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0-19 (Rev. 1-26-66) 9” Defendant at Tria . olson —_ C Loach eT Mo Césper Callahan $7 Conrad | Admits- Feit i ae et Acoy Clavinn Rosen ee No itl Malcoint X JIU YTNY Sullivan prosecution has produced more rove ‘dramatic courtroom confession, Talmadge Hayer said yesterday he was one of the assassins of black nationalist leader Mal colm X NEW ‘YORK (AP)}-In a evidence against Hayer than against Butler or Johnson. Hover wha cwnore nan tho eeayor, Woo swore SG tot witness stand last Wednesday that he was innocent, returned to the stand after an out-of-court conference with | his co-defend- ants, He told Justice Charles Marks and the jury that he wanted to “tell the truth.” Hayer — who had said first| that he had four accomplices and then said later there were three — testified that he fired a .43-caliber auiomatic at Malcolm ' “about four times’’ after he had been felled by the shotgun blast. Hayer said the man who fired the shotgun was a “husky, dark-skinned Negro who wore a heard.” Johnson is light-skinned, a He declared fhat his co-de- icici [| fendants—Norman 3X Butler - and Thomas 16X Johnson — “had nothing to do with it.” - Hayer, 24, testified that he had three accomplices, but he re- fused to name them. He said the killers were hired. But he re- fused to say who hired them or why, or or how much money was : involved. oe Hayer, who made his confes- sion during the defense presen- tation, faced continued cross- “$ “ examination today. ei Hayer said no one involved in the murder was connected with la 4 Ae ee eS Sow the Black Muslims. son, 30, all Negroes, are on trial|Slender and clean-shaven, First-Degree Charge in State Supreme Court on Marked for Death ion contends that\{irst-degree murder charges. Hayer bad been recalled to the re all T three defendants were active| They are accused of shooting/ witness stand by Butler's law- ‘ } members of the “os which Matcolm as he addressed 400 yer, Juin C. Chance. ance was a eadeT. followers in - colm, who was the minis- He broke with the Muslims and|o°"os 2% Mantattan Dall of the. Black Muslims founded his own black national- “3 . prosecur Mosque No. 7 in Harlem, said ist movernant-ia-L964. tion charges that Johnson fired a many times after his break with Hayer, Butler, 26, and John-|Shotgun blast into Malcolm’s| ine Muslims that he was marked chest and that Hayer and Butler pumped pistel bullets into him for death by the bla ck supre: me . a as he lay praze on the stage. Qenedit G1 OE WitsuTis Swore Innocence Earlier | Hae ee me ede Asst. Dist. Atty. Vincent J./the left’ thigh by one of Mal- Dermody indicated in cros%|eolm’s bodyguards in the tur- examination of Hayer that he| moil that followed the assassina- considered his surprise testimo-|tign in the Audubon Ballroom | ny was.a-desperate attempt to secutl {zs his co-defendants. The the pro on aays- SOb6— 399 3 as-: * ™ ua f_ - NOT NOT RECORDED — ‘a 191 MAR 3 1966 BTZMAKS 1906 Tele. Room Holmes moimes 7 ge y% Times Herald The Washington mak News The Evening Star = New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times he Baltimore Sun The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People’s World