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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) (Mount Clipping in Space Below)

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Two Kitsap Men Face Cooper Fraud Charges

By DENISE KALETTE and OREN CAMPBELL Of The Sun Staff

Two Kitsap County men today were charged by the federal government with a plot to impersonate skyjacker "D. B. Cooper" in order to extort more than $30,000 from a Los Angeles writer.

According to U. S. Atty. Gen. Stan Pitkin, the FBI arrested William "Jack" Lewis, 32-year-old land develop- er from Seabeck, and Donald Sylvester Murphy, 49, a Bremerton real estate promoter, after a complaint was signed today by a U. S. magistrate in Seattle.

The two were to appear in federal court in Seattle this afternoon for a preliminary hearing.

According to U.S. Atty. Gen. Stan Pitkin, the plot revolved around one of the men masquerading as "Coop- er," the name a man gave last Thanksgiving eve when he bailed out of a Northwest Airlines 727 jet with $200,000 he had extorted from the airlines.

The skyjacker has not been found, and the money apparently has not turned up, according to FBI reports.

Lewis and Murphy are charged with conspiring to defraud Karl Fleming of Los Angeles, former Newsweek contribut[guess: ing] editor, in return for an exclusive story from "Coop[guess: er]" on how the hijacking was carried out.

It is a federal crime to induce a person to cross state lines in furtherance of a fraud.

Lewis was arrested at his home at Sea-Vue Estates near Seabeck, while Murphy, a resident of Higgs House,

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Date: 5/2/72 Edition: Author: Denise Kalette Editor: Oren Campbell Title: NORJAK

Character: or 164-81 Classification: Seattle Submitting Office:

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MAY 8 1972 FBI—SEATTLE

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