Evening star., 1935-12-10
EDITOR MURDERED
AS HE PREDICTED
Walter Liggett, Slain in Min
neapoIis, Once Was
Resident Here.
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, December 10
The assassination he predicted in the
last issue of his weekly newspaper
today had overtaken Editor Wal
ter Liggett, stormy petrol of Mime
sofa politics and bitter foe Of Gov.
Floyd B. Olson.
A killer in a darkened car last
night poured five bullets into Lig-
getts back as, accompanied by his
wife and 10-year-old daughter Marda,
he drove into an alley near his home.
Liggett, his arms full of groceries
and with a pistol in his pocket,
fell dying as his daughter cried,
Don't die, daddy, don't die"
AT police headquarters Mrs. Lig-
gett sobbed, II will remember the
killers face as long as I live"
Suspect Is Held.
The police held Isadore Blumen-
field, alias Kid Cam, for question:
ing in the case after he submitted
voluntarily for examination. He was
exonerated a year ago after an in
vestigation of the passing Of ram
som money from the 5000, 900 Charles
F. Urschel kidnapping case.
Mrs. Liggett was called to police
headquarters today to face the suspect.
Blumenfeld, identified by the police
as connected with the liquor busi-
ness here, said he was in a barber
shop shortly before the killing and
could not have reached the scene
in time to fire the fatal shots.
Also under investigation was a tele-
phone conversation which Detective
Capt Al Marxen said Liggett had
yesterday with Meyer Schuldberg,
president of liquor distributing COM
pany.
MarXen said Liggett informed
Schuldberg he was writing a series of
articles on Schuldbergs activities. He
said Schuldberg bet the editor $500 he
was wrong in his premises and sug-
gested Liggett give Government oper-
atives his evidence If he thought it
was true. In formal statement to
police, Schuldberg said Liggett de-
ulduucu 9l,OUu 10 lay OIL.
Blumenfeld said he was introduced
to Liggett by Mrs. Annette Fawcett,
divorced wife of Magazine Publisher
Billy Fawcett, shortly before Liggett
was severely beaten by unknown as
sailants in beer parlor two months
ago.
Declared Political Frame-Up."
Soon after. Liggett was acquitted of
criminal charges involving two minor
girls. He branded the charges a
political frame-up'
Howard Guilford, 48, publisher of
the Weekly Saturday Press, an anti
radical publication, was slain Sep
tember 6, 1884. six blocks from the
spot where Liggett died.
Liggett was former director of pub
licity for the North Dakota Nom
Partisan League, deputy commissioner
of immigration for North Dakota in
1919 and a New York free lance writer.
In 1926 he published the Frozen
Frontier, first of several books.
The latest issue of his paper, the
Midwest American, said he might be
killed and dared Gov. Olson to accuse
him Of libel.
Listed 10 Accusations.
Listing 10 accusations against the
Nations only Farmer-Labor chief
executive, Liggett said "if these
charges are not true, Gov. Olson
should sue me for criminal libel"
The article then listed the 10 al
legged irregularities and demanded that
the Legislature impeach the States
Chief Executive.
Liggett was born February IA, 1886,
in Benson, MINI. His present wife
was his second. Two children ana a
brother, Robert, st. Paul advertising
executive, survive.
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