NEWS ARTICLE: SUSPECT IS CAPTURED IN SLAYING OF KING

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• Collection: Records Related to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
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• Publication Date: June 10, 1968

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Ray is being held in London's Canon Row police station under maximum guard. Washington officials said they understood he would be ar- raigned on the British charges against him on Monday and that extradition proceedings would be started as soon as possible. Hoover said the arrest was the result of close cooperation be- tween the FBI, the Royal Cana- dian Mounted Police and Scot- land Yard. The FBI had lost Ray's trail in the first several weeks after the _murder of Dr. 21Yr1 Continued From Page A-1 Remington Gamemaster 30.06 il rights warrants outstanding Pump gun, in Bir !ham Ala. tetriiiiiis;14Z1n1 � .1- em- veral hours be- -ard B p �tU� U%C.Tasung 1-m�'ory IT Pus i'Lf:6 '.11119110At 2, wimpy�yr. 2c6 :wimps [spans OVOLI 113A111 f.ginpia noute Jai 43ar4nti VOCISIM .L39�---*Lu.� 00: 1 1 13110-11HD :�.unpree amulet L tiger :IraoJg 3 nanny Aiwa sum eqy PULL PaPunol 15 d SItE umoialoag AEIS311d 433.1.1W1 ..NOISC110A311 YHL SKIM' Vail 2H.L.. 'tu'u OE:OI /MO 431A1313 0110 221g1a1i1 11NA1'I0 c11IVAA01-1 192I-f�F �aair ctiquituni AlaN 60201 ON1114:1S N3A1IS EINVIAITYPI fore Dr. King s fatally wound- ed on the balcony of the nearby Lorraine Motel on A � he calling himse Wil- e FBI said. was not until the white Mus- g s located in Atlanta, Ga., parked near the state capital building, on April 11, that the name of Galt entered the investi- gation. FBI agents already knew that an plc S. Galt had regis- tered at the Rebel Motel in Memphis the night before King's murder but had not been able to connect him with the crime. Registration of the car in Ala- ama gave investigators the .ame of Galt but a week went iy before the FBI determined hat this, too, was a false identi- y. The FBI found that a man !sing the name Galt had tray- ded to Canada, Mexico, the Los pigeles area and New Orleans A a 19,009-mile journey from 3eptember, 1967 until early pril, 1968. FBI agents located photographs of "Galt" at a bar- ending school in Los Angeles, in ossession of a Mexican prosti- tute in Puerto Vallarta, and at the home of a Los Angeles girl o whom the suspect had written lonely-hearts� letter. , But it was not until April 18 that the FBI determined that the fugitive's real name was James Earl Ray. _4N-4E1)F- r,,ocuvt.H-c 'M'M '18 JO PUB .40 m ....a 'el, V. VILT -C N.A.. .1_ Mr. Allen Allen-Scott Report Study King Talk For New Clues By ROBERT S. ALLEN and PAUL SCOTT The Federal Bureau of' Inves- tigation's massive probe of the assassination of Dr. Martin Lu- ther King is taking a possibly sensational t.p.sn�,,,.0. WithilleammulAh. e sus- pected assassin, apparently either outside the U. S. or now dead. FBI agents have increased their surveillance of several American Communists known to have been closely associated with King, including one who wrote speeches for him in the past. This new development was trig- gered by evidence gathered by the more than 1,000 agents who have worked on the mysterious King shooting and by several "tips" and letters sent .to the FBI. . One of the most interepting of these 'tips" came - from an alert Ty viewer and concerns the now famous "Mountain Top" speech King made on April 3, the night before his slaYing, showing a premonition of his im- pending death. '11 the speech was tinily made In Memphis on April 3 as re, ported," the letter pointed out, "then how can one account for King stating his age as 36 (in- stead of 39) and why does he speak of demonstrating in Ala- bama twice during the speeeti?" After checking out the time and location of King's - final speer�h. several of the clack FBI agents assigned to the case de- eided to begin seeking answers to a number of their own ques- tions, including: If King had personally writ- ten that speech, why would he make mistakes like those con- tained in it --, especially the one involving his age?"1 "If the speech was written by someone other than King, who was the author and when was it � written?" ' The answers to these questions are considered highly important . to the inveitigation, since, if an- other person was .concerned in the preparation of that .speech, the writer might be able to shed new light on it � especially those inistakes. Also, if King - had received help with the speech,- the 'Pas- sages dealing with - the civil 'T rights