Target of Search Demands $50 Million

A junk dealer went to court in Montgomery, Ala., seeking $50 million from the U.S. government, saying his life was ruined nine years ago when agents raided his home and business in a search for a mail bomber. Robert Wayne O’Ferrell, 55, said the federal investigation--stemming from the mail-bomb slayings of a federal judge and a civil rights lawyer in the South--left him ill, broke up his marriage and forced him into bankruptcy. Walter Leroy Moody of Rex, Ga., later was convicted in the judge’s murder and has been sentenced to death. Before Moody was charged, agents believed a typewriter once owned by O’Ferrell was used to type letters and mailing labels tied to the bombings, officials said.