Hearst marriage plans rumoured

Press, 14 August 1978, Page 9

Hearst marriage plans rumoured

NZPA-Reuter Ecis Angeles

Patricia Hears U who is sr-ving a seven-year prison sentence for robbing a bank with her “Symbionese Liberation Army” aotopters, is planning to marry, according to a lawyer who 'tjisited her today. i “She hopes the ’ marriage (will take place after she I leaves prison, but is ’ she has Ito serve her full . sentence I she may marry in prison,” j the lawyer, Gloria, Allred, I said. ( Hearst did not id<ss itify her (intended bridegrooi n, but | Mrs Allred said in» a tele(phone interview shef did not (think it was any secret Hearst had been liniked romantically to a divorced former San Franciscor policeman, Bernard Shaw. . Mr Shaw, who isii32, was a policeman who ' worked I part-time as a bodyguard for Hearst, who is 24, w hen she was released on bail! of $1 million after serving 14 months of her sentenc e.

Hearst, who was co nvicted of joining in a raid oai a San Francisco bank, returned to the minimum-security prison at Pleasanton 50km tsast of San Francisco on Jillay 15 and will be eligible (for parole in one year. She was kidnapped by members of the S.L.A.. from a flat she shared with her then fiance, Steven eed, in February, 1974, and vvas arrested and convicted jfor her part in the bank raid. She recently filed Bin appeal against her jail I sentence, alleging thait her defence counsel, F. Lae Bail- ! ey, had acted incompetently lin her trial. Mr Bail< :y last | week warned that st ich an (appeal might end H earst’s i right to confidential!) :y be- ( twaen attorney and client, j and he might be fore ed to | tell an Appeal Com 1 all - Hearst had told him about the bank raid case.