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™i JOURNAL VOL 26, NO . 3436 Daily Entered As Second Class Matter Post Office ogderisburg, N.Y. OGDENSBURG, N.Y., ' WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,1971 iSP^t^tSSS^* 30 HIGHLIGHT Canton Doctor to join Hepburn Staff - Story Page 11. SINGLE COPY 15 cents Oswald Confirms Hostages Died Of Gunshot Wounds Attica Prison News Reports Results Of Autopsies ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — When Dr. John Edland went before newsmen Tuesday afternoon in Rochester to announce the findings of autopsies of the victims of Monday's blood-letting at Attica state prison, the news he presented had a touch of the sensational about it. But the Monroe County coroner, a pespectacled, quiet man in his mid- thirties, delivered his startling pronouncement in measured tones, and he repeatedly refused to draw any conclusions from:' the facts he was of- fering. What he told the reporters was that eight hostages who had been held by rebellious inmates were killed by gunshots, iiis announcement con- tradicted an earlier, official claim that the throats- of some of the victims had been slashed, and set off renewed waves of criticism of the mass-assault tactics state officials chose to smash the revolt. Dr. Edland told the newsmen \It is not my job to interpret these findings. I must simply report the results of the au- topsies.\ The dark-haired physician said there was \no distinguishable difference\ be- tween the wounds which killed the hostages and the wounds suffered by prisoners whose bodies he examined. Asked by newsmen about the earlier reports of throat-slashings, Edland said only that \I'm used to not finding what people tell me I'll find.\ He added that performing such a large number of autopsies was a considerable strain. \I don't think there's a forensic pathologist the country who's done 27 homicides in one day.\ Edland was appointed to the $24,000-a- year post in 1968 after duty in the Navy- He had served as the county's assistant medical examiner before entering the service. A Rochester native, he was graduated from St. John Fischer's College in Rochester and received his medical degree from the State University of New York. Some Inmates Taken To Clinton About 160 inmates from the riot- scarred Attica prison have been tran- sferred to tw6 other facilities across the state, Great Meadow and Clinton, both in Northeastern New-York. <- Officials confirmed Tuesday evening that the group of prisoners had arrived at Great Meadow and Clinton by bus. Those two facilities are>restricting the activities of all inmates because of what Joseph Ryan, senior administration as- sistant for the State Corrections Department in Albany, described as \threats of action of on'a sort or another.\ ,, „ Ryan did not elaborate. Meanwhile, Joseph Conboy, superintendent of Great Meadow, said the situation there was generally quiet, although he had encountered \a little period of unrest\ Tuesday. At Clinton, William Donahue, head corrections clerk, said \we're in fine shape.\ The newly arrived inmates from- Attica, are being kept separate from other prisoners until their records are screened carefully. Ryan described this as routine procedure in handling any transfer of inmates. Asked how long restrictions would be kept in effect at Great Meadow and ClinLri,* Ry - replied: \It depends completely on inmate attitudes.\ , He also said that, apart from Attica, ' there had been \no overt action\ in the state penal system generally. Says Photos Show Throats Cut ATTICA, N.Y. (AP) — The president of a union local that represents correction officers at Attica prison in- sisted Tuesday night that hostages who died at the prison had their throats cut. Hollis Chase, president of local 1040p State, County and Municipal Workers, said officials had photographs showing the bodies with cut throats and atrocities perpetrated on inmates. \We've got people, our fellow guards, who carried off the bodies of those hostages. Their hands and feet were bound, their throats were slit from ear to ear.\ \Some of our people are still walking around with split heads, all you have to do is look at them. It's pretty sickening to see the atrocities. Inmates have been found mutilated and we feel they were mutilated by their fellow inmates,\ Chase said. \The public should see these pictures, they took pictures,\ he said. \The public should see those pictures, they would answer the questions in everybody's mind.