Heiress ‘is dangerous’

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33539, 21 May 1974, Page 13

Heiress ‘is dangerous’

(N.Z. Press Association— Copyright?

LOS ANGELES, May 20. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has classified Patricia Hearst as “an armed and dangerous fugitive.”

It announced yesterday that charges will be filed against the newspaper heiress relating to the use of illegal automatic weapons.

An F. 8.1. spokesman said that Hearst, aged 20, daughter -of Mr Randolph Hearst, the millionaire editor and publisher of the "San Francisco Examiner,” was the woman who raked a Los Angeles store front with machine-gun fire last Thursday. The incident occurred, he said, when Hearst’s two accomplices, William and Emily Harris, were stopped by store employees for shoplifting. The employees later identified Hearst as the holder of the weapon, according to Mr William Sullivan, the Assistant Director of the Los -Angeles bureau of the F. 8.1.

Later that night, Mr Sullivan continued, the three abducted a local high school youth who later told investigators that Hearst was introduced to him by the others as “Tania,” the name that she used in several recorded messages delivered to her family. In addition, he said, information about Hearst’s participation in an armed holdup of a San Francisco bank last month would be presented to a Federal Grand Jury today. The announcement contra-

diets the opinion, still held by her family, that Hearst is a captive of the radical terrorist group that kidnapped her from her apartment on February 4th. The statement by the F. 8.1. followed a series of events that began on Friday night with a police raid on a hide-out of the group. Six central figures of the selfstyled Symbionese Liberation Army were killed in the exchange of gunfife with the police.

The sixth body, identified as that of Camilla Hall, was not found in the fire-swept ruins until yesterday. Mr Sullivan said of Hearst and the Harrises: "The three are armed and extremely dangerous individuals. All

law enforcement agencies will treat Hearst like any Federal fugitive and she will be given every opportunity to surrender.”