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Nate mann LN EER mes Bh ee anal BA EE Sen a AN tT # one AAD. A. am ann Then I have statement from Sylvia A. Malm, who is tie daughter. “On Fri @iicne, July 18, 1969, I . in bed umer~ neath an open window which faces east (that is,-che bridge. Auth.) from 11 p.m. to 12 midnight, 1ooking at the clock just before I turned my light out." i . - Remembering how Senator Kennedy shouted Mary Jo's name fp. 9) . and that the lights of the Valiant must have shone into Miss Malm's-~« =. ‘window when he returned with Messrs. Gargan and Markham to resame rescue Operations, we must pause to regret that the Maims are such deep sleepers. But Chief Arena said, a little further on-- A: Yes, there is a house diagonally across the street ca the right (occupied by a Mrs. Smith). I had a conversation with - Mrs. Smith and she stated she had a-night licht in one of her children's rooms which she left on all night. This was on the road side of the house. It is anomalous, too, that the Senator vsed the word, “cot~ tage", whereas Mr. Dinis said "houses." The truth is, I believe, that the so-called Malm house is a cottage, which is to say, a ; small house, as are most houses on Chappaguiddi¢ck tsland. Im his report following the inquest, Judge Boyle referred to it thr! (The Inguest, P: 125): “A short distance before Dyke Bridge, there is a small house called ‘Dyke House’, then occupied by a Mrs. Malm and her daughter." ; The significance of this is that there had been ample oppor tunity to observe both the Malm (or "Dyke") house and the Smith -house twice the preceding day, going to and returning from the beach, especially the return, since there are no trees to obscure + €he vision between the bridge and the house. There was also an C opportunity to observe ene or more of these houses on the way to the bridge on that fatal drive, particularly if he was driving only 20 miles per hour. ° e Notice, also, still another attempt to clutch at the mask of night. Darkness is conceded. The crescent moon was below the hor- izon a full hour before the alleged time of the "“sccident”. He ever, the eye adjusts to gradations of light, the pupils dilating with diminution of luminosity, anc Mr. Kennedy had been expesed to this “pitch blackness" by his own reckoning a minimum of a balf- hour. And bear in mind the absence of trees to obscure the star- light, faint as it is. (It was a clear night, remember? Are he said he saw the "silhouettes" of the trees. Against what?) ANOMALY O (p- 12) ° -: Mr. Kennedy said that Mr. Garcsan'sS arm was *“al) bruised and bloodied." Let's look at portions of the testimonies of just a few persons who saw Mr. Gargan the next morning. Richard P. Hewitt was the ferry operator who took ou: heroic trio to and from sgyrPpaanssaie’ Island that Saturday morning and had this to say? 2t/ Ibid., p. 82. - a6 - | é \y? ee ee ree, Meee rete tegen eee me Mende wmtemwinn =