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continue standoff In Texas
FORT DAVIS, Texas (AP) —
Armed members of a group demand
ing a referendum on Texas indepen
dence were locked in a standoff with
authorities Monday after freeing two
hostages in exchange for a jailed com
rade.
State and federal officers ringed the
mountainous Davis Mountains Resort
community and more were cm the way.
Authorities were negotiating with
Richard McLaren, self-styled “ambas
sador” of one faction of the separatist
group called the Republic of Texas.
McLaren said in a news release that
discussions were taking place at his
“embassy,” a trailer in the develop
ment.
It was not known exactly where the
group was holed up or how many
members were there, or what type of
weapons they have.
The confrontation started Sunday
when two men and a woman wearing
military-style fatigues fired assault
rifles at the front door of community
residents Joe and Margaret Ann Rowe
and took them hostage.
They were held for 12 hours while
their captors demanded the release of
two followers who had been arrested.
Early Monday, they exchanged the
Rowes for Robert Jonathan Scheidt,
identified as “captain of the embassy
guard” of the Republic of Texas. It was
unclear who authorized the release of
Scheidt, who was arrested Sunday on
weapons charges.
Margaret Ann Rowe said she and
her husband believed the attackers
were willing to kill them.
A “It wasn’t an empty threat. If some
body will come shooting in your door,
they mean it,” Margaret Ann Rowe
said at a medical center in Alpine, |
where her husband was in stable con
dition with shrapnel wounds to his
shoulder.
The Republic of Texas’ members
contend they are the legitimate gov
ernment of Texas, which they say was
illegally annexed as a state in 1845.
Texas was an independent republic
from 1836 to 1845.
FBI: McVeigh had earplugs, gun,
knife when arrested after bombing
DENVER (AP) — Timothy
McVeigh had earplugs in his pocket,
a loaded handgun in a shoulder hol
ster and an envelope full of violent
anti-government writings when he
was pulled over for a traffic violation
about 75 minutes after the Oklahoma
City bombing, witnesses testified
Monday.
Among the papers stuffed in an
envelope in his car was a page from
the racist novel, “The Turner Diaries,”
with a passage about government bu
reaucrats: “We can still find them and
kill them,” according to an FBI agent
who searched McVeigh’s car.
The sealed envelope was labeled
with the handwritten message “Obey
the Constitution of the United States
and we won’t shoot you,”
The car was searched two days af
ter it was impounded following
McVeigh’s arrest on gun violations
unrelated to the bombing of the fed
eral building in Oklahoma City. The
envelope was seen on the car seat at
the time of McVeigh’s arrest.
Offering a detailed account of the
chance arrest, Oklahoma Highway
Patrol trooper Charles Hanger said
McVeigh appeared relaxed, answering
all questions, complying with orders,
chatting about guns and even offer
ing an explanation of where he had
just been.
“He said he was in the process of
moving to Arkansas and that he had
taken a load of his belongings down
there,” Hanger said.
Prosecutors contend McVeigh was
fleeing the bombing when he was
stopped, and have said explosives resi
due was found on his ear plugs, cloth
ing and knife.
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