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Article: Police talk with armed du Pont heir
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 28, 1996
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NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. -- The bizarre standoff between
multimillionaire John E. du Pont and police continued in a driving
rainstorm yesterday and into the night, as du Pont, a well-practiced
marksman with a stockpile of ammunition, talked by telephone at least
a dozen times to hostage negotiators but gave no indication he would
surrender to face a charge of murder.
As a team of more than 30 sharpshooters surrounded du Pont's
mansion, negotiators worked furiously but delicately in an attempt to
lure him outside the house, a replica of Montpelier, James Madison's
house in Charlottesville, Va. Officials hinted that they were
prepared to wait du Pont out rather than storm the mansion.
"We have ...