McNally, was also found guilty by the jury of the same charges in the case. Another convicted plane hijacker, Martin J. Trapnell guilty of conspiracy to escape, attempted escape, aiding air piracy and kidnapping.
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Trapnell attempted to get his trial recessed, declaring, “I'm in a very emotional state.” Trapnell and two other prisoners.Īt the time of yesterday's hijacking, Mr. She was reported tohave been seeking the release or Mr. Louis struggled for her gun after she had ordered him to fly to the Federal penitentiary here. Robin's mother, was shot to death as the pilot of a helicopter she had rented in St. Trapnell, who has been serving time for a 1972 plane hijacking and extortion attempt was in the final day of his trial in Benton yesterday on charges stemming from the May escape effort. However, he said they did not talk to her during the negotiations. office in Springfield, confirmed, rumors that a brother and sister of Miss Oswald had been brought to Marion in case they were needed. He added that what Miss Oswald had described as dynamite turned out to be “three railroad‐type flares” that were connected to “electrical hardware going up her sleeve.” He said the device was not “capable of being detonated in any way.” “I think she finally came to her senses and decided that she did not want to end her life in any way,” he said, “and that during the course of the evening she decided she did not want to hurt the passengers.” spokesman, broke the news that Miss Oswald had surrendered and the ordeal was over. Last night at about 8 o'clock, soon after small groups of hostages, grim‐faced and weary from the long, taut hours on the airstrip, were led through the crowded terminal here, Edward Haggerty, an F.B.I. “She's an adult under state law and she's a juvenile under Federal law,” Mr. However, officials at the high school in Clayton, Mo., that she attended last year as a sophomore said their records showed that she had turned 17. Initial reports indicated that she was 16. “First, there is the question of her true age,” he said. Burgess added that it also had to be decided whether Miss Oswald would be handled as a juvenile or an adult. Howerton, the Williamson County State's Attorney here, in a first step toward working out the jurisdictional question. Louis.said in a telephone interview that his assistants met this morning with Robert H. James Burgess, the United States Attorney in East St. Louis, where she will be held while the Federal and state authorities determine under whose jurisdiction she will be prosecuted. Clair County jail in Belleville, near East St. Officials described this as a procedural step that is used only to determine whether there is cause to hold a suspect,įrom Benton she was taken to the juvenile facility at the St. She was taken to the Federal Courthouse in Benton, 20 miles north of here, where she made an “initial appearance” before a United States magistrate. She then forced the pilot to fly to this southern Illinois city of 13,500 people.Īfter the plane landed here shortly before 11 A.M., Central standard time, she kept most of those on board hostage for nine hours while she negotiated with Federal agents over a specially rigged telephone line for the release of Garrett Brock Trapnell, a prisoner who has been desctibed as her late mother's lover.įinally, after tense hours of bargaining during which hostages sat in the cold, unlighted plane on the sealed‐off airstrip a mile from the terminal, Miss Oswald yielded to the urging of trained F.B.I negotiators, freed those on board and gave herself up. Louis by threatening to detonate what she said were three sticks of dynamite strapped to her body. The blonde teen‐ager took over the plane just before it was to have landed at Kansas City International Airport yesterday morning on a flight from St. Miss Oswald, whose mother was killed last May after hijacking a helicopter in A similar effort to help a convict escape, surrendered to the Federal Bureau of Investigation last night at the Williamson County Airport here after freeing unharmed the 83 passengers and four crew members aboard the T.W.A.
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Louis area girl who commandeered a Trans World Airlines jet yesterday in an attempt to free a prisoner at the maximum security Federal penitentiary here. 22 - Federal and state officials were still trying to determine today who would have jurisdiction over the case of Robin Oswald, the 17year‐old St.
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