European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Continued from Page w 53,000 which had to be examine card by card. Ultimately Bonebrake was to show that the thumb print on the Rifle and thumb print on the binoculars each had 14 characteristic Points of identity to those of James Earl Ray. The print on the sight lad 11 Points of identity. In the fingerprint identification technique it is generally accepted that eight characteristic Points Are sufficient to show that the print belongs to one person and no others. But this was t until april 19.on april 5, about 7 ., mis. John h. Riley looked out of the window of Apt. 492 at 551 memo rial drive in Atlanta to a Small parking lot and noticed a White Mustang in the parking lot. Shehdan t seen it there before. Her son Johnny Niesen 13,became curious about the car he noticed it had two Mexica Turista stickers and a lot of cig Arette ashes and red mud on the Driver s Side. About an hour and a half later another tenant in the Capitol housing project mrs. Ernest Payne noticed the car coming into the lot sometime before 9a.m., when her daughter was getting ready for school. She said the Driver was Between 25 30, about 5 10, about 170 ibs., hair. M,.us. Riley said she thought about calling police the Day she noticed the car. I told people around Here she said. When that funeral was going on the funeral of or. King i though about calling then but figured i better not All those people  she finally notified police and the Fri on april 10. Thousands had come to Atlanta. In other cities of America there had been riots in the Wake of King s slaying. Many Atlan tans were tense and worried that the emotion of the funeral might trigger  same morning Friday april 5, was the usual maid cleanup Day in the Atlanta Rooming House about three Miles from the Capitol housing project. On this Day the clean ing woman did t show up so the proprietor had to do it. I was pulling the linens that Day the proprietor said. About 10 30 ., i was in this Fella gait s room. He d left his key in the door and the key tothe outside door was on the Dresser. There was a Portal let and a couple of maps. There was a note saying leaving town. Be Back sometime and pick up to i fixed up the Rooming Case i d get another  april 10fbi Headquarters i Washington sent out an Alert to its Field offices gait. Is i Possession of a White  one theory is that the of jihad already been tipped to the Mustang and had traced its Ala Bama License 1-38993 to an Eric starve gait of 2608 highlandave., Birmingham. Could the Fri have been sitting on stakeout waiting for someone to come to the car that would t be unusual says a source dependably qualified to know Fri tactics. Another theory is that the name was picked up in the at Lanta Rooming House although that is open to question. The proprietor who insists on anonymity said Fri agents had picked up mail addressed to gait and adds i can t fix the Day they did first  another possibility is that they got it in Birmingham As they fanned through the Cit after tracing the Remington game master to  co. Working with sketches based on various descriptions mainly those of the people in the Memphis Rooming House and the Salesman in York   could have found Peter Cherpes owner of the Economy Grill and rooms at 2608 Highland ave., who rented room to an Eric starve gait on aug. 26, 1987, for 122a week which included two meals a Day. A Man using that name had stayed there until oct. 7, 1967. In any event on the afternoon of april 11, 1968, sometime around 5 p.m., the Fri move Din and impounded the Mustang. By a strange foul up the Florida state police broadcast an Alert for a White must song driven by an Eric starve gait. This was at 5 22 p.m., and it was probably this broadcast that put the name gait into circulation. The name gait seemed  All Over the United states were checked out. The Fri Ewa picking up enormous detail on the mystery Man. Eric the Rall of James fetal Ray-1 thai Remington Gam Mairer is similar to the Rifle used to kill or. King. Arvo gait  that thumb print went beautifully Vith the prints off the Rifle and binoculars. Otill there was the Atlanta Rooming House and its Bonanza for the Fri. Two maps. One had a very Good thumb print. One bad four circled areas Sunset ave. The location of Rev. Martin Luther King s Home the Auburn ave. Locations of the Ebeneze Church and the Solc the me Morial drive location Capitol housing project where the mus Tang was abandoned and the Rooming House itself. That thumb print went beautifully with the prints off the Rifle and binoculars. Gait. Where had he been where was he going tracking Back one Stop was Peter Cherpes s Economy Grill and rooms. A sign inform prospective lodgers there is a to room with color Tiv. In it Day it was a Fine Home set Back from the Street by a wide Lawn. The door opens onto a Bare floor bisected by a Mac runner. To the left there is a shaky table about 2x4 feet wit Metal legs. On it there is a potted Plant with the pot wrapped in aluminium foil. Sometimes the postman dumps mail on it. Then the