2433 Michigan St., Apt. 9, Mil- waukee. Smith said Bremmer's rec- ord showed that he was ar- rested Oct. 18, 1971, on charges of carrying a con- cealed weapon, but was con- victed in that case on a lesser charge. Smith said Bremmer was a white man, blond and 5 Associated Press feet 6. Washington Post Staff Cornelia Wallace, in a beige suit stained George Wallace of Alabama, comforts him Writer Lawrence Meyer, who with the blood of her husband, Gov. as others help unidentified man to feet. Campaign Into Disarray Shock, Sorrow Expressed by Foe, Friend By Stephen Green McGovern announced he would sus- Washington Post Staff Writer pend his campaigning until further notice. Shock and sorrow from Democratic and Humphrey- said he planned to stick to Republican leaders as well as ordinary his schedule to make a television broad- citizens followed the shooting in Laurel cast in Baltimore last night. The broad- yesterday of Alabama Gov. George C. cast was to be beamed to Maryland and Wallace. Michigan. At the White House, President Nixon "Oh my God," said Sen. Hubert Hum- sent one of his personal physicians, Dr. phrey (D-Minn.), Wallace's chief opponent William Lukash, an internist and a U.S. in today's Maryland primary as he re- Navy captain, to Holy Cross Hospital. ceived news of the shooting from two "I ask all Americans to join me in pray- Secret Service men who whispered in his ing for his (Wallace's) safety and full re- covery and also for all the others who ear while he spoke at a day-care center were wounded in this senseless and tragic in Baltimore. incident," Mr. Nixon said. "All I can say is that it is a sad business. "Our nation has suffered more than It's getting so you don't know what's go- enough already from the intrusion of vio- ing to happen in our country any more in lence into its political processes. We must politics," Humphrey said as he suspended all stand together to eliminate this vicious campaigning and went to Holy Cross Hos- threat to our public life. We must not per- pital in Silver Spring where Wallace was mit the shadow of violence to fall over hospitalized. our country again," the President added. At the hospital, Humphrey, spent an As the President issued his statement hour with Mrs. Wallace. "What I've heard the White House announced that Sen. is encouraging. The governor has a lot of Edward Knnedy (D-Mass.) had accepted fight in him and he's showing it now. an offer of protection by the Secret Serv- Thank God, it's not fatal," Humphrey ive. told reporters. Kennedy, who has lost two brothers to Sen. George S. McGovern (D-S.D.), who assassins bulets, has continually insisted has been trying for an upset victory in the that he is not a candidate for the Demo- Maryland, contest, learned of the shooting cratic preidential nomination. while campaigning in Kalamazoo, Mich., and expressed shock. See REACT, A13, Col. 1 Secret Service. When in- REACT, From Al formed, he (the President) Jess Schwartz, 28, an attor- immediately expressed con- ney with the Environmenatl Kennedy said "my heart cern and asked for a full re- Protection Agency, said: "I and prayers go out to Gov. port." thought first about all the Wallace and to the members The President personally other assassinations and of his grief-stricken family. called Mrs. Wallace at her how sick and sad the whole Once again, democracy in husband's bedside and of- thing is. I'm not a Wallace America has been scarred fered his hope and prayers supporter ... but I can't by senseless and unforgive- for the governor's recovery, help think that the Wallace able violence." the White House said. people, like the Kennedy "I am saddened beyond Ziegler said that Mrs. people and the supporters of measure that tragedy has Wallace said that her hus- Martin Luther King, de- again stained and darkened band was conscious at the . Mvve to have their voice the process we use to seleet time the President phoned heard and that the country our political leaders," Ken- and said she was optimistic is really in great danger nedy added. about his condition. when those voices can't be Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy, Washington area residents heard." whose husband was fatally also expressed shock at the Sen. Edmund S. Muskie shot four years ago, called shooting. (D-Me.), who has withdrawn Mrs. Wallace at the hospital "It just makes you wonder as an active candidate for after learning of the shoot- ,what's what. They shoot the the Democratic presidental ing, according to a family liberals, they shoot the radi- nomination issued a state- spokesman. cals. It makes you wonder Mr. Nixon learned of the what's going on," said James shooting from his assistant, Lampkin, 33, a District of R. H. Haldeman. Ronald Zie- Columbia drug addiction gler, the President's press counselor and part-time cab .secretary said the White ' driver, interviewed at 15th House "received word and M Streets NW. shortly before the bulletin t At Montgomery Mall, (at 4:10 p.m.) through the ment from his Bethesda ican as apple pie. One might home. be tempted to say this in "It is a tragedy for all of this case: the chicken came us that the peaceful opera- home to roost. But that tion of the democratic proc- would be unkind." ess has again been inter- "It would be a tragedy if rupted by an act of vio- Wallace died," Innis added. lence," he said. However, he said, "if he Rep. Lawrence J. Hogan lives, it also would be a trag- (R-Md.), whose congressional edy for him to become a na- district includes Laurel, said tional hero elected to the he knows now "how the peo- presidency on sympathy ple of Dallas and Los Ange- votes." les and Memphis must have Gus Hall, chairman of the felt." United States Communist "On behalf of all the peo- Party, also deplored the ple of Prince George's in my shooting. "...the politics of district, I want to say how terror can never serve to ad- terribly disappointed and vance the interests of prog- shocked we are that this ter- ress," he said. rible thing happened in our Sen. James B. Allen (D- home county," Hogan said. Ala.) said "the attempted as- Maryland Gov. Marvin sassination was a cruel and Mandel, a Democrat, who dastardly act . ." Allen also went to the hospital, said it is "ironic that the said "it is time that we put a leading advocate of law and stop to this kind of senseless order in the presidential tragedy." race should be the victim of Sen.