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'''September 20, 1966 Spokesman-Review Page 21:'''
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[[file:1966-09-20-sr-p21-tolstoy-drug-hearing.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]'''Court Appearance Slated fro Dope Case Defendents'''

Superior Court appearances
were scheduled today for 16
persons charged in Lincoln County
with possession and dispensing
of narcotics.

Prosecuting Attorney Willard
A. Zellmer said the 10 men and
six women were slated to
appear this afternoon before Judge
Richard J. Ennis in Lincoln
County Superior Court at
Davenport to hear a reading of the
charges against them and to be
advised of their rights.
He said he filed an
information directly to Superior Court
yesterday, without waiting for
a Justice Court preliminary
hearing. However, a preliminary
hearing was held in Justice
Court yesterday and the 16
were bound over for trial in
Lincoln County Superior Court.

'''New Count Filed'''

Zellmer said an additional
charge of dispensing narcotics
(marijuana) was lodged against
the 16 yesterday in the Superior
Court filing of information. The
original complaint after their
arrest Saturday afternoon
charged them only with being
in possession of narcotics.

The 16 were arrested during a
raid on what authorities called
a pacifist colony at the so-called
Tolstoy Peace Farm 6 to 7 miles
northeast of Davenport.

About two bushels of growing
marijuana plants found on the
farm were confiscated as evidence,
Sheriff James E. Attwood
said.

The two officials said there
was no evidence the farm was
linked with a narcotics supply
ring. Zellmer said the charge of
dispensing narcotics referred to
passing marijuana among themselves.

'''Officials said none of those
arrested offered more than
“passive resistance” and that
most did not appear to be
residents of the Tolstoy
Peace Farm but persons who
came and went with some
regularity.'''

“The officers said many of
those jailed were uncooperative
in giving information about their
identities and two of the men
still were not identified early
today, They said they had what
they believed were the first and
last names of one—Richard Reed
—and the first name of another
—Allan — “but we don’t know
which is which and they won't
tell,” said Zellmer.

One of the 16, identified as
Jonathan B. Tocrtellot, 19, has
bonded out. Bonds on all 16 were
set at $2,000 each.

Information on ages and
addresses of those for whom they
had names also was scanty,
authorities said.

The 16 were arrested on
warrants after a search warrant
was used Saturday afternoon by
the sheriff and five of his
deputies, Sheriff Atwood said.

Russell G. Goodman, chief
criminal deputy sheriff, said the
raid was made on a tip by an
informant, whose name could
not be disclosed at this time.

'''Buses Used'''

He said those arrested at the
farm were loaded into school
buses to be taken to the Lincoln
County Jail, and were charged
in Justice Court later Saturday.

“The people from the farm
have always had a good credit
rating here in Davenport,” said
Zellmer, “and we have had no
trouble to speak of with them
in the past. In two years, I
think, we have only pursued one
bad check case out there.

“However, the community has
felt a bit of embarrassment on
occasion when one of the
pacifists from the farm gave the
Davenport address when he was
demonstrating against something
around the country.”

'''Picketing Recalled'''

He noted that demonstrators
who identified themselves as being
from the Tolstoy Peace
Farm had picketed in Spokane,
at the Washington State Prison
and in Washington, D.C., in the
past.

Newspaper files show that
three demonstrators who
claimed they were from the colony
in April of last year picketed
the Internal Revenue Service
here, urging people not to
pay income tax that would be
used for military purposes.
And five who said they were
from the Tolstoy Peace Farm
in July of 1965 marched in front
of the Spokane Selective Service
office with signs protesting the
President’s proposal to increase
the draft call.

One of those arrested Saturday,
Huw Williams, identified
by officers as the leader of the
colony, participated in a peace
march in Washington, D.C., in
1962 and was arrested along
with others on a charge of disorderly
conduct, The charge later
was dismissed.

'''Living Described'''

Sheriff Atwood said life on
the farm appeared to be a
“communal type of living with
one large family house and a
number of little cabins and
tents surrounding it.”

He said the large house had
bunks of a sort for 10 to 12
persons, three or more to a
room. He said the “means of
support isn’t obvious at the
farm, although there is some
garden stuff and a cow.”

The sheriff said most of the
men wore long hair and beards,
Three young children also
were taken from the farm and
were turned over to a relative
of one of the persons taken into
custody, Sheriff Atwood said.

'''Names Listed'''

Goodman gave the names of
those arrested, as booked in
jail, as: Huw Williams, 24,
Davenport; his wife, Mrs, Sylvia
Williams, 24, Davenport;
Jose Fuentes, 30, Davenport;
his wife, Mrs. Sandy Fuentes,
Davenport; Thomas M. Hall,
23; his wife, Mrs, Catherine
Manfredi Hall; Andrea Carlson;
Laura McGrath; Susan W, A
Long, 29, San Francisco; Sean
Flannery, 33; Thomas Ordway;
Richard Henry Teiguin, 35;
Jonathan B. Tourtellot, 19;
Walter F. Engelbrecht, 43;
Sarasota, Fla. and the two men who
had not as yet given any
information on their identity.
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