leader's premonition of ;.death would probably have been ; luny discussed. King's request to the Detroit police department for protection when he visited that tcity a few weeks before his s44 death indicated he feared for his life then. Information gathered by the FBI on King, 'prior to his as- sassination, showed that a secret member of the Communist Par- ty's executive committee was one of King's closest advisers and speech writers. This ghost writer for. King pre- pared many of his most farrAis speeches, according to testimony given by. FBI Director J. Edger Hoover during a closed door meeting of a House Appropria- tions subcommittee. Since Ray during his trips pri- or to King's assassination visited the same city in which this ghoit writer lives, the Fat is now in- vestigating to _determine if the two met covertly. Recent evidence lathered by FRI agents in one of the most massive probes in the nation's history has forced serious hives. tigation of these possibilities: � That somebody dose -hi King or within his own organite. tion tipped off his assassin sts to the. civil rights leader's rode on the day of his slaying, � That Ray was hired directly by certain black nationalists who paid him with money made avail- able by. foreign sources. � Thai an international Colt- mimisit "assassin squad" was in- volved in the slaying. � Because Of Ray's mysterious trips to 'Mexico and Canada shortly before the assassinatidn, the entire U. S. intelligente operation, ranging from the Cen- tral Intelligence Agency to Ole Defense Intelligence Agency, has been pressed into the hunt for King's killer. One CIA report indicated that Ray. who is linked to the murder weapon by fingerprints and bal- listic data, may have visited Cuba during his Mexican trip, according to information furnish- ed by a Mexican airline official. The FBI assumption is that. there was a conspiracy to kill King, those involved made arrangements to spirit their hired killer out of the U. S. IP Cuba via either Mexico or Caw ada. Probably the greatest irony -4 the probe of King's assassin�- tion Is that Thf Director 'J. -Ed- gar -Hoover, one of the civil rights leader's -severest critics When he was alive, is doing eVerything in his power to solve the case. _ .�; t Cc HAZ 'NO OWECIKY4 LAS Sii- 4T04 Ar4:0-.)1" r-raEASf.. of .THiS 000.14"11"' BY BARBARA CASSON The same inadequate and misleading approach taken in , the assassination of President � John F. Kennedy in 1964 by Ole Federal Bureau of I vesti- ' ation is being taken n the ssassination of the ; Itin Luther King ar Lane �Aauthor of "Rush Fr=lt Eia Other Page Paco Peg* BIRMINGHALI, ALA. POST�HERALD MAY 2 196b 14-83,927 .777' SHOWS ASSASSINATION ROUTE�Mork Lone (right), special consultant to - New Orleans district .attorney Jim Garrison on President Kennedy's assassination points out Kennedy's car route the day of his death to University of Alabama student government president, James Hethcax. Of Kennedy, King Deaths Lane Blasts Investigations � , m The 1- . � . I ent" told an .audience at the e former New York attor- University of Alabama in ney lambasted the suppres- B i r m i n g h a m Wednesday sion by the government ofi night. � facts concerning Kennedy's! more Indians. t "One can draw almost iden- death and attacked the press " Lane said he exp�ected the i tifcal FBI tactics in both for "doctored photos," "incor-i case of Clay Shaw who 'has' killings," said Lane who was . rect stories" and "made-up i facts" about the assassina- with Oswald would probably . been indicted for conspiracy , tion. part of the lecture series at the University. Lane is a 1 be brought to trial sometime. special consultant to New We have already reached 1 this month "unless the federal' `;',A 01 iiE.C110f4 TO the Ceetral Intelligence Agen- cy. were the backers of the killing. When the whole truth is ever known it might also be surprising the connection Sen. Robert Kennedy had with it," Lane said. He said Sen. Eugene McCarthy is the only major Presidential candidate who has said he would want to present the entire story to the public. Giving intricate details pointing to the belief that more than one person shot Kennedy, Lane said that a probable reason behind the ncve was discontent with the President's attitude on Viet- 1. nam and Cuba. "The FBI knew five days ahead that an attempt to kill Kennedy might be made but , never told him. And since I've ' undertaken a study of the case the FBI has harrassed me. I've even received death threats from anonymous cal-- lers. "Someone told me I should. go to the FBI about the , threats