Hearst: police opinion

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33513, 19 April 1974, Page 11

Hearst: police opinion

A 7J* 4 Re,iter--Copytig SAX FRANCISCO. April 18 A city police <ln< said today that lie wa convinced that the newpaper heiress. Patrick ; Hearst, was a willm.j bank robber Captain Mortimer Mi Inet ney said that hidden camera had shown her shouting and (swearing aftei a man "»* : shot in the hold-up. Captain Mclnerney said that he came to the conch, ston after examining some of the 1400 photographs taken by automatic bank security cameras during the hold-up -taged by the Symbione** Liberation Army, the radio* group which kidnapped Hearst on February 4 "The photographs show her apparently speaking, appar ently yelling and then further apparently swearing after th* victim was shot.” Captain Mclnerney said The girl’s mother Mr* Catharine Hearst, said tn n statement released late la*t night that she was not con vinced that her daughter wain the bank. "1 could never take an oath the girl in the picture was Patty." Mrs Hearst said. Sh ■ said that the girl seemed "tri ribly thin and drawn and wore a wig." Captain Mclnerney also

dismissed a report that .Hearst’s right hand might have been tied during the 'robbery. He said that the pi tures clearly shott ed her hand protruding through a slit m the coat, to the weapon Hearst has been charged with being a material witneto the San Francisco bank laid, during which 5U510.069 was stolen. The question of whether she was a volunteer bank ; robber, or whether she we* forced into the act by her abductors, will be presented jto a Federal Grand Jury, a cording to the United Stat' District Attorney for the Sao i Francisco area. Mr lame Browning