Jan. 5, 1965 - Heavy legal seas all but engulfed Jack (Murph the Surf) Murphy (right) and his beach boy pals, Allen Dale Kuhn and Roger Clark, today. Judges raised their bail by $280,000 to a $425,000 total, and Murphy and Kuhn were accused of the pistol-whipping and $50,000 gem robbery of actress Eva Gabor a year ago in Miami.
Officials said Eva Gabor’s husband and fellow robbery victim, stockbroker Richard Brown, had viewed Kuhn in court Monday and identified him as the thug who slugged Eva on the head with a gun, leaving an egg-sized lump, in their penthouse at Miami’s exclusive Racquet Club Jan. 4, 1964.
The new bail figure topped the $400,000 valuation of the melodramatic Museum of Natural History burglary in which the trio are charged with having stolen the Star of India sapphire and other jewels on Oct. 29.
All three were clapped into New York City Prison following bail arguments before Supreme Court Justice Mitchell Schweitzer.
Earlier, the usually dapper Murphy — now unshaven and rumpled from a night in a police cell — had been taken from the W. 47th St. station, handcuffed to Shannon Elder (left), a Negro female impersonator, to face charges of pistol-whipping and robbing William Whalen, night clerk at the Hotel Algonquin, on July 10.
“This is going to destroy my image,” the manacled Murphy wryly told reporters. “What are they going to say about me down South?”
Elder was accused of the $45 stickup New Year’s Eve, while wearing female attire and a wig, of cabby Juan Mogue at 38th St. and Ninth Ave. Elder was still in women’s clothes today. He was held in $2,500 bail for hearing Wednesday.
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