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Hearing Tomorrow
If Found Sane,
Foster Faces Trial
KEY WEST, Fla. (UPI) -
Nearly six years have passed
since the Coast Guard one Sat
urday morning towed in a blood
spattered charter boat, The
Dreamgirl, with a youth aboard
who said he knifed the master
and the mate to death and
tossed their bodies into the sea.
The youth was Roger Foster,
then 17, of Griffin, Ga. The date
was April 13, 1963. He never
went to trial because a few
months later, in September, he
was ruled insane and commit
ted to the South Florida Mental
Hospital at Hollywood — pre
sumably for the rest of his life.
But Foster now hopes to es
tablish that he is no longer in
sane. Acting on a motion by
his Miami attorney, Henry Carr,
Federal Judge Aquilino Lopez
has scheduled a sanity hearing
for Tuesday morning in the
Monroe County courthouse here.
Will Be Tried
State Attorney Ralph Cunning
ham said if Foster is ruled
sane, he will be re - arraigned
and would probably go to trial
within a few months.
He said he presumes Foster
would enter a plea of not guilty
by reason of insanity at the
time of the crime.
A board of eight psychiatrists
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at the mental hospital recently
Recommended that Foster be
released to his parents pending
trial.
The chilling story of the
Dreamgirl began on April 10,
1963 when Foster spent the
night in a local motel. After he
had left the following day
aboard the charter boat, the
motel owner found splotches of
blood in the room plus a 17-
inch knife sheath, a razor blade
and what appeared to be a sui
cide note. In the note Foster
had written: “When you find
me my face will be mutilated,
so please don’t let anyone see
my body.”
Some American Nazi Party
literature was also found in the
room.
The captain and owner of the
Dreamgirl was Douglas Trevor,
then 54. The mate was his 25-
year-old son, Edward.
Nothing was heard from the
32-foot boat until late on April
11 when the Coast Guard picked
up a radio message saying
“emergency, emergency,
emergency’’ and then the
cryptic report that “there’s a
man dying aboard.”
Tracked to Boat
The message was somehow
tracked to the Dreamgirl and
the sheriff’s office, fearing the
worst, guessed they might have
a killer on their hands because
of the motel owner’s report.
After a two- day search a
Coast Guard plane spotted the
Dreamgirl only 32 miles off the
Cuban coast. She was adrift.
I>ater Foster said, after killing
Trevor and his son, he kept the
boat going until he ran out of
gas.
A Coast Guard cutter took the
boat In tow and brought it into
port. There were grisly
splotches of blood everywhere
and Foster himself was a
bloody mess, according to Coast
Guardsmen. Foster said he
killed the Trevors and tossed
their bodies overboard.
Foster told one newsmen he
had no remorse and did not
“feel bad” about killing the fa
ther and son even though they
had been nice to him. However,
he said he wanted to go to the
electric chair.
The reason for the killings
was never clear. At one point
Foster said he wanted to take
the boat to Cuba. Later he said
he wanted to kill himself on
Georgia News
Bond Is Favorite
WASHINGTON (UPI) - A
poll of Negroes who reside in
urban areas indicated Sunday
Georgia legislator Julian Bond
is considered the top black
presidential contender.
The Resource Management
Corp, of Bethesda, Md., said
Revenue Agent Slain
MILLEN, Ga. (UPI) -Addi
tional witnesses were scheduled
to be questioned today in con
nection with the shooting death
Friday of Carlton Peeples
special agent for the Georgia
Department of Revenue.
According to Charles Webster,
Revenue Department super
visor, Peeples, 31, was shot in
a Jenkins County tavern white
on duty. Officials would not say
whether Peeples was doing un
dercover work at the time of
Albany Mayor Dead
ALBANY, Ga. (UPI)-Albany
Mayor Fred W. Mills, who was
only two months into his second
term, died Sunday of a heart
attack.
The Minneapolis, Minn., na
tive had lived here for 31 years.
He was transferred by Tamiami
Trailways, Inc. to Tampa, Fla.,
in 1960 but returned here to re
tire as a vice president in 1964.
Mills, 69, served several
years as chairman of the
Albany-Dougherty County Plan
ning Commission. He also was
president of the Albany Boys
More Job Training
ATLANTA (UPI)-Job train
ing for 120 Georgians will be
provided in four Manpower De
velopment and Training Act
projects announced Sunday.
The projects will be broken
down into three equal groups.
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general office clerks at the
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the boat.
He said he had previously
tried to commit suicide four
times.
At a hearing four psychia
trists testified he was insane be
fore, during and after the inci
dent and he was finally com
mitted to the mental hospital.
Now Foster hopes to go to
court and eventually win his
freedom.
