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KEY WITNESS IS SHOT TO DEATH
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Justice Department  has disclosed
its main witness in a conspiracy
case involving $43 million
in stocks and securities stolen
from the U.S. mails was
found shot to death just two
days after a grand jury returned
a sealed indictment in a
secret session.
The Miami slaying of John B.
Eaton was the second shooting
of a key suspect in mail thefts
from New York's crime-ridden
Kennedy Airport in little more
than a month.
Eaton's body was found in a
field near Miami International
Airport June 27, just a month
and a day after another man
charged in a stock theft from
the mails was found stuffed in
'an abandoned car at Kennedy
Airport.
The Federal indictment in
Miami charged the-remaining
10 men win conspiracy to
dispose of the $43 million in
securities stolen from
registered mail at Kennedy
Airport being- sent between
brokers.and banks from 1967
through 1969.
Eaton, charged in a slock
theft last year, was found slain
in a field west of the Miami airport
only two days after the
stock conspiracy charges were
returned by a grand jury that
kept the indictment sealed until
Monday.
A federal attorney in Miami
has named another man
charged in a case involving al-
- legedly forged U.S. savings
bonds as a prime suspect in Eaton's
death..
Joel J. Rostau, 34, Los Angeles,
who had been charged
with interstate theft of securities
from the mail at Kennedy, -
was found shot to death May 26
in a parked car at that airport.
The car had been rented in
Boston and driven to New York
at least 12 days before the Cali-
fornia man's body, was found.
The slay|ng was similar to the
fatal shooting of a suspect in another
mail fraud case who was
found in an abandoned rental
car at LaGuardia' Airport in
New York several months earlier.

Asst. U.S. atty. Neal Sonnett
in Miami described Eaton as a
key government informant in
the slock conspiracy case.
"He had been named a co-defendant
in the case for his.own
protection," Sorinetl said.
The 14 count indictment re- .
turned by a federal grand jury in
Miami June 25 named 10 other
defendants besides Eaton.

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