\ Chase's comments came in an interview with Associated Press newsmen, shortly after Correction Commissioner Russell G. Oswald had conducted a news conference on reports by the Monroe County Medical Ex- aminer that hostages were shot to death, and did not die from slashed throats as early official reports had said. Oswald confirmed the deaths by gunshot wounds in nine hostages, but disagreed with Edland, who said that none of eight bodies of hostages he per- formed autopsies on had any signs of cut throats. Oswald said that some hos- tages had their throats cut and bore other marks of physical abuse. \We found another inmate Tuesday with his throat cut and numerous stab wounds on him,\ Chase said. He said an- other inmate had been found the same day, buried in a ditch. He apparently had been dead two or three 'days, ac- cording to Chase, because \He was stiff as a board.\ Asked about Edjand's findings, on the ' hostages, Chase commented: \We saw the marks on them.\ \It's not fair to us, to the State Police, to state officials, Chase said about conflicting accounts concerning mutilations and cut throats. \There definitely'were atrocities,\ he said, \and the people should see them.\ Demand Cornell Back Inmates ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — A group of students demanded Tuesday that Cornell University support prisoners at Attica state prison. The students want the university to support the prisoners' demand for amnesty and the dismissal of Attica prison Supt. Vincent Mancusi; the renaming of Rockefeller Hall as Attica Hall; scholarships for the children of inmates and guards killed in Monday's assault on the prison, and the estab- lishment of a study program for inmates to further their education. Between 300 and 400 students an- nounced the- demands at a demon- stration. A leaflet distributed by the students asserted that Gov. Rockefeller \ordered the massacre with the full knowledge that the lives of some of the hostages, not to mention thoge of the prisoners, would .be lost.\ Critical Of Rockefeller's Position NEW YORK (AP) — A .correction officer held hostage during the Attica prison uprising and a member of the negotiating team that sought to settle the impasse before Monday's bloodshed both were critical Tuesday of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's failure to ap- pear at the prison. Gary Walker, a correction officer who said he was kicked, shoved and punched, but otherwise unharmed, and Julian Tepper, a negotiator, appeared on the ABC—TV Dick Cavett show. Their appearances were taped Tuesday evening before confirmation by New York authorities that the nine hostages among the 40 persons kiUed in Monday's recapture of the prison died from gunshot wounds. Walker, who said he became a correction officer for the security the job offered, was re- strained for the most part, but spoke with emotion of Rockefeller's failure to meet an inmates' demand that he ap- pear in person. \We wished that he would come. We' prayed that he would come and say I'm not going to give you clemency. The sight of him. there would have made us feel better. After that we were disgusted with him.\ Tepper said the governor's ap- pearance would have \shown a concern for human life. As it was, the only people who didn't show concern for human life ... was the state.\ Bloodmobile ATTICA, N.Y. (AP) — State evacuated and that those involved Corrections Commissioner Russell G. reported in the heat of the situation . Xy Oswald has confirmed that the hostages things that might have been erroneous, slain in the Attica State Prison revolt Oswald told the reporters a died of gunshot wounds. But the source preliminary inspection of the bodies . ^_ „ of the wounds remained officially prior to any autopsies showed slashes on • 'i^K^fe unexplained today. necks, puncture wounds, apparent '^1'\'^fr-' - *\^^^k. The death toll from the four days of broken arms, battered faces and abra- gA flgT .^afllliif's . ^fi^^^^^k ^f& » M$ rebellion rose to 42 today when officials sions. . % raH^JPSKo^HP^i^^ JaGMzftkr* at a Buffalo hospital confirmed that a Edland said his medical examination ^^M^^s^am^JSS^SKL^m^sy mBMaMsSM critically wounded Attica inmate had did find abrasions and other evidence of died. The total includes 10 guards and beatings on some of the bodies of the W^^^^^J^M prison employes and 32 prisoners. hostages. But he said only one of the fillF^ibsds hostages was cut at all on the neck, and ^^^^^fK^^^^M^W^^^B^M^' <j3^%jf^\\ Reaction among guards at some other that wound was a small hole in the back g?«B§t^#^^^^^BSM^M^^^E^KF^3*^ New York State prisons grew into of the neck. ^M(^'^T K ^^ / y^^ t g3ra^ffiB^^^E^M^^^^ilP t '^~- i '•' ' dissension today. Correction officers at The medical examiner told newsmen Great Meadow Prison in northeastern \there were two types of missiles found New York have Voted to call for in both the inmates and the hostages, —^^^——n-^ •- — « -~ , —— Oswald's ouster. Some were buckshot. Some were larger WBK^m^^^^mA .&fyj£$SQs*&* \ -^^\^^ State police said troopers had been caliber missiles.\ State police who f^^^^sSKI^^^^^^^^F~****\~ • _- - „ , called in to patrol the'walls at Clinton charged the prison carried shotguns and ^^^S^^^^^^S^^^^J^*^^^^*^^^ ~. ^ „ s J^^5iMk , '#i#'»3 Prison in Dannemora. rifles. Asked if any of the gunshot ^SSlF^SS^^^^f^S?