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“S g hy wea 4G Fred h te NT (25 v % Ny dees = -~ a ’ ‘ : . - : ge seta Set tate oe eau hee ach Ge a ate Seubienensereniemntstetenideaaadieceaie eis ee eT MR A he at NAAN Cie try AL LA, ©) ae - _ Patty May Face LA. Trial First; Case Called Stronger . BY WILLIAM FAR and JOIN KENDALL Tienes Statt writers . ‘ YR Federal and local prosecutors de- cided Friday that Patty Hearst Should go on trial in Los Anccles first because the case against her is stronger here than the federat hank robbery indictment in San Francisco, The Tins has learned. However, US. Dist. Judge Otiver J. Carter's order that she be held with- “out bail could force the bank rohberyv tas¢ to be tried first since she has the right to insist on a trial within 60 ' days if she is kept in jail. It also is 2 virtual certainty that her fugitive companions, William ard Emily Harris, will be tried initially on charges filed against them by the dis- trict attorney's office here. Until Met's Sportine Goods Store was shot up in Ineiewood on May 5G last year, the newspaper heiress had heen sought only as a "material wit. hess.” The Harnises faced no charges. Within 15 hours, however, the trio pintly accumulated 18 felony counts, oe we ne including charges of assault with in- lent to cammut murder. assault with 2 deadiv weapon, kidnaping, robbery and auto theft. , Patty is charged with an additional _ count of assault with a deadly weap- of on the landtady of a Los Angeles apartment house on May 19, 1974. Den, Dist. Atty. Samuel Mayerson has been assigned to prosecute the trio. In a brief hearing Friday, be successfully soucht 3 bai! increase o2 local charges of from $59,000 to $500,060. Maverson told Los Anceles Munie:. pal Judge Antonio Chavez that the bal increase was necessary “to age Sure their appearance in court.” He said. “At the time we first mt the bail at $30.060, we had po tea that the criendanis would be ate two successfully elude a masvve mam hunt pul in motion to capture thens* Please Turn fo Page 21, Col, 2 “Od, rr