department. he was a family man. he was married and had a lovely family. and that s why i chose him to guard her 24/7. not surprised that patricia hearst ended up in an affair with bernard shaw. from the moment that we kidnapped her, she was in a some type of a relationship with somebody. originally with willie, one of her captors. and then she was in a relationship with steven soya. then as soon as she got bailed out, she developed an affinity for one of her bodyguards, a police officer. her future is still clouded. an appeal pending on her san francisco conviction. another trial scheduled in los angeles in march. indeed, when patty was released on bail, she still stood charged in los angeles regarding her activities at mel s sporting goods store.
as soon as he learned she was patricia hearst, he couldn t believe this happened to him. i said my friends aren t going to believe this story. i never really felt that fearful for my life. we even started talking sports. that s when i told them i had a baseball game the next day. we were concerned about him. we wanted him to be able to go on his way and play in his playoff game. i wanted him to be calm. so we were very charming and nice to him. patricia kind of was flirting with him. patricia and tom are talking. patricia takes out her gun and takes the bullets out of it and gives him the gun and explains why we re robbing banks. patty opened up, and she told me she was a willing participant in the bank robbery. when patty talked about mel s sporting goods store, she was very proud of how she freed she called them her comrades. she was truly one of them. bill had a handcuff on one wrist.
angeles mel s sporting goods store. their escape was covered by a machine gun-firing girl. today patty hearst pleaded no contest to charges of robbery and assault in connection with that shooting. the sentence could have been as much as 15 years to life. the l.a. case was the worst case for her. there was tons of evidence against her in l.a. there was probably at least a year between our case in l.a. and her case. when we were arrested, we only remained in the san mateo jail for three days and we were transported to go to l.a. to go to trial in the mel s case. after deliberating for nine days, a los angeles jury found william and emily harris guilty today of kidnapping and robbery in the holdup of a sporting goods store. we were convicted to a six-year term. as soon as we were convicted, we could tell that there was pressure from the hearsts. they had removed the judge.
they stopped, got a hacksaw. and so i actually cut through the pin. it worked. i cut the handcuff off of him. he was so relieved, he gave me a big hug, a bear hug. and then patty actually gave me a kiss on the cheek. we had already had a system of rendezvous points. they were set up just for the l.a. area. they had it planned to meet their other comrades at the century drive-in. their signal was a coffee cup on the top of the vehicle. we bought food, fed tom and waited. the sla suspects entered this sporting goods store, and they were caught stealing. they ran firing as many as 30 shots from a .30 caliber machine gun. one suspect dropped this revolver later traced to emily harris, a member of the sla. seeing the news of the mel s shootout, the six others realize the lapd knows they are in town.
i said my friends aren t going to believe this story. i never really felt that fearful for my life. we even started talking sports. that s when i told them i had a baseball game the next day. we were concerned about him. we wanted him to be able to go on his way and play in his play-off game. i wanted him to be calm. so we were very charming and nice to him. patricia kind of was flirting with him. patricia and tom are talking. patricia takes out her gun and takes the bullets out of it and gives him the gun and explains why we re robbing banks. patty opened up, and she told me she was a willing participant in the bank robbery. when patty talked about mel s sporting goods store, she was very proud of how she freed she called them her comrades. she was truly one of them. bill had a handcuff on one wrist. we stopped, got a hacksaw. and so i actually cut through the pin. it worked. i cut the handcuff off of him. he was so relieved, he gave me a big hug, a bear hug. and patty actually ga