manager puts it in mail coops for each tenant. To the right in a front room the to stands with its Back to the window. There is a doorway to one of the bedrooms. The paint is chipped showing differ ent layers of colors from prior years. The wallpaper has com away in some places weary of hanging on so Long. Cherpes remembered gait kindly. After gait had gone and bought that White car i came time to get a Driver s test. Cherpes drove him. That was sept. 6, 1967. Once Cherpes said gait received a package from Chica go. Photographic equipment Asfar As he knew. It was about 2 x 1 foot. Gait said he was going to Send it Back. In William Bradford Huie account Ray claims to have received a total of $3,000 from the mysterious Raoul in birding Ham 9n aug. 30, 1967, with instructions to spend $500 for some photographic , reportedly had no idea what it was for. Thomas Reyes Lau recognized the photo of gait and said he graduated from a los Angeles bar tending school on March 2. Page 12 he car was bought used from the Man who owned it Awilliam d. Paisley whose son works for Kaul lumber co. I Birmingham. He bad placed an advertisement in the birding Ham news and received a Call from a Man who said be was Eric Sarvo gait. This was on aug. 27. Paisley said he wanted$1,995. Gait drove the car around the Block once an agreed to pay the asking Price no quibbling. He came Back with the Money in Cash on aug. 30. One notion is Tomt he had the Money stashed in safety Deposit Box no. 5517, in the birding Ham Trust National Bank. He the stars and stripes had opened the account aug. 28,giving Kark gait 2515 Lafay Ette St., St. Louis As a refer ence. But the Huie Ray Story is that Raoul handed Ray $3,000in Cash shortly before Ray Tiet the senior Paisley near the Banka 10  There is no such Lafayette St. Address in St. Louis. Cherpes said gait gave Astory about being a merchant Seaman. Seaman often have bankroll after a Long voyage. Gait he said did not see to go out much tended to keep to himself used the Hall Tele phone a Good Deal and so far As he could Tell never had a Visi Tor. But a letter came for gait five months after he had left. Cherpes says he did t see  the Alabama Highway patrol sent one out to gait March 1,1968. It contained a duplicate Driver s License and Abill for 25 cents. The Highway patrol located in Montgomery said the request for the duplicate came by Telephone on feb.28 or 29. Capt. T. L. Payne said the duplicate was mailed the following Day and under Normal circumstances would have Bee delivered at 2608 Highland ave., Birmingham the following  far As the Highway patrol is concerned it was because it received the 25 cents and the re turned Bill on March 6. Who made the Call who received the letter who sent the 25 cents. It could have Bee picked off the table by anyone watching for it. The Eric Star to Galt t who had lived in econ omy Grill and who had Bough the White Mustang was sup Posedly in los Angeles on those dates. On March 2, he graduate from the International school of bar tending at 341 s. Alvardo los Angeles. He signed on some time in february and paid $225cash for the course. It was Here at the bar tending school that the first photograph of gait was obtained. Fri agents combing los Angeles be cause of service station stickers found in the door Frame of the Mustang came to the school and inquired about  Thomas Reyes Lau the owner said gait was in the course. He had his application form and Al so a graduation picture the photo showed a Man in a Bow tie with his eyes closed. The left ear jutted out More than the right. There is no known evidence of gait himself being in Bir Mingham in order to get the duplicate License. Before then gait had Cut Afancy Swath on the dance floor or at least in dance  was the National dance studios at 2026 Pacific in Long each Calif lie signed for the Rooming nouse Ebenezer Baptist Church 406 Auburn ave.  s Home 243 Sunset ave. Solch qts 330 Auburn Atlanta abandoned White Mustang 551 memorial or. Circled for action occupied by James Earl r which were considered or. King s Home on Sun Church and the Hedqui ence both on Auburn a Portelly not on the map House was located. This h Atlanta map reportedly found in a Rooming House by using the name Eric starve Galt had circles 1 prime significance. They showed the location of it ave. The minister s Church Ebenezer Baptist lers of the Southern Christian leadership Confer �. And the capital housing project on memorial drive where the White m Tang was abandoned the uppermost Circle re added to indicate the area in which the Rooming is a reconstruction of details on the map which reportedly had a thumb p int identified As that of James Earl Ray. January 22, 1969 course sometime in december paying director r. L. Mackay $500 Cash in Advance. Ray reportedly says it was $465. I spent several hours wit him says Mackay in recalling the sales interview. He appeared to be a transient and seemed to have a need for Les sons. Gait was an introverted Type of  thing about gait that threw Mackay was his . He had a pair of expensive Alligator