Hart Given Time To Find Attorney

              ■"-     ——^m  time  By JIMG1PSQX  Of The Tribune Staff  PRYOR — Inside, there was a solemn district court arraignment Friday afternoon for the suspect in the  June 13, 1977, murders of three Girl  Scouts who went on a camping trip.  Outside, there was the air of a carnival as hundreds lined the streets  and milled on the courthouse lawn to  shout encouragement or just to see  "him."  Gene Leroy Hart, 34, appeared before Mayes County District Judge  William J. Whistler at 4 p.m. after  being flown here from the Oklahoma  State Prison in McAlester, where he  had been held since his arrest Thursday afternoon.  The news people who had come to  write and talk about Hart started  assembling around the courthouse  about noon.  ORIGINAL arraignment  time of 1:30 p.m. had caused nearly  100 townspeople, some of them  attorney  T.4l$hZ "  i  Related stories, page IB, 2B  Hart's distant relatives, to begin  gathering beneath the shade trees,  but transportation problems caused  the starting time to be delayed  twice. Eventually the arraignment  was continued until Tuesday to.allow  Hart time to obtain the services of  an attorney.  Hart arrived .at the Pryor Municipal Airport south of here about 3:35  p.m. in a twin-engine state aircraft.  Plainclothes officers got off the  plane first and then Hart, dressed in  a blue, pull-over sport shirt, gray  slacks and dress shoes, emerged to  face the crowd of reporters and a  grim group of law officers who had  come- to take him back to the jail  from which he had escaped twice.  As he stepped from the plane,  walking cautiously down the steps  because of shackles on his lower  legs, a slight smile creased his face.  He was hustled to a three-car  caravan of police vehicles and  whisked downtown to walk before  the waiting throng into the  courthouse.  Because of the late arraignment  time, public schools had dismissed  and several employees of downtown  businesses lined the sidewalk/  AS THE CARAVAN rolled in front  of the sheriff's office, the widely  scattered crowd left benches and  shady spots and closed in around the  car.  When officers helped'him step  from the car and began leading him  to the jail, a muffled roar comprised  of television cameras, feet scuffling  and comments from the crowd went  up.  'There he is," a little girl said.  "Hi Gene, hang in there baby."  Hart smiled and lifted one of his  handcuffed hands in sort of a  half-wave.  "So that's the lousy s.o.b.," an old-  timer allowed, momentarily halting  his incessant tobacco chewing.  After a brief time in Sheriff Glen  ["Pete" Weaver's jail for booking,  Hart, flanked by about one dozen  state, county and local law officers,  [walked across Adair Street* oil his  tfr &C third floor of thv county  courthouse.  *THE CROWD again gathered to  look. Alternate comments of encour-  tgement or damnation were uttered,  inside Judge Whistler's courtroom, about 50 members of the news  Imedia, some children and a few of  |Hart's relatives sat on hard pews in  See HART, page 2A  Leroy Hart, 34, left/ is escorted to the Mayes County Jail Friday by state law officer  Roger Chrisco. (Tribune Photo By Jim Gipson)