Part 7, page 7

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HIJACK: Stewardess remembers seeing red cylinder in suitcase

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[Continued from p[age illegible]] the airplane landed after about one hour and [forty?] minutes of circling. The plane's 36 other passengers [were] not aware of the hijacking [left the said be] flight 305 in Bo[ise] [illegible] He sat alone in the [last?] row of seats in the [coach] compartment [illegible]

[illegible] Miss Schaffner to sit beside him, and then hand[ed] her the note[.]

After she read the note, Miss Schaffner looked in[side] a small black suitcase the man was holding[.]

"I was scared to death and I [was] very nervous," the s[ai]d[,] "but I do remember seeing a red cylinder in the suit[case]."

[illegible] the hijacker ha[d] [via?] the plane's intercom [show] other suitcase with a 'system' [illegible] [illegible] "He was always polite[,]" [illegible] Miss Mucklow[.] [illegible] of the hijacker[.] He did[illegible] [illegible] Miss Schaffner [illegible] seem[ed] to be[lieve] at [first illegible] [illegible] Miss Schaffner[illegible] [illegible] Mucklow [illegible] Richfield [illegible] $200,000

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[illegible] Mrs. A[lice illegible] the Seattle-Re[pub?][illegible] Hancock, 24, Inver Grove H[eights illegible] [illegible] Officer [illegible] Lam Rataczak, 4407 Se[illegible], Burnsville, and [illegible] Second Officer Harold E. Anderson, Excelsior[,] mained in the cockpit throughout the hijacking[.] They never saw the [hijacker illegible] demands [on Scott?] and [added?] that there was [a?] sky marshal [a]board the plane at any t[ime illegible] Miss Mucklow [7320 C illegible] d[r] Av[,] Richfield[,] [re]mained seated beside the hijacker in the [coach] com- partment and relayed his demands to the cockpit [via] the plane's intercom [system] [illegible] "He was always polite[,]" Miss Mucklow [said illegible] of the hijacker[.] He did[illegible] [illegible] [illegible] Valentine's [?] airplane was [a?] [account?] $200,000