The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-25
POLITICAL ANGLES CHARGED
 IN ARREST KETCHIKAN MAN

Jack Long received 60-day sus-I pended sentence following a juryI trial before |. $. Commissioner [ .. Austin Of Kstchikan on a charge of writing a check without funds ! n the bank. according to the kel-I ehikau Chronicle The sceeif C. aarge Was a check for SIS given by Long to |. s. Ferris on August 3.# The cheek was returned and hlr Ferris turned it over to ". CI stump. assistant district attorn ay A Jew days later the check Was made good by the Seaport Salmon company which employed Long. the. money being given to Stump. who l in turn. gave if to Ferris. On Sep. tember Long was arrested He was defeated at the trial by Harry C. Mccain. Lestor o. Gore and W. D. Arnold.
 The case, of a type which usually
 $ more or less routine and without particular interest. attracted an uu- usual amount of attention because of the circumstances surrounding it.. Long was arrested on election day when employed by republicans as. one of their workers. Republican leaders charged that the arrest was. motiyated solely by political consid. l. eratious. This was immediately de. nied by Stump on whose orders the arrest was made.
 Testimony introduced at the trial showed that Oscar Nelson in the employ of Ferris had cashed the cheek. Long testified that at the time the cheek was given he told MT Nelson that there might not he sufficient money in the bank "a meet il. but that it would be paid either by the Seaport Salmon com pauy or by-~himself Mr Nelson s testimony was to the effect that he could recall no particular eonYer- sation in connection with cashiug the check.
 Mr Ferris testified to having re- ceiyed the check from the bank. with the notation that funds were not available to pay it. and that he then took it to Mir. Stump. He further testified that a few days la ter Mr Stump brought him a cheek signed Dy the Seaport Salmon com- pany, making the sum good.
 W A. Bates. cashier of the Miners and Merchants bank, was called co the stand to testify that Long at one time had an account at the bank. but that the final few cents had been closed out by the federal check tax
 That virtually ended the cheeks part in the case, the balance Of the time being given over to a discus sion of whether or not Mr. Stump had made statements indicating that Longs political activities had a part in the arrest.
 Long testified to having gone to the office of the district attorney ou August $, when he was told that the check had been made good He was told. he said, that there would be l no further charges. but that he should return to the office after the fishing season and that he would be "auleu lU aoSlSl Lue ueuOtl dlIt party on election day
 He did not return, he said, but on election day. while at Saxman, Mr. Stump, accompanied by N. O. Hardr deputy United States marshal. told him that he shouldn't be working for the republicans and must report at his office immediately. Instead of. doing so. he said that he went to the republican headquarters and informed W. C. Arnold of the if fair He further testified that Mr Stump had made a similar state. ment relative to his republican l. .. tiyities when they met at the cor ner of Mission and Front streets.
 Robert Ridley and William Lynch both testified to having seen th.. men eonyersing at Saxman al-. though neither heard what was sal.
 MT. Stump took the stand in re- huttal and denied having haH .h conversation at the corner of Mis-. sion and Front streets, and Marshall Hardy testified that the only thih.Z said at Saxman was that Long was. to report to the district attorney'sI office