but I feel that would be just like Custer asking for ! Orleans District Atty. Jim George Orwell's 1984 when we 1 courts find a way to stop it." i 4 Garrison who has purported ! have a . federal police force It ----- ..; i that the Warren Commission's - which doesn't want to be 1 i report on the Kennedy as- upset and who can control the I 1 sassination is incorrect and ts press and the public by , . unbelievable. . threats and dictatorship, Lane '. "The only difference in the - said. i FBI's statement about King's He supported Garrison's be- ! death and Kennedy's is that " liefs that Kennedy's death l the lone, unhappy, disgruntled I was a conspiracy. He said 1 assassin took dancing lessons. 1 that the suppression of facts r They have Said an arrest i had been directed by Presi- . would be made in four hours; dent Lyndon Johnson and that it is now many week4.#;�arriet. r Ray, Sirhan What Possessed Them? Vol, 64, No. 25 June 21, 1966 by PAUL O'NEIL Encapsuled in their cells�one in London's ancient, red-brick Wandsworth Prison and the other in Los Angeles' bright and sterile Public Safety Building�the two of them seemed as innocuous as those waxen criminals which so blandly confront tourists at Ma- dame Tussaud's museum. Neither demonstrated the slightest sign of trepidity. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan seemed possessed by a kind of martyr's righteousness. James Earl Ray was simply cautious and cal- culating�a stir-wise con in a fa- miliar environment. The discharge of two minute particles of lead� an ironic fraction of the bullets which daily kill soldiers, rioters and victims of crimes less cele- brated than Robert Kennedy and Martin 1:iither King---had shocked the world and changed both the 411111' Off In London a police constable stands guard (left) at Cannon Row station where lames Earl Ray was taken afteri)is arrest. Above, a po- lice van transports Ray (not visi- ble), under heavy guard, to his arraignment. At top is the 1956 De- Soto owned by Sirhan Bishara Sir- han. Los Angeles police found the car near the hotel where Robert Kennedy was assassinated and scoured it for fingerprints and oth- er clues. Like Ray, Sirhan was de- tained under conditions of extreme security while awaiting his trial. Ica), vv-drb S111113Ty. (AMR/US 1.111U t_cil- culating�a stir-wise con in a fa- miliar environment. The discharge of two minute particles of lead� an ironic fraction of the bullets which daily kill soldiers, rioters and victims of crimes less cele- brated than Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King�had shocked the world and changed both the social climate and the political his- tory of the U.S. But Sirhan and Ray seemed important now only as devices by which other men might gauge the meaning of their senseless violence. The nine-week manhunt for James Ray�which culminated, by fantastic coincidence, almost at the moment of Robert Kennedy's funeral in New York�cost nearly $1.5 million and involved 3,000 of J. Edgar Hoover's 6,600 FBI agents. Canada's Royal Mounted Police as- sisted�and discovered fugitive Ray's spurious new identity through- a passport picture. Lon- don's New Scotland Yard grabbed him. The police of Mexico and Portugal contributed thousands of man-hours to the laborious search which preceded his capture. In- vestigators of Sirhan Sirhan's crime turned abroad, too�to the Mid- dle East of his drab and frighten- ing boyhood. All, in essence, sought answers to a terrible ques- tion. What possessed these two accused men? Both Sirhan and Ray were prod- ucts of families which were hard put to cope with the most basic problems of life. Both seemed gov- erned by a curious, even touching unreality. Sirhan believed he could CONTINUED 25 The eccentric cop-dodging trail of James Ear � CONTINUED ride Thoroughbreds. Ray believed he could hold up grocery stores. One was repeatedly thrown. The other was repeatedly arrested. But here their similarities cease. Sir- han seems formed in the classic mold of political assassin�small, proud, polite, repressed and aboil with a secret, almost religious sense of cause: Arab nationalism. But cynical, alley-shrewd, money- hungry James Earl Ray was some- thing else again. Hundreds of policemen in both the U.S. and Canada are laboring hard this week to answer the most vital and puzzling question im- plicit in either investigation: If James Ray held the gun, was he also the tool of a conspiracy which planned and paid for the death of Martin Lather King? The evidence is conflictihg, exasperating and maddenittgly inconclusive. Ray had money�a