Police alert for revenge attacks after murders

Press, 30 November 1978, Page 8

Police alert for revenge attacks after murders

i NZPA-Reuter San Francisco |< i San Francisco will pay its >1 respects to Mayor George;! ! Moscone and a civic leader. I I Harvey Milk, in a giant p I open air ceremony todayu while the man accused of < I their murder appears in i court. < The San Francisco police ’ are on the alert for further < violence, triggered by a wave of sympathy for the t victims. 1 The city has been stunned I by the death of 900 follow- < ers of People’s Temple reli- < gious cult leader, Jim Jones, i at their jungle commune in t Guyana 12 days ago because many of the dead came from t the San Francisco area.it Jones was once a political 1 ally of Mayor Moscone, but < the police have said the kill- r ings were not linked. Shortly before the mem- 1 orial service in a city t square, expected to be pack- I ed with thousands of people, c a former municipal official, < Dan White, will appear in i court to be arraigned on charges of murdering Mr t Moscone and Mr Milk, aq member of the San Fran-iv

I cisco Board of Supervisors. ! White, who is 32. could face death in the gas chamber if convicted. He has been charged under an article, approved by voters only three weeks ago. which extended the death penalty to cover the murder of elected officials while they were carrying out their duties. Mr Moscone was shot four times and Mr Milk five times. The police said White had demanded that Mr Moscone give him back his post on the Board of Supervisors, which helps the Mayor run the city. White had resigned from the board two weeks earlier and Mr Moscone was to have announced White's successor shortly after he was murdered. Ironically, White was to have been presented tomorrow with an award by the Fire Department for rescuing a mother and her child from a burning building. Fire officials said the award would stand but the presentation ceremony would be delayed.