European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Continued from Page 11 latin who he says he knew by the name Raoul. This mys Tery Man Ray reportedly said was first contacted in a Mon Treal tavern the Neptune and later seen in Birmingham new Orleans and Nuevo Laredo Mexico. Raoul by Ray is count gave him $8,250 in Cash and promised him $12,060 and Safe passage to some foreign country after a final Job Montreal police officials say a thorough investigation failed to show that such a Man existed Huie contends that the grand scheme behind slaying or. Kin was not to remove the negro Leader but rather to use his murder to trigger lasting Vio Lence Between the White and Lack races. The state of Tennessee is no concerned with conspiracy. It has charged Ray alone with the death of Martin Luther King. It claims it has assembled a Chadnof evidence which it will present in an attempt to convince a jury that Ray did fire the fatal shot. On the Trail of James feh-Ray-1 John i y reconstruction of the events relating to Ray s life and times and to the assassination of or. King brings frustrations and contradictions. It is like tracing an architect s plan and inexplicably finding a Brick Wal where there should be a win  might be argued that James Earl Ray can shrug offal sorts of suspicious questions. Why was he a Man of the Man aliases police say he took John Willard Eric starve gait Pau Bridgman Ramon George Sneyd Why did he run to mexi co Toronto Lisbon London answer he was a convict on the run. How did he get the Money about $12,000to keep on the move answer like a  he May say. But Ray was not Clyde Barrow or Al  nearly a year after his escape until april 19, 1968, when the Fri said he was the Man wanted in the King slaying Noone was actively Hunting him. He was hardly Worth the time Energy or Money. He was a Hood with $50 on his  a fugitive it is entirely possible that he could have received help from people who knew he had escaped at Jeffer son City. But that would t mean they had a part in or criminal knowledge of the assassination. Indeed according to Ray s purported account of what happened he did receive Money a hiding place and a Pis Tol from a St. Louis area Friend in the first week after his escape and again late in june an from two friends in Quincy 111., Early in july 1967. These were areas in which Ray had lived. There also was a possibility or theory that Ray had been spotted As a fugitive and was blackmailed into the actual kill ing or blackmailed into letting the conspirators use his Finger prints and otherwise set him Upas a Decoy. And there was the Prospect that Ray was Only on tool of a Complex conspiracy in which other gunmen also were being keyed for a killing. Hese propositions arise i examining the Jinks in the Chain of evidence. It is a Chain that can be imagined to have links Dence begin at a Post at which there were three hours before the kill.3 15  main Street in Memphis is pretty quiet Asfar As sidewalk trafflc4 North on main closer to the Center of downtown near the Peabody hotel and Goldsmith s and Low Enstein s department stores there Are shoppers on the  Here in the 400 Blok of South main there Are Sample goods outlets and resale and service stores Arig a skid Row Quality. A Man could be noticed or missed with Estial  Man dressed in a Black suit and wearing a White shirt with a narrow Black tie halted at 4224 South main which Isth doorway to a Rooming House above some Street level  went up the dismal stairwell to the screened door. . Bessie Brewer the manager was impressed by his dress and manner. Folks who can pay Only $8 or $10 a week rent can t afford such . Brewer led the Man to Ward a second Section of the Rooming House in an adjoining building. They had to go through a break in the Wall serving As a rough doorway be tween the two dilapidated Struc Tures. As they went along b. , a Man of 74, saw the new lodger. He had his Back Tome but i judge he was about 5 11. He had dark hair and pretty neat  mrs. Brewer had a Kitchen Ette available with its window onto main Street but the mansard no. A sleeping room would do. They went along the dreary dark hallway toward the Bright Light at its end. The Light came from the bathroom and from the dark end of the hallway the Light heightened the impression that one was walking along Tunnel. They went past room 4 where Willie Anschutz lived to room 5. It was empty. There was another room on that end room 6, which was a Kitchenette where Charles Quitman Stephens 46, and his common Law wife lived. It had one Wall join ing onto the South Wall of the bathroom. The window of the bathroom faced onto a backyard that extended to a retaining Wall. It was about 10 feet from the top of the Wall to the Side walk on the West Side of Mulberry . Brewer said room 5 was $8.50 for a week. The Man handed her a Crisp $20 Bill holding it with two hands and paid Forone week. She asked his name. John Willard he said. From room 5, with its South window it was possible to look across Mulberry Street to the Lorraine Motel which was a modern addition to the old negro Lorraine hotel. By bending a Little one could get a very Good look at the door of room in the bathroom there is Anold fashioned tub on four logs that is parallel to the North  curved Back end is close to the window. By standing on he tub end it is easy to lean upon the Sill and get a Clear unobstructed View of room 306 it the Lorraine Motel. From the Bath room Sill to Balcony rail it is 205 feet 3 inches. 5 23 ,Charles Hurley who works for an advertising company arrived at the South main Street Block to pick up his who Wpm Waln the Seaboard 22j bathroom in Memphis boarding House where gunman apparently was waiting. Roomer Charles Stephens heard  306, which seemed to be the focal Point of All the doings Over  that room the Rev. Or. Martin Luther King or. Was con Ferring with his staff and aides. There was the Rev. Andre Young executive vice president of the Southern Christian leadership conference the  Bevel one of or. King s closest aides the Rev. Jesse  some White newsmen and Joseph Louw from Public broadcast Laboratory the non profit television Enterprise which was doing a documentary on or.  or. King had been on schedule he would have been i Detroit. But the Memphis Gar basemen were locked in Bat Lewith the City. The week before or. King had come to give pub Lic support in a March on March 28, and that had erupted into wide disorder. Now a rally was scheduled for 8 ., and he would again give his voice to the strikers. The night before Only 3,000 came to the Mason Temple because of a violent storm but tonight it was expected that As Many As 13,000would come to the 10,000-seat temple.3 50 .Loyd Jowers who owns Jim s Grill at 418 s. Mainst., which is the store just below the Section where John Wil lard had rented his room started to pull his car to the curb As usual. Only this time a 1966 White Mustang was  pulled up real tight bumper to bumper because Heddin t want his rear bumper to be too close to the fire  figure the bumper of that Mustang was about in line wit the door there says Jowers pointing to the South door Jamb it had out of state plates red and  Alabama Arka Sasand Illinois have red and White. But Jowers did t see which state. At 418 South main there was an open rickety stairwell right up to the Rooming House Section. No screen door or Hall Way area in that part As therein at the 422% Entrance. A Man could go up or Down those Stepson half a minute and lug a can Noh through there without necessarily being seen. 5 .David Wood 25,pulled up to the same curb and found the place directly in front of Jim s Grill occupied by a the to a tt14w ttv4xvo ill hit  101co, a wholesale wallpaper and paint firm. He saw a White mus Tang. There was a White Man seated in it he said. Willie Anschutz wanted to use a the bathroom but it was occur a pied. He banged on the door of room 6, and Charles Stephens tip told him that the Man who just rented the room was in there it that s when whoever was there 4"John Willard could have the put his left hand on the Wall and a left a print. Is at the Lorraine it was getting Heon toward dinner time and the will Daylong planning session was about to break. Or. King talked to about eating and told the Rev. Samuel Kyles he was weary of to restaurant fare. I want some mar soul food he said. Firth you know where to get it to Loyd Jowers no that suddenly there were Sot of police around. I kit maybe they would see a parked too close to the Lyd Raht and that i d get when i looked there Ian open space where the Mustang was. It was n " re were police in the area40 of them. Though or. Had not asked for such lion. Fire and police i. Frank c. Holloman ame Fri agent had posted in the area. Armed wit hand wearing Blue helmets suddenly appeared in Theta and sealed off the area. I ugl6 theand the fac Era Ike fran Oil he and ma6 Dis it not soon enough or enough to get the sniper. 6 . A Towel cover Dight Side of or. King s head an oxygen mask covered lose and lower part of his As he was wheeled into therency room of St. Joseph ital. No human sound came him. But the machine of a resuscitator could be1 pumping oxygen. That the sobs and pain of he i weeping for a fallen Man. 5 . The police radio Pitcher reports that a White Mitt to a we of Vanny Thomas blvd. Toward 51 North at a High rate of Ause of statements Bys Hurley and others to Ere properly curious about possible getaway car. 6 25 ., assuming that. White Mustang Didiot get moving until As late As 6 15p.m. It could easily have Iea