Prosecutive report + Buffalo clips · p.90

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2 Charged Here
Tied to Slaying
Of Mountbatten
By LEE COPPOLA
fashion was against the law.
.Copyright 1982, Buffalo Evening News Inc.
The documents had been offered
Two Belfast natives charged
for inspection Feb.18 to U.S. Dis-
with trying to sneak into the Niaga-
mict Judge John T. Curtin, but the
ra Frontier from Canada have been
Judgedeclinedtolookatthem
under investigation in the 1979 mur-
when government attorneys told
der of England's Lord Mountbatten,
hin their release to the rest of the
courtroom was prolibited.
show.
Judge Curtin had been conduct.
The documents, The Buffalo
ingbearings intowhyEilis and
News learned, paint Desmond Eilis,
Howell and three others arrested
29,as the possible electronics ex-
with them were detained without
pert who put together the bomb
bail in the Alden facility.The docu-.
thatkilledtheWorldWarHI bero
.ments he refused to see, the govern
and call Edward Howell, 34, the
. ment attorneys told him, supported
"brains' behind the assassination.
their reasons for not wanting thd
Ellis remains in the Erie County
fve to leave jail.
CorrectionalFacilityinAldenwhile
Eventually, -the immigration
his Buffalo attorney prepares to re
service ordered the Bve deported,
quest political asylumfor‘him in
but Elis, who is wanted in Dublin
theUnited States.
for skipping out on an explosives
Howell has been in a Hamilton,
charge, cannot: leave uniess be
Ont., jail since earlier this week
posts $25,000 bail.
when he posted $10,000.bail set for
His attorney, Robert M. Murphy,
criminal charges placed after his
said Ellis has no intention of post
arrest.
ing bail and, instead, wants to re
The classified documents, The
main‘in the United States under
News learned, were based on re-
asylum.
ports fromtheRoyalCanadian
If Fillis returns to Canada, Mr.
Mounted Police and Britishauthor-
Murphy has said, he faces immedi-
ities conducting a two-year' investi-
ate extradition to Ireland to stand
gation of Irish nationalists who set-
trial on the explosives charge.
tle in Canada.
Ellis, .Howell and .three..St.
Benedict T. Ferro, district direc-
Catharines, Ont., construction
tor of the U.S. Immigration and
workerswhomoved to Canadafrom
Naturalization Service in Buffalo,
Belfast' were'arrested at the Whirl-
refused to comment Saturday .on
pool Bridge in Niagara Falls Feb. 6
the contents of the documents,
claiming the release of classified
geveramant, information.-in.any
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