Bond received his greatest sup
port from younger, better edu
cated and higher income blacks.
The Rev. Ralph Abernathy,
head of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, ran sec
ond in the poll.
his death.
Another agent, who was not
identified,accompanied Peeples
to the tavern. The other agent
was not injured. The tavern op
erator, Gordon E. Poyphress,
was wounded in the shooting
melee and was reported in seri
ous condition.
Spokesmen for the Jenkins
County Sheriff’s Department
said no suspects have been ap
prehended.
Club, director of the Albany Ur
ban League, a member of the
Georgia Municipal Association
and president of the United
Service Organization.
Mills was hospitalized with a
heart attack when he was elect
ed to his second two-year term
Dec. 1.
He is survived by his wife,
Effie Blackmon Mills, and three
children—Maureen Mills and
Mrs. Kenneth Fouts, both of Al
bany, and Chris Mills of
Tampa.
MDTA center in Macon, anoth
er 40 will receive similar train
ing in Savannah, and 20 secre
taries and 20 licensed practical
nurses will receive training at
the Muscogee City School Dis
trict at Columbus.
The projects will cost the fed
eral government $333,437.
Debate Rages Over Use
Os Intruder Booby-Traps
By JAMES JOYCE
EDDYVILLE, lowa (UPI)-
In the summer of 1967, Marvin
Katko was shot and seriously
injured in the farm home of
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Briney.
Katko was hit in the ankle
and one leg is Wi inches
shorter than the other. He sued
the Brineys and won $30,000 in
damages.
The incident would not have
made ripples beyond Eddyville
if it had not been for the way in
which Katko entered the
Brineys’ home. He broke in,
allegedly to steal.
Katko, now 30, was injured
by a shotgun blast from a
booby trap Edward Briney had
set up. Katko first was charged
with breaking and entering, a
felony, but he pleaded guilty to
a lesser charge of larceny in
the nighttime, a misdemeanor.
He was fined SSO and released.
Then he sued the Brineys for
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Being Held
As Russ Spy
SEATTLE (UPI)-A Russian
translator at the United Nations
was held today in lieu of
SIOO,OOO bond on a charge of
spying for the Soviet Union.
Aleksandr V. Tikhomirov, 37,
is accused of attempting to buy
United States missile defense
secrets from an unnamed Air
Force sergeant.
FBI agents arrested the
bespectacled Soviet citizen in
downtown Seattle Saturday
following a meeting with the
airman.
Tikhomirov was arraigned
before U.S. Commissioner Wal
ter J. Reseburg Jr., only a few
hours after his arrest.
“I protest my detention and I
ask you to inform our consul in
Washington, D.C., and our
mission in New York,” Tikhom
irov said in a thick Russian
accent.
Tikhomirov, who lives with
his wife and daughter at the
Excelsior Hotel in New York,
was charged by the FBI with
attempting espionage “from
personal information. . .and
information furnished by a
confidential source who is a
technical sergeant in the United
States Air Force.”
Officials said the information
concerned missile defenses and
antiaircraft instalations in the
Pacific Northwest.
The sergeant went to the FBI
on Dec. 6, telling of a contact
with a Soviet agent who gave
him S3OO to obtain secret
material. The second meeting
between the two was set for
Saturday, the FBI said.
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In November, an all-woman
Mahaska County District Court
jury awarded Katko $30,000—
$20,000 in compensatory dama
ges and SIO,OOO in punitive
damages.
The word “punitive” sticks in
the craw of many people in this
town of I,ooo—especially since
the Brineys had to sell 80 acres
of a 120-acre farm estate
belonging to Bertha Briney, 49,
wife of Ed Briney, 53. The
property was sold for SIO,OOI at
a forced auction. On it stands
the vacant farm home in which
Katko was shot.
The property was bought by a
three-member committee of
Briney’s neighbors. The com-
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mittee is holding it in trust
until the lowa Supreme Court
rules on the Brineys’ appeal.
The Brineys are able to farm
the 80 acres, along with the 40
other acres and 320 acres
owned by Briney and his father.
Some say Katko—a
pounder who works at his
father’s gas station—would
have deserved it if he had been
killed. Others say Briney went
too far—indeed, was malicious
—in setting up a shotgun booby
trap in his home. The issue has
reached the lowa Legislature,
where three bills dealing with
he matter have been intro
duced.
One of the measures, com
monly referred to as “the
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Briney bill” would allow a
person to use “any means
necessary” to defend his life,
family and property, or to go to
the aid of another without being
placed in legal jeopardy.
It was sent to the floor of the
lowa House Thursday after a
bitter debate over an amend
ment which would have elimin
ated the provisions for defense
of property. The amendment
was defeated 17-16 by the House
Law Enforcement Committee.
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