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Former Samoan Prince Files Suit Over False Arrest
Samuel S S of Richmond California, a lawyer and claimed former Samoan prince, sues Captain Waldo Evans now at Great Lakes naval training station and W A MacDonald in Chicago for $50,000 alleging false arrest and imprisonment during Evans tenure as naval governor of American Samoa. Ripley says he sailed from San Francisco on the S S Sonoma in 1921, paid customs deposits at Pago Pago, was confronted and held by armed guards, then kept aboard for 30 days before release at Honolulu.
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