great deal more money than he had ever possessed in his life�during all the 13 months between his escape from Missouri's State Prison in April 1967 and his arrest in London June 8th. None who have ever known him believes for a minute that he ted King that he would oot him PAUL BRIDGMAN RAMON SNEYD Births CLARK�To Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Benson Clark, (nee Gertrude Marion Davis). at .316 Waverley road'. on Friday. October 14th. 1932.. a on (Arthur, Garret). SNEVD�At the Women's Hospital .on Saturday. October 8th. to Mr. and Mrs. George Sneyd (nee Gladys Mae Kilmer), a son (Ramon George). Births BRIDGMAN�On Thursday, Nov. _10th, 9:i2, to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bridgman (nee Evelyn Godden), a son. Paul Edward. COX�On Thursday. November 3rd, at Women's Hospital. Bloor street, to Mr. Mrs. Cecil Coy, a son, Phillip Ed- JAMES RAY Three identities in Toronto To confound his pursuers, lames Earl Ray successively assumed the identities of the three men shown with him above. None of the three is acquainted with Ray or one an- other, hut they all live in the same section of Toronto and all three-- Galt, a warehouse foreman, Bridg- man, a teaching consultant, and Sneyd, a policeman�have at least a moderate physical resemblance to Ray. Police think Ray visited the Toronto public library and may have picked his alter egos from birth notices (left) in old newspa- pers on file there. (Sneyd and Bridgman were born a month apart in 1932, Galt 18 years earlier.) In- missouri's , State Prison in April .1967 and his arrest in London lune /irh. None who have ever known him believes for a minute that he so resented King that he would have risked his neck to shoot him out of so unprofitable a motive as spite. "I know," said his brother Jerry, "he wouldn't have put him- self in a spot like this unless there was something in it for him." But he may well have gotten a pile of money by other means�as one of two masked bandits who took $27,000 in cash from his home- town bank of Alton, III. on July 13, 1967. One has only to see photo- graphs of the three Toronto cit- izens whose names Ray adopted before and after the King assassi- nation to marvel at their resem- blance to him. Union Carbide Su- pervisor Eric St. V. Galt (whose middle name the fugitive mistak- enly took to be Starvo) is not only similar in looks, hair color, weight and height but, like Ray, bears scars on his forehead and right hand. Both Constable Ramon George Sneyd and Education Con- sultant Paul Bridgman also match his general description. It is gen- erally conceded that he did not locate these doubles without the assistance of others. Few believe, however, that such service stemmed from any real conspiracy �it seems, rather, to have been the kind of aid almost any well- heeled ex-con could commission in the stews Of a big city. No real iminal organization 26 COX�On Thursday, November 3rd. at Women's Hospital. Bloor street, to Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Cox, a son, Phillip Ed- ward. EMERSON�November 7th, 11)32, at Pittsbur a. to Mr. and Mrs. conspired with Ray�the Mafia simply does not use small-time los- ers as hit men. Neither, by all odds, did any racist group like the Ku Klux Klan�which must now re- gard outsiders as stool pigeons of the FBI. But the U.S., for all this, is not devoid of an occasional rich nut to whom the new ambi- tions of the Negro are anathema� and who might find a James Earl Ray a perfectly usable instrument of repressive social expression. This possibility must be weighed against one fascinating fact. The Alton bank robbers carried off cur- rency in mixed denominations. But Ray, whether or not he shared these spoils, surely tapped some other source of revenue: week by week, ever since last summer, he has made his every real expendi- ture�including $1,995 for the white Mustang he bought in Bir- mingham last summer and aban- doned in Atlanta after King's death �solely with $20 bills. The day-by-day, week-by-week record of Ray's 13 months of cop dodging are full of curious in- advertencies, reflections of habit and odd clues to character. He could not resist schools which promised minor skills, He went to Montreal last summer�shortly after the Alton bank robbery� and was moved, during his stay, to mail off $17.50 for correspon- dence lessons from a locksmithing institute in New Jersey. He went south to Birmingham the next month�and took dancing lessons every Tuesday night for a month. By January, having driven west, he was a student at a Los Angeles school for bartenders. He patron- ized obscure bars�and obscure prostitutes. Once he ran an ad in a Los Angeles "underground" pub- lication, The Free Press, which read: "Single male, Caucasian, 36, desires discreet meeting with pas- sionate married female." Sporadic, veiled but persistent suggestions of purpose intruded themselves, nevertheless, in this CONTINUED 4,Fr, Births BRIDGMAN.On Thursday, Nov. 10th, 1932, to Mr. and Mrs. Edwa rd Bridgman (nee Evelyn Godden), a son, Paul Edward. 