^ Autopsies contradicted earlier official wounds could have been inflicted by ^^^^^^M^^^^^^*' '\&}$%£. • * ..g—-———»,,„, , reports that inmates had slit the throats \zip\ guns—homemade weapons—Dr, M^^S^^ ^gjpwjr •., \~45|&?< {$^$$^^ ta ™* ** * of hostages as police began an assault Edland said he was familiar with \zip\ P|$®*jii'-- I % '$t\ ?WE$&>'J$ik&w^A Monday on the rebel-held areas of the gun wounds and that he did hot find any jjigi&5«gg ?\'%& > - \ ' *• WMRgjIei^' >«l|k\$%S maximum-security Attica prison. But such wounds on the bodies. . BflfelP * . ~*f!fc. *> ~~ - USsSSiS '\•P?\ Hollis Chase, president of a union local The official death toll for the four-day |p^*S -., * c v^g^ | - that represents corrections officers at riot rose to 41 Tuesday, with state of- mm^mm^^^S'fftk^ <. the prison, insisted that the original ficials saying 31 prisoners and 10 guards U^Bn^HBliS^BSSSS^^^^'i^ stbry was correct and that the hostages' and other prison employes were known BMMMgaBBaKS^^^^^^^^^^^^^P^ .jJsffiWfS^?* throats had been slit. He said officials to have died. Several other inmates ^^^BS8i^B^^^j^B^?_^™\!^^ i ^^^C'^S_ ^WM&Ji had photographs showing the bodies were unaccounted for the prison of- HRlH^^^®H^^^^^^ ! ^^ i1 ^^^^^\ with cut throats. ficials suggested some might have been msMfM^zS^tM Oswald offered no direct explaation of kiUed and buried within the prison. EHlllllllip how the hostages were shot. But he told A newspaper reporter was told at a i||l||Plp\ ' \\\ reporters at a late evening news confer- Buffalo hospital that a convict had died nESSi^ ^-^S^^Z^^.:^kss^Si^^BmM A> ence inside the prison walls that the shortly after being brought to the f^^fe^--\ inmates had dressed the hostages in hospital early today from the prison ^&s&!^ prison garb and \it seems they used hospital at Attica. Hospital officials ff^^f^ E ^WT-\*= ag \ ^^mm •• B ^* m someofthehostagesasshieldsorforced referred queries to prison officials, who WSS^SBHKSiS^mSm them forward into gunfire.\ refused to comment. ES^C^-^KSKmSBK^^SSSmSKd He released a list of weapons found in In other developments related to the • ,.,.*,, the prison after the rebellious inmates uprising and the decision to storm the FLOODS KIL L A T LEAS T 12 — At least 12 persons died m flash were routed. The list included gasoline ceiibiock: flood Tuesday which struck the Norristown and Chester, Pa.,. bombs, sharpened spears nfetai pipes, -A federal judge in Buffalo vacated areas separated by nearly 40 miles. This scene, near Norristown, S-S'utrg\' spiked baseba11 sfS'.rssi ssrx^ shows * W ^«ch w as ***;**& aad on e «* ^ 'Th e commissioner's 20-minute, doctors and nurses to enter the prison. cars ; which was swept off the road. Three perosns died i n this prepared statement followed the State corrections officials successfully .Section. (A P Photo ) •''----•-• disclosure by Dr. John F. Edland, the ' fought the injunction on the grounds that ^ Monroe County medical examiner, that there was still a \stat&of .emergency\ at \•\TT • '%W T m % T \ r \ \ the hostages ail died of gunshot wounds A \ica. •^^lT*l*iif*5ll'1'#* '''''^Ww^irW*!^^*--JTfc and that none-had had their throats ; # # lllUliVilllV TTCJU'V/J.J. \*J£J \There were no cut throats or any Saigon Night *?» -r* * d~\r rr* kind of mutilation,\ Edland said after ° ° • W*\ 4\f* •MT 1 T<fi I fT I flif H^l examining eight bodies of hostages. \All >->,-. - . j^ -. -., JL \-WM- M. CUL lO VJ^JL J. V>.Z9&&1,C7 • eight cases died of gunshot wounds.\ I ITI r\k r^r^TYl rki^is „„ - / i • ,. J J Oswald maintained that \there have V^JLLIJJ JLf UIIUJCUL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,'Tropical massive low-pressure system dumped been two misstatements of facts\ Tropical Storm Edity, which killed 23 heavy rains. concerning what happened to the SAIGON (AP) - An explosion People in Central America when she The system spilled out over the North hostages TTP said thf» fw wn« that all , , u , ^ ; m l\ 1 explosion passe d through as a hurricane last Atlantic seaboard and absorbed Z ^ ?'J™ S ?,f II ,Tf« d ?\S WreCked the bUSy TU D ° mgM ° lu b week, threatened to reach hurrican Tropical Storm Heidi, the National the hostages had cut throats and the tonighti and seve ral persons were force again today as she bore down on Hurricane Center said, second Was that none naa a siashea carrie d from the wreckage. the a i rea dy drenched Texas Gulf Coast. New York and Connecticut also were throat. He did not elaborate, and did not The National Hurricane Center issued battered by heavy rains, and New York mention any source of information other The blast shook downtown Saigon and J-UC i\ouuudi nuinccine uemei issueu ' , ' . J . , „ than the report of \the forensic set fire to cars in Tu Do Street, a prin- a hurricane watch for the area from City Mayor John V Lindsay asked Gov. , , . ,, , , T, T-,JI J • ui „t.f A Brownsville to Galveston Tex Nelson A. Rockefeller to declare Staten pathologist,\ a reference to Dr. Edland. cipal thoroughfare. • ^ \p^^r wkrc^rs had Island a disaster area because of flood- rwairf said rmP reason for the The explosion climaxed three days of TIt u i- b ^ dI . Lnei!) ndU ,* om „ ao Oswald said one reason ior pie f . b - £ af f acks aimed a t American recovered the bodies of nine persons damage.