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! Final Arguments i in Karpis Hearing 1Plea for Defense Verdict Is Turned Down Friday MorningTnLFETLE ROCK—-(/P)ln a surprise] move at the convening of federal court Friday morning attorneys for four Hot .Springs presidents charged with conspiring vto harbor Alvin Karpis in 1935-36 rested their case.Attorneys for the defendants thenmoved unsuccessfully for directed verdicts of acquittal.District Attorney Fred A. Osgrig announced the government would present no rebuttal testimony.Judge T. C. Trimble recessed court until 1:30 p. m. when the closing arguments were scheduled.Idleut520,600 From KarpisLITTLE ROCK—Mrs. Grace Goldstein, for 13 years a prostitute or operator of houses of prostitution, admitted during an all-day appearance on the witness stand in United States District Court Thursday that gangster Alvin Karpis paid her thousands of dollars, perhaps as much as §20,000, during the period she consorted with him in, and near Hot Springs in 1935 and 1936.In the face of a three and a half hour grilling by United States Attorney Fred A. Isgrig she clung to her story that she did not know the identity of the one-time Public Enemy No. 1 until November, 1935, five months af-tdr she had been associated with him, and that she did not thereafter report his identity for fear that she would be killed by Karpis or one of his mobsters.Attired in blue, the plumpish 32-year old Mrs. Goldstein walked onto the witness stand at 9:30 a. m. and didn't leave it except for lunch and brief recesses until 5 p. m. And when all the questioning was over, it was Mrs. Goldstein who appeared to be the calmest person in the courtroom.Apparently the word got out that Mrs. Goldstein, the Peck’s tad boy of the trial was on the stand, because the largest crowd of the eight-day trial packed into the courtroom. Approximately 500 persons, most of them
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Hope, Arkansas, US
Fri, Oct 28, 1938
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