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Spa Boat Landing Operator Is I Linked to Karpis ConspiracylBut Witnesses, on Cross-Examination, Admit Gangsters Did Nothing to Disclose Their True IdentityLITTLE RGCIC.—(/?)—The government attempted. Friday to link Mrs. Al C. Dyer, handsome widow, operator of a boat landing and cottage camp on the lakes near Hot Springs, and her caretaker, in the alleged plot eliarged to seven Hot Springs residents to harbor the notorious Alvin Karpis in the summer of 1936. 0---•-Through witnesses who identifiedphotographs the prosecution told the jury of ten men and two women who are trying the seven in federal district court that Karpis and Fred Hunter, one of the henchmen, rented a cottage at Dyer’s landing for several weeks that summer.On cross-examination the government witnesses testified that the landing catered to a high class clientele,and that the men identified as Karpis and Hunter gave no evidence of their true identities.Mrs. Irma Mac Floyd, of Arkadel-phia, testified she worked as a waitress at Wilson's tavern, outside of Hot Springs, and that Mrs. Grace Goldstein, one of the defendants, came there to dine with a man who gave her a $9.20 lip. She was not asked to identify the photographs.r.)3-CLinked With Police LITTLE ROCK.—A government witness testified in United States District Curt Thursday that she saw Alvin Karpis. who then was Public Eenemy No. i and Fred Hunter, his lieutenant, leave the Hot Springs apartment of Mrs. Grace Goldstein hurriedly one night during the summer of 1935 after a conference with Herbert “Dutch’' Akers, then Hot Springs chief of defttectives and Police Chief Joseph Wake-lin,The witness, Mrs, Joseph Armenia of 125 Palm street, said she lived next door to the apartment occupied for about two 'months by Mrs. Goldstein and several girls and that the gangsters frequented her place regularly for several weeks during that period.She added she saw Akers, Wakelin andCecil Brock, former police lieutenant, at the aprlmhnt during this time.Mrs. Armenia was the last of 16 witnesses, presented by the government during the third day of the Karpis harboring conspiracy trial in an effort to prove that the gangsters were protected during their say in the resort city in 1935 and 1936.Saw Fugitives WithMrs. Armenia testified that on the occasion she mentioned Akers and Wakelin came up in a police car about dark and sounded the horn, Two men whom she later indentified as Karpis and Hunter came out in their shirt sleeves, she said, and talked with the police officers.‘The men then went back into the house as fast as they could go, got their coats and hats and beat it in their own car parked in the driveway,”Pcrlt;dsiPPI(Continued on Page Two)
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Hope Star
Hope, Arkansas, US
Fri, Oct 21, 1938
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