shoes. I know about those things since my family sin the shoe manufacturing Busi Ness. He did t Wear them Al the time. We took it for an affectation says  was a party just before Christmas Given by one of the couples arid Mackay remembers gait being  was having fun but gait was not mixing in to much. His teacher was acting As his escort. He was extremely reticent retiring. You would say almost evasive. He had slight tinge of a Southern a  he had any political inclinations he never once mentioned them. As far As people thinking he shot or. King As apolitical act i would be inclined to think that s a Bunch of baloney. If he was motivated by anything it would be  one of the persons who knew gait in a social Way had a different View. This was Charles Stein 38, a bearded songwriter who accompanied gait on a trip to new or leans. Stein said his widowed sister mrs. Rita Rosas 30, of Holly Wood had thought of going Tonew of leans to pick up her two daughters. Gait volunteered to drive her there if she and Charles would sign a petition to place George Wallace s name on the California ballot for pres ident. We agreed said Stein because we Are from the  Stein said they went to the Wallace North Hollywood head quarters where gait appeared so Well known that Stein thought he was a  said he and his sister signed the  one at the Wallace North Hollywood Headquarters re called such an incident or re called having seen gait there. Stein said he and gait left los Angeles dec. 15, 1967, and that gait stayed at the whee Lall the Way drinking Many cans of Beer and mentioning a Man with an italian sounding  Ray s published account says they left dec. 13. In new Orleans they apparently separated. Gait registered at the provincial Motel,1024 Chartres St., and was Given a single room room 126. The Register shows that gait was driving a White 1966 Mustang with Alabama License plates according to Clancy Dupepe the Motel owner. Hie was Back in los Angeles dec. 18, according to records of the National dance studios. It was fro Iii i los Angeles that he wrote to the american South Ern Africa Council suite ,800 4th St. So Washington d.c., on dec. 30, 1967, inquiring about emigration to Rhodesia. The Council had been known As friends of  the african nation might have interested any escaped convict since it has no extradition agreement with the United states. A convict getting there would have Asylum. An incident which characterized gait As a racist at least in the eyes of Habi tues of the Rabbit s foot club at 5623 hol Lywood blvd., supposedly occurred in late March. Jim Morrison tending bar said gait began talking to a woman named  the conversation turned to negroes whom she said were Good  Morrison said gait started dragging her by the Armsto the door saying ill drop you off in Watts and Well see How you like it  Watts is a predominantly negro area i los Angeles and was the site of a riot which claimed 34 lives in1965. " Bob Del Monte another bar tender said another customer who had been dating Pattie went after them and gait fled. Prisons As a role convicts ten to have walking partners that is baddies they Are Apt to stick with on exercise walks or free time. Ray bad no such buddy and would be seen with a White convict one Day and per haps a negro the next. Before California before mov ing into an apartment at 1535 Serrano ave., and to a room atthe St. Francis hotel 5533 hol Lywood blvd., gait had spent some time in Mexico in Acapulco for five Days and in puerto vallarta for a month. According to Huie s version Ofray s activities Ray was treated by a plastic surgeon  c. Hadley at the Muir medical Center in los Angeles where on March 5 the doctor performed surgery for reduction of prominent nasal  Ray used the name gait an according to the doctor s rec ords last visited him March 11,at which time the sutures were removed and he was asked to return in six weeks. Ill Tsouri state Penitentiary officials could not conceive of James Earl Ray As a racist. In  if he had any political inclinations lie never once mentioned them.9 Al he dossier on gait was getting fat and would get fatter the further Back he could be traced. Investigators knew where he had been. The pieces were coming together. As far Ascold be figured he was still in los Angeles March 16. So was the Rev. Or. Martin Luther King jr., who was at an Aheim addressing the Californi democratic Council. The next Day March 17,"gait" left the St. Francis. He left a forwarding address Gen eral delivery Atlanta. He headed East in the mus Tang going through new or leans to Selma ala., where rec ords of the Flamingo Motel on Highway 80, show he spent the night of March 22. He was in the Rooming House in Atlanta Nomarch 23. According to Huie the departure from los Angele was signalled by the mystery Man Raoul. The Pursuit of James Earlray s life and times comes to the crucial moment of 6 01p.m., plus april 4, 1968. Tomorrow what happened to him from that time on How did he manage to vanish Memphis defective examines Rifle abandoned near 422 Vij s. Main St. The stars and stripes Page 13