The State - News from Oct. 11, 1985

The lawyer for a former mental patient charged with threatening to kill President Reagan said the letter his client is accused of writing was “obviously not serious. . . . Nobody could possibly take the thing seriously.” Attorney Rommel Bondoc also said his client, Charles Windsor, 38, does not admit writing the letter. Windsor was arrested in San Francisco on Sept. 20 and is being held without bail. The charge is punishable by up to five years in prison. According to Bondoc, the letter to Police Chief Cornelius Murphy said that if Reagan wasn’t “evicted” from office by the U.S. marshal by Oct. 1 the writer would shoot him, and that if he was evicted the writer would have someone chop off his head. Bondoc said it also demanded millions of yen. Windsor has been committed to a mental hospital in the past, and has also been accused of writing threatening letters to President Jimmy Carter and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, Bondoc said.