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NEWTON 1-1-1
At the federal building in Dallas, a charge of
conspiring to impersonate a government agent
is faced by a Highland Park man who, last week,was charged with swindling.
The government claims
38-year-old Basil Bratton Newton of 4712 Abbott posed
as an FBI man last Wednesday as he and two other
men questioned telephone company employees outsideNewton's apartment house.
The charges allege
what
Newton demanded to know why the phone workerswere doing near the apartment house's telephone
circuit box.
MAN WALKS IN
Attorney Charles Tessmer enters the U.S. commissioner's
hearing room to arrange for bond for Newton. Tessmer
says Newton had reason to believe that a tap had
been placed on his phone and he wanted to find out
about it.
MED. GUY WITH PAPERU.S. Commissioner Hill schedules a hearing on the
2:30
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Newton], script, June 9, 1961; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc976837/m1/1/?q=%221961-06-09%22&rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.