Arrest

After six months, Detroit's amateur detectives and junior G-men had almost forgotten about the man who shot Walter Reuther. But last week, investigating a $600 store burglary, state police picked up the trail of one Carl Bolton, 39. Bolton, for a short time, had been a vice president of a U.A.W. local, for a long time the leader and mastermind of a gang of petty thieves. Police found him in Indiana, arrested him and four members of his gang. One of them, an ex-con named Jack Miller, decided to talk.

Miller declared that a few weeks before the shooting, Bolton had offered him and an associate $13,000 "to bump off Walter Reuther." They refused. A couple of days before Reuther was shot, Bolton came to Miller's home, asked for two shotguns. Bolton left with the guns, saying: "I've got to borrow the typewriters. I've got to get rid of a red-haired Communist son of a bitch."

Bolton will be charged with assault with intent to kill, along with two as yet unnamed accomplices. Police were sure of one thing. Bolton did not have $15,000 to offer from his own pocket.

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