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Search For 'D.B. Cooper' Appears Centered Here

By DENISE KALETTE and OREN CAMPBELL of The Sun Staff

The search for skyjacker "D. B. Cooper" apparently is centered this week in the Bremerton area.

Agents for the Federal Bureau of Investigation are visiting downtown businesses asking for help in identifying some photographs of a man they believe resembles the hijacker-parachutist who collected $200,000 ransom last Thanksgiving eve from Northwest Airlines officials in Seattle.

At least one of the photographs appeared to be taken in downtown Bremerton. That photo — of a man with stylish long, dark hair — apparently was taken on the sidewalk in front of L. H. King Imports, a wig store at 427 Pacific Avenue.

A spokesman for that store said FBI agents told them the photo was received in the mail last week from an unidentified tipster. The spokesman said employes were told that the man in the photo might be D. B. Cooper.

J. Earl Milnes, agent in charge of the Seattle office of the FBI, declined to make

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This sketch of skyjacker "D. B. Cooper" has been circulated throughout the nation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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; any statement abut the FBI investigation , here. >. But Milnes told the Associated Press . in Seattle today that Army units from Ft. Lewis have been pulled out of the area southeast of Woodland in the Merwin Dam vicinity, where a search for clues in the Cooper case has been conducted. "We don't have a mass of men there any longer but we are still working on it," Milnes said. He declined to tell the AP whether any evidence has been found in the investiga- tion. The search in southwestern Washington was resumed last month. Authorities said none of the marked currency given the hi- jacker had turned up. Mrs. David (Joy) Jenson, manager at King Imports, said four FBI agents have been to the store three days this week. She said she was shown two photos. One day she said she was shown a photo of a man without the wig and another day she was shown a photo of a man with a wig. She said the man in the photos looked familiar. "It was just a man that if I saw him I'd recognize him." Mrs. Jensen said she remembered when

the photos were taken "a couple of months ago." Three men came in at that time, she said. She remembered that the man in the photo tried on wigs because "he was ir- ritating in a way and they spent an hour trying different colors and styles and then they didn't buy." Mrs. Jensen said it was unusual that three men would spend so much time in the wig shop. Photos were taken just in front of the shop, she said. "They kept running in and out and trying different ones on," she said. In addition to seeking the identity of the man in the photos, the FBI is question- ing William "Jack" Lewis, 32, of Seavue Estates near Seabeck. Lewis, who told The Sun he believes he might know the identity of the skyjacker, said he has been visited by FBI agents "at least eight times" since last Saturday. "I've seen seven or eight agents," he said. Lewis is reportedly has declined to tell the FBI who he thinks the skyjacker is. He contends that he has no proof. A one-time assistant city engineer in Bremerton (for several months in 1970)

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Lewis said agents visited him at his home "last night and informed him of his rights. He said they agreed to leave him alone until his attorney, Curtis Coons, returns Sunday from California. Speaking to The Sun by telephone, Lewis acknowledged that his telephone might be wiretapped. "I've spoken to Northwest Bell and I know how it's being tapped," Lewis com- mented. He said telephone officials didn't admit the wiretapping, but they told him about wiretapping procedures and informed him what wiretap evidence is admissable in court. FBI agents have asked Lewis not to speak with "certain persons" about the questioning, he said, but they didn't say he shouldn't speak with the press . . . or with the man he thinks may have commit- ted the crime. Lewis is a part-owner of Perl's Dance Pavilion, is a land developer in partner- ship with his father, William B. Lewis of Seabeck, and says he is a representative of a firm called World Wide Engineering. That firm, Lewis said, markets — among: (Continued on Page 2, Col. 1)

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This sketch, by Sun staff artist Doug Richards, is similar to a photo being shown by FBI agents to persons in some downtown Bremerton businesses.

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(Continued from Page 1) other things—a device for tapping telephone lines.

Lewis also describes himself as a free-lance civil engineer. He formerly worked as project engineer for several heavy construction jobs.

Lewis insists that the man pictured in the photos shown to him by the FBI is not the man he believes to be "Cooper."

In addition to the photo of a man with the long hair—possibly a wig, FBI agents are showing photos of a man with the same facial features—with hair only on the sides of his head and in back—With a cap and heavy coat pulled around his face.

Several other downtown businesses re-ported that FBI agents paid visits this week.

Mrs. Georgia Ambler, a cashier at Pay Less Drug Store, across the street from King Imports, said an FBI agent came to the store this week and showed her a photo, too.

She said the man in wig and dark glasses looked familiar, but she did not know his name.

At Simpson's Barber Shop, where an FBI agent came Tuesday, Tom Phillips reported he was shown two photos. He was under the impression one photo showed a partly bald man with hair combed forward to cover the baldness, he said.

The man in the photo "looked real famil-iar" he said.

Jay D. Simpson told The Sun the agent did not say what they were investigating, but [guess: asked] "if I recognized the fellow in the picture, if I'd ever seen him before."

Simpson said he did not know the man. "In the picture he showed us, he told us

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the man was completely bald and when the picture was taken he had a wig on," he said.

A customer who was in the barber shop at the time, Dennis A. Smith, co-owner of The Apothecary Shop, said today he re-members the FBI agent's visit.

"Both barbers said he (the man photo-graphed) looked real familiar but they couldn't place him."

"Stephanie Wahl next door at L. H. King Imports told me they were looking for D. B. Cooper," he said.

"Apparently they're hitting all the barber shops and wig shops," Smith said.

The skyjacking occurred last Nov. 24 on a flight from Portland to Seattle.

The FBI, in a circular to law enforcement agencies, listed "Cooper" as being white, male, in his mid-40s, 5-foot-10 to 6-foot, 170-180 pounds, average to well-built, with an olive complexion, medium smooth and a Latin appearance.

The circular said he had dark brown or black hair, normal style, parted on the left and combed back, with sideburns at low ear level.

Other details from the circular included:

"Eyes: Possibly brown. During latter part of flight put on dark, wrap-around sun-glasses with dark rims.

"Voice: Low, spoke intelligently; no particular accent, possibly from Mid-west section of the U.S.

"Characteristic: Heavy smoker of Raleigh filter tip cigarettes.

"Wearing apparel: Black or brown suit; white shirt; narrow black tie; black dress suit; black rain-type overcoat or dark top coat; dark briefcase or attache case; car-ried paper bag 4"x12"x14"; brown shoes."

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