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His bail increased to a
$75,000 surety bond for the
third-degree charge.
Another Mu kegon-rape­
case.was tacked on again r�
the bond by uother $75,000
totaling to SlSO,(XX).
The Grand Rapids police
chief convinced a Muskegon
judge to have Potts re-arrested
because "the possibility exists
that (the uspect) may flee."
The judge said he recon­
sidered his decision to change
Potts' release status and to in­
crease the S2S,(XX) bood after
reviewing the police chiefs let­
ter which described his con­
cerns about Potts potential
threat of fleeing and threat to
the public's safety.
During a telphone interview
with the "Michigan Citizen,"
Potts said that it has been
reported that while he, the sup
posed prime suspect, is in jail,
more Muskegon girls have been
sexaully assaulted.
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None of the .alledged victims
made positive identifications of
Potts, he said, adding that his
eyes, which are hazel, are a dis­
tinctive feature and neither of
the girls told the police th t
their attackers had hazel eyes.
However, the gills picked
him out of a police lineup. One
of e girls could not make a
Haley Potts Jr., an 18-year­
old African American m e,
ys he's innocent.
The predominandy white­
uskegon Policc Department
ys isn't. The predominant­
Iy-white Grand Rapids Police
Department also says he isn't.
The suspected crime -
rape. The alledged victims -
white females.
At "Michigan Citizen"
pre stime, Potts w s incar­
eer ted on charges .of first -de­
gree nd third-degree sexual
ul.
Previously Potts had been
taken into cu tody by Mus­
kegon poli ce as a suspect on
char8 of a Dec. 2 third-degree
criminal exaul ult incident
involving a 14-year-old Mus-
egon girl.
His bail was et t $25,000
with a ten percent post mini­
mum. Potts' family posted
S2,SOO for his release in mid­
Sept.
He then re-arrested days
I ter, because he is also
uspected in an alledged abduc­
tion d r pe case of a Grand
Rapi girl.
"(Raping) I
m .1 don't
hythey y I'm
doing all of thl . ·If
I had don It, I
ould commltt
my elf to om
Institution. I think
It's Ick."
-Haley Po , Jr.
concrete identification days
after her attack, but ironically
after Polls was arrested on
charges of one count of rape she
later was able to identify him as
her rapist.
Potts said the description of
the rapist was an African
American male with high-Oat­
top hair cut. Potts said he
doesn't have this type of hair cut
and never has worn one.
"How can you say this," is
what Potts said he thought when
the alledgcd victims pic ed him
out of the lineup as their attack­
er.
Potts, who said he had never
seen the girls before in his life,
described his situation as
"freaking (him) out."
"(Raping) is sick to me,"
Potts said." I don't see why they
say I'm doing all of this. If I had
k In Black
ory
(November 19-25)
NOVEMBER 19, 1897
Andrew Beard invents
automatic coupling device for
railroads. 1878 - Ch rI S.
Gilpin, actor, born.
NOVEMBER 20, 1932 -
Lou Arm tr made his first
European tour. 1923 - G rrett
A. Mor patented traffic
light.
NOVEMBER 21, 1932 -
Kid Chocolate becomes
feather-weight champ. 1893 -
G T. Woods patented
Electric Railway Conduit.
NOVEMBER 22, 1943 -
Cole makes his first
recording. 1893 - AIra A.
T: , teacher and historian,
born.
NOVEMBER 23,
THANKSGIVING DA Y. 1710
tIeJ poem first
printed. 1897 - J.L. Loy
patented pencil sharpener.
NOVEMBER 24, 1'957 -
J retir from
bMebaIl. 1870 - S. Ab-
(I aDd p lisher of
the Defe r, bom.
NOVEMBER 25, 1932 -
EDt • began
her • • career t Cotton
Cub. 1949 -
eers," died.
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done it, I would committ mySelf
to some institu on. I thinlc t's
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her arrested soon after her
release.
Potts said he believes
Tague's ctions are racially
motivated.
-I guess (Tague d other of-
ficials) are trying put all the
recent rape cases me," Potts
said. ·1 think he's prejudice. I
think he's just 'out trying to get
BI -
Pat Oakes, a I . y friend,
said Potts is a q et and well
liked Muskegon citizen,
describing his arr t as "the big­
gest nightmare (she h d) ever
seen," because Potts' is in cus­
tody on charges of cases with
·weak" evidence.
Iy believed that . des the soul
there was some other element
of the man that would rise
gain.
�e said the preservation of
the corruptible body too was in
some way connected with the
life in the world to come, and its
preservation was necessary to
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ensure eternal life; otherwise
the prayers recited to this end
would have been futile and the
time honoured custom of mum­
mifying the de d would have
h d no meaning.
e said. that the Egyptians
belie eel in the never ending ex­
istence of the soul is asserted in
sarcophagi and other burial
paraphenailia in hieroglyph
concerning the uniting of bo
and the gathering together of
members and the doi away
wi h .11 corruption from the
body
Budge aid the Egypti n
connected these thin with the
resurrection of his own body in
some form, and he argued th t
wh t d been do e Ior Osiris,
who proclaimed 0 be gi r
nd ource of'life, mu t be
ry for mo tal man.
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