- erroneous reports about throats being Jf\™ 5 almed at African ^^ ^ ^ ^^ ^J^ ^ slit was that several corrections officers niuiwry veniu». Tropical Storm Heidi died in the North An unnamed tropical depression v \positively stated they had seen TJ.S. and South Vietnamese police Atlantic. ~ packing winds of 35 m.p.h. drifted 130 hostages drop as they were apparently sealed off the area. In a 6 a.m., buUetin, the National miles west of Granada in the Caribbean cut -\ The blast occurred one block from the Weather Service said .Edith had Sea, heading apparently toward the Ve- He added that there was confusion Caravelle Hotel where Sen. George sustained winds of 60 miles per hour and -nezuelan mainland at about 6 when about 30 other hostages were McGovern of South Dakota was staying, that conditions appeared favorable for - m.p.h. ,-- • • - -,• -— r her to reach hurricane strength before The Hurricane Center said this ij~ t HtiL ; ' • nightfall. depression, which dumped heavy rains '\*'* ' The storm was moving north at about oh the Windward Islands, would bring a 5 m.p.h. from a position 70 miles flash flood danger to northern Venezuela j^ , - southeast of Brownsville. today and also would soak the islands of In Pennsylvania, Gov. Milton J. Bonaire, Curacao and Aruba. Sehapp declared a state of emergency in A slow increase in the depression's »•; ^K4f \ ———'TV—*——^^— >^. Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks, Chester .strength was likely in the next 24 hours, and Philadelphia counties after a the center said *t,;... NYSTA Plans Lawsuits; Hopes ^ #!!.• y :Mk^ To Restore Higher Wage Scale -*r-* »'\»«\ «:-*k«^ r ?«K-^S^ ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The State while council rulings were not entirely * *..-.*# *»- •*.-».. WV'\W:-a^^Lt£m&m Education Department is advising local clear in some aspects, \the soundest K^^^^^H« v^^ar ^^^K>' school districts to abide by federal view at the present time is that only -VWl^BMml^F '^^Ki wage-price guidelines that deny pay those employes who actually performed ,. «.T-\^B«^™\. w • - - ^m^ ^^^m increases to most of New York's services at a higher rate prior to the •i-aH^^K'dT --•-* \ '^^^HKSI teachers. freeze may be paid at that rate during ^l^MilL, ''\•'-'' \ : - •''•'•'<\\'\\jS^BESsr\^ Meanwhile, the New York State the freeze.\ Kafka's comments- in- * t \- Teachers Association (NYSTA) plans a eluded a complicated sentence that, in ! IX^K^l .^m^^^V^^HPI I five \P 0ln t Program, including state and effect, depicted Washington officials as ittS^Mki . ^I^V^H''' federal lawsuits; in the hope of gaining vacillating on the teacher pay higher salaries for its 105,000 members, issue. Emanuel Kafka, president of the teacher organization, and Robert D. NYSTA's five-point program is Stone, deputy commissioner for legal necessary, Kafka said, \because in the affairs in the Education Department, month since President Nixon announced announced their respective positions in - his wage-price freeze, his cost-ofliving separate statements Tuesday. The two council's clarifications of clarifications; officials indicated that they still believe to clarify previous clarifications have questions have been left unanswered by reached the point of absurdity.\ the Cost of Living Council, which The result, he added, is that \no one at President Nixon created to implement the federal level knows for sure whether his new economic policy. Stone was teachers will not or might receive their restrained in his remarks. He said that, salary increases, increments and fringe INDEX WREATH OF DEATH—A torn and shredded cap belonging to an women'sPage Page 4 WEATHER Attica State Prison correction officer - number 357 - frames a Sports Page 13 bullet hole through a railing in the yard of cellblock D. At least 38 Classified Page 15 Variable cloudiness tonight and and possibly 40 men died in the prison rioting and assault to regain gg^- gg £ borrow T^fff £ %?tl control of the maximum security prison in Attica, N.Y. This Jack Anderson Pagei6 winds light and variable, becoming west- dramatic photograph was made by Buffalo Evenin g News Staff T VKorner ....'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.\ Page 14 to southwest around 10 miles an hour photographer Roy Russell. (AP Wirephoto) Comics -Page 17 tonight. ,. Presbyterian Church, 11-4:45 P.M,
