There were loud coughs and rustles from the predominantly black audience.

Sergeant Growth said they had drawn a 45‐caliber sub machinegun and three 12‐gauge shotguns in preparation for the raid. In addition, he said, one officer, John Ciszuwski, brought his own shotgun along, and James Davis, a Negro police man, brought “his personal carbine.”

None of the seven Panthers who survived the raid in which Fred Hampton, Illinois chair man of the Black Panther party, and Mark Clark, a Panther leader from Peoria, were killed attended the inquiry today.

All seven have been charged with attempted murder of the policemen and have decided to refuse to answer questions at the inquiry on the advice of their lawyers. The attorneys, Kermit Coleman and James Montgomery, also did not at tend today's session.

Yesterday, three Panther wit nesses refused to testify and declined to invoke Fifth Amend ment privileges against self incrimination. Mr. Coleman said that this was because “in the public mind, the Fifth Amend ment is associated with chican ery, scoundrels, people who are doing wrong and hiding behind the Constitution and this is not the case with my clients.”

Today, Special Deputy Coro ner Martin S. Gruber ordered sheriff's deputies to use “all force necessary” to bring the four remaining Panther wit nesses to the inquest, complain ing that they “are intent on thwarting my efforts to in‐ vestigate.”