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0-19 (Rev. a” v 11-36-65} NEIITOR CT VET DNOL Uills Ur IN MALCOMM CAS Lawyers for Accused Ask Disregard of Muslim Ties By THOMAS BU Lawyers for Thomas 15X \Tahness and Meaeman 2V Bottles jvORILs0n Si NOTE wn AsULce yesterday asked a Supreme Court jury not to convict the two def of the murder of Malco X merely decause of eir n ip in the Black Muslims, Both William C. Chance, who summed wp for Butler, and ‘Charles T. Beavers, who sppke for Jahnson, said that the pios- ection had tried to put jthe M and their beliefs) on tr ter L. F. Sabbatino, coun- sel for Talmadge Hayer, who confessed his complicity in the murder from the witness stand on Feb, 28 and tried to absolve his co-defendants, asked the jury, in the course of an im- passioned two and a half hour summation, to disreganl the confession. | “There wag no rezson for this ilad to do what ne did except a oretty. Mr. Sibuatis di ¢ . e- clared, “The theory or the peopie’s case that the motive for Malcolm X was because he the Black Muslim movement is totally absurd,” sald Mr. Chance cu Dg his hour and 40 ‘ites Malcolm's Suspension ging My front, of the 4 the jacket and vest of biack suit umbuttoned, Mr. Chance declared that Malcolm had already been punished by suspension fram his ministerial jduties in the cult in December, (1963, assertedly for the Muslims the following March, the attorney went on, his deep voice rising to a shout, it was a step he took “of his own free will.” Mr. Chance asked the jury to “exciude’ the testimony of Cary Thomas, a key prosecu- tion witness, because he “‘suf- a a es fone Oe an 4€TSQ ITOU: 4 liipEsreu imen- tality.” As he spoke he waved ; es re Mr. Chance also sought to| -pbaciagubt on the crediglity of other prosecution witnesses, noting their criminal records in some instances, or theiré ad- vanced age, poor vision as- sertedly defective memory, || Religious Charter In closing, he asked the of nine men and three oe to remember that the Muslims were chartered as a religious organization in New York State and that its members were en- titled to the same considers rh SS LSU tion as s Protestants, Catholics or Jews, Mr. Heavers accused the Prosecution of attempting to Erejudice the jury against rthe endants by injecting |the Soe of Cassius Clay, |the heavyweight champion, nto the trial Johnson denied?! cross-examination on Friday that he had ever acted as a bodyguard for Clay, who took the name Mohammad Ali when he hecame & member of the per aditemeee 9s TS Muslims, Speaking for Hayer, Mr. Sab- batino developed the theory that dissident members of the organization of Afro-Ameri- can Unity, which Malcolm es- tablished after his break with the Muslims, were responsible for his murder. g And the arch-boss of [his mye ee said the gley- ea Tawa HAO eo red, T4-year-old lawyer, vijice that rattled the winds oftthe court room, “was Reuhe SEO. Bunoene mE: Francis.” i 191 MAR 10 190 — If xi Ve NOT WoT BY eas Gph —e ae 7 Tolson DeLoach Mohr Casper Callehan Conrad Feit Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Wick Tele. Room Holmes Gandy The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-Amer New York Daily News ican New York Post The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Cbserver Mode BPTI ei People’s Werfd,, i Date 6 b7c