1 1 ,it ware muse foreman, Bridg- man, a teaching consultant, and Sneyd, a policeman�have at least a moderate physical resemblance to Ray. Police think Ray visited the Toronto public library and may have picked his alter egos from birth notices (left) in old newspa- pers On file there. (Sneyd and Bridgman were born a month apart in 1932: Galt 18 years earlier.) In- vestigators found that someone had left a check mark in pencil over the Bridgman announcement. Toronto landlady, Mrs. Yee Sun Loo, described a "fat man" who delivered a letter to Ray. Police later cleared a man who said he found the letter in a phone booth. ',!`:!A'.44t-.:%,,t,,-;', � On April 8, four days after the King assassination, lames Earl Ray rented a roorn in this house in Toronto from Mrs. Adam Szpakowski (in window). Ray's $9-a-week room boasted a bay window and a homily on the wall. On April 21 he moved to the middle house below, six blocks away. , A Hideouts in Lisbon and London Armed with a Canadian passport made out to "Ramon George Sneyd" and enough cash to live modestly without working, Ray continued his odyssey to England and Portugal. In downtown Lisbon he rented a $2-a-day room and frequented waterfront bars where he often was taken for a seaman. Returning to London, he chose a neighborhood with a heavy tran- sient population, nicknamed Kan- garoo Valley for the many Austral- ians who live there. He changed addresses once more, then tried to leave the country, and was caught. On May 8 Ray checked into the Hotel Portugal in Lisbon (above) and got a room with French windows. In London, Ray registered on May 28 at the New Earls Court Hotel (above), a "bed-and-breakfast" establishment where he lived for a week in Room 54. ectn June 5 Ray switched London hotels, going to the Pax in Pimlico. He stayed in the above two rooms, left hurriedly on June 8�the day of his arrest. 28 Ihrtimbermaid, Maria Celeste (above), cared for Ray's Lisbon room: "He left every day at the same time He was meticulously neat but he never took a bath " 'Would you please step into our office, Mr. Sneyd?' CONTINUED aimless and wandering existence. He started 1968, for instance, by writing from California to segre- gationist Rhodesia�a nation with no U S extradition agreement�to ask how a U.S. citizen could enter the country. He drove east in March, moved into a "hippy" boardinghouse in Atlanta and signed himself Eric Starvo Galt He went to Birmingham six days later, walked into the Aeromarine Sup- ply Company and bought a rifle �a Remington Model 760 Game- master, 30.06 caliber with Red- field telescopic sight. On April 4, Memphis police found it on the sidewalk near where King was murdered. After making this pur- chase, Ray went back to Atlanta and made an awful mistake: he sent one of his correspondence schools the address of the board- inghouse�an act which eventually led the FBI to the place and to a single thumb print on a discarded road map which proved Galt to be escaped Missouri convict James Earl Ray The fugitive vanished complete- ly, nevertheless, the day after Mar- tin Luther King's death He left his Mustang in the parking lot of At- lanta's Capitol Homes housing project at 8:30 in the morning after than a simple statement to a no- tary public. He had even prepared to move, also as Sneyd, to yet an- other rooming house�this one run by a Mrs Yee Sun Loo�on yet another nondescript street. But one can only speculate on the havens he sought from then on, and the means�in which he seemed increasingly frustrated� by which he hoped to reach them. He spent hardly 24 hours in Lon- don after arrival; instead he trad- ed the return portion of his over- seas excursion ticket for a British European Airways seat to Portugal, pocketed the $14.60 in change and headed for Lisbon. Nothing yet re- constructed of his 10-day stay there sheds any slightest light on his intentions. He slept in Room 2 of the Hotel Portugal�a severe, clean, third-class haven for the fru- gal on a street which smells of charcoal and spitted chickens. He went to seamen's bars�the Cal- ifornia, the Bolero, the Europa� drank beer and talked