The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1933-09-30

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THE LMDBERG LAW AND THE K1DNApPER's GUN
If the decisions of the Federal Judge conducting the Usch
trial at Oklahoma City sustained by higher courts
sadded ourselves with beautiful piece legislation which will
make unsafe for woman and child to
possess single piece of currency legislation is
known as the Lndberg law.
In the trial taking place in the southern metropolis
the contention of defense the crime committed
ended when the paid kdnappers the release
OF Charles Usche and the conspiracy with the crime
unless could be definitely that persons who subse
queny had certain of the bills paid at the
time that the bills part of the money and were
engaged passing them back into part of the
original plan.
the contention of the government and this contention
is being sustained by the court that the so-caed conspiracy
continues until the bit currency has been located and
recovered by the government.
If this the purport of the Lndberg law it is right and
for the court to rule he has done has gone
beyond the exact Of the law however according
to dispatches has taken cognzance fact that
papers generally carried stories the rsh kidnapping
by assuming that everybody Minneapolis knew that
had been kidnapped in Oklahoma would assisting in
kldnap plot they took money from whatever
1t developed that the part of the This
spite OF the fact that the not marked dgured
way but the identity of individual bank note was
established by the serial number of the note.
Now, not in favor of kdnapper are we afraid
OF them We sitting that happy of mind we
dread to meet the landlord the butcher grocer and colec
tor but give second thought snatcher However
like all mortals dream of the day when ship come
In and realize that with the ship would the kidnap
menace Therefore be assumed by the reader we
not carrying brief for those guilty kdnap do we
countenance bee the enormy Of the crime
is that of opposition the terrible import the law we have
passed to combat the crime.
Let take hypothetical John Smith is in business
OF sort which largely conducted in During course
of days business he takes in several thousand dollars limo
cent OF participation in kdnap which has been pulled
thousand miles away Smith goes the bank with his money
The banker the bills and serial numbers
Lo and behold! hundred thousand dollars which had
been paid several weeks bore several
hundred miles away shows up in the money deposited.
John Smith is Immediately by Federal agents He
is chained to bedmachne guns upon him as he
sleeps Newspaper destroy his reputaonhe marked
as part Of kidnap gang Night and day he questioned
but can give definite information where he obtained
each separate banknoe rendered as deposit From hun
dreds OF miles for his detention and
requson for his extradcton to the point where oense
was committed There strangers he fight for
liberty Maybe he will be acquitted the Judge will dis
miss the charges against him. and again. maybe jury of
strangers prejudced by local newspaper
FASHIONED plea OF Federal prosecutor who anxious
reputation will find John Smith guilty and the will
send him up for life
The average reader will prone to say that such stua
ton would not Let point seven men of this
City were indicted put to the of procuring bonds
several days confinement in JAIL forced deray their travel
expense Oklahoma City and hotel bills while there pay
attorneys accompany them Upon the result of investigation
by Federal operatives all of these indicted Upon the
evidence the judge dismissed against as
as the rested and had study the testimony
the week end before he could make This
of sufficient character warrant eli of the