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; U. S. Won't Prosecu db AMAY 224078 hae Bete Overt earst Trip to Region Times Staff Writer 3! 5 :. + mild shock to US. Atty. ay John Cottone, } the case — in the front y The government does not intend ia’. Scranton,-who said hejhad not been.::_ During her trial at San Francisco i “ press harboring charges in connection : notified of ‘the Secision | y the austice - ‘Feburary 1976, Miss Hearst implicater :' with Patty Hearst’s stay at a South © Department. . ~ 7 Scott, his wife, Micki, and his parents Cangan farmhouse four years ago. . | The FBI agent who has headed 21% . Mr. and Mrs. Jo hn Scott, also forme: + - This was confirmed last week by De-. | month probe into the matter said he was * Scrantonians, it ber flight from the FB! « puty Atty. Gen. Benjamin Civiletti ina - not too surprised by the decision... :°.:* following her "kidnaping by the Symbion a telephone interview with The Times. He © The fact that the government was fot “ese Liberation Army on Feb. 4, 1974, . said the ‘government had “insufficent — ‘too keen about pressing the harboring ~ She testified that Jack Scott and hi: .° information” on which to base any ” investigation was first reported in The =.parents drove her from California ti 2 _ action. : xomm.: Times on April 18, 1877, The Justice ..New York andthathelaterarrangedfo: 3 : Miss Hearst was. returned: to prison. - Department was reported at that time * her to hide at the farmhouse., , Jasi week to complete the minimum:..as “ready to.give up efforts” to prove Several days after that testimony portion of a seven-year sentence handed “that Miss Hearst was ill ally harbored - Jack Scott denied the allegations, say- down after her conviction on.bi bank. rob-:;. in‘the farmhouse. * if bery charges... Sa Sh a For the government t prove harbor: . exactly as the FBI and the Justice De Federal authorities have contended «. sing charges, it would be necessary to “partment would like her to.” : that the young newspaper heiress hid in .. “show that the persons allegedly involved: At one point, there -was a ‘plan t: " the hilltop farmhouse overlooking Lake... knew Miss Hearst Wes 8 fugitive. from secretly bring Miss Hearst to Scrantor 4 Quinn for several months following her --= justice. binge "to testify before a federal grand jur: x Kidneping from the apartment of her ex: : -. The Ff had beet wor on the caie’. which. was. looking into the harboring 1 beyfn Stephen Weed : ss: since March 1975 when Scott's brother, Ezease, . + She testified in court in California that’ Walter, told them of the indident. . When the ‘story Appeared in Th one of those who aided her during that - | Agents searched the vecant farm--- ‘Times, Miss Hearst's lawyer refused t > period was Jack Scott, Portland, Qre.,a | ‘house, owned by .a Néw York city ~ allow her to come here. . .. Sports activist who Was born and ‘Spent, -fireman and his wife, after being led The Scotts have never been’ ‘charger. Hi his ‘youth: in Séranton. = : . “+ 4 .the Jocation by a Hamlin real tale with anything Fegarding ‘the, Bears: ; _Cviletsi" 8 disclosure that the harbor: -, Salesman who recalled: seeing a bat eas : ‘i> ty." ing Miss Hearst was “saying and acting =