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advised that NATFIELD, mentioned above, is ving succumbed in Alabam after a wix-month dliness during which he was confined to bed. He did mot the exact location is Alabam. Ne stated he would be tied up in court for the next several cays and requested he be : interviewed at a later date, i On 2/25/72 attempts te contact[ _—=s_—iiwere hogative. On 2/28/72 | | stated pe was well acquainted with IXLD., JAMES MATT waid HATFIELD was former owner and building contractor of Lockwood estates, a housing develep- , went in Clinton, Conrn., where he built RoNereus houses. who now lives in the [isa sometine later, HATFIELD had made several trips to Mexico and had met a Mexican girl whom he subsequently mattied and brought back to Connecticut where they lived in the above housing development. Me said HATFIELD's financial difficulties worsened and during the first part of June 1968, b6 b7C MATFIELD and his family left Consecticut pnsxnestonoy at his whereabouts were unkaown for a time. said that when HATFIELD left Connecticut he went by plane aa he was a pilet of wunll engine aircraft. He had mo information as to whether HATFIXLD was an experienced parachutist but he did state that MATFIELD and «a cousin, name unknown, were in the process of building a amall airport near Guif Shores, Ala., price to HATFIKID's death. He said MATFIELD's death on 1/6/72 at Mobije, Ala., was due to caticer. HATFIELD had had an operation iu about August 1971. Ne was unable to a¢gess NATFIELD's physical capabilities following the operition. DB Cooper-7282 .