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The Brothers Doe. What finally started the case against Stonehill was the testimony of a disgruntled former employee named Menhart Spielman, who last March filed a charge of attempted murder against his ex-boss and one of his cronies. A few weeks later, Spielman disappeared from Manila. The government alleges that he was bludgeoned to death on a motor launch on the Sulu Sea, is prosecuting for murder three Moro seamen, a business associate of Stonehill's, and "John, Robert, Richard and Peter Doe."
Last week, haggard and forlorn, claiming that his health would be impaired if the hearings continued, Stonehill, 44, offered to leave the Philippines voluntarily−a move that would permit his eventual return. But Macapagal wanted no part of Stonehill now or in the future. At week's end he ordered his arrest and immediate deportation as an undesirable alien.
Macapagal's political enemies charged that deportation was too good for Stone-hill. Said Jose Diokno, former Justice Minister who was dismissed in May by the President: "How can the government now prosecute the corrupted when it has allowed the corrupter to go?"