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Wl/Uiv Will WIIVVIJU iJL il U. Ill,Belittle Conspiracy /'She is guilty of harboring Kurpis,” Sam Robinson, co-counsel for Mrs. Goldstein, said during a 40-minute plea for her. “She has never denied that. But she is not on trial for that.“If they (the government) want tochorgc her with harboring let them charge her with that. It seems to me that they hove made a mistake.’1 (The maximum sentence an a straight harboring charge is six months The maximum sentence on a charge of conspiracy to harbor is two years.)Mr. Robinson appealed to the jurors not to let the fact thut Mrs. Goldstein Ls pin admitted prostitute and operator of houses of prostitution influence ill cm in this case.^If she is being tried of being a Woman of easy virtue then wc plead guilty,” he said, but this is not the case you are being asked to try.’’May 1 again remind you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, that she is being charged in this case with conspiracy to harbor Alvin Karpis.”“Witchcraft Persecution”Mr. Bowers likened the Karpis harboring conspiracy trial to the persecution of old women for witchcraft in Ne\y England in the early history of this country.lie supplemented Mr. Robinson's remarks by idling the jurors again that Mrs. Goldstein was nol being tried on a charge of prostitution and the Mot Springs officers were nol being tried on charges of permitting it “Of course prostitution existed in Hot Springs,” he said. “Prostitution has existed forever.“If they tried these police officers on charges of permitting prostitution, they would have to try every city in the country.. Mr. Bowels, a devout Republican, unconsciously took occasion during his plea to lake a few shots at government spending.Referring to previous remarks by Assistant United Slates Attorney Leon B. Catlett that the govern men t had spent a considerable amount of money in working up the case, Mr. Bowers said:“If the government has spent an unusual amount of money on tins case, it will not be lhe first lime that money Mis been spent unwisely by the government. If they waste this money on a wild will o' the wisp prosecution then it wwi’t be any different from a lot of other wild schemes the government has invested its money in.” Mr. Bowers charged the government with unholy prosecution of Cecil Brock, claiming there was not one scintilla of evidence against him.Speaking of Akers, he asked the jury:“Arc you going to send him to the pen because he failed to do something which the F. B. I. with all its machine guns, tear gas and power failedto do?”“Akers has tried in the best way he could to help these F. B. I. men and what arc the thanks he gels? Theyinstmsj
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Hope, Arkansas, US
Sat, Oct 29, 1938
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