to the local prostitutes. He slept with one, gave her 300 escudos (roughly $11) and seemed on the point of weeping when she showed him pictures of her fatherless children Then he flew back to Englanu again and vanished for 11 days. He resurfaced again on May 28 Rut' fatp uvic Maria Irene Dos Santos, a pros- titute, met Ray at the Texas Bar in Lisbon He gave her 300 es- cudos (about $11). She says, "I Earls Court receptionist Jane Nas- sau helped Ray learn Britain's deci- mal currency: "I recognized_ his Southern drawl and wondered w , he had a Canadian passport" Mrs Anna Thomas, proprietress of the Pax Hotel, brought breakfast to Ray's door: "He was always fully dressed I had the idea that he nevet got undressed for bed" single thumb print on a discar e road map which proved Galt to be escaped Missouri convict James Earl Ray The fugitive vanished complete- ly, nevertheless, the day after Mar- tin Luther King's. death He left his Mustang in the parking lot of At- lanta's Capitol Homes housing project at 8:30 in the morning after the killing and very probably took a plane to Canada He materialiied as Paul Bridgman at Mrs Adam Szpakowski's $10-a-week Ossing- ton Avenue rooming house in To- ronto�"I'm a salesman for Mann and Martel real estate and I need a place to stay"�four days later It would be hard to guess wheth- er Ray believed he had obliterated his trail and achieved invisibility in Toronto�although he certain- ly walked the streets openly, shopped for pornography and drank "Molson's Canadian". night after night at a go-go bar named the Silver Dollar For all his apparent confidence he wasted little time in preparing to change identity again and slip away overseas. By April 19�the day the FBI revealed that it knew Galt to. be James Earl Ray and the day James Earl Ray knew himself to be a hunted man�he had al- ready booked his round-trip, $345 BOAC flight to London for May 6 He had also, in obvious aware- ness of Canada's lax travel regula- tions, asked a ticket agency to get him a passport as Ramon George Sneyd�a transaction which can be accomplished with no more proof of birth and background ma, drank beer and talked to the local prostitutes. He slept with one, gave her 300 escudos (roughly $11) and seemed on the point of weeping when she showed 'him pictures of her fatherless children Then he flew back to Englanu again and vanished for 11 days. He resurfaced again on May 28. But fate was now closing in; only 11 more days �eight of which he spent at the New Earls Court Hotel on seedy Penywern Road and three at the Pax Hotel in similarly seedy Pimli- co�remained to him. FBI men back in the U.S. were working their way through end- less cabinets of passport applica- tions in search of a picture of James Earl Ray Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen were en- gaged, at the FBI's request, in a similar search in Ottawa The RCMP found the-photo of Ramon George Sneyd�after having gone through 200,000 documents� matched it with an earlier picture of Ray and sent the application off to Washington. The capital "S" and capital "G" with which Ray had signed Ramon George Sneyd exactly matched the capital "S" and capital "G" with which he had signed Eric Starvo Galt Ot- tawa placed a "stop order" on the Sneyd passport. In London, as if in response to some extrasensory perception, fu- gitive Ray began to show signs of acute nervousness He renewed his quest for information about Maria Irene Dos Santos, a pros- titute, met Ray at the Texas Bar in Lisbon He gave her 300 es- cudos (about $11). She says, "I hope he's not in any big trouble." Rhodesia. He went to a street call box, and out of the blue tele- phoned Ian Colvin, an editorial writer and African expert on the Daily Telegraph, and questioned him about mercenaries in Portu- guese Africa. His agitation in- creased when he read the news of Robert Kennedy's assassination. He moved instantly from Earls Court to Pimlico and renewed his telephonic interrogation of Writer Colvin who finally�on being pressed�mentioned a resident of Brussels as one who could con- ceivably help him. Colvin prom- ised to mail the man's address to the Pax Hotel.. He did not. Ray booked a flight to Brussels anyhow, appeared at London Air- port at 11 o'clock in the morn- ing on Saturday, June 8 and was placed gently in custody by minions of the queen. "Would you please," a smiling immigra- tion officer asked him, "step into our office, Mr. Sneyd?" He did, although he was carrying a load- ed snub-nosed .38 caliber re- volver. Detective Superintendent Thomas Butler�famed nemesis CONTINUED