Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, February 21, 1991                   TAG: 9102210544
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
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ARSON SUSPECT TO REMAIN IN JAIL WITHOUT BOND

A hearing in U.S. District Court for David Fleming Montgomery, 49, was cut short after his attorney, Jack Gregory of Salem, withdrew a motion for his release.

Montgomery, described as a dangerous man known for his extreme strength, was returned to the Roanoke City Jail after a brief hearing before Magistrate Glen Conrad.

Federal authorities have charged Montgomery with arson and with arson in the commission of a civil rights violation. The charges stem from an incident in which a house in the Penhook section of Franklin County was doused with gasoline and set afire last Halloween.

Montgomery is accused of having been hired by a neighbor who did not want blacks moving into the house, authorities have said.

State police have said that Montgomery also is a suspect in at least one homicide, that of a Roanoke man said to have been a potential witness in the arson case.

No charges have been filed in connection with the Feb. 10 killing of Paul Daniel Bostic, who was shot when he answered the door of his Northeast Roanoke home. City police have declined to comment on whether they consider Montgomery a suspect in Bostic's death.