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Woman “Hands ItBack” to LawyersU. S. Puts Hot Springs Prostitpe on Stand in Karpis Casetag*kLITTLE HOCK—(/P)—A woman witness for the government, parrying with defense lawyers a charge that she lifted §2,900 from an Alvin Karpis mobster during a Hot Springs hotel party, retorted in United States District Court Friday “the reason you arc bringing it up is just because 1 happened to beat the Hot Springs laws to it.The bit of repartee came while Grover T. Dwens, defense lawyer, was cros examining 'Gertrude Therese (Jackie) Nichols, 24, and red-headed, who had testified she had lived in several houses of prostitution operated at Hot Springs by Mrs. Grace Goldstein Karpis* common law wife. Mrs. Golstein is one of seven Hot Springs residents charged with having conspired to harbor the former Public Enemy No. 1 in the resort city in 1935 and 1936.The Nichols girl had just testified that several places operated by Mrs. Goldstein had been frequented by Karpis, who at that time was wanted is the §200,000 kidnaping of Ed wal'd G. Bremer, St. Paul banker, and his lieutenants, llarry Campbell, Fred Hunter and Sam Coker. The later now is serving a 30-year sentence in the Oklahoma penitentiary.“I will ask you,” said Mr. Owens ’if you did not attend a party at the Howe hotel, now the DeSota hotel in the summer of 1935 . , , ”Before the question was completed the witness interrupted to say she knew nothing about the party.Don’t you recall the Hunter-Coker party at that hotel?”1 don’t know anything about it,she replied.Didn’t Coker take you there?He did not.1’You do go to such parties, don’tvan':
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Hope, Arkansas, US
Sat, Oct 22, 1938
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