The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-19
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 were assigned to prosecute the case. The legislature appropriated t2,boO reward for each conviction up to three. The HennepiI1 county grand fury launched an Investigation into LIggettS charges of crime and vice in Minneapolis. LiggeteS militant career, his sensational charges and his assassination barely year after the murder of another Outspoken editov, Howard duilford, again fo- cused the eyes of the nation on Min. neapolig.
 She Named BIumengeld
 Mrs. Liggett, who was in the au- tomcbiIe and saw her husband fall beneath the five machine gun bullets that ripped into his back, named BIumenfeld as her husbands slayer, Tt was Kid Cann," she said, "Hc murdered my husband. His face, t was grInning and IeerIng behind the machine gun. I will never forget it." (Blumenfcid was popularIy known by the pugilistic name of Kid CannD. BjuTnenfeid said he was irl Q barber shop at the time of the murder-Iater established at 5:4f D. m. He promised to have 100 witnesses "to prove where was" Two days later, the frail, dark eyed widow pointed to BIumenfeld in q police Show-up as the man whose face she saw in the killers car. Blumcnfeid protested she had seen his picture in newspapers.
 Eye Witness Testified
 Less than 6 week after the crime another eyewitness was found. He was Wesley Andersen, who stood fin the doorway of an apartment build ing across the alley and was grazcd by 6 fender of the SIayer's car a mos ment before 1t sped past Liggett splitting flame and machine gun buI- lets. Andersen, afl ex-T1echar1ic and itincrant airpIane Tepairmafi, ex- plained he didn't want to get mixed up with the thing" He said he fled when he recognized "Kid Cam ag the man with the machine gun" be- side the driver Of the death car. was indicted by the grand jury.
 Goes on Trial
 On January 20, forty-two days af- ter the murder, BIunenfeid went on trial. Two weeks were consumed in picking the jury of eight men and four women. Mrs. Liggett created 6 sensation in the trial when she charged on the witness stand: "The murder of my husband could not have happened without the consent pr permission of Governor OIson." olson, recovering from . stomach operation at Rochester, Minn., re- piled that her charges were fnoti- vated by opposing politicians. It was the first time he had publicly replied to any of the sensational charges made either by Liggett or his wife.
 AnAergch Attacked
 The defense opened with testi- mony attacking credibility of Ail- dersch. Nearly c dozen said his reputation for truth and veracity was bad"
 Then, step by step, the defense traced Blunenfeld's movements to within il minutes of the aGsassiTla- ton and then BIufnenfeld took the stand.
 The defendant emphaticaliy tes- tified he had nothing in the world" to do with Liggettis murder. He said he was in Q barber shop at the time had been from 5:35 and was there until nearly 6:50 ?. m. 4 dozen witnesses supported his alibt.
 Under cross examination BIumen- field said Liggett had attacked him in the hotel room of Mrs. Annette Pawcett, divorced wife of Captain Billy Pawcett, magazine publisher, less than two months before the murder when BIumenfeld protested against attacks aimed at him in Lig- gettis newspaper.
 Attempts On Her Life
 Minneapolis, Feb. 10.-(UP)-An attempt on the life of Mrs. Edith Liggett was made less than two weeks ago, the United Press was in- formed today a few hours after Isa- dore Blumenfeld was acquitted of the machine gun assassination Of her husband, Walter Liggett.
 Mrs. Liggett, regarding it as gangland's answer to her continu- ance of the editorial campaign which ended in the death of her husband, announced she would sell hls newspaper, the Mid-WeSt Ameri- can, and flee from Minnesota.
 Mrs. Liggett said the attempt on her life was made soon after she had taken the witness stand in BIumefelds trial and identified him as her husbands slayer.
 Just Escaped Auto
 4 speeding automobile swerved toward her as she stepped from the curb in front of her Midwest American office. she said.
 Tt was a deliberate attempt on my life," the frail. dark-haired widow said. T am confident of that"
 Mrs. Liggett said she had been threatened several times after her husbands murder. She said she believed enemies of her husband planned to make me an apparent hit-and-run victim
 Fear of gangland violence on the children of the editor who made sensational charges of vice and po- litical corruption prompted Mrs. Liggett to hide her son and daugh- ter on a Wisconsin farm soon after the assassination December g. she revealed.
 Twice she reported rifling of files at her newspaper office
 After her husbands death. Mrs. Liggett announced she would carry on Walters campaign to clean up Minnesota p0lltics." When the verdict freeing Blumenfeld Wal announced. Mrs. Liggett said shs would flee Minneapolis immediately