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needed to pick up his clothes. (Duane did not have a regular place to stay. His clothes were scattered at different
houses all over town.) Annie Lee Norris said she did not see a hole or a wire sticking out of the suitcase. She tried
to pick it up, but Duane told her not to touch it. (He said he had drugs in the suitcase and he didn't want her to
shake it.) She thought it was heavy. Nothing she says about Duane's suitcase is out of the ordinary until she adds
this important detail to her statement: Duane asked what the police emergency number was. In 1970 the number
was NINE-ONE-ONE.
The next day, Duane's brother Donald was arrested, taken to the police station in handcuffs, read his rights, and
treated like a suspect. Donald said the same thing Annie Lee said: that Duane had a suitcase because he was
joining the Job Corps. Donald did not see a hole or a wire sticking out of the suitcase. As a matter of fact, he said
he watched Duane take clothes out of it. A twelve page police report contains eight single spaced pages in which
Donald said nothing of importance. Suddenly, Donald was filled with fear and questions. He wanted to know what
could happen to a person who knew about the bombing but was not involved. Donald told the police that Duane
was transporting the suitcase for the party and he thought Edward Poindexter was the only one who would know
how to make a bomb. Based on Donald Peak's opinion, an arrest warrant was put out for Edward Poindexter. He
was arrested at approximately 5 p.m. on August 22, 1970.
That same Saturday afternoon, Duane's sister, Theresa, her boyfriend and some acquaintances were taken to the
police station, read their rights and eventually charged as accessories in the first-degree murder of a police officer.
Delia Peak heard the police wanted to question her. She drove to the police station, where she was put in a jail cell
and left for a number of hours without any explanation. She was five months pregnant at the time. Both of the
sisters admitted they had given Duane a ride at different times on that Sunday and that Duane had a suitcase. They
observed Duane in broad daylight, yet no one saw a hole with a wire sticking out of the suitcase.
In a police report, written at 5:50 p.m, Delia' s boyfriend is reported to have said that Delia drove her car to the store
and en route, dropped Duane off in the alley between Lake and Ohio at 11:30 that night. (An hour and fifteen
minutes later, a different police officer wrote another police report in which the boyfriend was driving the car.) The
police asked Delia if Duane might have been visiting anyone else in that neighborhood. The police report indicates
that she said, “No.” This is odd because Duane grew up in a house at 2809 Ohio and he knew people all over that
neighborhood. He had an aunt who lived in the Hilltop Housing Project just 2 blocks from 28th and Ohio. His
brother Donald and his cousin Russell stayed with this aunt. There were a number of people that he could have
been visiting in that vicinity.
The police concluded that the NCCF was involved in the bombing based upon information that Duane Peak had
been a member of the NCCF. In fact, two of his cousins, Frank and Will Peak, were officers in the organization.
Duane was seen carrying a suitcase that Sunday. His relatives said that they drove him to 28th and Ohio hours
before the blast. They also said that they drove into the alley and watched him walk west with the suitcase.
The police put out an arrest warrant for Duane Peak. They made a list of the possible places he might be. They
waited approximately five hours and after the sun went down they went to Mondo's house with the arrest warrant
for Duane Peak although they had received no information that Duane Peak was likely to be there.
When the police arrived at Mondo' s house with the arrest warrant for Duane Peak, they found the lights on, the
door wide open and the television set playing. No one appeared to be home. In fact, Mondo was in Kansas City
making a speech. Some of the officers went to get a warrant to look for dynamite and illegal weapons. The others
stayed to secure the house.
Mondo says he did not leave his house unlocked when he left for the day so it seems logical to conclude that
somebody went into his house before the police searched it.
DYNAMITE IN BASEMENT
The police report filed after the raid says the following:
"Found in the basement in the northwest corner, 15 sticks of DuPont, Red Cross, 50% Nitro."
(The dynamite was never actually photographed in the house. It was taken down to the police station and
photographed in the trunk of a police car.) The report continues:
"Also found in the house, two rifles, one shotgun, and one pistol. These were found by Patrolmen HOWARD,
TAYLOR AND STEIMER. Also found were four blasting caps. These were found by Sgt. PFEFFER under a piece
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